Live from Las Vegas, extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE, covering IBM Insight 2015, brought to you by IBM. We're back at IBM Insight, everybody. This is theCUBE. theCUBE goes out to the events. We extract the signal from the noise. Check out ibmgo.com. It's the social experience for IBM Insight. There are crowd chats there. Join the conversation at crowdchat.net slash ibminsight or go to ibmgo.com. Suzanne Hupfers here. She's with the IBM Center for Applied Insights. Phil Buckaloo is hung tough. Phil, thank you for staying on. Vice President of Enterprise Mobility at IBM. Suzanne, welcome to theCUBE. Good to see you. Thank you, nice to be here. So tell us about the IBM Center for Applied Insights. What is that? So we're an organization with an IBM that's focused on thought leadership. So we're asked by various parts of the company to do primary research studies on technology topics. So we're out there gathering a lot of data via interviews with business and technology leaders or doing surveys of them. And then we gather lots of data on technology topics, analyze it to try to figure out what some of the trends are there on technology. But specifically with a focus to bring back insights that can be applied to business that are actionable that we can turn into recommendations for business and IT leaders. So help us understand sort of how you approach it because I'm thinking about these books that get written and the professor at MIT or wherever goes out and interviews a bunch of companies and gathers data. Is that the method or do you also do larger surveys or how do you approach your methodology? We actually have a few different ways that we work but the two primary ways are either to interview leaders, business and technology leaders via phone interviews. And that's one way that we gather data. Another way that I'm pretty familiar with is to go out and do these worldwide studies of IT and line of business leaders, decision makers. And that typically could be a study that ranges anywhere from like a few hundred up to maybe a thousand respondents. So we go out and interview these people via survey methodologies all over the world and bring back lots of data and then start analyzing it. Well, Phil, it's interesting to hear Suzanne talking about IT and line of business. I mean, with mobile driving such change, I mean, it's the line of business user, it's either the consumer or the line of business user that's sort of maybe not necessarily dictating but if collectively they're dictating, what are you seeing in terms of that? Absolutely. Then let's see what the data says. The line of business is really so important in mobile because mobile is about changing the experience of the end user or of the employee and it's a way to get all this insight and data into their hands from the mobile devices in a way that is actionable because it's in your hand, you can actually do something about it. It's really, we really see a lot of, previously the IT teams were the only teams involved, they did a lot of the back office stuff but now the touch points are just so much in the hands of those employees and those users that the line of business, they're also seeing the impact, they're seeing really outsized results and that's something that's driving them to get involved and try to help marshal those mobile decisions and get the resources behind it to make big change. So I presume you're doing research in this area so the drivers between line of business and the technology folks, what are you seeing there? Well actually what we found, we just completed a study on mobile application development where we went out to 585 developers and development managers who all had a mobile focus and the focus of that project was to figure out what are these folks doing in terms of mobile application development and what techniques are successful that lead to successful mobile active projects. So what'd you learn? So what we learned, we looked at all this data and found there are four key ways that mobile active projects are successful and I should start by saying one really surprising finding, we came up with a criteria of success that involves being on budget, on time for the project and meeting the primary project objective and when you use that as the criteria for success, only one third of mobile active projects are actually successful and two thirds are falling down on one of those criteria or possibly multiple. So what we found when we looked closely at the successful third of mobile active projects, we found that they're different from other projects in four key ways. Number one is that they focus on putting a really strong team together and they're looking for the right technical expertise and also the right business and industry expertise for their teams and they also put an emphasis on finding at least one developer on the team that has more than five years of mobile dev experience. So that's one way that they're set apart, a key foundational way and once they have the strong team in place, there's three ways that their approach to mobile active differs. One is a heavy emphasis on platforms, using cloud APIs and platforms for mobile active. A second one is an emphasis on collaborations. We found that successful projects are much more likely to have the development team collaborating really closely with folks that are not even on the development team like business stakeholders and the end user. That's really critical and they're more likely to collaborate with those others throughout the entire development process. And then the last key difference is a focus on user analytics. So the successful projects are more focused than other projects in analyzing what the users do with the app, you know, what features are popular, what are not so popular and also collecting social media analytics about the application. So the data said the third met those three criteria on budget on time and met the project objectives. I'm surprised, frankly, it was that high given, you know, and I mean, it's hard to find developers with more than five years of mobile expertise that are, you know, working at IBM or Google or Facebook or, right? I mean, how are companies, organizations dealing with that talent shortage? Are they proactively dealing with that or are they just paying more with brute force approaches? Do you have any insight to that? We didn't specifically ask how they're locating those people and, you know, the frequency stat from our finding was that it's true, a majority still have less than the five years of experience because it is very hard to have that under your belt. But, you know, it was very interesting that these successful projects are more likely to say they've got at least one person on the team that has the greater than five years of experience. So what are you seeing, Phil? I mean, that's key for your business. And that's an area where, you know, we see that you kind of need to have had some of the hard knocks of the mobile, you know, the mobile path in order to know how to kind of steer clear of them. And so that's really what a lot of our clients have been doing is trying to find those folks and sometimes it's hard because those skills are in demand. We've actually, you know, been working with a lot of our clients, you know, through our global business services teams to provide skill and staff, augmentation, people that have been down that road before and that can steer the teams away from the pitfalls. The other thing that I think is really important that Suzanne mentioned is you mentioned the business and the IT teams. There has to be a collaboration between those two in order to be successful. And really, you also need to focus on the end user because they're the one that can really shape how you build a transformative experience. And a lot of the work that we've been doing is a part of the Apple partnership with the Mobile First for iOS apps. We have focused on the individual to make sure that that person that's on the shop floor or the nurse or the other person that's really gonna be using the app is getting the experiences they need. But then you pair them with someone from the business that understands the pain point of that industry as well as the IT teams that know how to get that data out from the back end. Pulling that together, those are the successful teams that are able to build those really compelling experiences that are having a transformative impact. So that seems to me to be a pretty crucial piece, especially when you're talking about the skill sets. I mean, I could always just call up IBM and say, hey, I need to build a mobile app, come help me build it, you know, I could outsource it. But I've got to have continuous improvement, especially in this day of mobile where everything's going so fast. So what are you doing as far as sort of, what are you seeing anyway, as far as knowledge transfer from those core dev teams that might move on to other areas or maybe IBM is, you know, they're outsourcing the app development to you guys. How is that knowledge getting transferred so that there's continuous improvement? There's a couple things. So first of all, in the study, we realized that when we did the cross tabs of the successful guys versus the unsuccessful guys, we found that the successful ones that are hitting all those three criteria, they use a DevOps model. They take an agile approach. They're looking at the data, they're getting it back and they're re-spending their apps out. They're using flexible tools and platforms to get there. And that's, you know, really one of the ways that they're able to kind of pull all those pieces together to kind of give the results and have that outsize impact. So if they can do that piece, then they're able to build, typically the compelling experiences that will really be transformed and really have an impact on their users. So Suzanne, you mentioned that one A success criterion was the use of heavy use of platforms, cloud APIs, did you guys drill into that any further? Can you add color to that? Yeah, I mean, I can give you one of the stats is that we found that two thirds of the successful projects say that they're using cloud APIs to assemble their mobile applications. So, you know, very high usage of that. They're also more likely than the less successful projects of using mobile app dev platforms. So those are a couple of our key findings. So to build on that, kind of bring it back to your last point as well. You know, we look at Bluemix, it's our platform as a service. We put tons of different capabilities out on Bluemix. You know, cognitive services like Watson, we talk about 30 of those APIs that are available today, contextual services to let you see, that helps these developers assemble things. But you still have that gap with a lot of traditional companies that don't know how to work in that way. So we've come up with a concept called the garages. So we have these Bluemix garages, what we'll do pair programming with some of the people that know how to do these, to implement a DevOps tool chain, to implement these iterative approaches. And we can have members from our clients come in and join us in the garage to learn how they're doing it as well as getting an output, that first mobile app, that they can be used that, you know, where IBM again handles the plumbing because it's on our cloud and they're able to focus on the business value. Did you, Suzanne, did you get any insight as to what developers want from a partner like IBM? That's interesting, like what they want from a partner like IBM. I mean, we didn't specifically ask about, you know, who they're partnering with or whether they're partnering with IBM because they don't know that we ran the study, it's all anonymous. Generically, any inference that you can make from the data in terms of what the devs want? Well, I'll tell you one thing that they seem to want is, you know, they are partnering more with the business stakeholders, with the end users. And I think, again, you know, a key is that they're getting a lot of what they want by observing the end users. And we found that not only are they more likely to do user analytics, but they're also more likely than less successful projects to say that the analytics are inspiring the next round of app devs. So whether it's improving the application that they're working on now or even coming up with ideas for new and innovative applications. So I think, you know, that's one key piece is that they really put the emphasis on getting what they can from the end user. So Phil, let's riff on that for a minute. So we heard from Jonathan. He wants, he just wants infrastructure that works. Absolutely. And he doesn't want to have to call you every, you know, 15 minutes and say, hey, something's not working. So that's sort of table stakes. Absolutely. But developers also want, you know, rich sets of services, right? Maybe you could sort of answer color to that. There's a couple of things they want. First of all, they want it without a hassle. They want to be able to go to, to digitally discover what they need and be able to get access to the service and start using it. They want to leverage the latest and greatest technologies that are really important in the mobile space to give you that flexible data, like the cloud team is able to provide with a no sequel database as a service. They want to be able to do flexible logic. You know, Node.js has really taken off with mobile developers. They want to use those emerging technologies. That's one of the reasons behind our recent acquisition of Strongloop where we're able to bring enterprise gate grade management for capabilities like Strongloop. They want to be able to pull those things together, leverage Docker containers, for example, to be able to build their apps in the cloud, even if they're still for whatever compliance or PCI or HIPAA reason have to deploy, you know, behind their data center walls. That flexibility to build using the latest and greatest tools to have the flexible data so they can make changes right now, have them pushed into production before the end of the day. That's the kind of thing that we're really getting a really strong response from guys like Jonathan that was here earlier and other clients as well. And then analytics obviously plays into this. I mean, you know, developers are moving toward building this end data pipeline and analytics factory, if you will, so they can drive it operationally into their business. Can you comment on that? And that's really important to drive those analytics at build time. So if you just let the developer use our SDKs that has the analytics built in, oh, by the way, it has a lot of security and other reliability characteristics built in as well, but that analytics will give them the insight into who's using their app where, what are the features and function they're using here and there. Be able to get sentiment analysis from the app stores, pull all of that data into consideration so that they can continuously improve. And that was another thing I think we saw in the study was around being able to look at the data, see the analytics and use it to continually iterate and continue to make their mobile applications better. All right, we're almost out of time, but Suzanne, what's next for you guys? What exciting things are on your horizon? We have, our center has a lot of different projects in the pipeline. We're also looking at clouds, specifically hybrid cloud. We're looking at cognitive technologies. So that's going to be a really hot area for us to look at in the coming months. Now, when you guys published this research, where do you publish it? How can people get access to it? We put it up on our website, which is ibmcai.com. You can- IBM C-A-I, Center for Applied Insights.com. IBM's, so it's ibm.com slash or no, it's ibmcai.com- C-A-I.com. Because you guys are kind of independent, right? Not tainted by the tendency to a lot of companies they want to put sort of, what are they saying about us? You guys really approach this sort of blind survey and making sure that- It's anonymous. It's anonymous, great. All right, well Suzanne, thanks very much for coming to theCUBE. Phil, good to see you again. Appreciate your time. Thanks for having us. All right, keep right there, we'll be back with our next guest. This is theCUBE, we're live from IBM Insight at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, we'll be right back.


This happens when the narcissist is in love. Narcissists can fall in love but they don't experience the same type of love as normal people do. They have their own idea of love because they're self-absorbed and they lack empathy. So when they express their love, it tends to revolve around their own desires and needs. It's not about understanding or accepting the other person. It's not about meeting each other halfway. Narcissists are maladaptive. They're never going to change. Even if they are in love, it may even make them worse.  They will become abusive. They see love as a game. They enjoy the chase. But once they've got you, they lose interest. They might profess that they love you. They might marry you and have children with you. But then one day they will get bored. They will think the grass is greener on the other side because they're always looking for the bigger better deal. They're always looking for the next shiny new toy. And then they will forget about everything they've established with you. They will forget about all of the experiences you shared together. They will forget about everything you went through. And then they will move on to someone else like you never existed because they don't really want a relationship. They don't want commitment. They don't want to be intimate with anyone because it requires vulnerability and they hate vulnerability because they fear rejection and abandonment. They fear that if you could see who they really are, you wouldn't want anything to do with them, which is why they prefer short-term relationships. Because then you don't have enough time to figure them out. You don't have enough time to see underneath their mask because they can only maintain their facade for a certain amount of time and that's when they will start to become abusive, which is why they prefer to have at least two sources of supply. One person who gives them constant praise and compliments and the other who they can abuse. They will manage your expectations so that you expect as little as possible from them while they're still able to satisfy their desires and needs.  They will show strong feelings and beliefs about love, which can be confusing and this is often what lures people into a relationship with a narcissist because narcissists are meant to lack consideration for other people but they're just doing it to get what they want because they know what you want to see. They know what you want so they will act oversensitive as though love is very important to them. They will act kind and generous but it's a trap. It's a shared fantasy. It's a game and it's only a matter of time until they flip the script because they always have to seem perfect. They can't be vulnerable. They can't accept their flaws and imperfections. They can't accept their faults and mistakes. So when things go wrong, they're going to blame you. They're going to hold you accountable but they're not going to take responsibility for anything. They will treat you with contempt.   They believe that they are superior. So they will treat you as they're supporting it. They will look down on you. They will neglect you. They will always put themselves first. They will throw you under the bus which will have damaging effects on you.  Which will leave you feeling very anxious and depressed. It will leave you feeling like you're not enough when a narcissist is in love with you. They're not going to make your life better. They're not going to make you happy. They're going to break you down. They're going to make your life difficult. And then they're going to leave you and repeat the cycle with someone else. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonates with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. If you would like to donate, my PayPal link is in the video description. Coach the inquiries. You can email me at coach.narksurvivor.uk Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.


Today we're going to be talking about malware and what malware is and how it's used in cybercrime. So, first off, definitions. Malware is just malicious software, software that's trying to do something negative to your computer. It plays a part in most computer intrusion and security incidents because it can be programmed basically to do lots of different types of attacks, lots of different functions, let us gain access to systems and things like that. So it's a very, I guess, there's a lot of different types of malware that play very significant roles in the conducting of cybercrime in today's environment. It's defined as any software that does something that causes harm to a user, computer or network. Now we talked before about spyware saying that spyware basically is looking for trying to collect information about users or the system and that also counts as a type of malware, one that is collecting information. So any software that's trying to harm a user, computer or network, now it can target the user specifically like we talked about. It could be programmed to do some type of social engineering or social manipulation. It can go after the computer directly, the functions or the software on the computer, or it can go after the network, trying to gain access to the network, trying to gain access to information sent over the network and copy it out and send it, usually for information gathering purposes. Viruses, Trojan horses, worms, rootkits, scareware and spyware all generally classify as malware. Viruses, there's lots of different types of viruses but basically they just infect systems and then do some action while they're in the system. There's lots of different types and we'll talk a little bit more about those. Trojan horses specifically try to let somebody gain access to a system. So if a Trojan horse is installed then the attacker can gain access to that computer and potentially log in remotely, run commands on that computer, something like that. Worms are very similar to viruses, they get infect the system and then they attempt to replicate themselves out onto the network and other devices, other systems. Rootkits attempt to basically hide other software. So whenever software is another piece of malicious software is running, rootkits try to gain access to basically the operating system so that way it can better hide other pieces of malware that are running, so they work in conjunction. Scareware is designed again to trick the user into doing some action, either inputting information or in many cases buying another piece of software that also doesn't work.  They scare you into saying you have a virus, make sure you install our software to get rid of it, but you don't actually have a virus potentially. But whenever you are scared into clicking on the link, you do download and pay for antivirus software that doesn't actually work. It's usually also another piece of malware. So they've tricked you into paying for installing more malware on your system. So scaring the user into doing some action. And of course, spyware, so just data or not data, programs that attempt to collect information on the user, on the computer, on the network, and send that information out for use by the attacker. So there's lots of different types of malware. These include backdoors.  Once they infect your system, then that gives access to the system from whoever the attacker was so they can get back into your computer relatively easily later. Botnet allows the attacker to access the system. The difference with a botnet and a backdoor is that backdoors normally focus on one computer or a group of computers, whereas botnets try to attack as many computers as possible. And then whenever I want to control the computers, one command and every computer does that command very basically. A downloader is a malicious code that only downloads other malicious codes. So once a hacker or an attacker gets access to a system, they'll normally install a downloader. And that downloader's responsibility is to basically download and install other pieces of malware that do specific functions. Rather than installing the virus or whatever directly, the hacker can just install one piece of malware, and it will go out and get many other pieces of malware to install in the system. Information stealing malware basically collects information from a victim's computer, and these are things like sniffers, passwords, password loggers, key loggers. This software basically just monitors the system, monitors the network, looking for specific pieces of information. These are normally things like email addresses, user names, passwords, but they could also be things like credit card numbers, dates, chat messages, anything that could potentially be interesting to an attacker. Launchers are malicious programs used to launch other malicious programs. So very similar to a downloader, a launcher is responsible for starting up other pieces of malware, and usually the job of the launcher is to start the other pieces of malware in a hidden way, in a way that will not be detected by other systems, or won't be detected whenever you are looking at the system. It'll be harder to detect. Rootkits are code designed to conceal the existence of other codes, so if a rootkit infects the system, then essentially it takes control of the system, and it can also try to hide malware that's running. Spam sending malware, attackers make a lot of money off sending spam emails to people, so they need a lot of resources, they need to distribute that load, and they also want to hide where they're located, so they infect many different computers and then use those computers to send spam emails out. So this malware essentially infects your computer, and its whole responsibility is to send spam messages. Worms are viruses, malicious code that can copy itself and infect additional computers. Like I said, there's a lot of different types of viruses and worms, but basically their job is to take over systems and do some action on the system. A worm is more focused on replication, whereas a virus normally has some activity that it needs to execute. So a little bit about malware analysis. Malware analysis is the art of dissecting malware to understand how it works, how to identify it, and how to defeat and eliminate it. So we analyze malware to be able to understand how is this piece of software working and what can we do to stop it from taking over other systems or doing bad things with our computer. The goals of malware analysis usually provide information needed to respond to a network intrusion. Once our network has been compromised, once we have malware in our network, then we likely have some sort of intrusion situation where an attacker could gain access to our resources. So we need to figure out how to best respond, and we can figure out how to respond if we understand how the malware actually works and what it's designed to do. We also want to determine what happened. We want to know, was information already leaked? What kind of information was it looking for? Do we have any of that information? Is that information important to us or not? To determine how bad the situation is. And we want to find all infected machines and files. Obviously we want to find out what resources on our network have been compromised. That way we can clean them up and make sure that they're not reinfecting systems or leaking information to the outside. Analysis, of course, supports prevention. So we also do malware analysis to provide and get information that lets us prevent the attack from happening again or prevent further attacks from spreading through the network. Once malware has been analyzed, we say signatures can be created. These signatures let us identify what malware patterns look like, and once we can detect those patterns, we can remove all of the traces that we know the malware creates. Host-based signatures detect malicious code on computers themselves, whereas network signatures detect malicious code by monitoring network traffic. So we basically have a couple different layers that we can do malware analysis on, looking for signatures of malware, mostly through either on the computer, the files that exist on the computer, or the way that the files are running on the computer, or the data that's sent out over the network. What do those data patterns look like? Do they represent anything that looks like it might be malicious? There are two fundamental approaches to malware analysis. First off is static analysis, and this is examining malware without running it. Very, very basically examining malware without running it. Dynamic analysis examines malware while running it. So static and dynamic analysis, two quite different approaches. One, we do not run the malware. One, for dynamic analysis, we do run the malware. Now, of course, each of those have their own basic and advanced versions. So basic static analysis examines the executable without viewing the actual instructions. What I mean by that is we don't actually go into the program. We just have an executable or a piece of code, and we look at it without trying to find out exactly the structure of the program code underneath. We can look at things like the file name, like metadata attached to it, like strings inside the binary file itself. But we don't really get a lot of information. It can help us to start, and for kind of naive pieces of malware, we might be able to do a full analysis like that. But for most of malware nowadays, it's so advanced that a basic analysis alone is not enough to give us full information about what this malware actually does. But it is a good starting point. It's very, very easy to do. Basic dynamic analysis, basically we're running the malware and we're observing its effect on a system. So we have some sort of test system, a Windows computer, a Linux computer, whatever. We run the malware on that system and find out what changed in the system. So this is a very system-based approach. We're just monitoring what changes are happening in the system whenever the malware runs. And if we see those changes in any other systems, then we kind of have an idea of what's going on. This is a little bit more of a functional analysis. Advanced static analysis is whenever we're actually decompiling the codes. We have the binary and we're trying to split it apart and look inside of it to look at the actual instructions of the program. We're essentially trying to get the program code out of the binary to find out exactly what does this piece of malware do. And we use reverse engineering for that. And advanced dynamic analysis uses a debugger. Again, in a test system, we're running the malware, but we also use a debugger to analyze the internal state of the malware while we're running it and monitoring changes in the system. So again, beginning types of analysis can tell us quite a bit, but advanced types of analysis can give us basically the whole picture. And depending on how sophisticated the malware is, we normally have to do advanced analysis of some type. So general rules for malware analysis. First off, don't get caught up in the details. Malware is kind of like a puzzle. There's lots of different parts to it, and some parts you might not be able to figure out. Try to answer the easy questions first and then build your way up and come back to difficult problems. Most malware is very large and complex. They have lots of different pieces. So focus on the key features. What is the key feature of this particular piece of malware? When we want to go from very general to specific malware analysis. Different tools and approaches are available. There's lots of different ways to do a malware analysis. There's lots of tools available for different types of malware analysis. So don't think that you're stuck with one type of investigation, basically, into these things. If you choose a basic analysis and you don't find anything, well, there's lots of other ways to do the analysis as well. So always be very flexible whenever you're doing an analysis and know what options you have, basically. And of course, malware changes rapidly. It's very, very easy to produce, especially kind of modifications to current types of malware and release those. So malware changes often. Usually the basic structures stay the same and then sometimes there's a new kind of species of malware that comes out. But for the most part, malware changes very, very quickly, which means that hackers, once we find out how to decompile a certain type of virus or malware, hackers will figure out how to stop us from compiling it or from decompiling it. So there's always kind of this catch-up phase where investigators have to figure out some new problem once we figure it out and the hackers figure out how to get around what we did and back and forth. So malware analysis changes very, very quickly. Stay up to date on it and realize you have a bunch of different options. A lot of these techniques work for most types of malware, but just realize that you have options and don't focus on the specifics whenever you're doing your investigation until you need to. So that's it for malware. We will do a little bit of a malware analysis this week, just a very basic executable analysis. And that's what we'll cover in the assignment today. So thank you very much.


So yesterday in class we talked a little bit about what the internet is. It's not Facebook. It's not Google. It's not Twitter It's the routers and the switches that make up the communications infrastructure So let's talk a little bit more today about what that means and how it's organized And we'll also look at some of the applications of the internet including email SSH and of course the World Wide Web being the most prominent example We'll take a little bit of a look and how the World Wide Web works behind the scenes and show you how you can Play around with it yourself Let's get started Now I'd like to show you a picture of what the internet looks like and rather than draw one I'll use the internet to look one up when you go to Google. You can click on this link images and do a Google image search Let's search for the internet And you can see a variety of pictures coming up Usually when I think of the internet I think of one of these constellation pictures in fact here's a picture from Wikipedia And if I just view that image You can see that it looks Like a constellation of the universe Basically, what you have in this picture is each one of these little dots. Let me zoom into this region right here Represents a computer connected to the internet and computers are connected to other computers Which are connected to routers and switches and ultimately the backbone of the internet itself The more densely connected things are in this picture the darker the color So the different shaded regions show you perhaps spanning different countries or going across different internet service providers I'm going to change my image search to internet service provider To give you something that's more of what you find in the book so here's an image that's similar to figure 4.7 where you have the internet consisting of Tier one providers or at least in this figure it says tier three. Let me see if I can find a better one Yeah, tier one ISPs and tier two networks which are mentioned in the book and ultimately all of us with our phones laptops and desktops are down here in this internet users portion of the Picture here we connect to our tier three networks such as Comcast or Verizon or Intel us and They connect into larger networks that are owned by different communications countries Sorry companies across the country those end up being the tier two networks in the tier three networks These little blue symbols all across the picture are routers, right? And so they're not even Typically a router could be a computer or it can be specialized hardware But its sole purpose is basically to take bits or packets and transfer them from one end of the router to the appropriate other end depending on where the destination of the packet is going Now as I mentioned before as we looked at the constellation picture each one of the computers on the internet has an IP address IP stands for internet protocol It's the address that says this is where a packet is going to or the address where a packet is coming from Let's take a look at an IP address example Here's some now most of the computers are still using IP version 4 which is a 32 bit address You can see here 32 ones and zeros that represent the address of a computer now Just like we learned to write hexadecimal to reduce the number of zeros and ones a person has to look at There's another way to organize these binary digits in what's called dotted decimal notation if we take each eight bits and turn it into a decimal decimal number like 172 16 and so forth Then we have four Decimal numbers the decimal numbers range from zero to 255 because that's how many different numbers you can represent with eight bits 256 or 2 to the 8th power so basically this is a typical IP address 4 decimal numbers separated by dots which makes up 32 bits Let's take a look at what the IP address of my machine is I'm going to hit control plus a couple times to make the font bigger Now on Linux or Mac the command to see your IP address is if config This means internet or sorry interface config for network interface, and you'll see a variety of different Things output so one is my internet address, and this happens to be the address of my desktop at work and Also a hardware address which is a series of hexadecimal digits that encodes the serial number of my network card Pretty much every network interface in any device has a unique hardware address I Also see an internet version 6 address which is a 128 bit address and that's beyond the scope of this class But the internet is running out of addresses, so we're moving to a new version of IP that allows you more bits to uniquely identify each device I Also know how many packets I've received and how many packets I've transmitted and so forth Now as we know human beings aren't very good at remembering large numbers or large groups of numbers instead We'd like to refer to a computer by name such as going into a web browser and typing in the address google.com Well Google.com has an IP address look just like anything else And if you want to see the IP address of a particular site you can use the host command host google.com and This gives me the different set of addresses that Google.com has Google is such a large service that it needs to have many IP addresses to balance the load across all of its different users But I could have just as well taken this IP address copy it and paste it into my web browser and It works the same way whether I use the name or the IP address directly Let's do another one host jmu.edu So jmu.edu only has one IP address because it's not quite so big as Google this process of converting a domain name like jmu.edu to an IP address like <IP_ADDRESS> is called domain name system You can read about it for example on Wikipedia or in your book and the basic idea is you send a request To a domain name server that will tell you oh, I know the address of Google.com. It is <IP_ADDRESS> 277 the host command actually connects to a domain name server to get you the IP address of a host name There's other things you can do with DNS for example. I can run the who is command and Who is will get me the registration information for that domain? So for example the registrant of jmu.edu is James Madison University. Here's the address. Here's the contact person and Their phone number and their email address and so forth Let's see who owns google.com who is google.com and The output's a lot longer here You can contact with an address or a phone number or a fax if you're back in the 80s I guess and a bunch of other information So basically any website that's registered has to have some of this information like a contact person or an address or Somebody to complain to if the site is misbehaving for example Again, that's the who is command to see who a site is. Let's do yahoo.com Or you can use the host command To actually get the IP address of the host. These are different commands that allow you to interact with the domain name system


Hi and welcome to the session. I am Deepika here. Let's discuss a question. Question says, by using properties of determinants, prove that determinant minus a square a b a c b a minus b square b c c a c b and minus c square is equal to 4 a square b square c square. Let's start the solution. On left hand side we have minus a square b a c a a b minus b square c b a c b c and minus c square a b c minus a b c a minus b c a b minus c. By taking a b c common from r 1 r 2 r 3 respectively we get this. It is by taking a b c common in r 1 r 2 and r 3 respectively which is equal to a b c square minus 1 1 1 by taking a common from column 1 and 1 minus 1 1 by taking b common and 1 1 minus 1. That is by taking a b c common in c 1 c 2 and c 3 respectively. By applying r 1 goes to r 1 plus r 2 and r 2 goes to r 2 plus r 3 we get left hand side is equal to a b c square 0 0 1 1 minus 1 which is equal to a square b square c square 0 minus 0 plus 2 into 2 1 0 1 by expanding along first row which is equal to a square b square c square into 2 into 2 which is equal to 4 a square b square c square which is equal to r right hand side left hand side is equal to right hand side. I hope the question is clear to you.


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From Bahrain, it's theCUBE. Covering AWS Public Sector Bahrain. Brought to you by Amazon Web Services. Welcome back everyone to theCUBE coverage here by Rain for AWS Summit, Cloud Computing's changing the landscape startups, business, government, and society. We're here with a special guest, his Excellency, Amen Terefiq Almoyed. Thank you very much. Thanks for coming. Thanks for joining us. And of course, Max Peterson, Vice President of International Sales, Worldwide Public Sector for Amazon Web Services. Good to be here, John. Your Excellency, this program you're doing with Amazon, this MOUU sign, is interesting. I want to unpack it because it speaks to the bigger picture of how the region is shaped by its generational shift of cloud computing and the people here. This is a really big part of this modernization plan. No question, no question. So the program that the government adopted, so Vision 2030, which was adopted a while ago, is based on one premise, one key premise, that the government is going to move from operator to regulator. And our focus would be to focus on and establish, create almost an open, just competitive environment. So the idea is for us to provide the platform and then allow the meritocratic system to let those that can aspire to opportunities and reach these opportunities come up through the system. So this program really sets the stage to get a new level going. Explain the difference with this program and why it's different than some of the things we've been hearing. We saw a cloud computing degree coming out of the University of Bahrain. We're seeing a lot of job skill training. This is different. This is a unique thing. Give it more detail around how it works. So what we're doing is we're looking at very quick wins. And for us, six months, so for somebody to spend six months, one year in Amazon, is a very quick win. This is not an extended degree. What this is, is it's an opportunity to interact with the best of the best in their world sector. And to honestly, it's almost like a reset where what Max and I were talking about earlier is somebody that spends a year with Amazon, I think something happens to the pulse rate, all right? So your pulse literally starts to beat much faster. Max does all about that. Yeah, exactly, exactly. We hear about their traveling patterns and that in itself is amazing. So in any case, so the reason it's different from a degree is it gives you real life vocational experience. It gives you the networking opportunity. It gives you the lifestyle exposure. And then it gives you the shortcuts and organizations. So you're exposing them to the excellence of what a culture looks like. Amazon is on this case. They're hard charging, they're fast. Anyone who's worked with Amazon knows that they move pretty quickly. But they're disciplined. It's a world-class organization. Right, right, right. It's like a sports team being promoted to varsity or the protein. Exactly. Worked their way up from the entry level. So maybe the difference as well is in this sort of program, it's sync or swim. It's really as simple as that.  Maybe with a degree, it's much less so.  So what we want is we want our youth to hit the ground running. We want very quick wins. And I have no doubt that once the first tranche, first team, goes out to Amazon, comes back, I'm sure that the ripple effect that you see in the industry and you see in the marketplace will be tremendous. Max, what's your take on this? Cause obviously you're on the Amazon side. You taking them in Amazon web services here in Bahrain or is it outside corporate headquarters in Seattle? Is there a definition around? All good questions. First, we're excited to be the first company that has partnered with the ministry on this effort. We're sure many others are going to join but we're excited to be first. I think what makes it different is the aspect of experiential. There's a lot of experiential learning that's going on different than the academic learning. Equally or maybe even more necessary is the sort of organizational and cultural learning. Just what does it take to operate right at world scale or at pace? And then to be able to bring that back to the region, we'll do that wherever we've got the right mix of skills. So it could be in Bahrain where we've got a big office now. It could be in London, could be Washington D.C., could be Seattle. You're actually on C. We always talk about in the queue over the years, tech athletes, cause you know, to be an athlete, you got to have durability, intelligence, stability.  This is kind of, I love the theme. So I want you to elaborate why this connects in with your vision and how did this idea get started? What was the origination around this? So initially the, again, if one takes a step back, we started experimenting about a year ago, a year and a half ago, with the sports sector. So what we were doing with the sports sector, because it was a much smaller sector, what we're trying to experiment there is, if you were to allow our athletes to interact with the best in class, what would happen? Would they live up to that experience or not? And so one of the segments that we were looking at is for example, triathlons. So about two years ago, this sport, so for triathlons in general, just simply didn't exist in the region. So two maximum three years ago, they were non-existent. So His Highness had ordered that we go ahead and see if we can develop this and see if we can develop the athletes for it. And so what we needed to do essentially was find the athletes. Just find the athletes, exactly. Send them out. We did a few triathlons. They did Kuna in Florida, came back, loved it, the addiction and the adrenaline kicked in. And then we started arranging duathlons and then triathletes here in Bahrain. Of course, I don't know if you know this, fast forward a year and a half later and BE13, which is our triathlon team, is number one in the world. Simply, it's number one in the world. Now we're doing this, we tried this with biking. So we sent a team to the Tour de France and we started to do exactly the same thing. We were aspiring to look at greats like Sky team and the rest and just learn from them, imitate and then innovate and hopefully succeed. One, if you have to have the talent to begin with, your theory is put them in, let them see it and they'll either level up or they won't. It's self-selection. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, no question. And you want to bring that formula to check. It's pure meritocratic thinker swing. So there's two phrases that we live by. So number one, our role is open, competitive, just environments. That's it. Number two is we open doors with no hand-holding, simply no hand-holding. But we'll get you the opportunity. But if Amazon calls us and says, participant number 606 or whatever, isn't up to the cut, then they're not up to the cut. And what our youth have proven to us time after time is they're always up to the cut. As long as you make that clear, they live up to it. The expectation defines the experience. So if you say, this is what it is. Right, right, right, right. You could swim or you can sink. Exactly, exactly.  I like the tech athletes piece. Yeah, I'm loving it, yeah, absolutely. Well, I mean a lot of tech athletes, I mean it takes a lot of energy. It is, like you said, you don't know what it takes to build a company. Right, exactly. It's really hard, I mean it's not easy. It is, and the thing that, just like this program, the thing that was interesting about the University of Bahrain, idea was they're going to try and immerse everybody. Because cloud and technology now is immersed in any field.  And we were talking earlier about eSports. So you need a whole bunch of great tech athletes to start bringing eSports services to the world. Absolutely. Do you see eSports? Yeah, no doubt. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what we did on Friday is we signed the first agreement. This is the first time that a region hosts. We're hosting BLAST Pro's finals in Bahrain. This is going to be on the 13th and the 14th of December. And that's running, streaming on Twitch. So we're excited. We're excited to be doing this with the guys at BLAST Pro. And we're excited to be using Amazon's infrastructure to do it. So yes, absolutely. There's amazing things to be seen in eSports. And we're excited. This is awesome. Digital disruption. You guys have been so proactive on this. I was commenting this morning on Twitter, it was in stats went out about entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley in the US. 51% of all ventures fail. And some other ones, 4% become unicorns. But it was all about optionality, et cetera, et cetera. And entrepreneurs are about getting on the right wave. And falling in, trying again. And this is really, you guys have been very proactive on this. Right, so that's exactly why we think this sports plays a big role. So the idea behind the program was simply to gamify everything. The idea behind this program, the idea behind adopting the new bankruptcy law in Bahrain and new reform regulations that are coming in, all we're doing is gamifying things. What we're simply saying is when you fall, it's OK to fall. As long as you get back up and hit the ground running once again, we're OK with that. So you'll start to hear phrases that are pretty interesting. Like I said, with the entrepreneurship, what we're looking at is unlocking levels. So we're gamifying. With education, we're doing exactly the same thing. We're looking at vocational training where you get to unlock levels. So as long as people know that the name of the game is just to stay in the game, and then outpace everybody else, then we're good. And the funding's been fantastic. You guys have been supporting it with resources. Now that the region's up and running, Max, you're good about the development so far with the new region. Theresa was just on earlier, as she mentioned. First day, they turned it on. Bunch of companies were launched already. Well, besides the cannons and the confetti that shot out today at the summit, the other exciting things I think when we launched the region, we had over 350 different companies, many small businesses, small and medium enterprises, that put their offerings into the AWS Marketplace. So when it was launched, anybody in the region, anybody in Bahrain could literally turn on 1,700 different types of software solutions at the push of a button. So I think that's big. I think we heard how 35 local companies have created migration offerings and fast start offerings. We heard from one great entrepreneur on stage today. And we heard from government about how governments are operating faster than business. I think Sheikh Salman threw down a bit of a challenge to the rest of the government and state enterprises and even corporations. And then, of course, I think we saw the digital bank of the future from Bank ABC with their first virtual banking assistant up on stage, who, by the way, lives in the cloud over Bahrain. Yeah, digital employee, we had a great chat about that. This speaks to the generational shift. This is something that's going to be an interesting footnote in history. The sea chain around expectations, you brought this up earlier, I think is important. The younger generation, they want the world to be at a different speed. And they don't want any tolerant blockers in their way. And so whoever can be out front on setting up the environment, whether it's society, government, or citizens for services. But money making potential, banks got to operate. So this is the replatforming of society is happening. This is- No question, yeah, no question. I mean, I'll give you just the, when you compare ministries, when you compare government entities, you would walk in and you'd assume the ultra bureaucratic system is still in place, where you've got to go through tiers and so on and so forth. As far as the youth at the ministry of youth is involved, these guys are running things with chats. We've got internal chat systems. And so there is no memo writing process where you then have to escalate it and then it goes to the minister's office and so on. Absolutely not. These guys are on the likes of Slack, the likes of Teams or Microsoft and so on. And that's how government has run. Max, emails for old people like us. Hey, modern digital governments are redesigning the way all this stuff works. And it doesn't, the thing that's interesting to me, right, is it doesn't just impact these things that you would think of as tech. I thought the example of going from 130 days to five days, right, for permitting approvals. Yeah, for building permits, for sure. I mean, that takes out a massive amount of inefficiency from the industry, right? And it enables that very industry to then move faster. Instead of government, you know, as a blocker to so many of these things becomes an enabler. And I think it's that sort of that attitude about modernized, you know, customer focused or citizen focused that is the hallmark of what, you know, folks are doing now to make a difference. Well, thanks for coming in and sharing the insights. You're excellency, great to see you. One final question, take a minute to explain to the folks. What is the ministry of youth and sports affair? What's the charter? Are you going to add tech athletes to the mix now that we kind of defined that term? But take a minute to explain. Sure, sure, sure. So the vast majority of the population is under the age of 35. The ministry's mandate is to make sure that anybody within that constituency, their touch points are being managed in the right way. So our job, very, very simply, is to be effectively the change agent for them, number one, and number two, to protect their interests. So we're the ones that are negotiating regulations that come in, but what touch point really is relevant. I mean, we're negotiating new laws that impact youth when it comes to their trades, new laws that impact their youth when it comes to their rights. New laws. Arts, culture, or art, or whatever. Any touch points. So effectively, we're customer relations for youth, so our client relations for youth. So that's that from one perspective. With regards to sports, we're simply regulators. So what we're doing is we're moving from an operator model to a regulator model. So, and what we're trying to do is we're trying to create a sports industry. So instead of us focusing on the actual tournament itself only, we're looking at sports diplomacy, we're looking at sports industry, we're looking at human performance, and things like that. So any sectors that we can catalyze to grow in Bahrain that relates in any way, shape, or form to sports, whether it was medicinal development, technological development, regulations, or otherwise, that falls under ministry of youth in sports. You're charged with the whole individual across all spectrums, touch points. Exactly. So we're horizontal as opposed to vertical. You're actually great to have you on theCUBE, great topic, talk about it forever. We love sports, of course, on theCUBE. We love talking sports, Max.  I'm a tech athlete. I learned that today. You go from city to city at a home run everywhere you go. I'm looking for the next league to compete in. Guys, thanks so much for the insights. Cube coverage here at AWS Summit in Bahrain. I'm John Furrier. Thanks for watching.


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I'm sometimes asked what weapons I would like to see added to the on foot combat arenas of Elite Dangerous Odyssey. Whilst I have definite opinions on that subject the answer is a lot more complex than a different flavour of gun. In this video I'll talk about the current state of on foot combat in Elite and how I'd like to see it evolve. To make sure you don't miss any of our videos hit like and subscribe and remember to click the little bell icon and select all notifications and if you'd like to help directly support this channel you can also join our patreon via the link in the video description. Whatever you might think of Odyssey's current mix of laser kinetic plasma and explosive hand cannons for the environments they're used in they more than adequately do the job that's currently required of them. As we've discussed on this channel before with a fully engineered executioner plasma rifle you can silently and efficiently completely take a settlement apart removing whatever individuals bounties or materials from that settlement you so desire it even works beautifully for the purpose indoors. Indeed an un-engineered off-the-shelf level 3 executioner will more than do the job of lightening the burden of humanity from just about any surface settlement albeit somewhat more noisily than its engineered equivalent. When taken in context with the close quarters room clearing beauty of the laser and kinetic combinations offered by the Takada Eclipse and the Karma C-44 the shield and flesh-melting power of the Manticore oppressor the explosive in-your-face unguided magnificence of the Karma L6 or what many players in the game call the only gun you'll ever need the Manticore Tormentor plasma pistol it's blindingly apparent I would suggest that there is no significant need for any other weapons in the game. What could possibly better the current crop of bone atomizing personal artillery choices so much so that the thought of upgrading and engineering another weapon just of a different flavor becomes a viable proposition. Something that when coupled with a fully upgraded and engineered dominator or maverick suit will facilitate your clearing a settlement or dominating a conflict zone like some sort of levitating gun witch in a slightly more interesting way isn't enough of a motivation. I'd argue in fact that there isn't anything suitably enticing enough and I'd go further and suggest that frontiers developing such a thing would be a waste of their internal resources. I can already clear a settlement or dominate a conflict zone in whatever fashion best suits me in any number of different multicolored and fascinating flavors. Weapons in video games are a solution to a specific problem. The specific problem of surface combat in Elite Dangerous Odyssey as it stands now has plenty of available solutions. What's required is a new problem. In order to justify adding new and interesting weapons to the game the game has to expand its repertoire of situations to accommodate them. I can hear you thinking now it's probably around this point that he's going to mention on foot Thargoids. I'm happy to disappoint you in that regard I do believe on foot Thargoids are probably in our future and I'm looking forward to that but I think any weapons utilized in that arena are likely to be in a similar vein to the journey we've been on with ship-to-ship combat with the Thargoids i.e. it ultimately comes down to the necessity to have them be tainted by Guardian technology in some regard. What I'm talking about specifically in this video is planetary surface combat of the human versus human variety and in that regard in order for the combat experience to be expanded and added to I'm firmly of the opinion that we have to deal with the issue of scale in Elite Dangerous Odyssey. I've said before in this channel that I enjoy the on foot combat in Odyssey I've found it suitably engaging challenging and rewarding particularly the settlement based mission content. What I found significantly less enjoyable is the conflict zone based surface content that is used to determine the outcome of matters arising from the background simulation. When two factions go to war in Elite Dangerous Odyssey they fight over control of a system spaceways and surface settlements. The spaceways combat is a simple matter of attrition destroy more of the opponent ships and you win the battle. In a space-based war that makes sense the surface settlement part of the combat equation is somewhat more problematic for me. If you've never experienced it allow me to elaborate when a conflict zone erupts around a settlement then the game places arbitrary capture points at various places around the suddenly abandoned and completely unlocked settlement exterior and buildings. These capture points are unrelated to any vital equipment strategic choke point or any function or system that facilitates the combat for either side they are quite literally a placed pole in the ground that you stand by for a suitable amount of time in order to capture. It's a very gamified mechanic Odyssey has often been criticized over the last year for being nothing more sophisticated than a 20 year old map based first-person shooter. That criticism is too sweeping and generalized in my opinion but it's the conflict zones that have brought out that particular criticism and I understand where it comes from. I mentioned the word gamified when addressing the surface conflict zones and that's exactly what it feels like. To settle what is essentially a planet wide military level dispute by standing next to poles in the ground dotted around a settlement just feels completely at odds with the rest of the scope of Elite Dangerous. A game let's not forget that is set in a one-to-one simulation of an entire galaxy. When the BGS decides that the local circumstances are ripe for a war to erupt and then places that war on a planetary surface I would like to see more of that planetary surface brought into the conflict arena. The drop ships used to deploy into an active CZ are undoubtedly cool but no military tactician worth their salt would park a slow hovering open-bellied drop ship right on top of an active war zone. Those drop ships would be used to deploy their precious squishy cargo miles from the front line where the enemy can't immediately shoot at the ship or the troops the moment they arrive. Any attacking force would likely have a temporary forward operating base away from the target settlement from which their assault would begin and the final phase of the assault would see the attackers arriving at the settlement and taking control of strategic buildings such as power and command centers. Between the attackers beach head forward base and the target settlements perimeter there is ample opportunity for combat over greater ranges using more sophisticated weaponry and tactics such as guided missiles and bombs ballistic sniper rifles artillery suppression of enemy air defenses gunfire from a general-purpose gun to suppress advancing troops and more opportunity to use the terrain to set up ambushes and choke points etc for columns of advancing vehicles and troops. It's this arena that would make a lot more sense for the game to employ its much vaunted but little exploited sphere of combat feature ships SRVs and troops all in the same battle space. The conflict zone as is feels like it would be more at home as an on foot version of CQC right now it's a planetary wide conflict that is being settled by combat at close quarters in an area the size of a football pitch. To address my original point yes I would like to see more weapons added to the on foot game but I would also like to see Frontier evolve the on foot surface and full sphere of combat into what it has the potential to be in order to make those weapons have meaning. I've said on this channel before that I believe Odyssey to be a platform rather than an end point in a very similar way to how Frontier handled elite dangerous and horizons. I still believe that to be the case what remains to be seen however is if Frontier has the vision and indeed the will to fully explore the scale of that platform. Do you think Frontier will ever expand foot-based combat between humans beyond the confines of the settlements? What weapons and tactics would you like to see employed and why? Let us know in the comments below. That's it for now thanks very much for watching if you enjoyed this video consider subscribing to the channel and maybe take a look at one of our other videos linked on screen right now


12 more victims from last Saturday's a train station attack in a webinar door state have been rescued by joint security operators. The Adulterate governor, Godwin Obaseke, discusses to journalists on Sunday at the police cottage hospital in Benin City, the state capital where many of the rescued persons are currently recuperating. And with the latest rescue, the total number of persons in captivity is now two. Obaseke then took a swipe at the Niger Railway Corporation and accused the railway authorities of negligence. He insisted that the Kaduna train attack should have taught them to beef up security at their facilities nationwide.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com coming at you with a quick little break here 2019 Panini Donner's Optic Football Hobby Pack Break number 18. Last filler we got to do to unlock that Panini 1 football. We're giving away the final four random number block spots in that San Francisco, Chicago, Cincinnati, et cetera, et cetera, number block. So we're going to do the break itself first with the first dice. Well second dice we're going to give away those four final number block spots. But for the break names and teams two and a one, three times. One, two, and three. Three times for the teams. One, two, and three. All right, there's the first half of the list right there. Second half right over here. No trade windows in these little filler pack breaks. He's so. Yeah. Yeah, it's Quinn Cook. All right, so here's the final printout. Let's see what we got in here. The gambler, Calvin Ridley, Sonya Michele. Nice. A Hunter Renfrow rated rookie 13 out of 299. He could be poised to have a pretty monster season this year. That's for Alan and the Raiders. Zach Allen rookie card right there as well for the Cardinals. That'll be for Adam. All right, let's flip back over here. Let's gather everybody's names again. And now let's see who's going to win those four number block spots. Let's roll it. Well, let's get the whole list in there. Let's roll and randomize it. Two and a six, eight times. Top four after eight. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight. Yeah, that centering on the Renfrow was pretty nice. Jackson, that's Jersey number. Yeah, you're right. 13. Even better, Alan. All right, so six and a two, eight times. After eight, a lot of sad faces here, but I appreciate you trying. Mark, very close, but no cigar. Appreciate you and everyone five through 32 for giving this a shot, but no dice this time. Happy times though for the top four. You're in the number block. Monta's in the number block. So it's Steve Birch, Adam Cupperman, Jeff Henn. There you go, gang. After eight times, the top four is in. I'm Joe. I'll see you in the next video for those randomizers. Bye-bye.


Yes, welcome to Y Connect where we connect you with the creatives and the process. And today we are at the Royal Music Studios and we are going to be connecting you with the producer at Royal Music Studios. He goes by the name Stan Weze. We won't forget to connect you as well with one of the artists from the studio. He goes by the name K. Ryan's representing for Gospel family. So it's about to be lit, it's about to be turned. Yes, watch out. Yes, as I said, we are going to come in. Oh, curry, curry, curry, curry. Alright. Running. Alright. So as we promised earlier, we are going to connect you with the creative and connect you with the process as well. So we are in the studio as you can see and I'm with the main man himself, Stan Weze. Yes man. Super producer but talented. And to the Royal Media Entertainment. Yes man. Alright. So Kabla Twendele, Royal Media, Water Trawliza. There's another Royal Media. Bonam Lichagua. Okay, this is Royal Music Entertainment. Alright. And there is Royal Media. Alright, so this is Royal Music Entertainment. This is Royal Music and it goes to Royal Media. Alright. Okay, I get your point. Alright, so you guys are not only making music. That is the point. There are other forms of media. So maybe you can take us through the equips you have with you right here in the studio. I see a midi key. Okay, right now we have a midi keyboard here. You will make 610. It's a good one, I think it's 32 keys. Then I use Focusrite, the Scarlett 6116. 616. Then I also have used two monitors. That is the Beringer and the Midian Size and I have the KRK for the bass line. These I do for when I want to master my songs. The mixing and mastering. So you use the small ones? Use the small ones to mix and master. Yes, to mix and master. So I get the midrange the proper way.  Then the big ones, I use it mostly when I'm making the beats. When I want to get the good bass line. The 808. Yeah, the 808, you know it. Yeah, so that's what I have. Then I use a RODE microphone. That's what I use. That's hot. All right, I see this cage around the microphone. Yeah, it's called, it's a soundproof. It helps to filter a lot of the ambience around. Oh, the ambience, no. Yeah, because mostly this place is hot because heats come out of this place. Normal and new, it's a studio jikoni. Yes, man. It's a motor. It's a motor. So obviously we have a fan. We are planning to install a nice, very good one very soon. But meanwhile we have a fan. So sometimes when you're recording, it's so hot here. So the ambience, this helps to filter the ambience. All right. My attachment to music or my attachment to music production is so deep. It's like in my blood. My mama is the one who inspired me to become a producer in the first place. She was a singer in the church. I used to play her piano in church. I was six years old. When you were playing keys for mommy? Yes, I was six years old. And I would go to church crusades. And she knew my touch. She would be in the house and maybe I was sent to go and buy some skomariki for lunch. Then man, I just passed and I hear some music playing. Or maybe I see a crusade. I branch there and I go to the keyboard. Can I play for you? Like they say, yeah. Then I play and like, my mama would come from there. I was like, that is my son playing. I know that is her. Then he would come to the crusade like, oh man. I would say, man, I'm in trouble. My name is Stanley. So Stan came from Stanley. Obviously. Then Wheezy came from, I was in school. When I was in school, there's one of my army friends. Right now he's an army, King army. And we used to play desk with him. Oh, the drumming, the drumming, the drumming. Then we would rap and we would sing. I used to play so good. So he would like, man, how to play me after the evening classes? We can go down just in class ourselves. We just play for me that thing. Then I sing something. Then you tell me if it is good or not. So that's how they call me. They used to call me a Wheezer. All right. So Stanley the Wheezer. Yes. So I say Stan Wheezy. All right. So I say Stan Wheezy. All right. So it's W-E, not W-I-Word. Some people really mistake my name. It's Stan Wheezy and it's one word. Stan Wheezy. From Stanley the Wheezer. You have knowledge as well. Some people are inspired, who are mentored. They want to become like Stan Wheezy. Because me, one thing I know in my life, I wanted to become Stan Wheezy on the beat. And I'm Stan Wheezy on the beat. Now you're Stan Wheezy on the beat. So I love being who I am. All right. So you're Stan Wheezy on the beat. All right. So you're Stan Wheezy on the beat. Yes, ma'am. All right. So I say Stan Wheezy. All right. So I'm Stan Wheezy on the beat. Yes, ma'am. All right. So some people don't know Stan Wheezy, but I'm a good guitarist. I love music. I love guitar.  You're Stan Wheezy on the beat. Yes. All right. So where you come from? I come from the same place. Mostly when I produce gospel songs. They say Stan Wheezy on the beat. Yes. Then sometimes when I do sacred, You just hear a song, someone would just say wheezy. When you listen to wheezy, just know it's me. You've done the whole thing. Importance, what is your signature that you're going to produce? First of all, you have to understand, you are a brand when you're in the music industry. You have to be a brand, you have to have a brand. So when you have a brand, you have to promote your brand. So that's how I promote my brand. Someone has to know, okay, this song is so good.  Someone would like the song that you did. You know what? So that's a song, I need to go to that for a reason. So it markets you as a producer, and it sticks. The brand sticks. Safika, it's about that time we meet one of your artists, one of your artists you've worked with. K-Rhymes, representing Gospels Family. Is it the one on the track? Not really. Not really. We are going to be having another music, by K-Rhymes from Gospels Family, but at least you've seen how it goes down at the Royal Music Studios with Stan Wheezy himself. Let's get to meet K-Rhymes, representing the Gospels Family. It's Royal, Royal. Oh na na na na na na na na na na. So up under you, Pika, you metoka studio up under waiting lounge. Now this is our reception. Yes, ma'am. Okay, now we're going to be tired, and we'll have to wait a bit. Oh we're being stubborn! I'm going to introduce you to each of us. This is one of the rest of the studio. Yes, the rest of the studio is empty. They not near here. No no no, it's empty. It's empty. Oh baby. Thank you so much. It was delicious, but the rest of the studio is empty. Oh, thank you. Who are the students that you meet? The students are me and there's also my student that I met for music production. All right. So, next one. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, what's your name. My name is Debaskr. The Baskapia is a member of Raw Music Entertainment It's somewhere in the tunnels But I'd like to talk to the artist who works at Raw Music Entertainment I'm going to the studio after I get into Storing Mingisang Have you been cooking of late? Yes, I've been cooking of late I've been cooking of late I've been cooking of late I've been cooking of late I've been cooking of late I've been cooking of late I know you're a singer This is called Zawadi Vanilla This is called the Kenyan boy This is called the Kenyan boy Zawadi Vanilla Alright, now baby Baby, now we're going to the studio We're going to the studio Yes man This is me I'm from Raw Music I'm from the Gospel family Gospel family have a drama It's not that It's not that Do you watch it or not? People who come to watch it They say it's a little bit They say it's a drama But they have to watch it They watch it in the studio But who is the picker? Picker, singer I'm using the Tume release I was on YouTube I launched Juzy in the studio I come from Lioana So, my Royal music And the Royal music by the way Royal music, entertainment Is it a drama to watch it Gospel family watch it? It's a drama to watch It's not that Do you watch it or not? It's not that I watch it I'm a producer I come from Lioana I come from Lioana I come from Lioana I come from Tachi I come from Lioana I come from Lioana I come from Lioana I come from Lioana I come from Lioana I'm a producer I come from Lioana I come from Lioana I'm a producer I come from Lioana Now you are a main producer So, you are the main producer Yes, the main producer This is my Royal music We'll have the time to do it You will see how it will go So, I watch it You know what you're saying I'm in the room saying I'm checking in, I'm in the room, I'm in the room saying I'm going to connect and connect to where I'm going to be when I get here. How are you? Good. What's the name of this guy? Go ahead, I love you. This is the name of this guy, I'm from a family gossip, I'm going to connect and send him a photo to my house.  I'm in the same place, I'm in the same place, Kachikawae 254, Hala, Yes, We're here in the same place, Roural Music Entertainment and our guest, Roural Music Entertainment and our guest, Mambu Bibi, How are you doing? I'm doing well, Thank you for the contract plan, My contract too, It's an anniversary, How are you doing Gina? I'm doing well, Welcome to Roural Music, Not to condemn you, Why Connects? I'm in the same place, I'm a producer and an artist, If you'd like to know more about Roural Music, Checky Logo, Instagram, Facebook, What's your name? Twitter Checky Kamar Roural Music, It's by Mo, Representing for Why Connect, Representing for Y254, Until next time, Salute! To YouTube and Ghost Per Family, If you want to know more, Please share, Like and subscribe! Thank you to Y254, For always supporting, Great and upcoming musicians, We appreciate! 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The Sikh community in Canada is more than 100 years strong, and its members have always excelled in every field and sector. I can't claim to speak the house's third language as well as I do its first two, but on this occasion, I am deeply honored to be able to say again, Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh.