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OPINION
Musings by Rik Farrow

The Cloud Minders by Mark Burgess

OPERATING SYSTEMS
Tapping into Parallelism with Transactional Memory by Arrvindh Shriraman, Sandhya Dwarkadas, and Michael L. Scott

Difference Engine by Diwaker Gupta, Sangmin Lee, Michael Vrable, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, George Varghese, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Amin Vahdat

PROGRAMMING
Leveraging Legacy Code for Web Browsers by John Douceur, Jeremy Elson, Jon Howell, and Jacob R. Lorch, with Rik Farrow

Python 3: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by David Beazley

HARDWARE TUTORIAL
The Basics of Power by Rudi Van Drunen

COLUMNS
Practical Perl Tools: Polymourphously Versioned by David N. Blank-Edelman

Pete's All Things Sun: The Sun Virtualization Guide by Peter Baer Galvin

iVoyeur: Top 5 2008 by Dave Josephsen

/dev/random by Robert G. Ferrell

BOOK REVIEWS
Book Reviews by Elizabeth Zwicky et al.

USENIX NOTES
Tribute to Jay Lepreau, 1952–2008 by Ellie Young

CONFERENCES
Report on the 8th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '08)

Report on the Workshop on Supporting Diversity in Systems Research (Diversity '08)

Report on the Workshop on Power Aware Computing and Systems (HotPower '08)

Report on the First Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV '08)