I have just uploaded a page on the Auxiliary Section of the SoftWare Audio Console to the Mixer in a Box site.

I also did a couple of other tweaks while I was fussing with the site. I reordered the left column nav section in a way that I feel is more logical and added one more category to the coming attractions section. I also retitled the video page since there are now two videos to view.

Check out the new pages at Mixer in a Box.

I have recently been adding some content to my Mixer in a Box site. I have just uploaded a page about the scenes system incorporated in the SAC software. This scenes system is very powerful. The resolution of the scenes system allows one to control a single event on a single mixer up to a global snapshot of all twenty five mixing consoles in the Software Audio Console software. Read more about the uses of the scenes system on the Scenes Page at Mixer in a Box.

I have added a Mixer Views page to the Mixer in a Box site. This goes into some detail about the various views that are available in the virtual mixer. I am illustrating these new pages with screen shot cuts of the various parts of the mixer. I even got a little fancy and made a hover pop-up enlargement of one of the images.

I have at least two more pages planned for this site. The next page will be about effects patching and the scenes system. Then I think that I will write an article about using the virtual mixer in real live situations. I will probably work some more on this tomorrow, and then on to the next project.

I have added a new page to the Mixer in a Box site, the Z-Mixer page. There is a screen shot of the whole Z Mixer strip. I put the photo in a scroll box to give a visual representation of the Z Mixer in the SAC GUI.

To create the image I took screen shots of the various sections of the Z Mixer and used my photo editor, IrfanView, to stitch the screen shots together into one continuous image. IfranView has a panorama routine that will do this. If you look closely you can see some of the seams, but the representation is pretty good.

I intend to add a few more pages to this site in the near future.

While I was fussing with the site I did a few minor tweaks to the code and found that I had not activated the comment system. I have added quick links at the top of the pages to the comment box, so it was important to discover that the system was not active, and correct that situation.

The clean-up from the hacker break-in to my hosting site is complete. The blogs at The MotorCycle Rally site and the Number One Pictures site were a bit messed up from my first repair attempts. I had uploaded more than I needed to and so my later mods were not in place.

While I was there I tweaked the designs a bit and even found out something new, so I need to make some changes to some of the other blogs as well. I had placed an include in a less than optimum spot and I had forgotten how I did some other things. I chose a blog that was not disrupted and used it for a pattern.

Things are now back to normal, and that is a relief.

My web-space was hacked last week. I hope that none of you fell prey to the hackers. They had placed a script on each of the index pages on the site that appears to be some sort of Trojan down-loader. I have vacuumed up all the debris at this point and am keeping a closer eye on things now.

It appears that somehow they had acquired the account password and were able to FTP into the site and do their nasty business. I changed the password when I learned of the problem. I was alerted by a forum member on one of the forums that I frequent. He had clicked on the link in my sig and got an alert from Avast AV that my site was an attack site. He listed the problem as JS:Illredir-B [Trj]. I found out at around 1:oo AM (eastern US time zone) on December 31. I believe that the incursions were all on the 30th and 31st. I did not change the password until the morning of the 31st, and that does appear to have stopped the activity.

My blogs were also affected, including this one. I damaged a couple of them learning how to effect a repair. The damaged ones are very low traffic, but I will repair them this evening. I was lucky in that all of the content is in tact. A friend recently had his blog hacked and lost about 6 weeks of the most recent posts.

I did find one file that I had missed this morning. It is easy to tell by the date stamps which files may have been affected. I had just missed the one file. I have many directories and sub-directories on the space. Nearly all have an index page. I have my local copy so I was able to upload a safe file to replace the corrupted files. I spent several hours on the clean-up. I would prefer for this not to happen again.