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Linux

Turning Arch Linux into a Music Production Powerhouse: Running A

For music producers seeking the stability of Linux without sacrificing major DAWs like Ableton Live, running a Windows Virtual Machine (VM) via KVM/libvirt on an Arch Linux host offers a rock-solid, production-ready solution. While complex setups traditionally suffer from latency and plugin crashes over Remote Desktop (RDP), a reliable daily driver can be achieved by passing through a dedicated PCIe USB controller for zero-latency hardware integration, configuring Ableton’s Pen/Touch mode to fix erratic mouse movements, and deploying MesaDistWin drivers to enable software-based OpenGL rendering for heavy VSTs. Whether routing ultra-low latency audio directly to a physical interface or using visual patchbays like qpwgraph to share audio with the Linux host, this architecture bypasses native compatibility barriers to deliver a high-performance, bulletproof studio environment.

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DJ

Battery powered DDJ-SX2

Ever thought about taking your DDJ-SX2 everywhere? In this short article I will show you how to run the Pioneer DDJ-SX2 with batteries.

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Linux

How to Mount Linux Remote Directories on Windows over SSH

WinFsp and SSHFS-Win are useful tools which can be used during development and allow mapping of Linux folder as network drives in Windows.

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DJ

Using Pioneer Controller with Rekordbox in Linux

This article will show you how you can use your Pioneer DJ controller in Linux with Rekordbox.

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DJ

Running Pioneer Rekordbox on Linux

Pioneer's Rekordbox is one of the top commercial DJ software in the market. In this blog post, I will show you how to run Rekordbox in Linux.

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Audio

Battery Powered Speaker System

This article shows the build process of a battery powered 2.1 speaker system for outdoor parties.

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Security

Partial Passive Takedown and Sinkholing of the Vawtrak Botnet

Vawtrak is a sophisticated banking Trojan that exists since 2007. Since the end of October 2014, I was in control of a former Command-and-Control (C&C) server IP-address and have been capturing around 60 GB traffic for a duration of ten months from nearly 10.000 unique bots.

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Security

Two Cross-Site-Scripting Vulnerabilities in RocketChat

I have found two cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities in the team chat software RocketChat which I have disclosed to the developers.

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