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Well, the last few months has been pretty interesting at work - started my new job at Les Mills Asia Pacific ( http://www.lesmills.com.au ), don't panic - I'm still in IT! Asterisk First project invol...

I've been interested in the JMeter project for quite some time. It's an open source framework that you can use to perform stress and volume testing of web applications (in fact, it's much more flexibl...

In two weeks time, linux.conf.au will be hosted at the University of Melbourne. I'm pretty excited, and have started mapping out which talks I want to go see. Complete conference schedule is here. He...

File magic is used on Linux and Unix systems as a binary "fingerprint" to tell what type a file actually is - this provides a much better result than MIME or filename extensions. The "magic" pattern i...

Dan at work put me on to some new Linux Kernel functionality in the form of inotify - the userland tools and libraries allow you to hook into this pretty handy capability. It essentially allows you to...