07/19/2000, 8:45am to 10:15am in Serra I & II Open Source and the Personal Computer Revolution Presented by Andy Hertzfeld The personal computer revolution was initially driven by enthusiasts, propelled by their idealism and passion . My talk will compare the early days of the personal computer industry with the current situation of the open source movement. It will focus on my experiences at Apple, describing some of the key people at Apple and how their personalities worked their way into their products, especially dwelling on the development of the Macintosh computer. The talk will discuss the structural problems that ensnared the personal computer industry in the 1980s and articulate how the open source movement can help to resolve them. Finally, it will look at the challenges that lie ahead for the open source movement, emphasizing the crucial issue of usability, discussing what the community can do to make open source software easier to use for mainstream users.

07/20/2000, 8:45am to 10:15am in Serra I & II Open Source Challenges Presented by Tim O'Reilly The Coming Comfy Culture Presented by Gregory Benford In a unique and riveting Keynote, well known 'hard' science fiction author and physicist Gregory Benford asks the question "Where will cheap chips and servile software take us in a few decades? Building on his experience in constructing devices designed to communicate meaningfully across hundreds of decades (he was part of the team that developed markers for U.S. nuclear waste sites that must last 10,000 years) with his knowledge of technology, Benford looks at the future in terms of fundamental cultural shifts and what they mean. Our future digitized culture will not necessarily share our assumptions or visions. That future will enjoy an ever-attentive urban landscape, one tuned at every turn by ingratiating machines. Products will fare well if they can anticipate how well that culture will accept fine shadings of machine obedience and intrusion into personal lives. How comfy will we get before we object? Much depends upon how we see ourselves.

07/20/2000, 1:30pm to 3:00pm in Ferrante I - III STARTTLS, AUTH and new anti-UBE features in sendmail 8.11 Presented by Claus Assmann sendmail 8.11 implements SMTP STARTTLS which allows for strong encryption of e-mails for transmission. It can also be used to authenticate users, and hence provides an alternative to SMTP AUTH. These authentication methods can allow relaying and solve the problem of "roaming" users. sendmail 8.10/8.11 enhance the anti-UBE features that were introduced in 8.9, and remove their shortcomings, e.g., by using tags in the access map. Even more support for measure against UBE have been introduced in 8.10, e.g., new macros, new rulesets, and new maps. Moreover, a generic "filter" API called milter" is available in 8.11/10 (even though a bit "hidden").

Session room assignments are subject to change.