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Hey guys, today we're going to go over Reaper, which is a cheap, yet fully equipped, digital

audio workstation for Windows and Mac.

Reaper is fully capable of some advanced audio production, with support for audio and MIDI.

There's also a lot of different effects available, and even some options for virtual

instruments to use with MIDI.

Though there are a lot of effects included, you can also add your own by telling Reaper

what folder they're in.

You can also do this with custom synths to dial in your tone, or use a MIDI instrument.

Reaper does have a free demo version available, however the license cost is $60 for a regular

license and $225 for a commercial license.

If you're trying to pick a DAW, we would definitely recommend trying out a demo of

Reaper to see if it's right for you.

When you first open a new project, there won't be

any tracks and all you'll have is your master.

The first thing we'll do is set this up.

We'll add 3 tracks to start with.

One for a kick drum, one for snare, and a stereo track for overheads.

To add a track, go to the top Track menu and select Insert New Track.

You can also right-click on the track area and select to add a new track.

Then click on the blank area as shown and name each of the tracks to keep them organized.

Now we'll configure our tracks for recording.

First click next to IN FX for the track and select your input.

We're using input 1 for the kick, 2 for the snare, and the 3/4 stereo input for the

overheads.

Then click the red circle beside the track name and arm each of the tracks for recording.

Finally, press the big red record button at the bottom next to play button.

Once you're done, you'll get a window that pops up.

Select Save All to keep the tracks, or delete them to start over again.

After you've recorded your tracks, you can make a time selection by dragging on the end

of each of them to trim noise from the tracks.

You can also select a track, move the time selection to a certain point, and press the

S key on your keyboard to split the track.

That allows you to quickly delete sections or slide them around individually.

You'll want to make sure you turn off snapping at the top first, especially if you're not

working with MIDI and your project tempo doesn't match the recording.

Once all your tracks are recorded and trimmed, it's time to start mixing.

At this point, we're going to use a sample multitrack project for the rest of the tutorial.

The first thing we want to do is open the mixer at the bottom of the screen.

Click on View in the top menu and select Mixer.

This gives us the same controls that we have on the side, but it's a little easier to

access down here.

At the top of each track on the mixer, you'll see a power button next to the letters FX.

Click this and it will bring you to the effects menu for that track.

This is where you add, remove, and edit the effects for that track.

If you just click the power button, you'll be turning on and off all the effects for

that track at once.

Once the effects menu is opened, you can individually bypass each effect by clicking on the checkmark.

From the menu, click add to add a new effect to the track.

Most of the effects we use are under VST or JS, and the virtual instruments for the MIDI

track are found under VSTi.

For example, on our kick drum track, we added ReaComp, which is a compressor.

It has all the expected options like attack, release, ratio, and it's pretty straightforward

to use.

All you need to do is adjust the sliders to make changes.

We also added and equalizer which is a parametric equalizer.

By default, there are two central bands and a high and low shelf.

These can each be changed, for example if you wanted more bands or a high or low pass.

To make changes to the equalizer, you can use the sliders at the bottom or drag the

numbers across the chart at the top.

Next to the effects option on the mixer, we have signal routing.

This opens up a menu to control these options.

By default, each track should be sent to master.

You can also select a send, which outputs it to another track, and this can be done

along with the master.

There's also the option to output a MIDI track to a MIDI device, or to output a track

to a separate hardware output, such as for monitoring.

When looking at the mixer, there are a few icons for the signal routing.

The green M indicates the track is being sent to master.

S indicates the track is connected to a send, such on our vocal track which is sent to reverb.

R indicates the track is receiving another track, such as the reverb track receiving

the vocals.

The routing window also has options for track volume and panning, but it's easier to adjust

these from the mixer view.

Next we have the pan selector.

Just hold and drag this knob back and forth to adjust the panning of the track.

You'll be able to hear the difference, and see it visually in the meter for that track,

since they're all displayed in stereo.

To adjust the volume, all you need to do is pull up and down on the fader.

One of the awesome features about Reaper is its MIDI capabilities.

I found MIDI in Reaper to be very powerful, while still being simple and straightforward

to use.

For this example, I'm going to setup MTPowerDrumKit 2 as our MIDI instrument on a MIDI track.

We'll go over how to create an entire drum track in Reaper, then you can route to different

audio tracks from there and edit all the drums individually.

Before we can work with drums in Reaper, we need to add a VST instrument.

Go to the Options menu at the top, select Preferences, then scroll to and select VST

under plugins.

Add the folder where your virtual instruments are stored and press re-scan to add it to

Reaper.

After we've added our VST instrument we need to create a new MIDI track.

Right click on the tracks section and select Insert Virtual Instrument on New Track.

From there we select our virtual instrument.

When it comes up asking if we want to add the following tracks, we will say yes.

This will allow us to route all the parts of the drum kit to different audio tracks.

When we first open our instrument, we need to do the signal routing.

This works similar for any plugin, but how you send the plugins to a different channel

within the instrument itself will vary.

In this plugin, we open the mixer view and change the output for each of the drums.

I've grouped some of the drums together, like different snare hits and the cymbals.

Now all the parts of the drum kit are assigned to those individual audio tracks that Reaper

created earlier for us.

At this point, I like to rename them to keep the project organized.

From here, there's a few ways to create MIDI files.

The first is with the composer view from our plugin.

This can create really nice drum loops that we can use, but not all the plugins have this

feature.

The second is with the piano roll view.

To do this, select a section of the timeline, then go to the Insert menu at the top and

select New MIDI Item.

This creates a MIDI file on our track.

From there, double click the MIDI item to end the piano roll view.

From the piano roll, click on the keys on the side to see which drum you're working

with.

Then just add the notes to create a beat by drawing them on the piano roll.

This is a very tedious way to program drums, but for what it is, Reaper does a good job.

At the bottom, the bars can be adjusted to control the velocity of each of the notes.

My preferred way to program drums in Reaper is with my Akai MPD218.

This is a USB MIDI drum pad.

All it does is send MIDI signals to your program, there's no built in audio capabilities in

the controller itself.

From there, Reaper can create MIDI recordings and process it through whatever plugin you

have on that channel.

The only catch with a MIDI controller is that you need to make sure you stay in time with

the song, so using Reaper's built in metronome for the project is really important to playing

accurately.

I find I get much better results with the Akai MPD218, since it also measures the velocity

of each note, leading to more natural randomness in the final product.

To setup a MIDI controller with Reaper, all you have to do is select it as an input on

the MIDI track, just like you would do with a microphone input.

Now that we have a MIDI recording going to separate audio tracks, we can apply effects

to these tracks just as we learned previously with an audio track.

There's no need to record the actual MIDI to an audio file first, it will just automatically

process the sound going from that output of the virtual instrument.

Though we didn't cover how to use any virtual synths or other instruments in this tutorial,

it does work the same way.

You still create a virtual instrument, but you don't need to route to multiple tracks

after, and you edit the notes on the piano roll in the same way.

There are also MIDI controllers available that use a keyboard instead of drum pads and

these are definitely helpful, but I find programming synths with the on screen piano keyboard to

be easier than drums.

Once you've edited your project, go to File at the top menu and select Render.

We'll leave the source as Master mix and the Bounds as Entire project, but you can

export only a time selection if you want.

In our case, we can select the directory we want to export in and the file name.

For this project, we'll be keeping it at the default Wave file settings, but you can

adjust these if you wanted to.

Once everything's the way you want it, click Render 1 file at the bottom of the window.

The export process for this is pretty quick, even with all the tracks and effects we're

using.

Thanks for watching this video tutorial on Reaper.

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Toyota Techstream Software, Check Engine light On, Trac light On, Diagnostic Overview - Duration: 6:19.

All right, we got a 2014 Toyota, 4runner and we're gonna be checking

Codes on that check engine light and it also has the traction light on

We've got the Toyota

4 runner

Factory Toyota techstream software hooked up to it, and we're gonna go ahead and connect to this vehicle

And see what we find

And then we have a Toyota 4runner 2014

That looks right and also so select the options with or without smart key, this one believe does have the smart keys

I'm bear with me here. It's a little slow

There we go we're connected

Let's go ahead and go into engine control module first

There's a double clicked on this

Camshaft position a actuator circuit Bank -

Then we have a

start ability malfunction

p1604 and a p0020

So it looks like this looks like our p0020 is

a

current

code so this is a current malfunction and that is for the camshaft adjust position a

Actuator Circuit Bank - so that's for the that's for the variable valve timing

Okay, so let's go check our stability control codes here

Let's go back to go back to select system

And we're gonna find abs and Vehicle Stability and trac

Double-click on

I'll go to trouble codes, and there's no code so right now

The check engine light is causing

The traction light to be on so for whatever reason

On the computer saying because of the engine fault

There's no

traction control

Capability right now so it automatically shuts it off

All right, so I'm gonna pull up the diagnostic procedure for this code, and do a quick visual inspection underneath the hood

Okay well first we're gonna do a visual inspection on this cam actuator or

valve timing actuator you could call it the color

We're getting over the c0020 to zero which is a left bank on this one

That's gonna be on the driver's side and as you can see it's underneath the intake manifold there

And I think we got some

Some nice or some kind of rodents here because it looks like the end of the cable was actually chewed off and there was some

evidence down the intake area of

Nice being in here so this one's gonna be a pretty easy fix

Just gonna have to order a new pigtail and wire it in there if this wasn't the case

normally what I do is I would just pull this actuator out and

Test it right on the bench make sure the plungers moving back and forth check the resistance of the valve

Make sure the oil level in the vehicle is proper

Which is required for these things to work the way they're supposed to but

Quick tip to prevent this from happening stick the mothballs underneath your hood

Okay, I believe we have this circuit all repaired for the p00 to zero cam position a actuate a circuit Bank

-

We ordered a new pigtail, and we wired it in reconnected it so now we're just going to

We're gonna go ahead and be down here and erase it diagnostic trouble codes

Using Toyota Techsteam Software clear codes. codes clear yes, all right, so it's all been cleared out

Sut the car off

Restart it

Sure lights are out. All right later. I'll out or looking good

I'll probably do a drive cycle on this just all the monitor

Just can set make sure we don't have any other issues, but it looks like this one is fixed

Be sure to hit the thumbs up button and subscribe to the channel this information was helpful

I'll be posting new videos daily

Thanks again from The Flat Rate Mechanic until next time

For more infomation >> Toyota Techstream Software, Check Engine light On, Trac light On, Diagnostic Overview - Duration: 6:19.

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Commercial or Open Source - which software is safer to use? - Duration: 3:02.

Security of CRM systems, Błażej Pabiszczak - CEO of YetiForce, in our studio

and now we will discuss if it is easy to break into commercial systems.

If this commercial system is available for us,

we can download it,

or we can use it online

we can actually perform security tests.

Of course, provided that we have the rights to do so.

We can't try to break into a system

which is in production, etc.

The easiest way is to run a trial version

and perform tests

and verify whether such a solution is secure or not.

It is necessary to note that there is no need to have access to the source code

in order to perform basic security tests

because it is done in a way and with tools that allow

the interaction with the system

which makes it possible to inject vulnerabilities and

verify how secure and how vulnerable the system is,

so from my perspecitve

when we want to decide which solution

is more difficult to break into - commercial or open source

unfortunately, in most cases,

we break into both solutions in exactly the same way.

A slight advantage of open source solutions is the fact that

we can verify

whether it is really so.

Exactly, a question which immediately comes to my mind is...

whether open source systems are more secure.

If we can break into both systems,

open source and commercial ones,

or perform tests

then, open source provides only one additional advantage

because we can verify whether there is something hidden

this means, whether a producer

didn't create there a loophole which allows him to get access

and this is the greatest advantage

when it comes to open source solutions.

Admittedly, there are some myths claiming that

if something is open source, it is less secure

but if we look at errors

which companies find in Google Chrome

or Microsoft Edge

then, it can be seen that open source is not a problem

because both products

are very simmilar

but depite this

open source solution - Google Chrome - is treated as a more secure solution

because the company invested more money to make this product better,

more stable and more secure.

In just a moment,

in our studio, we will discuss with Błażej

how he takes care of systems' security.

For more infomation >> Commercial or Open Source - which software is safer to use? - Duration: 3:02.

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Subutai(tm) - Open Source Peer-to-Peer Cloud Software by OptDyn(tm) - Duration: 34:12.

Hello my name is Jon "maddog" Hall and

I'm the Chief Executive Officer of

OptDyn, makers of Subutai(tm) Open Source

peer-to-peer cloud software. Thank you

for viewing this video. We hope that you

will learn how Subutai products can

help you make your cloud more effective,

make it safer, more secure and help you

conquer the cloud. OptDyn offers

peer-to-peer cloud computing and IOT for

everyone.

OptDyn and Subutai are trademarks with

pending trademark applications and OptDyn

and all related logos are trademarks

of OptDyn, a Delaware corporation.

References to trademarks associated with

others is meant descriptively or

otherwise as fair use. Say "Opt-in". OptDyn

is a five year old company led by open

source pioneers Jon "maddog" Hall, CEO

Alex Karasulu, founder and CTO and

Sally Khudairi, the Director of Marketing

and Media. These people have world-class

experience. They have developed key

products used by Fortune 50 companies.

They have developed powerful, secure,

next-generation cloud products. OptDyn is

a globally distributed multinational

team with developers and support people

all over the world.

We offer open source, peer-to-peer cloud

computing combined with Internet of

Things and cryptocurrency mining for

everyone. Why are we producing this? There

are problems with the cloud providers

that most people are familiar with:

Amazon. Google. IBM. and Microsoft Azure.

These clouds are typically fairly

expensive solutions. They may seem to be

inexpensive when you're only using a

small amount of data, or until the

promotions end. Then you get this very

large bill at

the end of the month. These clouds may

seem secure, but some of these companies

may be searching your data and selling

marketing information to other people.

This access to your data can make them

very dangerous. They also are centralized

around a single operator. They only sell

things to you. They do not offer to buy

resources from you. If you had solar

panels or a windmill you could generate

electricity and sell it back to the

electric grid but you cannot do that

with the big cloud providers. Cloud

services should be utilities too. They

are also opaque. They do not let you see

how they work. This tends to promote

vendor lock-in. They do not easily

integrate the Internet of Things (which a

lot of people call the "FOG" or "EDGE"

computing) to the rest of the cloud.

Typically there is a cloud application

that talks to the "thing" and this results

in an unnecessary amount of network

traffic from the EDGE to data centers

where the applications run. There are also

security issues with this approach.

Subutai treats the FOG and the cloud

as one entity. It allows applications or

parts of the applications to reside on

the EDGE where the "things" reside, to talk

directly to the applications. As long as

the application and the "thing"

authenticate to each other they can

trade information, trade data, and

interact locally without compromising

security. This is not true for many of

the other cloud solutions. Some of the

big cloud providers do not allow full

control of your cloud resources. You

really do not know where your data is

being stored. You really do not know

where your applications are being run.

The applications could be run in your

country or they could be run some

other place. This can create a problem

with privacy, security and meeting your

government's legal requirements. Cloud

providers struggle with privacy. People

have seen articles about Apple and other

cloud providers being approached by the

various

government organizations or perhaps

being broken into by hackers. Personal

privacy is a big issue. Medical

information or human resources

information stored inside the big cloud

could be exposed to government agencies

coming to the cloud providers and

demanding to look at the data of the

cloud company's customers. A lot of these

cloud providers are in the United States

and under United States jurisdiction.

They have to obey laws like the Patriot

Act or they have to react to a

subpoena from a court system and this is

bad for other countries. Other countries

do not get to vote for the people who

make these laws in the United States.

They don't have any say or any rights

under US law. A few years ago it was revealed

that the NSA was reading the email of

President Dilma of Brazil. Hackers tend

to target large providers. Hackers try to

steal credit cards or other information

and the Internet of Things makes it even

worse because it will be billions of

"things" out in the world, in the FOG and

if they get infected by some type of

virus they could be turned into a Denial

of Service (DoS) attack. The larger and more

centralized a cloud provider, the more

people try and break in and disrupt the

services. Enter Subutai. We call it the

Airbnb of computing resources. Airbnb

took bedrooms and apartments and houses

that were owned by individuals and made

them visible so that people could use

these bedrooms apartments and houses as

resources. Subutai makes available the

computer resources that people own for

other people to use. The Subutai

product line is made up of three main

parts. The open-source peer-to-peer cloud

software that is open source and free to

everyone. A bazaar which is run by opt-in

but it's also licensable to Economy

Operators by OptDyn. It allows people to

register the resources and applications so

they can be found by other people.

Users will be able to use smart

contracts protected by the blockchain to

create service level agreements. The

Bazaar is completely optional as

Subutai's open-source peer-to-peer cloud

software can run without a Bazaar being

available. The third component is the

Subutai Blockchain Router which

mines cryptocurrency and is a tangible

hardware cryptocurrency wallet. The

Blockchain Router mines cryptocurrency

to pay for itself in months. This is a

new breed of broadband router that goes

beyond normal functions to serve as a

cloud router, and IOT gateway. The IOT

gateway allows the Subutai cloud to

find devices, to enable automation

systems, and interact with the world. The

router is a lot like an electronic Swiss

Army knife. It can replace several

electronic devices in a home or business.

It can act as a Network Attached Storage (NAS)

device to store your files, pictures, and

videos, streaming them as a media server

to a TV, phone, iPad or monitor. The router

can then interact with other devices to

enable home or industrial automation, and

serve as a security system. With millions

of compatible hardware extensions the

device can be rapidly modified to serve

just about any purpose. You are only

limited by your imagination. We believe

the router will be the standard for

cloud IOT and sharing economy

specifically because of its

cryptocurrency functions and Subutai

PeerOS firmware. Like the Bazaar the Subutai

Blockchain Router is optional to

the running of the Subutai Open

Source Peer-to-Peer Cloud Software and

is available for private label to

Economy Operators, companies that create

an entire solution (or "economy") for their

customers. The Subutai PeerOS Open Source

software stack is a container based,

peer-to-peer cloud computing system that

allows anyone

to share barter or rent computing

resources utilizing GoodWill, which is a

digital currency, to be able to exchange

those computer resources. The Subutai

cloud software itself harnesses the

Internet of Things to easily create

dynamic private cloud environments that

can access these devices, these "things" on

the EDGE, very easily. The Subutai

Bazaar is a cloud and IOT device

marketplace. It allows you to register

your resources and register your "things"

in the marketplace so that other people

can purchase the resources from you or

authenticate to your "things". This allows

what we call Economy Operators, companies

that have a lot of resources or have a

lot of customers, to form an economy with

their customers. The Economy Operator can

sell their excess resources to their

customers or they can purchase the

resources from their customers and of

course they will generate a certain

amount of money from this economy. Anyone

can be an Economy Operator. It allows you

to participate in this collaborative

consumption based economy. you don't have

to only buy things from people you can

sell your excess resources to other

people and this works at all different

levels, individuals and commercial

entities of all kinds. The Subutai

Blockchain Router is a powerful

broadband router that also acts as an

IOT gateway. You can attach shields from

Arduinos(TM) and circuitry from Raspberry Pi(TM)-

like devices to be able to control the

"things" inside of your house or business.

It also supplies network attached

storage that can be used to store your

data for both residential and commercial

environments. The Subutai Blockchain

Router registers with the Subutai

Bazaar to allow you to easily list the

computer resources in your environment

that you want to sell. It uses security

and performance accelerated firmware to

offload the main CPU from having

to worry about security and to worry

about the performance of your Network

Attached Storage, your RAID devices, your

IOT devices, and your Wi-Fi in this field

programmable device. The Blockchain

Router works in a plug-and-play type of

situation. Your devices in your

environment can be listed almost

automatically. As a multi-function device

it can act as a media center, it can run

home automation. The Blockchain Router

utilizes Open Source and in addition to

all these facilities it does Hardware

cryptocurrency mining and acts as a

hardware wallet. The Blockchain Router

uses only 18 watts, which is about the

same as a regular router that would be

used in the house but the same 18 Watts

allows you to do mining of

cryptocurrency in a very "green" way while

the router is doing its other functions.

GoodWill is a digital asset token. It is

a very lightweight token used in the

exchange of resources. It is like an

amusement-park. You go to the ticket

window and give money for some tickets

in exchange. You may use one of these

tickets for very small ride, or you may

use three tickets for the roller coaster,

but you don't exchange money at the ride,

you exchange money for tokens at the

ticket office. This is the same way that

GoodWill works. GoodWill itself is used

to buy and sell and barter resources and

you can also earn GoodWill by doing

things like installing Subutai, getting

other people to use Subutai, creating

what OptDyn calls "Blueprints" or putting

various pieces of code into the Subutai

environment. GoodWill is a very

lightweight token. It would be very bad

if the overhead that a cost to purchase

or sell resources was greater than the

benefit you actually received and this

is why GoodWill is extremely lightweight.

However GoodWill is protected through

the blockchain ledger so you can know

when you buy GoodWill and when you sell

GoodWill. it is earned or purchased with

various crypto currencies.

GoodWill is also used to encourage open

source community participation. Many

people say "I love Open Source but I am

NOT a programmer and I'm not a systems

administrator. I did not even write very

good documentation. How can I help?" The

Subutai Bazaar pays the cost of

resources plus an additional bonus in

GoodWill for those who allow Open Source

projects on the GitHub to use their

peers. The bonus increases if the open

source project makes application

Blueprints available in the Bazaar. This

is a very painless way to help Open

Source communities and projects.

Who benefits from all this?

First of all commercial users. If you are a

telecom you may say to your customers

instead of using a regular router use

the Subutai router. Not only will it do

everything your other router did, but it

will also allow you to mine

cryptocurrency. If you're an Internet

Service Provider (ISP), or hosting provider, you

can sell your resources to your

customers and they can run their

applications on your resources very

easily. If you are a hospital there may

be many computer systems inside the

hospital that are used infrequently and

by using Subutai the hospital can

make better use of all these unused

resources to be able to solve problems

they have and run programs that are

required, all done inside the hospital

environment, so that the hospital knows

the patient data is not going outside of

the hospital. The hospital knows where

the applications are being run. Research

facilities often have many unused

resources that Subutai could help make

more efficient use. Utility companies,

such as electric power plants, could use

a Subutai router to control home and

industrial automation, to reduce the

amount of electricity, or to smooth out

the amount of electricity used to be

more efficient and to stop having to

turn on and off the costly

generating facilities such as coal or

oil. The utility companies would have the

protection of the Subutai Router from

having the Internet of Things devices

inside the house or business affecting

the grid and likewise having any

viruses on the grid from infecting the

devices in the home or business.

Universities typically have much excess

computing capacity but they either do

not know how to free that capacity and

use it efficiently or they do not have

the staff necessary to manage it. With Subutai

the universities could use that

excess computing to save them from

having to buy commercial

high-performance computing systems or

they can sell some of their

underutilized facilities to other people

who wanted to buy them. Small to Medium

Enterprises (SME) and Small Businesses (SMB) and many more

entities can utilize Subutai and

OptDyn's products, but even individual

users can take advantage of it. For

example if your systems administrators

are struggling to make efficient use of

your resources, Subutai is a perfect

way of helping them balance the loads.

Developers developing on top of Subutai

allows you to move your applications

from system to system without having to

worry about lock-in. Subutai itself is

free. It is open source and allows you to

run on top of the commercial cloud

providers if you wish, protecting you

from big cloud lock-in. Students can

learn how to use Subutai and sell

their services and knowledge to other

people. The cloud and IOT combined market

size is estimated at seven hundred sixty

billion dollars, yet when you look at the

utilization of computers today very

small amounts of the computer resources

are actually used. Studies show that only

five to seven percent of computers in

the cloud are utilized efficiently.

The cloud market revenue slide shows the

amount of revenue that's generated by

the cloud market at the top but at the

bottom are traditional systems, still

on-site in most companies, that go unused.

Studies show that only 2 to 3 percent of

home computers are utilized and 3 to 5%

of computers in company data centers. Tt

would be safe to say that overall 90% of

the world's idle computer resources

perish every day when they could be put

to good use, but people that need the

resources cannot access them. Here is an

interesting model of hybridization.

Instead of buying all of your resources

from some large cloud like Amazon on the

right, you could utilize some of the

resources that you have on-site and mix

the two of them together to get a much

lower cost of ownership. So if you used

all Amazon Cloud configuration the type

of computing might cost close to two

thousand eight hundred US dollars. If you

did all of that with an on-demand hybrid

cloud your cost dropped around $900 a

month. With Subutai there is no effort

in hybridization. Subutai moves your

infrastructure around friction-free to

optimize for performance. It is the ultimate

multi-cloud solution, there is no limit

to where your infrastructure can run

across peers. Another big problem with

cloud computing is accounting. If you're

using multiple clouds just tracking

where your systems are running and how

much you should pay is a headache. That

often requires one permanent employee.

Small to Medium Business have no time

for that, or to shop around for the best

deals.

Subutai uses machine learning

algorithms to perpetually shop around

for the best prices while maintaining

performance requirements. Subutai

doesn't have any real competition. A lot

of cloud providers may say they compete

with Subutai, but when you list all the

different features of Subutai has,

there's no cloud provider that even

comes close. Subutai is truly a unique

product of which we are very proud. The

traditional Small to Medium Business,

also known as SMB, customer profile is

somebody who's very sensitive to monthly

cloud utility bills. They start to use

the large cloud providers and at the end of

the month they get this horrendous bill

that they had not been expecting. SMB's

lack the time, the money, the staff and

the resources to be able to monitor the

usage and take control over it because

the existing cloud services are too

complex for their staff to actually do good

modeling of the service model. If the SMB

goes multi-cloud the problem gets even

worse. SMBs need simple solutions to

common problems and SMBs want to

just click on an application and be able

to have it run just like any other

application. SMBs are typically not

able to take advantage of automated

delivery of services like larger

installations. They want to have packaged

solutions. Subutai provides these

packaged solutions through the

marketplace. Subutai blueprints can

allow you to create your own environment

by putting together a series of cloud

applications which can be rolled out as

Internet Service Packages from Economy

Operators such as telcos, electric

utilities and hosting groups. As an

example, a point of sales and accounting

software could have a Blueprint created

and launched with a single click.

It could be contact management and

marketing software, or a variety of other

types of software, that could be packaged

up and easily launched. There can also be

residential customers. A lot of people

are looking at Google's Nests, Amazon Alexa,

and all types of different home cloud

devices. These are closed, inflexible

hardware platforms written specifically

to one particular home cloud. In the end

these will add up to large electronic

trash heaps as these different companies

lose interest and walk away from the

devices they sold you last week. The

Subutai router is open hardware. It

is literally like a Swiss Army knife and it's

so flexible it allows open replacement

of devices in the home, an IOT

marketplace. It allows Economy Operators

to compete against the big cloud

providers without having the same

investment in the infrastructure, to

allow the Economy Operators to reach out

to their customers. The benefits to

end-users can be almost unlimited.

End users can take their own cloud wherever

they want to go. End users could put a

free operating system on a live USB

memory stick and then install Subutai

on top of that. When they plug in their

USB memory stick and boot as a software

boots it could automatically put them

into their own personal cloud

environment wherever they go. When they

are finished they close down the

operating system store it back on the

USB stick, pull the USB stick out of the

computer and go on to their next

computer. This functionality will also be

useful on netbooks, Chromebooks and

other very portable devices that do not

have a lot of storage. When end users

boot a device that can reach out with

Subutai, setting up their environment

the way they are used to it, and allowing

them to use their device over the

Internet.

There is also a remote desktop that allows

end users to have a desktop hosted in

their cloud, accessible from any browser.

There's a cryptocurrency wallet that's

built into the router, which is also a

cryptocurrency miner, and this is another

benefit for the end-user. Using the

router may generate enough

cryptocurrency every month to pay the

owners internet bill. The internet

provider could make a contract with the

end-user to use the router as a

broadband router, and as a Network

Attached Storage device, but the internet

provider gets the cryptocurrency that is

generated by the router,

giving the end-user Internet access

either at a greatly reduced price or

even free. The router has advanced

security functions. The router uses fuzzy

hash price-based pattern matching

algorithms to examine packets going in

and out of the router to make sure the

packets do not have viruses or

other malware in them. The router also

examines how the operating system is

running. If there are any differences in

the way the router operating system is

running, the router will immediately flag

this as a problem and perhaps shut down

to protect the house, protect the

business, or protect the grid. This is an

all-in-one open platform that does a

variety of things at an inexpensive

price. A lot of people say "This is a

wonderful story but how many years is it

going to be before we have all of this?"

The Subutai peer-to-peer cloud

software is in its six major release. It was

originally created through a contract to

a government organization who needed a

stable and secure peer-to-peer cloud

environment for their own use.

Once that contract was finished the

government decided to allow the software

to be open sourced and for the past five

years OptDyn has been working to make the

software available to everybody. The

global Bazaar is operational and is

ready to be licensed by Economy

Operators who want to be able to utilize

the Subutai cloud platform to operate

their own Subutai Bazaar. Subutai

is here to allow Economy Operators to

instantly create their own cloud crypto

economies backed by their own token,

which their customers mine using

rebranded Blockchain Routers. The Subutai

Blockchain Router's second major

design is complete, and is being made ready

for mass manufacture, expected no later

than Q3 of calendar year 2018. The

Router will be mass-produced in very

large quantities and available for the

Economy Operators to sell to their

customers or for individual purchase.

The Subutai Router has support for

Arduino shields, Raspberry Pi extensions

and PMOD hats to give it flexibility.

Several Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) are

being signed by very large economy

operators to be able to bring Subutai

with the greatest possible speed to

their customers, and there is a

multinational team in place for product

support. Current partners of OptDyn are

(for example) the University of Sao Paulo

and LSI Tech through a project called

Caninos Loucos (Crazy Canines in Portuguese). This is a project to

create hardware platforms for the

Brazilian Internet of Things program.

Jon Hall, the CEO of OptDyn, is on the Caninos

Loucos Advisory Board and the Subutai

Blockchain Router has been chosen as a

high-end hardware platform for the

program because the Blockchain Router is

open hardware. The current design for the

Blockchain Router is on GitHub for

anyone to see and use. The Subutai

Blockchain Router will be running Open

Source software for all of the router

functions and LSI tech will be

manufacturing this router in their

facility in Q2 Calendar Year 2018 to

have the first engineering prototypes

and then after that high production for

the marketplace. The Vanbex group is

a consulting company that facilitates

the creation and marketing of block

chains and cryptocurrencies. We are

working with Vanbex to make sure

that our token and our ability to handle

crypto currencies is world-class. We

also have potential partners such as a

very large global telecommunications and

Internet service provider. We are in

discussions with a national open

Technology Center and Research Center in

a very large utility company and have

demonstrated the software to them. We are

also talking to a national social

security and welfare organization. They

are interested in using Subutai

software in their very large data center

to provide services for over 60 million

people. Some have even envisioned using the

Subutai Blockchain Router as a

extension of the medical facility with

devices attached

for recording blood sugar and blood

pressure. Subutai would make such

applications possible to facilitate

patient care from the home. We are

talking to the largest open source

training and consulting company in

Brazil. We showed them the Subutai

software and they were so enthusiastic

about it they said "We will send some of

our course developers to your internal

training session so we can develop

training courses for Subutai products.

As you roll out the products we will be

able to sell the training courses to

people who want to know how to better

use the Subutai software. We would

also help you to develop end-user

documentation for this." We are talking

with a major certification program to

allow people to be certified as Subutai

Professionals. OptDyn will be

funding the certification program to be

developed and once the certification has

been developed the certification will be

offered to over 140,000 systems

administrators in 180 countries around

the world. We are also talking to the largest

computer manufacturer in Brazil who is

considering manufacturing the Subutai

Router. The people in OptDyn have

industry leadership. The CEO has 49 years

in the computing industry and has had a

wide range of different jobs. He has been

an Open Source entrepreneur for over 23

years. He writes articles for Linux Pro

Magazine, both the paper magazine and

blogs, which goes out into a hundred

countries in five different languages.

The CTO has 25 years experience as a

long time Apache developer, has developed

many of the projects which (quite frankly)

were very difficult to do, and have been

adopted as a backbone for several core

products of Fortune 50 companies. The

Director of Marketing has 24 years in

Open Source, has been the head of PR and

marketing for the Apache Software

Foundation, W3C, and many other

Open Source organizations. Currently

there is a team of 35 people around the

world and we are seeking to double the

staff

in the next year. We have a recognized

open source team. We believe heavily in

open source, we understand the open

source business model. We believe that

Open Source actually gives us an

advantage in developing this software

quickly and making it available to

people quickly. We have special abilities

in security and identity management, in

cloud and IOT technologies and

distributed ledger technologies and we

are bringing in raw talent from

countries around the world and teaching

them how to develop software with the

widely adopted "Apache Way" of development.

In summary the Subutai product line

is unique. There is no other cloud

software which is like it.

In fact OptDyn believes that no other

cloud system even comes close. The Subutai

product line delivers real value to

both end-user consumers and data center

suppliers, whether it be an electric

utility, a large company that has lots of

computers or an educational institution

or a hospital. Subutai not only

allows you to use your resources more

efficiently but allows you to sell your

excess capacity to people who need it.

The Subutai product line is mature. It

is ready to deploy today. People have

been successfully deploying it all over

the world

and the newest version of the router

will be ready to deploy in Q3 Calendar

Year 2018. Thank you for viewing this

video and we invite you to visit the

OptDyn.com and Subutai.io websites to

learn more.

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Microsoft saves 20 percent on third-party software spending by using Power BI - Duration: 10:42.

[MUSIC]

Hello, thanks for joining us today.

My name is Brad Sutton and I'm on the IT showcase team.

I focus on doing BI and data analytic stories within

Microsoft and sharing those with all of our customers.

Today with us is our own Patrick Grath.

He's gonna talk about how we use software asset management and

Power BI to save up to 20% in

our software applications licenses within Microsoft.

Welcome, Patrick.

>> Thank you, Brad.

>> So Patrick what's your role within the organization?

Give us a little bit of background on what you're doing

for Microsoft in IT.

>> Sure, so with what I'm doing is managing third party software

across Microsoft that's non Microsoft products.

Responsible is a service manager

in the software asset management mentality.

That includes looking at opportunities to reduce spend,

optimize licenses, as well as address mitigation of risk.

>> Right, okay.

And so, how does that fit in to the larger part of IT and

what's your organization do to manage this

effort within Microsoft IT and through for the whole company.

>> For the whole company.

It really does help us as far as cost savings and allowing us to

be efficient in the way we spend on non-Microsoft technology.

>> Got it, okay and so as part of that role,

tell us a little bit more about how you manage applications and

how you do reporting.

Give us a little bit of a day in the life of how

you come up with all this data.

>> Sure, so it's an interesting area we're utilizing

a technology or methodology called the SOM which is

the Software Optimization Model.

And its really the way that way that we collect the data and

we look at the data for two very important purposes.

One is cost saving through license optimization

as well as risk mitigation both financial risk mitigation to

make sure that we're compliant with non-Microsoft

software third party software as well as programmable risk.

So making sure that any software we have coming into Microsoft

has been varied from a security perspective.

>> Okay, so give us a little bit of a day in life of you Patrick

a couples years back and what were some of the challenges that

you were facing, what were some of the hiccups

that you found along the way and made your job difficult to do?

>> Sure, several years back and

we're going back, I've managed the space for 10

years as far as being Microsoft software asset manager.

And one of the areas that was somewhat of a problem was

looking at each organization worked independently and

autonomously.

So one group wasn't aware of what they were buying

as far as third party software when another group was buying

the same type of product from that supplier.

So everything was very siloed and also very transactional.

We had very basic ad hoc processes in place that kinda

managed the end-to-end life cycle of third party software.

So that's where we were several years back, ten years back.

And over the ten years we've continued to build into where

we're at now with the program,

which is what we refer to as an optimized state, right?

A rationalized state which means that we have the processes and

the policies in place with the tools that help us manage.

All of our third party software spend

as well as what we have deployed and consumed at Microsoft.

>> So Patrick, talk to us a little bit about the history and

the challenges that you face from a reporting perspective,

cuz I think it's fascinating what you were doing a year ago

and doing these business reports for

our business customers internally.

What were the challenges around that?

>> Right, it was very difficult because back in, you know, and

we're going even further back as everything was very autonomous.

And each of the business groups were working independently and

autonomously, there were siloed data across Microsoft.

Very transactional based.

When we would pull data in, we pull them in through SQL,

importing them into Excel and then being able to try to

reconcile the Excel spreadsheet from several datasets.

And then bringing them in, trying to manipulate the data,

putting them into pivot tables and then allocate those out not

only to our internal customers but also to our suppliers as

well because there are events where we have true ups and

we have to provide data to our suppliers as well.

>> Right.

>> And it was a very tedious, long process, right?

Building the pivot tables and as many know, sometimes when you're

building certain cubes of the pivot table, the data doesn't

come out the way that you want it to come out.

And also on top of it you have individuals that wanna see

the data in a specific way, either through a pie chart or

through bar charts in different areas.

So that was a very difficult, tedious and lengthy process when

you're looking at reconciling three different areas right?

You're reconciling the entitlement data coming in.

>> Right?

>> You're reconciling the contractual metadata about

what we actually are obligated or granted to use as far as that

software but also pulling in what's called the deployment

data through our systems center configuration manager.

>> That's fascinating.

So how is this new solution that we're working with today with

our systems center solution with our SQL server infrastructure,

Power BI, front end visualization capabilities,

how is that really helped your business and provided

benefit and productivity gains to you and to the business?

>> Significantly faster.

As well as in a way that each organization,

the way that they want to see the data.

They could see the same data that I'm pulling for

all the organizations in a representation,

in a graphical representation that fits them, right?

So I could build out these dynamic dashboards, right?

Before you think about dashboards and

dashboards are very static based on put them on a PowerPoint or

put them in to a Visio.

But what's interesting about the use of Power BI

is their dynamic.

So now the same data set that I used from the entitlement data,

deployment data, and contractual data.

I could represent that for each to the different business

organization in a way that they wanna to see it.

So if they wanna know what their consumption rate is and

their spend rate for third-party software I could pull that in.

Or if another group, let's say procurement wants to understand

or see how they use three different things for

negotiations in terms of how much software we have deployed?

What was our spent with that software?

As well as, what the contractual obligations are?

Because they could use that information for

the next time they negotiate with a supplier or a partner.

>> I mean that's perfect because what it is allowing you to do is

use Power BI to actually deliver the presentation.

But not only deliver the presentation, you are delivering

real time, where back in the day you probably had to do

these reports that took several days and may be even weeks.

>> Right, and the data would be stale.

>> Yeah, so now using Power BI you have that

capability to be able to utilize those real time reports but

also grant them access to their own reporting so

they can change and manipulate the data however they see fit.

It's perfect.

>> Right, and

the nice thing about that too is the way that Power PI works

is as a global company we have over 880 different sites where

I'm collecting data about what's deployed and

what's been purchased right, and several subsidiaries.

As well as working with our VI team, our Venture Integrations.

When we have a company that we're purchasing I am able to

quickly identify the license information needed and

if these need to be transferred and then I bring them in and

be able to create reports on it, right?

And that creates a total cost of ownership in terms of being able

to reallocate software because I have a better view of the data.

>> So talk to me a little bit about the scenario

of how you optimize licensing to save the company money.

Give me a scenario on how that typically works and

how to use Power BI to do that.

>> Sure, so with, for example, as I was saying before is

before each organization worked autonomously.

Over the last several years, I always play this 80/20 rule.

And my 80/20 rule is 80% of what makes my program

the software licensing service successful is the processes and

the policy or standards we put in place.

And then the tools that we use to be able to pull that data and

manipulate that data.

So several years back, each organization working

autonomously, they would buy their own subsets of licenses.

They'd consume them.

And you'll see where one group

may only have consumed 50% of the licenses.

And then what would happen to the other 50%?

They'd just go away.

So through the Power BI and through what tools we have now,

we're able to consolidate, centralize all of the data.

So I could take a look to say this group over here

has purchased 100 licenses, and

I'll just throw 100 out there but purchased 100 licenses but

they've only consumed 50% of those licenses.

And them this group coming over here,

basically is like we need to go buy 50 licences.

Well they don't need to do that any more because

now we have a centralized very quick access to the data to say,

well this group hasn't consumed them.

I could go to that group and

say we're going to transition or re-harvest these licenses and

provide it to this group and then do a cross charge back.

This reduces all of the cost and resources required to do

new purchasing for that specific group.

>> So thank you Patrick for joining us today and

talking about Software Asset Management and

using Power BI to save the company money.

Really found it fascinating how utilizing those tools we've

streamlined our processes.

Became more productive and then actually saving up to 20%.

On a consistent basis for

our third party applications and software.

So thank you for watching us and hope to see you soon.

[MUSIC]

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5 RetirementView Software - Pro - explaining main buttons - Duration: 9:26.

Hi, we are going to continue with our retirement plan sample with John and Susan.

We've already gone through how to enter a data, what the income graph means, now we

are going to start with this buttons on the right hand side.

I have a number of buttons over here.

Let's switch back John's tab as we go through these buttons.

The first button is the savings graph.

You could also call it the investments graph.

It's a moving picture of all their investments.

Prior to retirement in this case starting at 57, climbing up to age 67, you will see

that they are accumulating their investments for retirement.

They are starting with about 655,000 at age 57 and they continue to suck away some money

and get some growth.

By the time they retire at 67, you can see in the total investments box that they have

$1.3 million.

After that even though they still get some growth on their investments they start depleting

those investments and you can see that it continues to go down at age 77 they have about

800,000, at age 80 they have about 400,000, and then in the last two, three years it depletes

rapidly to zero at age 82 and 83.

They are going to run out of money right in here.

The next button is the retirement income graph.

That's the default when you boot up the program.

This is the "retirement picture" that your clients want to see.

The want to know if they are going to run out of money, they want to know where they

are going to meet their target income and it allows you to very quickly and easily make

adjustments and show them those adjustments.

That's the second button.

The third button is the spreadsheet.

You can click on that.

Try not to get too intimidated but there are a lot of columns on this spreadsheet.

The orange is for the requirement on distribution calculations, the colored columns match a

color on one of the graphs and it goes all the way over.

You got social security, pension, you got income from growth and principal, you got

their end of year investment balances and the last column is the shortfall that's calculated.

So, if you are a numbers guy or you just want to see how we do the calculations, you can

get in here in the spreadsheet and try it out.

There are no formulas here.

This is just something to look.

If you wanted to export it to excel you can use file, export spreadsheet to excel and

it will pop all these columns out to excel.

Again, there is no formulas but it just has all the columns if you wanted to print something

differently or print a different chart or something.

Those are three views of the program.

The retirement income graph is really the most powerful view.

The next three buttons are for adding additional data.

Our first button is investments.

And before I click on that button, recall that we entered our basic invest balances

on the main screen right under current balance under taxable, tax-differed etcetera and we

just entered thumbnail returns, as well, right on the main screen.

If you want to go into more detail, you can click on the investments button.

And on this screen, you can go through and add each of their accounts individually.

So, I could say John's 401(k) and I could say Susan's 403(b).

And I can say John's IRA and you can go in and put in their totals.

I am just making these numbers up, insert their returns, maybe look at their statements

or ask them what they think their returns are.

They might have a checking account; they might have a savings account, so you can go in here

and enter all of the different accounts that they have, set the tax type.

If you take the time to do that it will calculate a waited blended return for each of the types

of investments.

So John's tax-differed qualified it will calculate his returns, etcetera.

All right, I'm going to hit cancel because I don't want to change the data we have on

the front screen.

That shows you very quickly how to enter investments.

Let's go to cash infusions.

This is where we can get really powerful with the program modeling income streams.

You can model any lamp sum or series of payments.

These are just a few examples.

They automatically pop up, sale of a home that will be a one-time lamp sum.

Maybe they're going to downsize their home and pull out some equity.

Maybe they have an inheritance, maybe they want to work a part time job, maybe they want

to model life insurance proceeds.

What if John passed away and he had some life insurance came in and that would help with

the shortfalls with Susan?

Maybe they have annuities.

You can model split annuities, you can model five year spears, tax-deferred annuities,

deferred annuities that you delay five, 10 years, whatever their duration is, you can

model lifetime annuity income.

The key with annuity payments is duration, duration five for a spear for example, duration

40 for lifetime income.

Maybe you want to round it to the end of their life.

You can model retirement packages or rental properties, differed com, reverse mortgages,

maybe they have a business they want to sell, anything that's a lamp sum or a series of

payments.

So I'm going to go in here under sale of home.

I'm going to say they are going to pull out $200,000 of equity from their home and they're

going to do that at age 75 and that's a one-time lamp sum.

Let's say their house value is growing at 1% and that when they sell it they don't owe

any tax because they've had the house for so long.

When the money comes in, though, it's going to go into their taxable investment bucket

and grow there.

So I'm going to hit add the plan.

Now you see some white coming into the picture.

We didn't use all of their income from a sale of home, we only used what the program projected

they needed.

The rest of it went into their investments.

You see here at a 75, 76, you see the money from the sell of home coming into the picture.

That's where you get this non- linear bump.

And in this case, they run out of money at 84.

So they extended their retirement a couple of years.

That's what cash infusions are for.

Before we click on special expenses, let's recall it on other assumptions we entered

95,000 a year for their retirement income goal.

If we use special expenses we can layer things on top of that amount.

So I am going to go under special expenses and, again, you see some examples pop up in

here.

You can use it for long term care which we are not going to really cover on this video.

Maybe they have life insurance premiums; maybe they need to move some money to annuities.

So they are going to purchase an annuity, or they are going to buy a second home, take

a big vacation, maybe they have an unusual medical expenses, etcetera.

You can see lots of items on here.

Note: These are just examples.

I can go right to any line I want and just type over the description of the expense.

Let's says they want to take a trip around the world when they retire and they are going

to budget $15,000.

They are going to do that at age 67, that's a one-time expense.

I want to add that into the plan.

We got a little bump up here in their expenses.

We saw a little tweak in their retirements.

So there wasn't really enough money to have a huge effect on their retirement.

Let's say they had some medical issues.

One of them needs some expensive medicine.

It's 5,000 a year.

They get diagnosed at age 70 and let's say that it goes on for at least 10 years.

Let's see what that looks like.

Again, we saw a bump up in their expenses.

It's kind of hard to see and we see them running out of money so about at age 83.

This is the way you can layer things on top of the picture using special expenses.

All right, the last two buttons here.

We have a help button.

If you want any field, any field at all, let's say you are on the retirement income goal

field here and I click on the help button not the menu, it will zoom into the help to

go to the page on the topic related to the input that you are on.

So that can be a useful little function for you.

Last button is just exit.

I just put that there conveniently.

You can still hit the red X or do file exit.

So that's what the buttons are for.

Go to the next video and we will talk about customizing the reports.

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How to add scheduler to bit-torrent torrent software. - Duration: 1:56.

Open BitTorrent

Select Scheduler

Select the options click on the time segment to set the activity

you ca also give upload and download limits

Apply and Save

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Software licenses - what should you know about them? - Duration: 1:08.

Błażej Pabiszczak, YetiForce company, today about licensing.

Let's keep in mind that a license

is used for limiting.

What does it mean in practice?

It means that the license causes that we can do less,

doesn't allow us to do certain things that would be important to our business.

The second aspect I want to touch upon today is that

you have a choice when it comes to

the license, the product that you choose

that's why at the stage of choosing the product and the producer

it is important to choose carefully

the license under which this solution will be provided to you

because your business and your future depend on it.

The last element that we will touch upon

is the fact that you need to understand the license,

in practice, it means that every company

should be fully aware of

business benefits, and most importantly,

risk and limitations

are related to a particular license.

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Axos Soluciones, Software ERP y Servicios para empresas de Distribución (Partner de acens) - Duration: 3:44.

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Vorteile von Datenanalyse mit GIS-Software: Expertenmeinungen - Duration: 1:08.

On the one hand, the advantage of GIS software for data analysis is

that we can involve the neighborhood. We do not look at

a property or a data cube alone, but we look at

properties of objects in the geographical space, in the market. In other words

we look at how things are interconnected

and how these objects and processes interact in an area.

That is the big advantage of Geographic Information System software,

that we can integrate this spatial dimension.

A geographic information system makes the

A geographic information system makes the

seen immediately and that is actually the most important aspect. It also offers

a wide range of analysis options, which are simply not available in Excel

and other evaluation tools.