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Free Beer Webinar – Part 3 Ingredients

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I am doing another beer webinar under my alter ego at Ask The Beer Guy on September 1, 2010 at 7PM PDT.

This webinar will focus on beer ingredients and won’t just be for homebrewers. Don’t feel left out if you don’t brew beer. I use this same material to teach my beers class at UNLV. That class assumes no knowledge of beer at all, and by following along all the webinars, you will gain a better understanding of beer than many professionals in the field.

Written by Jon Griffin

August 22nd, 2010 at 10:40 am

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Simple WordPress Fix For Security

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Well, technically not WordPress, but your hosting is probably vulnerable.

From http://www.darkreading.com/database_security/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=224300052&cid=nl_DR_DAILY_2010-04-13_h if you want to read the whole thing.

There was an attack on WordPress blogs hosted at Network Solutions, but your host is probably guilty as well.

The gist of what happened is the wp-config.php was readable by the world and the crackers got access to the database passwords and logins which are stored in that file in plain text.

It is a WordPress problem because that was considered best practice. In reality, none of your file need to be world readable, only readable by the web server, so you can safely eliminate any world read permissions.

Written by Jon Griffin

April 13th, 2010 at 9:36 am

Posted in Computers

The Best Film Soundtracks Of All Time

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There are literally hundreds of movie soundtracks out there that have touched the hearts of millions of people, making them cry, punch the air with joy or throw their popcorn on the floor and walk out in anger but how on earth can one of those electric guitars really make so many different sounds? Which tracks are the best ones out there?

Wizard Of Oz

This is the best musical of all time which means it has to be on the list.

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April 4th, 2010 at 5:28 pm

Shure KSM44 Multi-Pattern Large Diaphragm Condenser Mic Review

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Your recordings are only as good as the signal chain you use to make those recordings and there is no more important element in your signal chain when capturing an acoustic source than your microphone. Here you will learn about one microphone that will definitely not be the weak link in your chain and which isn’t too expensive (but it is certainly not cheap either.)

The Shure KSM44 is the condenser mic that I’m talking about. I write about this condenser microphone from my own personal experience with it because it’s been the main mic in my home recording studio for about six years and I’ve used it to record a wide variety of sources.

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April 4th, 2010 at 5:28 pm

Real Guitar Can Be Used In Guitar Hero

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Guitar Hero has been around for a fair few years now but I cant say it has ever made me think about playing the guitar.

The digital guitar is coming soon and it can acess the guitar hero game without cables and plugs, it can also be attached to the ipod meaning that you can rock out to some of your favourites without anyone hearing. This is the first thing we have really seen to help bridge that gap between players of guitar hero and real guitarists.

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March 21st, 2010 at 6:54 pm


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