OSDC 2006 Melbourne and Web Application Security

December 8, 2006

Yet another OSDC conference has come and gone. It was a great chance to meet lots of cool people and learn stuff at the same time. Again, this local event reinforces the fact of how much talent there is in our own back yard. Thanks to everyone that attended my presentation on Web Application Security, [...]

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The Open Source Developers’ Conference 2006

November 10, 2006

The Open Source Developers’ Conference (OSDC) is back for it’s third year! OSDC will cover a diverse mixture of langauges, operating systems and technologies, pitched at all levels. The conference will be held on December the 5th to December the 8th, 2006 at Monash University’s Caulfield campus in Melbourne, Australia. It will be an awesome [...]

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Google Sitemaps Explained

October 17, 2006

If you’re yet to hear about Google Sitemaps, here’s a quick overview of what it is and how it works. Keep in mind this is quite new, therefore subject to change. After all it’s Google Sitemaps Beta! Google Sitemaps offers a new way for webmasters to have more control over the spidering (is that a [...]

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RUXCON – Fourth Year Running!

September 17, 2006

RUXCON is a conference for the Australian computer security community held at the University of Technology in Sydney. The list of speakers is quite impressive and the topics quite diverse. It is currently scheduled to be held on Saturday the 30th of September to Sunday 1st of October. You can find lots more information on [...]

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The SAGE-AU Victorian Regional Chapter Annual IT Symposium

March 29, 2006

The SAGE-AU Victorian regional chapter will hold it’s third annual IT Symposium on April 28th, 2006 at the Grand Chancellor Hotel in Melbourne. This one day symposium, covering topics of interest to systems administrators, is sponsored by TRT with lucky door prizes from Apple, TAS, and Payam for those who register before the day. For [...]

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linux.conf.au 2006 – Dunedin, NZ

January 1, 2006

linux.conf.au is the annual Australian Linux technical conference, and is one of the largest gatherings of users and developers of Free and Open Source Software in the Southern Hemisphere. It is an opportunity for developers and groups to present their ideas amongst peers, and for the Free Software and Open Source communities to gather in [...]

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Troubleshooting SSH Connections

December 15, 2005

A friend of mine asked me to troubleshoot a problem he was having with authenticating to an SSH server. Like most problems, the answer could be found buried in logs, or in this case, debug output. For those who use SSH and don’t know about -v, it time you learnt about this wonderful switch. In [...]

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Monitoring Anything and Everything with Nagios

December 13, 2005

Thanks to all that attended my presentation on Monitoring with Nagios at the OSDC 2005 conference. You can download the slides from “Monitoring Anything and Everything with Nagios” here. I’ve also just uploaded my first pre-release copy of a new free eBook called “The Nagios Book”. The book walks through setting up a Nagios server [...]

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Targus USB to Serial (PA088) Adapter under Apple OS X

December 6, 2005

There are now devices (or at least more of them) that provide native OS X drivers, so this document is now slightly redundant. After purchasing the Targus USB to Serial (PA088) Adapter, I found that the driver included was for Windows only. I needed this to work under OS X 10.4. After searching the Targus [...]

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The Open Source Developers’ Conference 2005!

November 18, 2005

The Open Source Developers’ Conference (OSDC) is back! OSDC will showcase over 160 delegates, including lots of local talent along with speakers from interstate and overseas. The conference will be held on Monday, December the 5th to Wednesday December the 7th, 2005 at Monash University’s Caulfield campus. If you can make it, I highly recommend [...]

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