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LiveMixesIn honour of the legend that is Deadmau5 this mix is dedicated to his work and the awesome sounds that result from it.
01) Toca Me (Deadmau5 mix) – Fragma
02) I Want You (Deadmau5 mix) – Carl Cox
03) Afterhours – Deadmau5 & Mallefresh
04) Hey Baby – Deadmau5 & Mallefresh
05) Harder Better Faster on Drugs – Deadmau5 vs Daft Punk
06) Dont You Want To Feel (Deadmau5 mix) – Drugstore Era
07) Finished Symphony (Deadmau5 mix) – Hybrid
08) Tiny Dancer (Deadmau5 mix) – Marco Demark Feat Casey Barnes
09) Longest Road (Deadmau5 mix) – Morgan Page
10) Super Skunk (Deadmau5 mix) – Noir
11) Cherry Twist (Deadmau5 mix) – The Crystal Method
12) Dirty Sexy Club Music (Deadmau5 mix) – Filter Freq
13) Burn (Deadmau5 mix) – Prime 33
14) No Pressure (Deadmau5 mix) – One Plus One
15) God Is A DJ (Deadmau5 mix) – Faithless
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RH2B Build DiaryThe bonnet on the hoody is metal, in two sections, and was bolted together on a centre flange. This left a seam that was filled with filler and then a vinyl stripe laid over the top.
Now this would have been fine except for the fact that the builder then installed a long pneumatic ram (the type that opens a boot on a hatchback) to hold up the bonnet when you lift it. Great for convenience but done in such a way as to cause a long term issue.
Essentially, as the weight of the bonnet and nose cone were pivoting on an M8 bolt attached to the centre flange (2 x 1mm steel), the flange had twisted, bent and caused the bonnet to deform above. This in turn caused the filler to crack and separate from the bonnet, which then caused the vinyl to crack leaving an unsightly jagged line down the centre of the bonnet.
Bonnet damage after removing the vinyl and cracked filler.
Rather than just filling it and applying another vinyl sticker to it, knowing it would just do the same again, I set about designing and printing a better solution to the mounting of the jack point to the bonnet and also reinforcing the flange with several additional M8 bolts!
A few iterations in Fusion 360 and 3 test prints in PLA, I had a final design that met the profile of the bonnet, bolted through the flange, spread the load of the bonnet more evenly and provided a solid anchor point for the jack.
Design iterations
The final design is pretty cool. It spreads the load exactly as I wanted and prevents the centre of the bonnet where the filler is being pushed up. It has also added rigidity to the panel as a side effect.
Finished mount
Once the mount was installed all that was left to do was fill the resulting gap with a flexible filler that wont crack and fall out, sand it smooth(sh) and the re-apply the vinyl. What I learned from this experience is something I was already pretty cognizant of. I cannot do bodywork!!! I dont have the patience for it at all!
Finished article. Its by no means perfect but will do for now!
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GeneralWell it has been a while since I treated myself so the other day I stopped by West End DJ on my way into the office and I picked up an Akai APC 40. In fairness it was my birthday and I used that as a feable form of excuse for the expenditure, but I have a semi clear conciense as a reslut and another oh so sexy toy to play with!
This toy really is the ultimate in Ableton Live control, extending the interface litterally to your fingertips and bringing a whole new world of possibility. You can read all about it on Akai’s site, but if you really want to see the potential, check out these YouTube links that just sum up the potential in full from my perspective:
Ok, so its going to take me a while before I get this good, but thats what its all about.
……watch this space 🙂
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InfoSecIt seems that since vendors started bringing out bug bounties, for all the right reasons I might add, a new breed of “security researcher” has appeared. This new type of researcher is single minded in his/her task and has a simple, no effort, no thought way of achieiving it “fuzzing!”
Dont get me wrong, fuzzing is a legitiamte and good technique, but dont hide behind a wall of fuzz and consider yourself a security researcher, have an original idea, something that would benefit the community/country/world order, and put your efforts into that instead of lining your pockets with vendor dollars!
Right now, we have an entireley new breed of researcher, focussed on notoriety, fame & profit, and that is not the right thing for the industry. What we need are innovators, original thinkers, thought leaders (real ones not self proclaimed hacks that peddle vapourware to the masses, I work with lots of these fools).
You will notice a distinct lack of personal research from myself, and probably decide as a result I have no business writing this post, however, That is largley due to the fact all of my “original thought” is applied directly to my business and through that to my clients and therefore the actual, realised benefit of improving the world in some small way, so rather than hunting for kudos in the ether or “peer respect” from people I have never met, I prefer to come up with an idea that benefits people, opperationalise that idea, apply it to my clients, and make a profit along the way.
//RANT OVER//
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LiveMixesMore Progressive sounds for Easter…..
Fatboy Slim vs Koen Grownwvald – Rackafeller Skank (Original Mix)
Felix Baumgartner & Juan Kidd – Now Your Gone (Club Mix)
David Penn & Rober Gaez – Our Darkness (Original Mix)
Funkagenda – Breakwater (EDX Ibiza Sunrise Mix)
Milk & Sugar – Let the Sunshine (Milk & Sugar Global Mix)
Paul Gardner & Hugh Gunnell ft Marcella Woods – Come Get My Lovin (Plastik Funk Remix)
Faithless – Music Matters (Mark Knight Remix)
Sandy Rivera – Whatever (Andy Daniell Digital Edit)
Ou Est Le Swimming Pool – Dance The Way I Feel (Armand Van Helden Club Mix)
Richard Grey – One More Time (Chris Moody Remix)
Kim Fai – Good Life (Original Mix)
TV Rock – In the Air (Axwell Remix)
Young Rebels & Fransico Diaz – 1998 (Original Mix)
Funkagenda – Nobody Listens To Techno Feat. Mc Flipside (Original Mix)
Muzzaik – Going Underground (Original Mix)
DCA Project – Sandcastles (John Dahlback Remix)
Pryda – Waves (Original Mix)
Dankann – Genesis (Original Mix)
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InfoSecIts time for a small reality check. Security does not have to cost the earth. Just because your a large corporate with over a 1000 employees doesn’t mean you “have” to buy brand name security. In fact, I would argue quite the opposite, invest that money in some quality people, treat them well, and get 10 times the return on investment you planned.
lets put it into perspective. First of all, you have to accept that open source software is your friend, then accept that just because it doesn’t have a “GUI” doesn’t mean its any more complex. Ok, now that you have accepted an alternate reality, it is time to look at some comparisons. Lets look at some good, typically expensive security controls, typically, usually reserved for Banks, because “they have the budget for it”.
We will start with IDS “Intrusion Detection System”, specifically, the network variety (NIDS), deployed across the infrastructure, and designed to spot malicious traffic flowing across your network and highlight suspicious activity that may be happening under the radar. If you were to buy one of the very excellent and very expensive commercial solutions, on a medium size network, you could be spending 6 figures before breakfast. That’s a serious hole in a security budget, so what other options exist? Well, for a start, “snort” an open source, well maintained and mature project that’s been around for years. Its 100% free, and will only cost you the physical hardware and some administrative overhead getting it up and running. Its very scalable, equally configurable and its signatures are maintained by a community of experts in the field. What more could you ask for? Ok, so the reality is, in our scenario of 6 figures for the commercial solution, the free one would likely cost you 10-20K in hardware and specialist labour, but whats 20K compared to £200,000K, I know which one I would prefer to sign off.
Next, lets look at another hot topic, SIMS “Security Information Management Solution”. This is another typically large investment to essentially, analyse logs generated by the infrastructure. Again, the concept has been available in open source for years. Syslog servers shipping logs to each other with some sort of Perl analysis scripting has been around forever, and again, its just the labour and hardware costs to consider.
What about Firewalls? The staple diet of all organisations of any size. Now, these can be quite cheap or ridiculously expensive. I have built, deployed and managed most of the top end ones, and can after a career of using them, I can happily say, I would deploy a well configured “iptables” firewall in Linux over a Cisco or Checkpoint any day of the week. Ok, so you don’t get the nice gui with all your 200 firewalls in, but, there are options…. Gui’s exist, and again, a specialist can easily make this whole concept easily manageable for any organisation. Now, if a key control for limiting the impact of a hack is through network segregation, then the ability to deploy low cost firewalls can only improve the overall security of the network
So, if I had a 1000 user network to protect, a budget of 500K and full autonomy. I would spend 100K on every open source solution available, home grow some of my own, contract a team of top class Linux / security gurus to get it all up and running, then sit back in my SOC “Security Operations Centre” and wait for the siren to go off! Of course, I would take the other 400K as my bonus 😉
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LiveMixesIn celebration of my birthday I thought I would take a trip back to my roots and put out a big room trance mix for you all. Enjoy!
Track listing:
1 ALEX M.O.R.P.H. feat. Michael – Wanna Be (Album Extended Vocal Mix)
2 Cosmic Gate feat. Emma Hewitt – Not Enough Time (Extended Mix)
3 Dash Berlin feat. Emma Hewitt – Waiting (Original Mix)
4 Fabio XB & Andrea Mazza – Light To Lies (Gareth Emery Mix)
5 John OCallaghan feat. Audrey Gallaher – Big Sky (Markus Schulz AX Remix)
6 Rex Mundi feat. Susana – Nothing At All (Original Mix)
7 torcycle – As The Rush Comes (Daniel Kandi & Anton Firtich Divine Remix)
8 Myon & Shane 54 feat. Aruna – Helpless (Monster Mix)
9 Roger Shah & Tenishia feat. Lorilee – Im Not God (Roger Shah Mix)
10 Medina – You And I (Dash Berlin Mix)
11 Marco V – Unprepared (Extended Mix)
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Alfa 159The final stage was putting all the wiring in place. I opted for 4 gauge cable from the battery up front and a 4 gauge earth in the rear, both connected back to brass 4 way distribution blocks so I could pull 8 gauge runs to amps and the line converter. This also left me the easy upgrade route for adding additional amps to run upgraded mids & tweeters in the cabin, but that’s another project!!
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LiveMixesOldschool Hard House from the archives
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InfoSecOpen post to see coverage:
North West Insider – August 2007 – IT Security
North West Insider – August 2008 – BERR Survey
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