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Franklin Wharf Originally uploaded by gavin.jackson Just returned from LCA 2009, held at the University of Tasmania in Hobart. Conference was great as usual, was a good opportunity to try out my brand...

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...