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LiveMixesOldschool Hard House from the archives   https://jabawoki.com/wp-content/mp3/Jabawok_17122000_Stompin_Pumpin_Hard_House.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadRelated Images: [...]
RH2B Build DiaryWhen I collected the car and drove it a few times in the winter was incredibly loud, like TO LOUD, and I like loud! So Something wasn’t quite right with the exhaust, and it needed to be sorted. I removed the exhaust and bought some acouosti-mat sound deadening material to repack the exhaust only to discover it was not repack-able. Fortunately, a local fabricator said he would cut it open, repack and weld it back up for me, so that averted the crisis! All that remained of the original packing material. To say it needed doing was an understatement, it was completely empty of packing so was essentially a straight pipe with an echo chamber! Once the fabricator sorted the packing for me, I wrapped it in exhaust wrap, reinstalled the heat shield and put it back on the car. The sound was much more palatable. Sporty, throaty but not deafening! Much better! Related Images: [...]
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LiveMixesAnother Progressive Mix for 2010: Stefano Noferini – Cool Summer (Original Dirty Mix) + hardrive Deep Inside (Harry Choo Choo Romero Bambossa Remix) Laidback Luke, Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell, Steve Angelo feat. Deborah Cox – Leave The World Behind (Original Mix) Moguai – Lyve (Original Mix) Pryda – Miami To Atlanta (Original Mix) Moguai – Imperial (Original Mix) Sebastian Ingrosso – Kidsos (original Mix) Young Rebels & Francesco Diaz – 1998 (Original Mix) Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (A-Track Remix) (Club Edit) Jerry Ropero, Tom Novy Feat. Abigai Bailey – Touch Me (Extended Mix) Cirez D – On Off (original Mix) Depeche Mode – Hole to Feed (Proof Vocal Mix) Deadmau5 Feat Billy Newton – Outta My Life (Touch Mix) Hoxton Whores – Devil Toy (Original Club Mix) Wolfgang Gartner – Flashback (Original Mix) Fedde Le Grand – Praise You (Fatboy Slim Vs. Fedde le Grand Remix Remix) Jerome Isma-Ae – Hold That Sucker Down (Original Mix) Pacific Wave – 1998 (Dj Phunk & 3Am Mix) https://jabawoki.com/wp-content/mp3/Jabawoki_DeepDivin_25032010.mp3 Podcast: Play in new window | Download Related Images: [...]
General…what is it about working from home that makes life so much easier? I treasure my days in the “home office” as they give me opportunity to catch up on all that has evaded me for so long! I find at least 1 day a week keeps me ahead of the game and on top of the workload. Related Images: [...]
Alfa 159Once the car was pepped and ready it was onto the enclosure build. This was a combination of trial and error mixed with some loose  calculations and estimations around box size. I had worked out utilising box design software that  for my sub, a 0.6 cuft sealed enclosure was going to give me good responsive SQ and enough power. This also suited my limited boot incursion requirements so was ideal. I also wanted the amp to be located as part of the enclosure and with the heat-sink visible to aid in cooling. The end result was to have something that looked as close to built by designed as I could achieve without a lot of fibreglass and pain! ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]   Related Images: [...]
InfoSecOpen post to see coverage: computing.co.uk – April 2009 – Malware computing.co.uk – April 2009 – Risk in the recession pcauthority.com.au – April 2009 – Microsoft computing.co.uk – April 2009 – Microsoft crn.com.au – April 2009 – Risk in the recession whatpc.co.uk – April 2009 – Security computing.co.uk – April 2009 – Malware Searchsecurity.co.uk – April 2009 – Conficker & Patching Related Images: [...]
InfoSecOk, its been ages since I actually had snort up and running, so long in fact that the last time I used it, ACID was still the best way to deal with the alerts! Well after a couple of days (well a couple of hours here and there at least) I have a fully functional set of snort sensors in place on public and private segments of my networks, all feeding to a centralised database with “BASE” handling the analysis! woohoo. small victories are the best! I can definatley say its come a long way. It was much easier to install, and only took a small amount of syntax debugging to figure out the configs. During my research / re-learning curve though it would seem that version 2.8 with the stream5 processor is not as good as version 2.4 with the flow processor at detecting portscans. This was certainley the concensus of the community, and after a bit of playing I can agree. However, I now have sfPortscan running with stream5 and its seems pretty accurate to me, so I am certainly happy with the results. BASE is also a welcome move onwards from what used to be a very clunky interface. It seems light and intuitive, with decent features. I think it could do with the addition of some basic graphs, rather than having to use the graph engine to define your graphs each time, but on the whole i think it is certainly a good alternative to spending a large amount of money on a commercial product. Certainly the ability to abstract the managemnet interface, data storage and sensors from each other gives you a highly scaleable model to use a basis for a large scale deployment. Of course, if you don’t fancy the pain of compiling code from scratch, or your just dam lazy, check out EasyIDS for a complete “IDS in a box” that gives you everything I just said with none of the hastle! ….You just can’t ingore the momentum that opensource has gained 😉 Related Images: [...]
GeneralI have decided to plan my new musical platform in advance this time, rather than the usual method of buy something, expand on it, realise its not up to the job and then replace it. This essentially means that I am going to spend a great deal of time on google deciding something, then finding a better version of something and so one, until I eventually bite the bullet and invest. What I have at this stage is a premise and an outline set of requirements. The premise is simple, go fully digital, but retain analogue controls. The outline components are as follows: A powerful PC/MAC + Essential Apps such as Ableton Live A High Quality Multi-channel sound card A midi trigger device A Good quality Mixer A Sampler/Effects Unit Now, its actually possible to have all of the above in a single box, and in fact, many solutions exist for sub £250, but to be honest, its just not going to give me the flexibility and expandability that I desire. What I want is complete fluidity in the solution so that I can expand upon for many years, giving me not only multi-channel mixing, but the real-time remix capability that I desire So where next? Well, I already have a decent mixer (DJM600), a powerful PC (Multi-Xeon Monster) and Ableton, so the most important piece and crux of the system is what I need to acquire first. This would be the multi-channel sound card! I have had a look around and found many options, but this one seems to be the best by a mile: Motu Ultralite MK3 This unit has all the features I could need, from 192Khz sample rates, through to 6 channels of input and 10 channels of output to give me as many feeds as I could possibly deal with! The spec list goes on forever on this thing, which is why it can command a £500+ price tag. But if I am going to invest, this is the way forward. Related Images: [...]
InfoSec……can be reverse engineered by mankind. Its a simple mantra, but one that has served me well in security. Think of of this way, it doesn’t matter how intelligent you are, someone, somewhere is more intelligent! When it comes to security this is never more true. As we all know, security is asymmetric, in so much that the effort required to secure something is significantly more than that required to break into it. Given this point, it makes the mantra even more relevant! If security was symetrical, you would have a 1:1 effort relationship, however, as its not, (we will for the purposes of this article assume its 2:1, i.e. double the effort required to secure), it would theoretically take less brain power than it took to create the control to break it. Obviously I accept that this is a very simplistic representation of the point, but one I think is valid. Related Images: [...]

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