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Though first released in the ’90s, Leatherman’s useful Wave multitool is still their bestseller. In this look inside their Oregon factory, we get to see how each of the components is individually manufactured, and the nifty little jigs and fixtures that are used to assemble them into the end product.
The video contains a fair amount of Leatherman company backstory that you may already be familiar with from this post, but it’s worth the watch for all of the hot industrial action:
As you are probably aware, wall penetration is a common topic discussed by those who debate which round is best to use for home defense. Because most rounds fired in gunfights miss their intended targets, it’s prudent to think about where those bullets are going to end up if they don’t hit the bad guy. This is one of the main objections many people have to using at AR with 223 or 5.56mm ammo in a home defense scenario.
This guy decided to do a little drywall penetration test, to compare 9mm vs. 223… and he adds some 22 Long Rifle rimfire, just for variety. He had some leftover drywall, so why not? Or in his words:
Don’t like for anything to leave the Buffalo compound without some bullet holes in it.
He uses a Glock 9mm in a carbine conversion with a 16″ barrel for the 9mm portion of the test. The Blazer Brass 124-grain FMJ (about 1300 fps) penetrated 22 layers of 3/8″ sheet rock and dented number 23.
For 223, he uses an AR with Perfecta 55-grain FMJ ammo, which travels around 2800 fps. It penetrated the same number of drywall layers, but shredded them more dramatically.
Back to 9mm, he tries out a hollowpoint 124-grain Remington Golden Saber Black Belt +P round (about 1400 fps). That bullet went through 17 layers of sheet rock, shredding their back surfaces similarly to the 223 bullet. Expansion of the hollow point was minimal, which is to be expected in a non-hydraulic medium (drywall instead of meat).
223 again: Hornady V-Max 55-grain bullet. Designed for varmints, the V-Max is meant to provide “rapid, explosive expansion” (2930 fps). This one made it through 13 layers of drywall before what was left of the bullet came to rest.
To top it off, he grabs a lever-action carbine and some CCI Mini-Mag 22LR ammo, with 40-grain round nose bullets (1220 fps). This one makes it through 11 layers. The same round fired from a semi-auto pistol with a 4″ barrel (929 fps) made it through 10 layers — the equivalent of 5 household walls.
The moral of today’s video seems to be this: If you think your 9mm will go through significantly fewer walls than a 223, you’d probably be wrong. And the 22 can be a lot more effective than some folks would have you believe.
At technology events, I often ask attendees if they’re storing sensitive data in MySQL. Only a few hands go up. Then, I rephrase and ask, “how many of you would be comfortable if your database tables were exposed on the Internet?” Imagine how it would be perceived by your customers, your manager, your employees or your board of directors. Once again, “how many of you are storing sensitive data in MySQL?” Everyone.
TWO MAXIMS:
1.) You are storing sensitive data.
Even if it’s truly meaningless data, you can’t afford for your company to be perceived as loose with data security. If you look closely at your data; however, you’ll likely realize that it could be exploited. Does it include any employee info, server IP addresses or internal routing information?
A recent article by Lisa Vaas from Naked Security highlights a spate of data leaks from poorly configured MongoDB instances.
What’s striking is that these leaks didn’t include credit cards, social security numbers or so-called sensitive data. Nevertheless, companies are vulnerable to ransomware and diminished customer trust.
2). Your data will be misplaced, eventually.
Employees quit, servers get decommissioned; but database tables persist. Your tables are passed among developers, DBA’s and support engineers. They are moved between bare metal, VM’s and public cloud providers. Given enough time, your data will end up in a place it shouldn’t be.
Often people don’t realize that their binary data is easily exposed. Take any binary data, for example, and run the Linux strings function against it. On a Linux command line, just type “strings filename”. You’ll see your data scroll across the screen in readable text.
ENCRYPT MYSQL DATA
Two years ago, MySQL developers had to change their application to encrypt data. Now, transparent data encryption in MySQL 5.7 and 8.0 require no application changes. With Oracle’s version of MySQL, there’s little performance overhead after the data is encrypted.
Below are a few simple steps to encrypt your data in MySQL 8.0. This process relies on a keyring file. This won’t meet compliance requirements (see KEY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS below), but it’s a good first step.
Per documentation warning: The keyring_file and keyring_encrypted file plugins are not intended as regulatory compliance solutions. Security standards such as PCI, FIPS, and others require use of key management systems to secure, manage, and protect encryption keys in key vaults or hardware security modules (HSMs).
KEY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS (KMS)
Credit card and data privacy regulations require that keys are restricted and rotated. If your company collects payment information, it’s likely that your organization already has one a key management system (KMS). These systems are usually software or hardware appliances used strictly for managing your corporate encryption keys. The MySQL Enterprise Edition includes a plugin for communicating directly with the KMS. MySQL is compatible with Oracle Key Vault, SafeNet KeySecure, Thales Vormetric Key Management and Fornetix Key Orchestration.
In summary, reconsider if you believe that you’re not storing sensitive data. If using MySQL, capabilities in the latest releases make it possible to encrypt data without changing your application. At the very least, encrypt your data with the key file method (above). Ideally, however; investigate a key management system to also meet regulatory requirements.
via Planet MySQL
You’re not storing sensitive data in your database. Seriously?
There’s a new handgun in the world, and it looks pretty cool. It’s the Laugo Arms Alien, and it’s been making a splash in certain circles of the firearms world. This semi-automatic 9x19mm pistol is apparently aimed at competition shooters, for reasons that will become clear.
Laugo Arms Alien Pistol
The Laugo Arms Czechoslovakia Facebook page has been teasing fans with photos for a while now, and some videos have come to light as well. Some of the more notable features:
This video is only 13 seconds long, and shows how quickly the top rail — which actually contains the sear and hammer, as well as the sights — can be swapped out to quickly change from open to optical sights.
The most thorough video I’ve seen yet is from Polenar Tactical. In it, we see the gun being fired — but more importantly, we see it stripped and reassembled, with an explanation of what makes it so unique.
Laugo Arms Alien Pistol
It begins with a lovely lady shooting the Alien — and the lack of muzzle flip is evident. From there we go to a teardown and explanation of its features, including the low bore axis, gas-delayed blowback action, and the sear & hammer which work from the top instead of the bottom.
This video ends with something I never thought I’d see: Competition pistol shooting while wearing stretchy skinny jeans.
It’s a really neat-looking pistol, and I’d love to put one through its paces. But as of now, they don’t even have an importer lined up as far as we know.
Laugo Arms Alien Pistol
No word yet on what the retail price might be, but they are hoping to release the Alien(!) in 2019.
The post Laugo Arms’ Alien Pistol is Completely Different appeared first on AllOutdoor.com.
via All Outdoor
Laugo Arms’ Alien Pistol is Completely Different
Akaunting is a free and open source accounting software built on Laravel. It handles everything from invoicing to expense tracking to accounting and runs on your infrastructure.
What makes Akaunting unique in the accounting software space is it’s not a SaaS app, you download it and run it on the server setup of your choice. This gives you full control over all your financial data and keeps you from having to share it, like many of the other big name accounting software.
Akaunting is completely free to use and it’s open source, and they make money by selling additional features through their app store. Some of these include estimates, 2Checkout, open cart, and plenty more.
For more details check out the Akaunting site and Github repo.
via Laravel News
Akaunting – Free Accounting Software Powered by Laravel
Industrial Design 101: From a UX perspective, you want useful things to be around when you need them, and to disappear when you don’t need them. Occasional-use items that are bulky ought be designed to fold up or break down. The plastic folding sawhorses in my shop are among the most useful items in there.
I wouldn’t have paid for them, however; they were given to me as a gift. Sawhorses are basic enough that you should always DIY rather than buy. You can make a simple pair of folding sawhorses with butt hinges, but if you don’t have any handy, J.G. Dean’s breakdown design is the way to go. His sawhorses are cheap, useful, quick to build and take up a minimum of space.
"I can’t claim to have originated this design for sawhorses," Dean writes in his Instructable. "I’ve seen similar ones in workshops and on construction sites for many years, but I believe I’ve made some improvements in their construction and an modification/addition that makes them more useful."
These sawhorses are made of inexpensive 2×4 construction grade lumber except for some scrap plywood, and some screws. They set up and knock down quickly and easily to take up a minimum of space, and provide almost as much support for sheet goods as a large work table.
The entire system can easily be built with a table saw in under an hour for about $30 once the cutting jig is made out of some scrap wood. I based all the dimensions here on sawhorses that are 30" tall and 48" wide, which are both taller and wider than most commercial sawhorses.
Since the top edges of the cross pieces are often cut into during use, I’ve found that it’s better to make them easily replaceable.With these, the top surfaces of both sawhorses can be replaced in minutes for generally about $5-6.
Check out Dean’s full Instructable here.
There are multiple way to setup replication with MySQL 8.0 and our replication offer as never been so rich: asynchronous, semi-synchronous, group replication, multi-source, … and much more options !
But if you want to setup a very quick Master-Slave environment from scratch for a quick test (you can always use dbdeployer), here are some commands to make it right the first time 
You need to have MySQL 8.0 installed and running on both servers and with the same initial data (a fresh install for example). Here we use mysql1 and mysql2. We will also use GTID as it’s much more convenient.
Let’s setup mysql1 first:
mysql1> SET PERSIST server_id=1; mysql1> SET PERSIST_ONLY gtid_mode=ON; mysql1> SET PERSIST_ONLY enforce_gtid_consistency=true; mysql1> RESTART;
And now mysql2:
mysql2> SET PERSIST server_id=2; mysql2> SET PERSIST_ONLY gtid_mode=ON; mysql2> SET PERSIST_ONLY enforce_gtid_consistency=true; mysql2> RESTART;
On mysql1 that will act as master we do:
mysql1> CREATE USER 'repl'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' REQUIRE SSL; mysql1> GRANT REPLICATION SLAVE ON *.* TO 'repl'@'%';
And on mysql2, we just configure and start replication:
mysql2> CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST='mysql1',
MASTER_PORT=3306, MASTER_USER='repl',
MASTER_PASSWORD='password', MASTER_AUTO_POSITION=1, MASTER_SSL=1;
mysql2> START SLAVE;
Done !
Very easy, and of course don’t forget to check the manual for much more options !
via Planet MySQL
Master-Slave Replication with MySQL 8.0 in 2 mins
The patent system is broken — there are too many ways to list here, really. The problems surrounding prior art are certainly among them, and a team of high profile companies and organizations are joining forces to address some of the these with the Prior Art Archive.
The database is a collaboration between MIT’s Media Lab, Google, Cisco and the United States Patent and Trademark Office, which certainly has the most to gain here. Using the MIT-hosted archive, patent applicants can find easily accessible examples of prior art and other technical information for reference.
“The patent examination process should stop patents from being issued on old or obvious technology,” MIT writes. “Unfortunately, just because technology is old doesn’t mean it is easy for a patent examiner to find. Particularly in the computer field, much prior art is in the form of old manuals, documentation, web sites, etc. that have, until now, not been readily searchable.”
Google also has a blog post detailing its own work with the archive, which mostly revolves around search. The company is also implementing AI and ML technologies to help bolster searches. “To this end,” the company writes, “we’ve recently created an open ecosystem, the Google Patents Public Datasets, to make large datasets available for empirical public policy, economics, and machine learning research.”
via TechCrunch
MIT, Google, Cisco and USPTO create Prior Art Archive for better patents
A common feature request from clients is the ability to export data to Excel, so they can create their own reports and a myriad of other things. Maatwebsite, the creators of Laravel Excel, recently launched a new Nova package named Laravel Nova Excel for just this purpose.
Integrating it with your Nova is really simple. First, require the package:
composer require maatwebsite/laravel-nova-excel
Next, go to a Nova resource. As an example app/Nova/User.php. Add Maatwebsite\LaravelNovaExcel\Actions\DownloadExcel action to your actions() list.
<?php
namespace App\Nova;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Maatwebsite\LaravelNovaExcel\Actions\DownloadExcel;
class User extends Resource
{
/**
* The model the resource corresponds to.
*
* @var string
*/
public static $model = 'App\\User';
// Other default resource methods
/**
* Get the actions available for the resource.
*
* @param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
*
* @return array
*/
public function actions(Request $request)
{
return [
new DownloadExcel(),
];
}
}
After this, you’ll get the ability to export all the Users to an Excel file. Of course, this is just the minor highlights of the package and it can do many other things. Check out their getting started guide for full details on everything you might need.