About the Authors

Tom, Christine, and Strata know one another through attending USENIX conferences and being actively involved in the system administration community. It was at one of these conferences that Tom and Christine first spoke about collaborating on this book. Strata and Christine were coworkers at Synopsys and GNAC, and coauthored Chalup, Hogan et al. (1998).

Thomas A. Limoncelli

Tom is an internationally recognized author and speaker on system administration, time management, and grass-roots political organizing techniques. A system administrator since 1988, he has worked for small and large companies, including Google, Cibernet Corp, Dean for America, Lumeta, AT&T, Lucent/Bell Labs, and Mentor Graphics. At Google, he is involved ...

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