Tom here from Lawrence systems, and we're going to talk about the unified dream machine pro If you want to learn more about me or my company head over to Lawrence systems calm If you like to hire sure project There's a hires button up at the top if you want to support the channel out in other ways or affiliate links down below for deals and services that we talk about on this channel and Right now the dream machine pro a lot of people are asking about this as soon as it came out and The folks at ubiquity were nice enough to send me one and I've spent a few days testing it here Maybe maybe even close to a week got it almost a week ago. Anyways, I really like it We're gonna talk about some of the details with it It is definitely a step up from the previous like the USG It is a pro version much like its namesake is That it's compared to the unified dream machine or one night Cylinder one that I just did a follow-up review on earlier today and the dream machine pro here So I'm happy they sent it to me But I still am gonna be critical of it because there is people that say well, you know Well Tom they sent you so you're just gonna say nice things about them. Well, yes No, we're gonna talk about some of the shortcomings and it still has some But we'll talk about the hardware first because I already have it taken apart and the shortcomings are all software So I always hold hope that the any problems that I refer to in this will be resolved That's the beauty of software-defined networking. Alright, so looking at the hardware here And this is a little tricky to show just on the overhead. So I want to show it like this We have a lot of thought going into the design and how air flow works So we have this over here and we have a fan pulls in air and then we have this heat sink for the main processor and everything That's I'm assuming underneath this. I'm not taking it apart. I'll get a closer look at in a second But that has a thermal pad on it. So we got a nice metal heat sink and fan Combo here blowing the air over pulling and cooling going up this plenum across here and it distributes the air This is all really nicely smooth plenum over here We have another fan here to pull heat away from the hard drive and the back of this is a little bit lower than the front So when we put the lid on you have this gap all the way across for the air to kind of flow out It kind of nice even so it's not flowing out at one spot It kind of spreads across what makes it spread across is you can kind of see in here There's just a slit all the way across the back So it actually closes this off a little bit But then it's distributed along that slit in the back to kind of give you a nice even airflow now The device is really quiet that much will give them that they did a nice job on now And the hard drive right here. This is actually optional all the storage Everything is all saved on the board for the operating system the updates and where all that is is on the board the storage Here is because they've also thrown in for those you they've probably already read read ahead on this Yes, that has unified protect on there as well as a few other new up-and-coming things from unify I'll mention those when we get to the software, but I'm not specifically reviewing protect again That'll be coming at a future date because I that's it's still a separate video because there's multiple ways around protect And I'll be probably testing it on this particular device now always there's someone may point out why all the empty space and that is one thing about the device that It's kind of a shortcoming and I'll talk a little bit shortcomings right now One of them is that we only have a spot for one drive So having only a single drive in here means Limits to the amount of storage you can have on some of the cameras and no redundancy for the cameras So if something were to happen to one drive all that footage would go away with it So those are still concerns when you have just a single point of failure inside of here for that Or only having one drive and not being able to raid them together into some performance Again some have some performance gains in them Obviously, there's limitations to how many cameras you can hook up before that many cameras can't write at the speed the drive Can't handle the data you can see there's going to be some collisions there Now my overall on this like I said, I like I do like the device But it's still when it comes to those little shortcomings like that means it's a little bit harder sell to say This is a higher-end business-oriented device but what I say some home users would dramatically benefit from this and I've seen people say well rack mount stuff's not for home users and I would say yes, it very much is I've talked to many new home builders now and this is probably a pretty ideal device I think that maybe probably where they were going as far as targets some of these newer home builders that we've consulted with They are putting smaller but racks in certain areas Maybe the basement or somewhere would have all the AV equipment and this is an important feature to them Is they have a several rack-bond of things maybe some AV equipment combined with they need some you know fast internet routing combined with Wi-Fi spread out through the house this unify makes that really easy and the controller is all located here They don't have to deal with any hosting of it And that's something really nice that unify offers is the fact that well the whole cloud key everything here They can hand the new homeowner. Here's the login and password and you know transfer it to them in a way You go they set it up They configure it they have the Wi-Fi configured in your house and when you think about it from that aspect It actually makes a lot of sense the device You know the homeowner is going to have just a few cameras probably And maybe the door access control things like that pretty good where it falls short on business is of course This has you know a little bit better than the standard USG and definitely faster routing speeds But still no ability to do multiple IPs on a single WAN port. That's obviously a common use case We have in business But we're not seeing that still in this particular version of the software here in February of 2020 that's on here All right. Let's look at overhead and get a little closer look at some of the parts on here So here's like a direct overhead of that plenum. I guess that's really machined. Everything's done real smooth It doesn't it's all nice and tight in here and the boards nice clean install Nothing nothing particular spectacular about it, but it looks nice and they did a good job here I don't see anything unusual other than that little bit of empty space like I said Could have filled it with our hard drive, but I'm nitpicking in it, but I know people are going to ask so this is the controller for the little front display it has a front display like the Gen 2 series switches do and then we have the power supply here. So pretty simple Plugs into the 120 volt. Let's look at the ports on it. So we have the eight ports here So your standard eight LAN ports you have a one gig WAN port a WAN 2 as it's labeled for your 10 gig SFP plus port and a LAN that's at 10 gig SFP plus and a reset button here I'll get a closer look up of the display once it's booting up and then we have the hard drive here Which pretty straightforward how that just snaps in and Slides out now the one thing I'll say is Right here is how far you push it in and it's hard to show but what you have to be careful of is this I Can actually push it in too far It's actually seated perfectly fine at the back here But now the door won't close because the doors past a little spot We're supposed to grab now you can slide this out if you make that mistake It's not too big of a deal, but you push it until it starts to stop and then do that I just noticed that when I was putting it in because I when I first had it I was like oh and I was holding it and I slid it in if you just drop the hard drive in while It's in the odd position such as this the hard drive will go right past I'm like I didn't want to push it and I'm like oh that could be a problem because I don't know what would happen if it Levered too hard, but I may crack something it doesn't feel flimsy or anything It's just a matter of you got to be careful because it right here Yeah, it'll snap past here. So push it in gently just a little comment down there goes in perfectly fine feels well made It's metal so it slides in and it lines up the rails All right Let's dive into the software because that's where the real questions became you know as fancy as it looks How does it perform? How does the software work and what does it look like when you do a 10 gig test? Well, I'm gonna answer all those questions right now After I get the lid back on I'll fast-forward this one wants to watch me fiddle with the lid Now in case anyone's wondering it did come with rack ears and a screw kit Including screws to mount the hard drive in here So they did include everything in terms of that so no problems. No issues couple rack nuts as well It's I actually had mixed these up prior With the ones for the gen 2 switch that's behind me and I was noticing there's extra screws It's because I opened both boxes and the harder kits are almost identical Except for the fact that there's a few more screws that come with the dream machine So I had actually thought there were extra screws with the gen 2 for those of you that watched that video That was my mistake. They just shipped the extra screws with this as soon as I put the hard drive in this I had realized that my mistake But nonetheless the I like the way you they're putting together with ubiquity the hardware kits for these screws and everything They're nice. It's kind of like the soft foam matter of fact They don't just fall out so even if you drop them here things don't just flop around so they did a nice job on it All right, let's put this thing up So the system is all up and running and we have settings we can change the brightness the color and A few other settings that we have in here There's the fan speed and it works like it does on the gen 2 switches where you can swipe up or down It's you know touch enable about we can see the system load memory usage When no IP yet. So waiting for it to start up and get an IP temperature Up time just turned it on board revision UDM Pro version it says it's up to date now Other network settings are in here as well So we have what speed we're doing Wi-Fi experience Clients that are connected to it wireless guest And once again that and then finally we have The protect now I loaded it but didn't set it up So it would let me know how many cameras motion events and things like that I really do like having this little display on there because you just get such a quick clear picture of Settings and things like that on here. So I definitely like this as a feature Definitely pretty cool So the unified dream machine pro is plugged in up and running at 10 gig on both the LAN and WAN 2 So this is plugged into the WAN port. It is a QT SFP dash 10 GT Which this is is a SFP plus 10 gig connector plugged into that top SFP plus port for 10 gig connectivity with an RJ 45 And this is accurate. It says no WAN IP because the WAN IP is the RJ 45 port the SFP port SFP plus port is the 10 gig port labeled as WAN 2 So the IP address just doesn't show on there. So I thought that was of note But the bottom cable is a DAC cable plugged in She better picture here that goes to a gen 2 pro switch 24 port that also has a 10 gig connector on DAC So we have a debt cable there RJ 45 that comes from the back of our office where we have 10 gig RJ 45 over cat 6a But it's wanted to like show the connections that are on there and like I said the display I'm sure it's something easy enough for them to update and softer But if you're using this connection, it will not display the WAN IP in the little front panel menu Now over here we have unify.ui.com slash dashboard where the LTS demo UDM Pro shows up I did not do but chris covered it and watch his video as well. I'm pretty sure you have already The unify dream machine pro video he did he shows the fact that yes, you have to register with unify You have to have an account registered with them or it gives you the option on the fly to create one Now this may be a deal breaker for some people. That's fine But this is not any Official way that you can get around this when you set this up It wants to register and tie itself to the unify portal Where you can launch and get into it from here now interesting enough if you go here to network that unify.com That's where all the other things the other cloud keys and other software defined network controllers are registered here Including the dream machine dream machine pro seems to have its own dashboard at just unify.ui.com So my guess is that you've just kind of moved things over to here So closing that out. I will start on the software here I did the hardware yesterday the software today is 21 hours later ever since I plugged in I just wanted to leave it running for a while and well, I ran out of time yesterday to finish the video So it's idling in the office with an ambient temperature. I was probably about 70 in our office roughly We're sitting here. Well 70 degrees fahrenheit and this is idling at 35 degrees centigrade So not too hot not too loud. Um, no real problems there 10 percent cpu load storage and uh, move my head out of the way It shows the storage for hard drive two, which is the hard drive we plugged in for unify protect And this is where you set up those actual applications by default The only thing installed was the unify software defined networking controller here and then we have protect access and talk I mean you separate videos on those later. I've done one on protect before Um, but right now I don't have anything really to set up or no much about the access and talk features But you know, these are obviously actually cool add-ons that this box has So it's got some future potential as products come out related to this and development continues. The protect is pretty neat Um, having this all integrated and kind of reinforces like I said a small home office or Small office. This would be a pretty nice thing for people. There's a few cameras with only a single hard drive in here But it's nice that that's integrated And for geo fencing purposes, this is a feature of protect you set that inside of here So you'd say where the location is and there's some features that protect has that change the alert information based on location I do have ssh turned on So I'm going to be doing part of this demo by sshing into the box itself to show some of the back end of the software Then we have restart device and factory reset and please note I'm doing all this and there's not any ssl error because of the way the portal launches it Um, it takes care of all that for you if you are inside the network and right now from my position I'm outside the network on a different network with this computer than the network is in the studio That Allows this to you can access it locally if you're on there But you're going to get the you know errors But if you just launch it from the portal whether you're remote or local to it It's nice because you don't have to click through those errors Which some browsers have a little bit of problems with with the latest round of updates But thought I mentioned that also the factory reset button here one concern I had but they have a page on this I like this unified dream machine emergency recovery for both the udm and udm pro They have a process by which you can master reset these And it says specifically not the usual Plug-in computer or static of 1.20, which is common for a lot of older unified devices This sets to 1.30 for the recovery mode screen when you hold the reset in and it kind of brings it back to this Without it having any usb. I was curious about how this could happen Like if for some reason it got corrupted or was some problem They do have a help article here of how to reset these into like an emergency Somehow you goof up the settings to the point of no return. They got a way to return So back on to the software speak a little thing at the top here and we're going to go over to Obviously see we can select the other services but we're just going to cover this one here the unified software find networking controller and This is pretty much the same as the unified software So i'm not going to dive real deep into it, but it's Works well like it's the same software we're used to I didn't see any major changes or differences We will show that I do have a couple things and move myself over to here real quick A couple things behind here a couple devices connected the xcp ng server. I have a Debian behind the udm. I don't know what that device is something else we have plugged in and The unify ap nano hd along with the unify switch 24 pro So poe so this does not have poe So we wanted to plug a poe switch and of course the question comes up Can you adopt other things after it? Yes adopt away. It like I said is the full unify software So let's run down here through the settings pretty much Like I said, nothing Groundbreaking there's not much here that is different than the standard fine standard unify stn controller So that's nice because it's a comfortable environment for me because I know where all these buttons are I know what they all do And we'll run down here now the first thing provider capabilities it does ask for a speed test When you are first setting it up. I let it do the speed test and then I went here and set it to 15 gig and 15 gig you can always update again and pre populate it from Rerunning the test again But the reason I did this is because we're going to create some synthetic benchmarks I didn't want any of the queuing or slowing down of things to happen because of settings inside of here Now the reason it does that is because packet queuing and proper traffic management traffic shaping quality of service Occurs first by knowing what the speed of the connection is and then adjusting the queues accordingly And like so we don't want to do that because I wanted to do a speed test to see what it can route at because My internet may not be the same speed as your internet If your internet's faster than mine and I only showed you how fast it can route with my internet It wouldn't be a real satisfactory answer for a lot of people. I get that Now we also have the led and screen settings right here This shows up when you have devices that have the ability to adjust things like the screen brightness such as in the pro 2 Gen 2 pro server that has a display on there And of course, this is the display that is right on the device itself where you can even turn this off So that is a little bit different that you may not see in normal unify software find network controller So how the ability create other wireless networks So you can have multiple lands on there I did go ahead and create one test vlan and a land here wan wan 2 Routing and firewall is the same one thing i'll note if you go over here to port forwarding I have these couple servers that we're going to ssh into that are behind it when you're in here The wan 2 interface shows up here, but Well, let's click edit real quick to give you an idea so I can choose wan 2 or both So wan wan 2 or both when you're doing a port forward It wants to know what wan interface the forward should go to if we go to the new settings the which is in beta I will comment because this is just something that some people have got a little bit hung up on occasionally But when you're doing I do like to search don't get me wrong. Whoops I do like that I can jump over here and say port forward And jump right to the menu, but when I try to edit this It doesn't have an option for wan 2 yet as of this software version that they're running on here So it's still missing that um, I have to do it from the other side because I'm using wan 2 If not, it's defaulting the port forwards only on to wan. So we'll just keep and stick with the other menu Although these menus like with the search at the top and you add a lot of menus I do like it. It's a little faster But until they have all the features in there, we'll have to do it this way now threat management Right here on threat management. I have everything turned full on Obviously, if you've looked at this menu, I will actually jump back to the way it looks on here If we use security and we say threat management It's much nicer looking menu here We can just choose levels and adjust these things and then you can dive down. They just grouped everything together It'll be a little bit You know a little bit easier to find and navigate the things you want to make sure you're monitoring for threat management on But this is kind of nice GOIP filtering is in here DNS filtering alpha filter I added one for adult filtering, but when you add the filters, it's pretty basic and doesn't seem to really have A lot like I don't have customization And I don't even know what adult sites it's listing It just kind of adds them, but it doesn't give us a whole lot of Detail on that so I don't have like a lot of insight into it when we turn this on or off Yeah, I wish this it's cool. They have it to me. This is the very beginnings of it And of course it does say alpha Deep packet inspection. So this is enabled along with device fingerprinting It tries to identify the devices on the network and the deep packet instruction tries to make some Determinations as to where the traffic is going youtube facebook social media sites, etc And create some definitions around that network scanners is kind of interesting So endpoint scanner and internal honeypot I mentioned this this was also built into the unified dream machine And of course again the dream machine pro they seemed to run the same software essentially The threat management dashboard can do an endpoint scan and determine if end points that it has on the network Have open ports. It scans apparently periodically for that not a lot of information from unify about this nothing I've seen at least Maybe someone can link me to if they have posted an article about it But it just goes around scanning and make a list and says hey I found these ports open on these end points on the land side of your network internal honeypot It lets you build a honeypot on The land side Either one either either the test land that I created which is a v-land But on there you give the honeypot an ip and then it listens for things to try to attach to it And if you're not very exactly how honeypots work, they are kind of dummy systems You'll set up and you sometimes will do them for research and put them on the greater internet But internally they can be used as when someone goes on your network and starts scanning it and they are Getting into the honeypot You will be notified and you like to know when something's on your network scanning that you weren't the one initiating So you're probably not going to scan your own honeypot But if someone does scan it You know that endpoint for some reason is scanning the network and it gives you a reason to investigate So kind of neat that are building that in there. I think that's kind of a I hope to see more around that get built As ip reputation restrict access to malicious ip's it's pulling lists for that You can create new threat management whitelist and signature suppression based on that So it's got a few options direction both tracked by ip address subnet and then do some blocking and listing in there Firewall features. Well, we got all the rules in here and everything else. So groups What else do we have? contract modules state timeouts so you get some tuning in here and Action logging Open that up scroll down a little more WAN rules land rules guest rules so you can do some of the logging out there VPN server and VPN connections I still wish they had a More robust VPN setup for the USG line. They do have the create unify to unify VPN That's a feature I really like so connecting two sites together unifies on a good job It makes that easy between two different unified devices when it comes to creating VPN servers Not so much. The only thing we're showing here when you use the advanced mode is an l2tp server We go over here to classic mode Actually got to close out of this leave Going to classic mode here Takes a second to load sometimes I noticed and we go to networks Create new network And we have the site to site VPN there Remote user VPN pre-shared key WAN to gate it subness create radius rules But this is still the l2p server when you're doing this I would like to have seen a more robust like open VPN or a more advanced server offering inside of here Now it does have the open VPN if you go site to site and choose open VPN right here But it's still beta and yeah, I don't know. It doesn't feel all that great It doesn't have a ton of features. It doesn't unlock a lot of options Now I know someone's pointing out that yeah, you can just edit the json file But to my knowledge I wasn't able to find any type of json file Where you can do a bunch of custom edits and things like that And obviously that's not officially supported by the system anyways Controller wise it is running version <IP_ADDRESS>.59 So it's a slightly different version than the 5.12.35 that we're using for most of the other That's the official non beta version of the unify software to find network controller But all this is the same in here now one thing I'll comment on That there are there are not any official ways that I'm aware of just workarounds or whatever But I'm not going to go into that Because who knows if they'll continue to work based on software updates, but there's no official way to have this device Managed with a separate outside controller. It's meant to be managed by itself So I will at least comment on that for those wondering So if you're thinking about putting it in one of your other controllers, it's not going to happen You can always get to it through the portal, but it's going to stay right here inside of itself so to speak And run inside there Then we have user interface tweaking notifications elite device support is in here I do recommend anytime you are making changes and stuff That you turn on auto backup, but it's backing up to itself So occasionally download the file when you make changes so you you know have backups of things. That's really important Now let's jump over here to the devices And we'll look at the dream machine itself So we're going to have pop this out And here's the dream machine pro itself Now here's wan2 And we can see that we're connected to gig we can see 192 1683.104 is the ip address There's an overview of the land ports on here land and the test land for the vlan we set up what clients are connected behind it Which nothing's actually plugged into it. It's plugged into the gen2 Pro switch and that's why all these ports are empty. There's our wan2 port empty and all of these Now i'm a little bit less clear on This but when you look at these ports This is all you get to profile overage for negotiation. We can switch between vlands So I don't really see a lot of details and let me show you what I mean. For example, we're going to pull up this And when you take a port any port like this one here Let's edit the port You have a lot more features unknown unicast multicast broadcast Lodp med Topology change notification spanning tree protocol egress rate limit So you have more features that show up inside of the unify pro 24 poe I don't know for sure if those features just not supported on here or just not visible I'm not they haven't done a real in-depth testing on that Information so take that for what it's worth But it is connecting like I said right here this works the same and the labeling is the same So you know what's plugged into what so pretty simple there and like I said, there's nothing plugged into this Okay, we dive into the dream machine pro config here Advanced what we got You can set the mss clamping the art cache echo server So to know if it's online, it's doing ping.ubnt.com But it gives you an option to put something custom in there services enabled jumbo frame support flow control managed device And common settings which this is where you used to have to manage some things and they've moved it So now they have links to things like routing services firewalls, etc So you can click here and jump over to the services side right away Actually, it didn't even bring me there brought me back over here But by going down here to the gear Services, that's this page right here If you're familiar with the older versions of software those features on the usg used to all be hidden right under there But now we've looked at kind of the software got a good overview. Let's do the speed test now If you noticed like I had said when we look at the dream machine, its ip address is wan 192 168 3.1 of 4 technically wan 2 so that is that network and we're going to show you is That's my address 192 168 3.9 So I'm going to run iperph 3 Dash s's server. So my computer is at the same network that the feeds the wan of the dream machine pro That means I have full 10 gig access from my computer to that so no problem there This like the namesake says debbie in behind udm ip dash a and we've left threat management and everything on so iperph 3 dash e 192 683.9 so it's going From this address here 192 168 3.132 through the unified dream machine Over to the wan side over to my network and we're going to show you the speed But before we do that We're going to ssh into the dream machine Oh one dot one All right, this is the unified dream machine that we're logged into welcome to ub os ub ios ub o i say it how you want ub ios the initials here and This is the unified software that's running on the back end here. I'm going to head run top I'm going to sort by process and move it up a little bit It fills you wondering this is tmux that I'm doing that with Um, but right here. So we're going to do this and show what happens Whoops 3.9. Did I not run it right here? Whoops. I got press center on this side. There we go so iperph dash s And we're seeing about 4 gigs 3.8 gigs of traffic run through now note That sericata here, which is your threat management is pulling some processor power and so is case soft IR q now what the case software q is that's the IR q handling in the kernel for the system So that's the linux method of handling IR q interrupts and what that is is The system has some limitations to just how much each interrupt can handle in terms of bandwidth and speed when it's Going across the network and to give you an idea what the network looks like on this It's just a standard linux setup network on the back end. So here's all the different eth eth dot 10, which is your bridge for your um I'm sorry your vlan setup. So eth 10 dot 10 because we have a dot 10 vlan You can see we have a dns filter at zero br 10 Uh br 10 and br zero that's the bridging and undoubtedly this one here. Yeah, this is for the dot 10 vlan I created So you have each of these networks all bonded together like this and those run across there as a network driver with the interrupt So let's go back over here and open this back up and the reason i'm talking about all that is the question of routing So right there with one We can see the speed pretty consistent and three point something gigs and those Interrupts are maxing out the processor. But if we do here We're going to put four four streams Four there we go. So instead of just using one ipr stream across if we do four Capital p now what happens is we're getting much more speed now This is where the synthetic benchmark is actually kind of wrong Synthetically, are you likely to have a single stream on a single device trying to max out the connection? No generally speaking when you're on the internet and pulling a lot of data We're pulling a whole lot of data You're going to have a lot of streams with many devices with lots of connections So the bandwidth is not one person using all the bandwidth or one device It is usually a multitude of devices cumulatively using all the bandwidth on there So this actually handles that better than it does a single stream So when we start looking at splitting into four streams You see one two three four case off dire cues kicking off to distribute the workload across the different cores in there to handle the interrupts And handle the traversal of all the data. So when we split the stream up, we get more speed I want to clear that up because there's always lies damn lies and benchmarks And this time the synthetic benchmark actually because single stream, which we know is less likely for real world use case Is actually slower than multiple streams, which is a more likely scenario for real world use case So we'll do that and let's um bump it up. I think we can do can we do 16 streams Now what happens when you use a lot of streams is the irq interrupts are not what's using a processor It's suddenly suricata because now suricata it slows down with multiple streams So this is where you could slow down again by having so many streams trying to being parsed by suricata The intrusion detection system where it may slow down and you get less speed It really depends on how much suricata has to dig into the type of traffic that's on there And try to do assessments of it and apply matching to it So this is why speed tests are fun to do in the basics But in the real world the internet and the amount of things you're running and all the devices make this a whole lot more complicated Now the last little thing we're going to comment on here is this so we'll actually add a dash t 190 And that means let's just hammer on this system and uh, let's let it warm up All right, so this has been running and pushing some data through it. You know, I'm pretty steady here. This 9.3 9.29 gigs and Let's go to the temperature on this. Let's see how much was warmed up since we started so we go over here All right, and we see it's at 37.3 So it ramped up a little bit From doing that now what I did while it was ramped up I went in the studio and stamped a picture of this you could hear the fans running and this is what how many dba This was at so still relatively quiet sitting here I did it from the back actually turned it to the side put it backwards just so the fans are blowing at it It's quieter from the front. It was a little bit quieter But the fans being closer to the back and this is where the air comes out and where the plenums are in it This is as much as it got up too. So it stayed relatively quiet. It stayed relatively cool And uh, the test is over. So it's starting to cool down So ramping it up letting it do that for a couple minutes and It really didn't have much effect on it in terms of Slowing it down or making it overheat or anything like that I didn't have any issues It's been running in the office for a couple days now And we we let this test run for quite a few times prior to doing this video Just see if we have any problems with it and we didn't Final thoughts on the unified dream machine pro There's no off button I I bring it up because also I pulled it off the shelf here and just unplugged it sat here to finish the video Uh, and I've done it a couple times Well one because sometimes started a video but also because the reset on it I wanted to make sure just yanking the power randomly because well That's a scenario you may run into in a real world Didn't cause it just to get corrupted and so far every time I have randomly shut it off It has completely turned on normally without any issues That's been good But as I pointed out earlier in a video There is the ability to go through and hold the reset button and it has a mode by which it can go into recovery And you can restore that backup file that hopefully you backed up Now I'm going to keep this mounted over in my rack here Like I said, we've only had for about a week, but so far no issues with it It worked really well It worked as described from unify And I will do some future videos on the other features that it has such as the protect access and maybe the talk I'll dive into those at some later date when I have some more things to set up around it But for now, like I said, I'll live over here and wait for some more software updates And if there's some major changes in the next version of the software, I'll probably make a new video about that All right, and thanks and thank you for making it to the end of the video If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up If you'd like to see more content from the channel, hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon If you'd like YouTube to notify you when new videos come out If you'd like to hire us, head over to laurancesystems.com, fill out our contact page And let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together on If you want to carry on the discussion, head over to forums.laurancesystems.com Where we can carry on the discussion about this video, other videos, or other tech topics in general Even suggestions for new videos, they're accepted right there on our forums, which are free Also, if you'd like to help the channel in other ways, head over to our affiliate page We have a lot of great tech offers for you And once again, thanks for watching and see you next time


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You want to produce and sell milk, but you face a whole lot of hurdles. Your animals are short of feed, especially in the dry season. Your cows don't produce a lot of milk, so you don't have much to sell. And even if you did, who would you sell it to? The work is hard. Often, young people have left for the city. You cannot solve these problems by yourself. You need to work with other people. To feed your cows better, you need to plan better fodder crops, and you will need the right seat and other advice. It's an idea to organize a group of dairy farmers to produce milk, keep it cool, and arrange with a trader or collector to pick it up every day. You might need a loan from a bank, and you need some training on what to do. That's all a bit much for one farmer to organize. That is where an innovation platform can help. An innovation platform is a group of people who are interested in the same thing. In this case, milk. Each person brings their own skills and ideas to identify the common problems and find ways of solving them. The International Livestock Research Institute has been helping dairy farmers in Uttarakhand in India and Moragaru and Tanga districts in Tanzania. The Milk It Project set up innovation platforms to address dairy issues in these areas. Each platform included stakeholders in the dairy value chain. Farmers, extension workers, traders, processors, researchers, the local government, and banks. The platform members discussed the problems and they came up with solutions. The problems depended on the particular location. In India, for example, feed is short in summer. Farmers spread what feed they have on the ground and the animals trample on it. So a lot goes to waste. The innovation platform in India introduced a cheap type of feed trough. It found some financial support to help the farmers build their own troughs. The innovation platform also found cheap choppers that women could use to cut the fodder. A local manufacturer started making and selling the choppers. The platform introduced several other changes. Better breeds of animals that could produce more milk, fodder grasses, and dual-purpose crops that produce more fodder. Vaccination against food and mouth disease. It set up self-help groups that worked with the marketing cooperative. Now the farmers can sell their milk in town for a better price. In Tanzania, as you might expect, the problems were different. If the Tanzanian farmers planted fodder grasses, other livestock keepers would come and graze their cattle there. So the innovation platform got the local leaders to agree on who could use what land. Farmers who wanted to plant fodder could fence off a piece of land. The village agreed to set aside a whole area to use as a feed reserve in the dry season. They even got in touch with an NGO to improve the supply of drinking water. So local platforms are good for identifying and finding solutions to local problems. But how about the bigger picture? In Tanzania, the project helped set up a network of innovation platforms. Village-level groups consisted mainly of producers and local traders. Regional level platforms in Tanga and Moragoro included district policy makers, input providers, researchers, milk processors and the local radio station. A national platform called the Diary Development Forum includes senior policy makers as well as representatives of producers, processors and other stakeholders. Information flows both ways, from the local platforms up to the national level and from the national back down to the local. Innovation platforms are having a big effect on dairying in some parts of India and Tanzania. Farmers now have more feed and they are wasting less. They are animals are more productive, they are producing and selling more milk, they have better links to other people in the value chain and to the services they need. They are getting better prices because they work together. Processors are also happy because they are getting the regular supplies of milk they need to satisfy their customers. Rather than waiting for the research and extension system to deliver a technology that might not be useful, the farmers can now say what they want. Women can get their voices heard and can make sure the solutions are what they need. Innovation platforms are not a cure for everything but they are a very useful way to getting together with other farmers, meeting other types of people, identifying problems, finding solutions, guiding research and influencing policy.


Welcome to the World Radio Communication Conference 2023 WRC 23 here in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, where I've got the great pleasure of being joining the studio of Mr Nigel Casimir, who is the Deputy Secretary-General of the Caribbean Telecommunication Union. Nigel, welcome to the studio. Thank you. Thank you very much. Nice to be here. Now, I'd like to ask you why is the World Radio Communication Conference an important event for the Caribbean Telecommunication Union? We are basically here as an organization to support our Caribbean member states, basically to be as successful as possible in the conference. So that's the importance of it to CTU, but to the Caribbean and the member states in general, wireless communications is key to connectivity generally. In the Caribbean, we are also in more recent times trying to drive things like digital transformation and so on. And it involves a lot of mobile type services as well, where we keep becoming more and more dependent on, I would say, the use of mobile communications, wireless communications in general, satellite communications, all the things that are governed by the radio regulations. It's a global communication environment that we are in and the frequencies that are used for this wireless communication have to be globally coordinated. So we are all here, we are all dependent on it, so here we are. Now, the Caribbean has got some quite severe weather at times and I think certainly things like early warning systems and that kind of thing, there must be of great importance to you as well. Indeed, early warning and also response type services as well. So we do a lot of disaster management planning, for example. And part of what the CTU would help our member states do is put in place the enabling environment and the preparatory tools as far as communication is concerned. So very recently we've been pushing and in fact in our work plan for next year, we'll be trying to enhance the number of national emergency telecommunications plans that our member states have. Right now, it's very few of them have that in place. Basically, it's like a handful out of our 20 member states. So that will be one of an important thrust for us going forward. So we have things like Earth observation, for example. We have satellite remote sensing. And then afterwards, say, in a disaster recovery phase, you need to get communications to distressed zones. So terrestrial communications and satellite communications, they're all very important. And that's just in the disaster scenario. But of course, we want to build our economies as well. So we're all basically developing countries. We are driving the use of information and communications technologies. We are trying to digitize our economies. And all of this calls for the use of wireless communications. One last overall aspect I'd like to mention in terms of the Caribbean is that there is an aspiration approved by the heads of government to create a single ICT space. That is to create a zone within the Caribbean of harmonized policies, legislation and regulations associated with ICT. So wireless is a great part of that. Looking at your members, you've got to say in the region of 20 members there, they obviously spread out a large region there. What are some of the challenges and opportunities regarding radio communications? Well, technology moves and we want to move with it and adopt as quickly as possible. But regulations and the pace of regulation doesn't move as fast as the technology does. So in addition to which driving adoption is also a challenge. So we, as regulators, in fact, as policymakers and regulators in the Caribbean, one has to work on the side with the technologists, the people who want to provide the technologies and so on. But one also has to work on the side of the users who have to be prepared and understand and find the appropriate applications for the technology. And the policymakers and regulators have to put in place the environment so that all these things can happen and will come harmoniously together for success. In terms of use of wireless technologies as well, one special project we have with the ITU and one of our, and the regulator, Andrew and Anne Tobago, in fact, is a project we call the Smart Seas Project, where we are seeking to enhance the communications that can be used by our small scale fishers basically for protection of their lives at sea. So right now, most of the fisheries in the Caribbean is done by small scale fishers. They basically have no communications on their small boats and from time to time we find that some of them get lost, their engines break down or whatever. And this project is seeking to identify and basically facilitate the enhancement of communications for them, especially for emergency situations like that. What are some of the key outcomes that you hope will come from this World Radio Communication Conference? Well, coming into the conference, there were some important agenda items related to, for example, IMT, satellite communications, as mentioned. Let's go back over these a little bit. So IMT, IMT 2030, you're looking at 6G or you're looking at IMT 2020 at 5G? I would say still IMT 2020 for the Caribbean. There's a special challenge in the Caribbean with respect to 5G. Our service providers are having, I guess, a greater challenge than in other parts of the world to create the business cases for implementing the 5G services. So that's a challenge for policy makers. So the policy makers now, and in fact the CTU is assisting in this regard in terms of coordinating the work of policy makers to put in place the appropriate incentives for this to happen. So that's one part of it, but we have to keep current with what's developing. So coming into this WRC, we had, for example, how do we use the 6GHz band? We have competition between IMT and the Wi-Fi alliances and so on. That's a particular example. We would like to see that solved in a particular way. IMT, I mentioned, in most of the Caribbean, we have very high penetration rates for mobile. This is an avenue for investment, development of services and so on. So we want to continue to ensure that we have all the spectrum we need to allow mobile to continue to grow. But apart from that, however, we are now being asked by new non-geostationary satellite service companies to allow their services into the Caribbean. And it would help. Most of the Caribbean states are small, so they don't have large and un-served areas. But there are exceptions to the rule in the CTU. Guyana, Suriname, Belize in particular, Jamaica is also large in relatively speaking. And even within the small territories, there are challenges of terrain which would prevent your maybe wired solutions from getting there, even though it's not necessarily a very long distance. So there are pockets where we would need to use wireless communications to get into there. So we want to make sure that the results coming out of the WRC would continue to allow us to use existing and new and emerging technologies to solve our connectivity problems and our economic development problems as well. Thank you very much, Nigel, for sharing these wonderful insights with us and we wish you the very best of the future and hopefully you get the results that you want. And thank you for joining us in the studio today. Thank you very much. Thank you. 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And then Sayyidina Musa said to him I am not going to ask you any question So I want to just to learn from you I'm going to see what's going to happen and I'm not asking you any questions So Sayyidina Al-Khadir accepted that Sayyidina Musa will accompany him in their journey And we saw that when they went on the ship Sayyidina Al-Khadir made a hole in it He damaged the ship that they used and that their owners were so generous they even did not take any money from them and in return to helping them use their ship Then we saw how they proceeded with their journey and they met a boy and Al-Khadir killed him And again that was so not acceptable to Sayyidina Musa And when he told him about it he said, I told you that you can have no patience with me Then the last thing that he promised Sayyidina Musa promised him If I ask you anything after this keep me not in your company So if I object to you anymore that's what will be it You have the permission to break this company And this is when Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said Rahmatullahi alayna wa ala Musa Laulabitha ma'a sahibihi laa apsaraal ajab May Allah, may the mercy of Allah be upon us and upon Musa If he had stayed with his companion we would have seen wonders So then they went on with their journey and when they reached it down they were so hungry, they needed food and they asked all the people for food They asked them for shelter, they refused And then they were walking when they found a wall about to collapse And Sayyidina Al-Khadir alayhi sallam set it up straight So Sayyidina Musa immediately said If you have wished surely you could have taken a payment for what you did And here Sayyidina Al-Khadir said this is the parting between me and you So that was it But before we depart I am going to tell you the reasons, the interpretations of what happened He said, this is the parting between me and you I am going to tell you about what you didn't expect And this is verse 78 So I will tell you the interpretation the explanation of those things over which you were not able to be patient As for the boat, it belonged to poor people working in the sea So I wished to make a defective damage in it Why? As there was a king who was in front of them and who seized every good ship by force Now let's talk deeply about the ayah So As-Safina, the ship was for Masa'keen Masa'keen are What's the difference between al-Miskeen and al-Faqir? Al-Faqir, both of them are poor But al-Faqir is the one who does not own anything And he is in need While al-Miskeen is the one who owns a little bit But what he owns is not sufficient for him So those people, the owners, they were the owners of this boat But they did not have enough money They did not have sufficient money So what happened? They were working in the sea So for someone who works in the sea, it means they lift up some goods People, they fish, they try to catch some pearls So this is the type of work they used to do in the sea When he said, فأردت أن أعيبها If we look at the verb فأردت أردت means I wanted to cause a defect on it But later, when he says وَمَا فَعَلْتُهُ عَنْ أَمْرِ We will come to that later, but I want to mention it here He says, وَمَا فَعَلْتُهُ عَنْ أَمْرِ So he made the action, the bad action, refer back to him أردت I wanted But later he said وَمَا فَعَلْتُهُ عَنْ أَمْرِ I did not do it by will So Allah ordered me to do it But that's of أدب That he caused the bad action, the defect damage that he did He made it just for himself, that he did that وَكَانَ وَرَاءَهُمْ Now, what does the word وراء means in the Qur'an? The word وراء in the Qur'an has four different meanings And this is the miracle of the Arabic language One word will mean several different things that are not even related How? So in one of the places here, in one of the ayahs, let's take this ayah This ayah, وَرَاءَهُمْ means in front of them So the king was at the shore waiting for them And this is similar to another ayah when Allah SWT says مِوَرَاءِهِ جَهَنَّمْ Hellfire is in front of him So the first meaning for وراء, which is in this ayah And in other ayahs here, mean in front of them Now, the other meaning The other meaning for the word وراء in Arabic is مِنْ بَعْدِ, which is after And we see this in the ayah when Allah SWT says وَمْرَاءَتُهُ قَائِمَ فَضَحِكَتْ فَبَشَّرْنَاهَ بِإِسْحَاقَ وَمِوْ وَرَاءِ إِسْحَاقَ يَقُوبَ His wife was standing and she smiled Then we gave her good tidings of إس Relax وَمِوْ وَرَاءِ إِسْحَاقَ And after وراء إسحاقة يعقوب. So after إسحاق, يعقوب will be there. Now the third meaning is for the word وراء is behind. فنبذوه وراء ظهورهم. They threw the scripture behind their backs. They did not care. So the word وراء here means behind and the last meaning for the word وراء in the Qur'an means other than. فَمَنِ بْتَغَى which means غيرًا in Arabic. فَمَنِ بْتَغَى وَرَاءَ ذَالِكَ فَأُولَائِكَ هُمُ الْعَدُونِ If someone wanted something other than this, then those are the bad people, the transgressors. So here if we look into this ayah وَكَانَ وَرَاءَهُمْ مَلِكُونْ يَأْخُذُواْ يَأْخُذُواْ قُلْ لَسَفِينَ تِنغَصْبَ. So which one is better? When Sayyidina Al-Khadr said, I wanted to prevent that king from taking their boat by making it look faulty, by making it look defective.  Now, what would the result be? Those poor owners could benefit from their boat. So which one is better? To have a defective boat or to lose the boat by itself? So if Sayyidna Musa A.S. knew this explanation, he would have done the same thing to the ship. He wouldn't think that this is something strange. Why did you do that? Why did you harm the people who benefited you? Why did you harm the people who helped you? So this is what the meaning, the explanation of why Sayyidina Al-Khadr made that hole or made that defect in the ship. Then he moved to the second case. Now as for the boy, his parents were believers. Now look at the word Al Ghulam. Al Ghulam is a young boy who did not reach the age yet. So he is not ordered of doing the salawat and everything and the takalif. So he is not punished for anything. So when he dies at this age, then he dies as pure as he would be. Now, is it good for the boy to die at this age or is it bad? The mom and the dad were believers. And most of the time, children are trials for their parents. And this is what Allah swt mentioned in the Qur'an. He said, So be aware. How can a child be an enemy? A child can be an enemy when he is so demanding and the parents are not rich. Then the father would steal some money just to give his child what he wants. So in this case, this child was a trial and because of this child, the parent is going, the father is going to be punished. This is how the wives and children can be enemies. The same thing as for the wife, she would keep nagging and nagging and nagging for her husband. Get me this, get me that. My friend bought this ring. My friend got this car. Look at this one, look at that one. And he is not able to do it. So what he will do, he will steal to fulfill the needs of his wife. So he is punished because of his wife, who became his enemy. Now, Allah is saying, So this child, his parents were believers. And we feared that he would oppress them. He would overburden them by transgression and by disbelief. So out of their love to him, they will follow him. So it's a loose, loose case. And we intended that their Lord exchange them, substitute for them. And it's nearer to mercy for them. So Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, when he made Al-Khadr, kill this boy, he transformed him from the kufr, from the non-believing state that he will be when he will get older, which will lead to jahannam. So he transferred him from this position to killing him when he was young, when he was still pure and he entered the Jannah. His parents rejoiced when he was born and they grieved for him when he was killed. If he had stayed alive, he would have been the cause of their doom. So we have to look at things not from there, not outwardly, but look deeply. Within each and every calamity, there is some khayr. What is the khayr in what's happening? We might not understand it now, but later on, we will understand the reason. Most of the times, someone would beg Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la for something, and he would beg and beg and beg. And Allah, if it's destined, he will give it to him. But if not, then he will not give it to him. And later on, he would say, Oh, Allah did not give me this. Alhamdulillah. It would have been a disaster if I got it. So we never know where is the khayr. And that's why when we want something, we do not ask for it. We ask for the khayr. We ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la. We say, Ya Allah, if you know there is khayr in this thing that I would deeply want, just give it to me. If you know that there will be sharr in this, there will be some evil in this thing that I would deeply desire, then keep it away from me. And give me something that I would be content with and it will have all the khayr for me. So outwardly, what happened to the ship and to the boy is, it's not acceptable. But inwardly, it was all the khayr. Now, the third one is, as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the town. And there was under this wall a treasure with them. It was a treasure for those young two orphans. So you remember that the people of the city were all so stingy, were all so bad that they refused to give them anything to eat. And under this wall, there was a treasure. So if this wall falls down and the treasure is shown, then those bad people of the city would steal this treasure. So the orphan boys will lose their treasure. But when Al-Khadr, peace be upon him, built this wall again, he built it in a way that it will be good enough for the two orphan boys to get older and then to get out of their treasure. So doing this, Al-Khadr, peace be upon him, knew how to pay back those bad people of this place, of this town, because he did not allow them to steal this treasure. And their father was righteous. He was a good person. Now, look at this message. This indicates that righteous persons of spring will be taking care because of the good deeds of their fathers. And you always hear it. The father was a good person. Allah saved his children. The grandfather was a good person. He saved his offspring. And the word Abu Huma in the Tafsir might be up to the seventh grand-grand-grandfather or grand-grand-grandmother. So Abu Huma, Wakana Abu Huma Salihah, the father was righteous. And this is a message for us. We have to be righteous so that Allah will take care of our kids. We have to plant the seeds of goodness in our kids so that they will be brought up with goodness in their heart, with goodness in their mind, with goodness in their life. So they will be able, Allah will show them the right way to differentiate between what's right and what's wrong so they can choose the best. Of course, this is with the help of Allah SWT. So you Lord intended that they should attain their age of full strength and take out their treasure. Now, let's think of the father, the father now, the good father, the righteous father. He built the wall in a way that it will be good enough for a period of time that his children will grow up until they reach the age and then get their treasure.  Allah SWT. When does someone reach the age? When he is able to produce, to give the same thing as himself. When he is able to get married and to give a child at that time, at that age, we will say that he got the age. Now, if you take a watermelon and you break it, so it might be either red and delicious and very sweet or it might be yellowish or any other color that's not so so ripe and it will not taste good. When will it be good and tasty, red? It will be like this when it is fully grown that the seeds inside are able to give more than what you are eating. So you broke once, you are eating one watermelon but imagine how many seeds are inside and each can produce watermelons. So this is when we say So why did I do that? That was a mercy of your Lord. I did not do, I did not damage this the shape, I did not kill the boy, I did not fix the wall just from my own from my own knowledge that I wanted to do that. No. So this is the reason why you could not, this is the interpretation that I just gave you of those things you could not be patient with and this is what Allah wanted me to do. Now if you look at the words Arada, Aradtu, Arada and Aradtu he he talked about the bad things Sayyidina Al-Khadr and he said I did that but he talked about the Khayr that it belonged to Allah SWT and as I just mentioned this is out of politeness. This was the story of Sayyidna Al-Khadr with Sayyidna Musa alaihi salam and we all know that I mentioned this last time that this whole journey happened because Sayyidna Al-Khadr was asked who is the most knowledgeable person and he immediately said I am. So Allah SWT told Sayyidna Musa alaihi salam that you are not the most knowledgeable. There is one person who is more knowledgeable than you. Sayyidna Musa wanted to know more and he asked Allah SWT to show him the way to go and reach and meet this knowledgeable person and also to tell to learn from him. So the whole story here indicates that the importance of seeking knowledge. When we know that there is some knowledge that we don't know and there is a lot that we don't know then we have to seek for it especially when it is sacred knowledge, when it is knowledge about our religion. We have to learn about the Fiqh of our religion. We have to learn about everything that is important for us to do our daily life correctly, righteously. We have to learn. We have to seek this knowledge and the more we learn the more we find ourselves how ignorant we are. The more we learn the more we see that there is a lot that we don't know that we have to learn and there is a special pleasure in seeking knowledge. When Allah SWT wants his servants to be closer to him then he makes them ulamaa and it's mentioned in the Qur'an those who fear Allah SWT are the knowledgeable people. So if you want to get closer to Allah SWT get more knowledge. Learn about the Qur'an. Learn how to read the Qur'an correctly. If you know how to read the Qur'an correctly memorize it. Don't say it's difficult. Just have the intention and Allah will help. If you come to Allah SWT walking he comes to you running. Remember this. Just have the intention and start the first step and you will get what you want. So learn about the Qur'an. Get connected to the Qur'an. Try to understand the meanings of the ayaat of the Qur'an. You will find it way more enjoyable to read the Qur'an when you understand it than when you do not. And always remember whatever you do to learn the Qur'an even if it is hard on you then Allah will double the reward for you. And this is what Sayyidina Muhammad SAW says A person who reads the Qur'an fluently will have every word but the person who reads the Qur'an and he struggles and pays more attention, he pays more effort and it's not easy for him to do that and he still does that he will have doubled the reward. Get connected to the Qur'an. This is the secret for a happy life. It is a complete system for our life. It organizes our life. It gives our life special taste when we follow the rules of the Qur'an. So the point is here we have to seek knowledge. We have to learn. When we know that there is a halaqah of zikr, it's our benefit to attend this halaqah. The angels will be surrounding this halaqah. The group of zikr will be surrounded by angels and they will mention your name up with Allah SAW and those who sit in a group of zikr whether they are remembering Allah, learning about Qur'an, learning about the Prophet, learning about the companions, those people are called friends for the sake of Allah and they will be on pulpits of happiness in the day after and they will ask Allah SAW, we used to meet with this person. We don't see him with us and Allah would say, go get him wherever he is and let him be with you. Those are the brothers and sisters for unbeds that are next to each other, that are facing each other. So Sayyidina Al-Khadir said to Sayyidina Musa SAW, they were talking about knowledge and then there was a bird who came to the sea and he drank a little bit a small drop of water and Sayyidina Al-Khadir said to Sayyidina Musa SAW, My knowledge, all I know, and all you know in comparison to what Allah's knowledge is is the amount of the small drop of water that this birdie just drank of this ocean, of this sea. We have to seek knowledge to be of the righteous people who fear Allah SAW the most, inshallah.  What is this story? The next story starts with Weis Al-Unaqa and they ask you and Allah here is talking to Sayyidina Muhammad SAW. Now let's stop at this word and look at the questions that Sayyidina Muhammad SAW was asked in the Quran. The word Su'ila or Yesal was or Sa'ala, so from questioning the question was asked to Sayyidina Muhammad SAW 16 times in the Quran, 16 times. One of them was in the past tense and the others are in the present tense. They asked Sayyidina Muhammad SAW about the hour. They asked Sayyidina Muhammad SAW about the hour. So they asked Sayyidina Muhammad SAW 16 different questions. Some of them, about what they would spend, about the sacred months, do they fight it, about wine, about gambling, about the orphans, about the hour, which was asked so many times, about the anthal, what they gain in about the booties, they asked about the Ruh, the soul, the mountains. Each one of these questions was answered differently. 15 of these questions were answered by the word Qul. The answer started with the word Qul. But one of these questions was answered without the word Qul. The word Qul means say. So one of these questions, if they ask you about me, I am close. So there is no Qul. But let's have another example for the questions that are answered with Qul. So Qul, say when they ask you about the mountains, say this. When they ask you about the orphans, say this. What's the difference? When they ask you about me, about Allah, don't say anything. I am going to answer them. They just need to understand this. They just need to make their dua. And I will answer their dua. But for all other things, Qul. And some of these as say also does not only start with Qul, it starts with Fa Qul. So if you are asked, then say. So this is the questions in the Quran. Now they asked him, we know that Quraish wanted to know if Sayyidina Muhammad is a prophet or not. So they asked the scholars of the Jews in Medina, how can we know that? And they told him, asked him about the young men of the cave, asked him, asked him about the man who traveled extensively throughout the earth and asked him about the if he answered these three questions, then he is a prophet. So when they asked him about the Allah gave him the answer and we know that he did not answer Quraish when they asked him because he didn't have the knowledge. So he waited until Allah revealed the knowledge to him. So they are asking you about the Qur'an. Who is the Qur'an? Allah did not give us a name of this person, the one who travels extensively throughout the earth. So this means that it is not specified to a certain person. It might be any person because he is not given a name. Whereas when Allah SWT mentions the story of Maryam, he mentioned her name, Maryam, he mentioned her name, he mentioned the name of her father, he mentioned her story and the reason he mentioned this, her name and her father, it was very specific because what happened to her will not happen to anyone else. It's specifically for her. When Allah SWT says Allah presents an example of those who disbelieved, the wife of Nuh and the wife of Lut. We know Nuh and Lut were messengers. They were under two of our righteous servants, but they betrayed them. So those prophets did not avail them at all from Allah SWT. Do we know the name? No. Did Allah SWT mention the name of the wife of Nuh or the wife of Lut? No. It can be any wife who objects her husband, it can be any wife who objects the message, it can be any wife, it can be any person. When Allah SWT mentioned Syedna Zaid in the Qur'an, he mentioned him by name and he is the only companion whose name was mentioned in the Qur'an. So we have the name and this incident is about Zaid himself only. But here Allah SWT did not mention the name. So they asked Syedna Muhammad SAW about the story, about the time, what happened? So was he named Dhul Qarnayn because he had a crown and his crown had two horns? Or because he he traveled so to the east until he got into the sunset, sunrise area or to the west and he got to the sunset area. Some people say he is Alexander the Great, but that's not possible because the ayahs talk about a righteous person, insan or mu'min, a believer and Alexander the Great was not a believer. He was the student of Aristotle, the philosopher. So Allah SWT made it general. Why? Because this is what the any ruler who has the power of ruling people, he has certain descriptions that he should fall into. So don't ask about the name. If Allah wants us to know the name, he would have mentioned it. So what happens? When they ask you about Dhul Qarnayn, say, I shall recite to you something that is mentioned in the Qur'an. And we know that's mentioned in the Qur'an from the word Dhikra. Dhikra means a story that was mentioned in the Qur'an and that it will be preserved until the day after. So here is this story that's mentioned in the Qur'an. This story indicates and tells us that every good thing is going to last until the day of judgment. So inshallah we will be stopping here and next time we will go in, we will look in at the story of Dhul Qarnayn. Thank you.


Today we are going to be showing you 15 ways on carrying candy to a movie theater. We've seen some videos do this, and I have not seen any of the stuff that I've thought about in those videos. Mariah is actually pregnant, or she's gonna be pregnant actually. Yes. She's got a blimp coming in here. It just looks like you have a beer belly. Hold on. Hey, that actually looks good. Bam!  Guys, before we start this video, I have a challenge for all of you that are watching new and old subscribers to our channel. If you guys get this video to 40,000 likes, we are gonna take some of these life hacks actually to a real life movie theater and try them out on real people and get all the insight. Like this video up right now so we can do that, and you guys can see a video like that. Cause I feel like that would be freaking insane. It is so insane. What is going on Mama Squad? Welcome back to our channel. Guys, today we are going to be showing you 15 ways on carrying candy to a movie theater. I'm gonna tell you, it is possible guys. There are many, many different ways on getting candy or getting any snacks into a movie theater. As you can tell, we've already showed you four. We haven't even started this video yet. But guys, stay tuned. This is gonna be awesome. I know movie theaters, they're overpriced. They're freaking Jolly Ranchers. They're starbursts are like- They're waters are probably like five dollars for a water. It's five bucks for literally a candy bar babe. It's a rip off.  So, you know, there's so many ways that people try getting stuff in. And today we wanted to make it a little bit easier and show you some creative way to do it. Give you guys some life hacks. We actually have a lot of cool creative ideas that we're gonna show you guys. That we've came up ourselves that you probably have never seen anywhere. We've seen some videos do this. And I have not seen any of the stuff that I've thought about in those videos. There are some things that are the same, but trust me, these are some juicy good ways to do it. So make sure to stay tuned, watch this video all the way through. So you can get the 15 different ways that you can sneak or just sneak in something anywhere. It doesn't even have to be a movie theater. It could be, you know, a club. It could be a restaurant just anywhere where they don't allow something. There you go. Also guys, make sure you guys are staying tuned for tomorrow's video. We have some really exciting news that is coming up. It might have to do with a big purchase.  If you are new to our channel, make sure to subscribe right now. I am Bill. And my name is Mariah. We just moved down to Florida one week ago and we are already doing something insane. So join the family, stay tuned with the journey. And I'm so excited to show you guys these 15 ways to bring stuff into movie theaters. I think we should just start it off right now. Let's go. So you're thinking about going to see a movie. They are opening up movie theaters. I know most of them by us are already open.  Yes. So number one way I think that would be a good idea. Say if you have a baby or you have like your favorite, like if you're younger or you're older and you have like this really comfy animal or stuffed animal. We're actually got a little bit of a life hack. Wait, so where should we cut them? Where should we cut them open? I want to see if this works. Probably in the back because when you hold them, you're gonna hold them like this, you know? That's so smart. I'm gonna make the first cut. Mariah didn't want me to cut it. Mariah didn't want me to cut them when I was buying them. And I'm like, babe, we got to show them a good first way at getting food into the movie theater. What is he? Is he a little, what is that? He's like a, I don't know what it is. Honestly, I don't really know. All right, we broke through the skin. Here we go. We're through. We're doing surgery on him. All right, so first thing you guys want to do is take the stuffed animal. Take the stuffing out. Mariah, can you pick something out of the assortment? You don't want us to un-stuff it too much because you don't want it to look like you stuffed it.  You think we can fit that? We can try to fit a box in there. We can definitely do that. Hold on. The boxes are only half the problem, guys. Just take the stuff out of the boxes. Yeah. Boom. You'll see a little bag. Look at that. We got some skittles in here. Perfect. What should we do? I think we should put some of these in here. Okay.  Look at that. All right, so I think we got enough for the first part of like sitting down and snacking for a little bit. Go in. You hold it like this and you just, you know, I have a movie at 12 o'clock on P.M. Your stuffed animal is cute. Thank you. Have, uh, enjoy. It's, uh, all the way down there. Two blocks. Take a left. Go right through the bathrooms. Okay? Take a U.E. It'll be right on your right. Okay. Looking for a cinema. You would not be s***ing up someone's butt like that. Okay. Well, no, I would not be. You better not be. I would not be. That actually takes me to number two. When you walk in, most of the movie theaters are going to require you to wear a mask. Yes. Why not take control of wearing a mask? Take your little teddy bear. Put on your mask. So we got the teddy bear going. We got the mask on. Have you ever thought of putting it? There's a lot of room in these boxes. So, so like we did, or maybe not this one. So like we did for the teddy bear, we're going to open up the box because the boxes give too much away. You got it. You can't have the box. You can't even tell. Oh my God. You fit those all. So sticky.  That actually looks good. Look at that guys.  It's fine. Yeah.  You know, it looks pretty cool.  I think we already, we already got in two big bags. All this would have cost you over 10 bucks.  They are coming in clutch for the movie theaters. I know. Sneak any candy you want. Yeah. Let's help. Cause not to be like, keep pulling on your mask, please. No. I'm not going to ask that. You have to make it look very obviously if I was actually on the movie theaters, I would be probably put this in a different bag. So it's not crunchy like this. Yeah. It's like a plastic bag. Yeah. And literally that's it. This next one, listen up guys. This is probably the most like the best way to do it because it has so much room. Guys, we're in the middle of a pandemic and you're going to be bringing around disinfecting wipes. No one's going to question why you have a big thing of disinfecting wipes. You want to wipe off the seats. You could just, if they ask you. Sure. Why do you have a thing of disinfecting wipes? We clean it. Be like, well, we like to feel for sure. Exactly. And clean with our disinfecting wipes. And I'm going to suspect that there's candy in here because. Or just anything. Disinfecting wipes. So my first plan of attack, they come obviously in the actual thing. There's no baggie around them. So it's going to have some chemical on the thing. I do not recommend putting any food in this after you've taken the wipes out. Until you've cleaned it. Yeah.  We're going to put them in a baggie and we're going to secure it so we're not wasting it. So first thing you want to do, take all the wipes out in your lap with just a hollow container. So what you can do, you can clean it out. I still wouldn't put my food or like cheeses or anything in here. No. Because you know, obviously the disinfecting wipes are toxic. So. What we'll do is instead of cleaning it, you know, you could stuff it with the actual like. You could just shove some candy on in there. Look at that. See how much it fits? Look at that. Put a long, you need a long tube. Look at this. Watch this. Boom. It's perfect. Guys. Guys. They don't allow you to bring in water. See that? It will fit in here perfectly. This is not a life hack. I don't even know what is. Guys. It's actually insane. I'm actually, this is actually really smart. Look at that. And I was also thinking you can't even do whatever you want. You could bring peanut butter. You could bring some slices of bread and make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Guys. This is my favorite one at the end of the video. I want you guys to comment down what is your favorite life hack out of all this. Now look at this. Even if you want to be extra, you could low key put a disinfecting wipe on top. So if they do open it, but who's going to touch your wipes? Yeah. No one. Boom. Close this up. All right. So I think this is my favorite so far. Actually wait. There's one more. I'm looking at it right here. It's a good one. It'll hold more. It'll hold more than that. This is my number one out of the ones that we saw so far. For this next one in the video, we actually bought some compression socks. Compression socks. Mariah is going to put them on right now actually. If you guys have any like high, it doesn't have to be compression socks. You know, any high socks. Yeah. Any high socks. So we're going to test it out. We're going to see if we can stuff some candy in here. And with sweatpants, you would not even be able to see up your pant leg. So it'll be perfect. Just don't wear shorts when you're doing this because obviously it's going to be a little lumpy. All right, baby. I have a challenge for you. I want to see if you can fit all of this. We got some jerky. Some other candies in here. Some ropes. Let's see, babe.  Do some damage. Let's see if these actually work. Put them to the test. And you got to pull them up all the way because the more you pull them up, the more space you got. All right. So we got the Reese's in there. What else we got? The sour punch strips. Okay. Looking good. Looking good. Oh, the air bite. The sweetheart ropes. Can you fit the jerky in? Mariah, can you fit the jerky in? This is actually crazy, guys. Put the pant leg down. This might be... No, put it down. Okay. Take the jerky out. We're done with the jerky. And that's it. This is not... No, babe. That is not that bad. Wait, come here. Honestly, someone here. Look it. Give me your ticket. Next, please. What are you looking at? What are you looking at? The guy's looking up here. Yeah, I guess you're right.  He's going to be looking down here. But he's not going to be looking at your ankles like... I mean, obviously I would put it in a little bit better, maybe where I have high boots or something. But I think this is a check mark. This is a check mark. Guys, this is probably my second favorite all of all of them so far. I'm still loving the wipes one. The disinfecting wipes one. You can fit literally an assortment of anything in here. That one literally is my favorite so far, for sure. This next one is probably the most craziest one that I have came up with. Honestly, I think this one is almost as good as the disinfecting wipes. Put yourself into this, you know, little scene right here. It's your friend's birthday. She's already inside. Your friend's birthday. Friend's birthday. She's already inside. She already checked in. She got there before you. She's waiting in the movie theater and you got her a little birthday gift. No. What are they going to do? Look through your friend's birthday gift? No. You're just going to be... No. And you know what? And if they say, you know, why do you have candy in there? Yeah. It's my friend's birthday. It's my friend's birthday. Exactly. So, you know, just stuff it in there. Put some of your favorite candy in there. Honestly, hold on. You can even put bag of chips in there. I haven't stopped, babe. Let's see how much we can fit in here.  Look at that. You got some chips. Get some twizzlers going in there. Some twizzlers. We have this jam packed. And you can fit a freaking Thanksgiving roast in here. Ready? And then you stuff it up in there, cover it up. Guys, this is the best life pack. Honestly, I'm going to be using this one. This one's a good one. This one's a real good one. Look at that. Look at that. It's your friend's birthday. Your friend's birthday. They're going to look at it and be like, okay, it's just a birthday gift. Let's go. They're not going to suspect this thing is filled with candy, drinks, soft serve, anything. Go to 7-Eleven. Get yourself a slushy. Put that thing in here. And you're good. I don't know. Guys, this is a hard one to be. I don't even know that disinfecting wipes and these are like both really good. You can fit three of these, two of these in here. Oh, no, you can do it. You can even fill this up and stuff both of them in there. No. Just carry. These are my wipes. It's my birthday gift. Oh, yeah. Well, go in with a friend. I got my wipes. You got your stuffed animal. I got my stuffed animal. I got my masks. We both have our masks on, okay? Right? You can get a freaking free meal. You don't have to spend a dollar at the movie theater except for the tickets. You can put like a little mini bag of chips in here. Anything. Like that's a little small travel size one. Just pour some cheeses down the, you know, down his back. This is insane. All right, guys. So next up on the magic mics coming out. Of ways to sneak stuff into the movie theater.  It's not like tight too. Like this would not work. Like the outfit that I'm wearing would not work. But Bill is going to be the lucky contestant. We're going to try this out. Guys, we're going to tape stuff to him right now. Right? You can start. Should we start this way or this way? I think this way. Yeah. Right in your nipple. That's going to hurt take it off.  Oh, God. Yes. These are my favorite candy.  Come on. You got to put more. This is not the best. Guys, give this video to 100,000 likes and I'll wax this whole body. Oh. Put more tape on it. It's going to fall off. We need a lot of tape. Would you do it for 100,000 likes? Do a bigger strand. Would you let me wax your whole body for 100,000 likes? If this got 100,000 likes, yes. I will wax my body and I will wax Mariah her armpits. Oh, it stayed. Stay. One more. One more. One more. One more. Honestly, it just looks like you have a beer belly. Hold on. Hey. Okay. I'm not a dad yet. A little dad bod going. All right, guys. Are you ready for this?  No, who says that? Unless they're arrogant. Yeah, and they're rude. Then you should tell them off either way. Honestly, it just looks like you really bloated. It literally looks like you just gained a couple pounds. Wow. That's actually perfect. This might actually beat out the birthday gift because this is so nonchalant. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Nonchalant. If you want some low key. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Not having anybody suspect what you're doing. Hold up, guys. Looks like a beer belly. You got the candy or the food snacks on here. You're carrying the birthday gift. You're carrying the wipes. You got your mask on. She has her stuffed animal. Oh, you got some in the hat. You know, you can just put some in the hat. Put some down the, you know. Oh, look at that. Look at that. Look at that. I just got a whole piece of candy up there. Oh my God. Guys, you can literally bring a Thanksgiving dinner if you wanted to. Literally, guys. Use these hacks and get ready because this is not it. We have a few left to show you guys and they're also crazy. Stay tuned. Oh my God. This hurts now, actually. You got to make it in fast. You got to run in there. You got to run in there. The next problem is you're going to be in the movie theater.  Taking stuff out of the disinfecting wipes. They're going to be like, what the? Oh my God. All right, guys. This one is up next. Not sure how it's going to work, but we're going to try it. Basically... Oh, there's still tape on me. I was like, why is this itch? But, guys, Bill has been trying to make my butt look bigger with candy. Yeah, because she needs it. If you need some chips... She's kind of deflated over here. I'm just kidding, babe. God. But I would recommend stuff with this is maybe a little bit like maybe if you want more of like this. Like beef jerky. You got some jerky? Put it in there. Ready? Put it in there. Boom! You can put it. That looks so loud. I got a... It's got a case. I know. I got a square case. Can you put it by the way? Can you put these in here? Oh, great. I would be surprised, guys. This might make them want to look at it more. Bubble butt. Bubble butt. Bubble butt. There's been three big bags in there right now. Bubble butt. Bubble butt. I've never seen your bubble butt like that ever. Bubble butt. Bubble butt. Bubble butt. There's the bubble butt like that. Yes. Yeah. Oh. So if you did not know, Mariah is actually pregnant or she's gonna be pregnant actually. Yes, for the movie theaters. For the movie theaters. Yeah. Not in real life, no, for the movie theaters. If you saw this before, people, I feel like they did it wrong.  And they could barely hold up their own stomach. It looks wrong. So we actually got this like plastic. so we can make her look pregnant so we can get it with all of our snacks and goodies. Let's load her up right now. I'm gonna actually.  She's like, he's like scarred. So I'm gonna start with my body armor. I got a energy drink. Look at that. Boom. All right, put some candy up in here. Got some candy in here. Let's see how much we can fit. All right, let's see. Mariah's getting pregnant for today. Got our ropes. Got our mini candies.  All this stuff underneath. Let's see what happens. Hey, and if you want better support, I would also recommend putting duct tape around the bowl and everything. And I'm putting the shirt over it. Because look at this. We're coming to the movie theaters. Me and my pregnant wife, or you know. And we're like. We were 10 months pregnant about what we almost do. I have to hold my belly up.  You know, like you're protecting the baby. You give them the ticket.  And you're off to the movies. You're off to the movies. All right, let's go, bye. And then boom, we sit down and we're munching, guys. Munching, you just rip open the backs. Oh, shoot.  Hey, you might lose a little bit, but that's why you put a lot in here, so most of it doesn't fall out. And you make sure you tape it, because if you don't, your belly's caught. Yes, I think this is a W. This is probably, this is probably better than the disinfectant one. You can fit way more in here than you can in here. Literally. So I think this is in second place. I still like the happy birthday one in first place. And I think the disinfectant wipes is in third place. So we actually have one more that we want to do. And this is actually a really effective one. When you go to the movie theaters, a lot of times they let you bring in pillows and blankets, which I don't know why they have never thought of this, but you can easily hide stuff in a blanket if you brought it in. I just didn't even realize that, so look. So look, here's Bill's blanket. We're all, you know, pick whatever can you want. You know, maybe I want some air heads. I want some. I would lay it out here. Wait, can you put it on mine? So load me up, babe. Give me my twizzlers. I need my twizzlers. I need my twizzlers.    Big bag. You got some jalapenos. Boom! Get that on here, okay. Now we're just gonna fold this up like this, like so. And then, boom, you're golden. And even if you want to, I could take a second blanket, throw it over my shoulder and being like, yeah, we're bringing in blankets, you know, movie theaters. Pretty good. Perfect, guys. They're not even gonna notice. They didn't even want, you don't even have to do that. Your girl can bring it. Why did we never think about this when we were kids? I never, because I never had a video like this. Any time, like when we get our kids to do, we're gonna be sneaking in a bunch of candy for them.  Our advantage. We're gonna be putting candy in their pants.  We're gonna rip it open. I thought of this, so we didn't have. This is gonna be like probably the best, best one. You can actually bring in a baby stroller to the movie theaters when you have an infant, you know what I mean? And you can go, but you have to sit in like where the handicap section is, you know, on the bottom floor. You can just load up. Don't even have a baby.    Your peanut butter and jelly sandwich, guys.  You can do anything. Literally. And bring it in that way. So there's so many other ways that you can bring in stuff. Comment down below which one you thought was the best out of all of the ones that we showed you in this video. I think my favorite is a disinfecting wipe to any of you guys. That's your favorite. And if you guys enjoyed today's video, maybe we'll do a part two. Maybe we'll think about a more life hack so we can give you guys and we'll do a part two. We have to. My favorite, I think, was the birthday gift one. I just feel like that one, like right when I thought about it, I just knew it would work. It, Bill thought it and we're at the store and I'm like, oh my God, that is such a good one. Hey, do I know what the greatest thing is? You can get a gift bag that's like three feet tall, two feet wide, like you can get any size that you want. So that's why I think that one's my favorite. Guys, thank you so much for watching this video. Give it a thumbs up right now before leaving. That is how we know that you guys enjoyed the video. You gotta give it a thumbs up. Also, for us just attempting all of these life hacks. And make sure you're just staying tuned for tomorrow's video because we have something super exciting that we're announcing. It's so, so insane. You cannot believe it. I never thought I'd be doing this at age 20. I turn 21 next month, but hey, I did it at age 20. But before we end this video, we do have to give our end of video a post notification shout out. And this shout out goes to Christina Tatiana. So shout out to you, we love you. Christina, shout out to you. Thank you so much for being a part of our channel. And we hope that these life hacks help. If you guys do use any of these or have used any of these for the question of the day, I want you guys to comment down below which one was your favorite and if you've ever done these or if you're gonna try one of these in the future. Yes, I think every single one of these will work. No matter what, there was none that like I could see failing at. Obviously we would make it, obviously we'd go into a little bit better and like really tape stuff up and like figure out a different method. Oh yeah, if you're actually doing this at a movie theater, like we should try that next. If we get this video to what? 40k. 40,000 likes. We are gonna take this to real life tests. We will go into a movie theater and try some of these out. Will you do it? Will you do it? Yeah, and if it fails then it fails. Honestly, I will do it. I'm gonna do it. I wanna do it. I'm gonna do it. I'll literally do the Disinfecting Wives. We'll do anything. If you guys get this video to 40k likes, make sure to share this with your friends. Like it on a second account. Do whatever you need to do to get this to 40k likes because I think it'll be so fun. But we hope you guys enjoyed today's video and we will see you in the next video. Maybe it'll be us in the movie theater sneaking into the house. Peace, buddy, till then. Peace, buddy, guys.