Due to growing mistrust of powerful actors within the realm of Cyber Security, and how it is becoming almost impossible to identify any agencies involved in InfoSec whose mission statement and/or modus operandi can be considered ethical or serving the interests of the vast majority of Internet users. Unscrupulous surveillance programs are conducted flagrantly by democratically... Read more
Due to a repeated warning email from github every time I deployed a change to the page; I decided to try and get to the bottom of it. The email: The page build completed successfully, but returned the following warning: You are attempting to use the 'pygments' highlighter, which is currently unsupported on GitHub Pages. Your... Read more
You’ll find this post in your _posts directory. Go ahead and edit it and re-build the site to see your changes. You can rebuild the site in many different ways, but the most common way is to run jekyll serve, which launches a web server and auto-regenerates your site when a file is updated. To add... Read more
YouTube has come along some leaps and bounds since I neglected it for hosting mixes in favour of Mixcloud 2 years ago. Their new licensing terms mean that a previous mix of mine which had a 7 minute silent gap in the middle due to an unresolvable copyright claim on the track LTJ Bukem - Music,... Read more
The X-Files Season 10, Episode 5 BabylonFive episodes deep, and still surprisingly unsure what to make of the resurrected X-Files franchise. After the first three episodes, I was mildly disappointed that it was going the way I inwardly predicted - lost, reference-laden, outmoded, awkward in a bad way. The disappointment was capped at mild partly because it was... Read more
In a letter to the son he may someday have, poet Clint Smith (TED Talk: How to raise a black son in America) reflects on the lessons he learned as a child and shares his hopes for his future son. Here it is, I urge you to read it no matter who you are.Son, I want... Read more
Realised I hadn't even attempted to record a mix in over 6 months - rectified.Note the operative word; "attempt" :)Super Sharp Joker by Dunx on Mixcloud Read more
From TV Show: "Person Of Interest" Episode Number: "S04E11" Episode Title: "If-Then-Else"--- Start of scene ---** Harold sits alone at a chess board in Battery Park, New York, on a cold day **Man in dark jacket: "Hey, man."Man in dark jacket: "So you wanna play, or what?"Harold: ... Read more
Right, forewarning - this post is going to be pretty large. In fact, I'm going to include a contents list to break it down, for your convenience and also so I remember to include everything I've discovered over the last couple of weeks :)Your ServerLinux.Why?What you'll need.A spare computerUbuntu 12.04 LTS (for now)An Internet connectionHow to... Read more
Scarface vs. Requiem For A Dream by Dunx on MixcloudRock / Breaks / Funk / Metal Mashup by Dunx on Mixcloud Read more
An Android App named FFT midi converter attempts something quite ambitious - converting any recording into MIDI format. To find out more about MIDI and the standard it's defined by, see my Blog Article on Pitch Shift Calculations. Effectively MIDI is an abstracted representation of music (or sound) formed from discrete tones. To turn the complex audio... Read more
Keep missing calls or texts because you're engrossed in a film, listening to music, making music or any other activity involving your computer and/or associated screens and monitors?I recently setup a system to popup Growl notifications in the top-right corner of my two computer systems (MacBook w/ 40" TV as secondary monitor, and PC w/ 27.5" monitor).... Read more
Right, these are fairly old now, but I still find myself watching them whenever in need of some inspiration - this was pretty much the mantra by which I wrote my thesis (as corny as that sounds). Music's a pretty good fit too. It is part of The Sagan Series; an educational project working in the hopes of... Read more
I'm aiming to make this site a portal for my online presence, as it is simple enough to group these Blog Posts via categories/tags and I've made some adjustments to the layout of this page to reflect this (Nav Bar at the top).Here is the URL for my github repository; https://github.com/IncidentNormal/...presently most projects are incomplete as I... Read more
Paintings from Gail Gibson below; Information, Gallery, Exhibitions and more can be found on her website, that I completed earlier this year, at gailgibsontait.co.uk. Read more
Music Theory BackgroundAll musical notes are constant tones of a certain frequency, known as their fundamental frequency. Table 1 shows the fundamental frequency of each note in the first 7 octaves. For reference, ‘middle C’ is denoted as C4, which corresponds to a frequency of 261.6 Hz (more accurately, 261.625565 Hz (Google, 2013)).In music, an octave is the... Read more
So what else has a man been doing? Copious mixing, I'm gonna catalogue my stuff here in a slightly more useful form than my Mixcloud page, as keeping track of my mixes has become a bit more tricky (also, some are on YouTube). Anyway here's my latest and one of my favourites so far (I really... Read more
So, I did a doodle on some tea stained piece of scrap paper, and then decided to fiddle with it in Paint.NET (free, actually very powerful piece of software - almost like a PhotoShop Lite to use an Americanism) for no apparent reason, but it actually turned out to be really easy to 'improve' a pen... Read more
Darkness has covered my day and turned it into night…down in the dungeon a man lose him life...1) Lindsey Stirling - Elements2) Doc Scott - Here Come the Drums3) Renegade - Terrorist4) LTJ Bukem - Horizons5) DJ Crystl - Warp One6) DJ Hype - Roll the Beats7) Kemet Crew - The Box Re-Opens8) Splash - Babylon9)... Read more
So... Drones, or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as they're more accurately known are dominating global news, innovation and conversation. The technology has been around for alot longer than one might think, and yes - like most commercial tech, did originate from military research projects (DARPA funded Leading Systems Incorporated to make the first modern-style drone in 1984).... Read more
After reading this article: At Least 15 People Were Shot In Chicago Last Night which makes the killing rates in the US sound monstrous, I got interested in how it compares to the UK, as a benchmark. What follows is a load of information and data, some very limited analysis as the data really speaks for... Read more
So, finally making some headway with the thesis. How long does it take to get over that hump though? It's like 4 years worth of tension pulling you back to the point where the slightest niggling doubt sends you back to the start. But no longer... Having actually completed the two most time consuming parts, bar... Read more
The other day I discovered an app available for Android devices called Tasker, which has been around for awhile and has generated quite it's own little corner of the Internet dedicated to swapping tasks, procedures, profiles and scripts.It's an easy entry point into programming your phone to do things when certain conditions are met. It allows you... Read more
NATTY CLANGS, PANS, REWINDS, POTS AND SOME REBEL MC (Shhh). by Dunx on Mixcloud Read more
Ultimate Procrastination.As a break from endless thesis ruminating, I ripped off that thing they do in Breaking Bad (rather inefficiently I might add, but eminently more aesthetically pleasing, in fact this post's font just got upgraded to courier on that account). It will character match the letters in your name to elements in the periodic table... Read more
Dear ####,Find attached a very long ramble through all of physics (it's Greatest Hits, kind of), that does eventually try and address your question regarding time travel, but with a slight overindulgence on the background and context of the question for you sir. Good luck... (Note I wrote most of this in the wee hours of... Read more