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I make music
Hello. I (try to) make house music on Reason, and I publish it here.

It's a long, slow process learning how to use the software, how to produce, what translates to a loud system, all that, but slowly I'm getting there. It's on my TODO list to make a tune that gets played out in a club / clubs .. anywhere in front of real people I guess. Obviously it would help if I was there to hear it too :)

This is my latest attempt, a remix which I'm dead proud of

Sicknote - Righteous (Funcakes Balls Deep Mix) - WIP by WLTM

I love you soundcloud. Hope you like my tunes.
 

xbox elite RROD
only it wasn't an RROD, it was an E74.
 
Somebody suggested it was an OS update to give the E74 instead of RROD so as to help "eliminate" the RROD curse, but that sounded a bit cynical.
 
Imagine my surprise to see that the exact same fix for the RROD (towel trick) has worked like a charm. Ho hum.
 

HTTPS and SSL in practice
So when you see a web address that starts https that means it's secure. You should expect this from any website that captures or displays personal details, bank details and so on.
 
Greenwich university has a problem with their student portal, and it doesn't work in IE9, so their helpdesk recommends you download Firefox.
 
However, when using Firefox, the certificate fails verification because of some issue with their SSL certificate and it comes up with a big warning saying this connection is untrusted.
 
If you ring up the university helpdesk they will recommend you simply accept the invalid certificate. DON'T.
 
I wonder how long they've been telling students that it's OK to accept invalid certificates. They'll remember this advice. I guess this means Greenwich students are quite easy to hack. Sorry Greenwich, you're a seat of learning. You provide many IT degrees. You should know that this matters. It's really not acceptable to advise people do this.
 
They only need to say this once to a hacker, and they will be able to use this psychological information to fairly reliably hijack and/or inspect all browser traffic between students and the university for a number of years, potentially stealing the identities of students, passport details, bank details, passwords etc.
 
You don't need a password to proxy an SSL connection IF the end user accepts your spoof certificate. You can then easily log ALL information SENT OR RECEIVED by the unsuspecting web user.
 
I am teling you because you should know that it matters, and the university should know that, with some urgency, their students need to be told to NEVER do this.
 
Jesus
 

Reflector replacement
ILSpy is the best reflector replacement I've seen yet. True to the original Reflector, it's light, simple and fast with no bloat or licence requirements. It shows you derived and base types in the main tree, symbols in the decompiled code window are hotlinked, and C# and IL are supported. If VB is, then I'd be glad to hear it, but it doesn't look that way. Ho hum.

Enjoy

 

Test

 Will this still post twice to facebook? Or is it just for photos?... I wonder. I wa-wa-wa-wa wo-onder.
 

Slow news day at the express?
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Seriously, is this a pisstake? It *has* to be a pisstake. Tell me it's a pisstake...

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