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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...