Oh my god! What a psycho! So delusional. The most delusional. Very bad, very, very bad.
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They are not with Microsoft any more, you dippy dork.
complaints about it. Of course saying that will bring all the creepy crawl ies out of the wood work. Still, what do you have against it? It seems pr etty tameable to me.
+1 FWIW-- Cheers, Chris.
Interesting.. care to elaborate (the laser pickup particularly)?
Commercial device? Mechanical tracking?
-- Cheers, Chris.
Nope.
Prototype from the early 1980's.
Commercial laser turntables are only $15,000.
If you have some CNC machinery, a coherent laser (so it can be focused), and a microscope, you can probably built a workable laser tone arm and pickup.
There's also the IRENE system, which builds a 3D picture of the record groove using cameras, and plays it with needle simulation software:
One problem with laser turntables is that the record grooves need to be cleaned before playing or the audio will sound like it's playing a sandpaper disk. With a conventional needle pickup, the needle cleans the groove from most dust particles. With a laser, the compressed air levitation pump does a little cleaning, but what one really needs is a liquid to grab the dust and a vacuum cleaner to remove the liquid and dust. The good news is that if one does manage to clean your records, then the sound quality is quite good.
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I heard they had a ton of problems with those.
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The lasers.... Yeah... likely too good at 'seeing' and that means any inclusions and other elements become artifacts of the produced signal.
With regular stylus methods, however...
I found that static is the main problem.
I had the wipe and clean and play wet stuff. It works well.
I thought it was about the dirt and the wet added a slight damping if anything.
So I experimented.
I found that moist breath right in front of the needle abates most of the hiss and static pops. Imagine that.
So that and the Ortofon cartridge I had at the time would make even scratched record sound good.
I would wipe them with the juice, and breath on the assembly right as it passes under the needle. Amazing performance results.
Yup. It seems to get you in two different ways - direct static discharge to the stylus, and the tendency to attract dust particles.
Something that can work very, very well is a treatment which leaves an extremely thin (mono-molecular film, I believe) layer of a hydrophilic surfactant on the surface of the vinyl. It'll hold enough moisture to keep the surface resistance low, and static just drains away.
One such treatment was developed some decades ago by engineers at the BBC... it's known as the "BBC peel". It was popularized by Reg Williamson in Audio Amateur magazine, and Old Colony sold the materials as a kit for a while. I've tried a home-brewed version and it works amazingly well.
The formula I've settled on is a modified verison of the BBC/Williamson recipe. It's based on polyvinyl alcohol powder, distilled water, some technical-grade isopropyl alcohol, and a small amount of benzalkonium chloride as an anti-static surfactant. The BBC used Cyastat or some other commercial anti-static additives, which are very difficult to purchase in less-than-55-gallon-drum quantities; bezalkonium chloride is chemically rather similar, easier to acquire, and seems to be quite compatible with vinyl and similar plastics.
Once mixed up, it's about the consistency of corn syrup. You apply it to a record (spread it around thinly with a foam brush or card) and let it dry (takes an hour or so). It turns into a flexible film which peels easily off of the record, taking dust and dirt with it.
The benzalkonium chloride reduces the surface tension, ensuring that the goop spreads out nicely and fills the grooves. When you peel off the film, a very thin layer of the surfactant remains on the surface... enough to attract humidity and discharge static electricity, but no more than that.
I ran some tests of this recipe, using records that had been quite dirty. I first wet-washed them and vacuumed to get most of the gunk off, and test-played them (and recorded the results). I then used the "peel" and played and recorded again.
The "peel" reduced the pops, ticks, and overall surface noise by several dB compared to the results of the wet-washing.
From what I've gleaned it is not good to play vinyl wet. When not wet the s tylus melts a little bit to "skate" yet still reproduce the waveform. This does make for some wear but playing it wet takes the heat away too fast. Li ke an ice skate, it melts the ice right under it which then quickly refreee zes.
Stylus design was a "thing" for a while. At one time everything was conical , then we got 4X, and 3X and 2X. (my Audio Technica was a 2X, that means 0.
002 X 0.007) and then there were Shibatas. I never had one but if I did I w ould only use it for transcription. Those things hit a different part of th e groove walls. I think just about all of the\m were CD-4 compatible, and t hat is saying something.Enough, I have liberals to torture.
Wrong again. Bill Gates still holds a position as technology adviser at MSFT.
Has anyone verified that if it's disabled, then the vulnerability does not exist? It's possible that the route for the hack uses some part of the OS that remote administration uses, but that turning it off still leaves that path open.
Some of the really bizarre, kooky things you post makes me question your sanity.
Things that are still stuck on XP include a lot of embedded kit where it has been largely forgotten that they are on that version and some high end capital kit with a typically 20-30 year lifespan where the PC controls it and the manufacturer has never provided drivers for later version of the Windows OS. Instrument makers all view software and drivers as a necessary evil to sell their latest and greatest hardware.
Such kit is very carefully firewalled so it cannot be infected from outside or if compromised infect the rest of the corporate network.
If you are moving to Win7 now you might as well move to Win10 and get some additional hassle free lifespan. Moving to an OS already scheduled for its demise in January 2020 - that is less than a year away!
Avoid Win8.x like the plague - it is another Vista.
They might relent on Win7 and back down but possibly not until some catastrophic malware bites everyone in the backside and takes down some banks and hospital appointment systems like happened two years ago.
I have found it possible (and in fact slightly easier) to get some of the legacy software to run under Win10 Pro than on Win7. The only exception are some prehistoric installers that rely on 16bit code.
-- Regards, Martin Brown
That's good.
Know why ?
Why bother ?
Take any computer that still boots some old version of Windows and put it on the net for a few weeks :-).
Any old system designed with data security in mind should still work well.
Any system relying of generating patches as soon as some bugs are detected will ultimately always fail.
You know, 98SE might even be better, I bet a new virus would not even run o n it. Like the screen shows up you get "fuckupyourpc.exe is not a valid Win
32 application" or some shit. They can't even bring back NYB. It doesn't pr opagate on the net unless you get it in an ISO, and those, did they even ex ist ?Hmm, just what could I get to work on OS/2 ?
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