USENIX conference proceedings open

USENIX has done a wonderful thing: their conference proceedings are now open to the public, rather than requiring a USENIX membership.

This is very, very good. If you haven't gone through the list of presentations and papers from LISA, FAST, WOOT, or the USENIX conference itself, you really need to.

Come to that, if you haven't picked up a membership yet to USENIX and SAGE, you really need to. A dead-tree copy of ;login: magazine is the most interesting single publication I've found about computing in general, and system administration in particular. You owe it to yourself.