MIDI Enhancements in Windows 10

2016-09-22 KENNETH 0

MIDI Enhancements in Windows 10 As Windows 10 evolves, we are continuing to build in support for musician-focused technologies. Let’s take a look at MIDI. Windows has had built-in MIDI support going back to the 16-bit days. Since then, most MIDI interfaces have moved to USB and our in-box support has kept pace, with a class driver and APIs that support those new interfaces. Those unfamiliar with music technology may think of MIDI as just .mid music files. But that’s only a tiny part of what MIDI really is. Since its standardization in 1983, MIDI has remained the most used and arguably most important communications protocol in music production. It’s used for everything from controlling synthesizers and sequencers and changing patches for set lists, to synchronizing mixers and even switching cameras on podcasts using a MIDI control surface. Even the [ more… ]

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USN-3086-1: Irssi vulnerabilities

2016-09-22 KENNETH 0

USN-3086-1: Irssi vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3086-1 21st September, 2016 irssi vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary Irssi could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic. Software description irssi – terminal based IRC client Details Gabriel Campana and Adrien Guinet discovered that the format parsing codein Irssi did not properly verify 24bit color codes. A remote attacker coulduse this to cause a denial of service (application crash). (CVE-2016-7044) Gabriel Campana and Adrien Guinet discovered that a buffer overflow existedin the format parsing code in Irssi. A remote attacker could use this tocause a denial of service (application crash). (CVE-2016-7045) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: irssi 0.8.19-1ubuntu1.2 To update your system, please follow [ more… ]