@JohnRennie I love the UK keymap :)

love

Much better than US

Ah, it's asking which version of Windows?

And I know the PT-BR layout by heart, so I can change it with setxkbmap and type with my accents

Second from bottom is Windows 10 Pro

That's the version you had before

Yes

You can select any that you have an install key for ...

I'm guessing your key is for Windows 10 Pro

@JohnRennie Super tempted

If only I had the money

That's a killer price

New

Choose the lower option, Custom install

The next screen is the partitioning screen.

Click the New link then OK to create the partition

You'll get a warning about Windows creating additional partitions. Just click OK.

Shouldn't matter. It will have used the defaults, which are fine.

@BernardoMeurer I'd use a Dragonfly ...

@Blue yes. The install should complete and reboot, then you'll get Cortana taking you through the first time setup.

Do you use a Microsoft online account to log into Windows, or a conventional username and password?

@JohnRennie It's not a DAC?

It's an amp!

@Blue Ah, OK. After the reboot Cortana will try really hard to get you to use an MS account. I need to talk you through what you need to click to use the same account that you had before.

@BernardoMeurer Ah, OK, why do you want just a preamp? Your Marantz has an excellent preamp built in.

It's not a preamp! It's a headphone amp!

:P

Or is this just one of those objects of desire that make life such fun? :-)

I honestly just want something with tubes to play with, also the headphone output on the Marantz is a little noisy IMO

The preamp on the Marantz is great

A dragonfly has a headphone amp built in ...

My source isn't digital John :P

You gotta remember that

Ah, for your record deck

I was forgetting there are non-digital audio sources :-)

It's nice that it operates as a preamp though, because that means I can one day replace the marantz with a power amp

schiit.com/products/vidar

Like this

::salivates::

I'll have to write a lot of freelance python code, lol

I must admit I've never used the phono input on the Marantz so I have no idea how good it is.

This is my dream phono preamp

turntablelab.com/collections/phono-preamps-alpha/products/…

Ah yes. I think moving magnet was the standard when the Marantz was designed. Moving coil was still the preserve of the really high end hi-fi.

It has a badass ADC in it

@JohnRennie MM is still the standard, but I'd like to try MC one day :P

A thousand dollars. Sheesh.

Yeah, I won't buy it, lol

Maybe in 5 years when people sell it used on the cheap

I used to be a certified hi-fi lunatic at 18. I must admit that these days I like music more than ever but I no longer care what it's playing on :-)

What makes that one nice is the uber-good DSD-compatible A/D on it for ripping your records

I use a Mac Mini with the built in DAC for my hi-fi and it's just fine.

I have quite a few that don't exist in digital format

So I'd like to save them

@JohnRennie If anything I'll upgrade my Phono to this one schiit.com/products/mani

Fair price, and overwhelmingly good reviews

Is it worth buying something like that unless you also buy a top end deck, arm and cartridge?

In my day that would have been a Linn Sondek with an Itok arm and Asac cartridge

(I might have misremembered the cartridge name)

Linn still makes good quality stuff, Itok and Asac I don't know about

But today Clearaudio is one of the popular end-of-ine setups

With some super expensive MC cartridge that depends on your taste

@Blue OK, it will ask for the region then the keyboard. The defaults should be fine for this. Check it's using the US keyboard.

Ortofons, Grados, The funky Japanese brands

clearaudio.de/en/products/turntables-statement.php

He

@Blue the tricky bit is when you get to the How would you like to set up screen.

@BernardoMeurer vinylengine.com/library/linn/ittok-lvii.shtml

@JohnRennie Paired of course with Wilson Audio WAMM's

wilsonaudio.com/products/wamm

@JohnRennie Ah, the ultra-high-end has moved on to different materials, like carbon fibre I believe

@BernardoMeurer jesus it looks like something from the film Alien :-)

@JohnRennie They cost like $150.000

Lol

Why are ADCs so expensive? Is it because they are specialized for each purpose or because the components are so fine?

@weezilla AD conversion is hard to do really well

@weezilla Good quality DACs and ADCs are really, really hard to design

Top end hi-fi ADCs are really carefully designed and expensive to manufacture

so mostly the former--hard to design for each particular purpose?

Yes, the price includes a lot of design and development costs.

@Blue whatever you want. but changing to India might change other stuff like the language shown on screen

I'd stick with UK or US for now.

You can always change it later

I was fooling around with one for chromatography analog data a couple years ago but the one I got couldn't make it through the background noise.

@JohnRennie But I think my system as it stands is absolutely competent

seen the kickstarter for the keychain oscilloscope?

I have a really nice TT, and really nice speakers

@Blue you probably want US for the keyboard. That will put the dollar key in the right place.

pokitmeter.com

I already have great headphones, both over-ear and IEMs, and a great amp

@Blue yes, OK.

@weezilla Woah, cool

Thanks for sharing

we can pray it delivers something decent

@Blue That looks to me like a standard US keyboard. I'd choose the US keyboard.

Then at the next screen choose Skip

Then you get to the tricky bit ...

NO! Choose set up for an organisation

I told you this bit was tricky :-)

Now on the next screen at the bottom left is a tiny link Domain join instead. Click that.

Now it asks for a username. This was admin before, I would use blue or whaveer name you want

It's a bit naff using admin for your username

I would use a password. You can leave it blank but I wouldn't recommend it.

If you ever connect your laptop to other networks a password is required for your prtection

Use a password

Always

A L W A Y S

^

A L W A Y S mightbe a decent password

maybe add that ^ on the end :p

Yes - you can always disable her later if she gets too annoying :-)

And accept the defaults at the next screen

And that's basically it

@Blue DONT

DONT

CORTANA SUCKS

AND IT SPIES ON YOU

DONT

yeah cortana is useless

@JohnRennie STOP TRIGGERING ME

@Blue Now you get to reinstall all the software you want and do the thousand and one essential tweaks to get everything looking as you like it.

Cortana is really, really bad

except for activating herself for no good reason; not being able to do anything useful via voice; and spying on you.

@Blue It does indeed take several minutes!

You'll need to activate Windows within three days, but I'd do that only after you're happy all your software is installed and working fine.

"As, it clearly doesn’t do anything. All the PhD’s at Microsoft cannot parse a querystring in a URL apparently." hahaha

^

at least edge is fastish. less time to DL chrome

@Blue Move to Firefox!

The new Firefox is great!

didn't they revamp like everything in FF?

How Firefox got fast again

@weezilla Yes, it's amazing now

Left chrome when 57 was on nightly, never looked back

running 59 nightly now

57 is on stable

58 on beta

What's stopping me is a good tab management system. and they keep starting over on their extensions framework.

@weezilla The tab thing isn't a problem anymore, works really well :)

I store lots of tabs

And this extension format is definitive

Define "lots"

Like, I'll add 10 to 30 tabs to my archive a day

I have >120 tabs open by friday

(I clean up on Fridays)

I don't clean up--too stressful. I just... stow them ;)

@weezilla Give it a try, I find it much faster and more responsive then Chrome when lots of tabs are open

@Blue see, it wasn't so bad :-)

By clean up I mean throw in a bookmark folder

@Blue You're going to have to atone for your sins so hard

I'm here trying to save your soul

@Blue Do you want to do the Linux bit now, or wait until you have everything else working?

and you're touching the devil

@JohnRennie I WILL DO THE LINUX PART

hmm maybe I can use bookmarks. hard to after using Tabs Outliner is chrome

YOU DONT TALK ABOUT THE HOLY ONE ON MY CHRISTIAN HOME

::ahem::

::sprays holy water on chat::

May God forgive all of you

gonna do WSL or dual boot?

Plz dual boot

Whenever. You've done all the hard work now.

@Blue Have you picked a distro?

yeah most distros are a breeze to installlllllllll

I'd like to make a suggestion that you use Antergos or Manjaro :)

They're not Debian based, so you don't have to deal with the draconism that is apt

I've never used arch

and also they are rolling release, so you don't have to deal with "This doesn't work because your packages are 5 years old -- thanks ubuntu! "

@weezilla I'm an evangelist

::sprays holy water::

lol

I'll try a vbox of it sometime

@weezilla I offer free support always for anyone who's willing to dual boot linux

Even distros I don't like

Any time that I am online, if you have a problem with Linux, I will stop what I am doing and I will help you solve it

at this moment in the process of recovering a disk on my laptop so I can format and dual boot again

haha

@Blue click the time, then on the popup dialog is a link for the date and time settings

maybe you can answer--the allocation unit size is stored in the partition table, and only there--right?

And (soft) formatting a partition just empties the entry in the partition table--so if I recreate the partition with the exact settings, I get the FS structure back, ya?

@Blue A distro is a particular """""version""""" of linux. Linux itself is just the kernel, the base, of the operating system (some people say a kernel is the OS, I disagree). A distro is what comes bundled with your install, and most importantly what package manager you use to install stuff

@weezilla No, there's inodes and superblock info and stuff that you won't recover

At least on EXT4

And BTRFS

I don't know about malware file systems, like NTFS

But I assume it's the same

@Blue ^

You can use software such as Recuva on Windows to try and get data back from formatted drives

@Blue just activate Windows once you're happy it's all working fine, and that's it - you're done!

Don't forget your password!

Click Start then the settings icon and there's a link to activate

You'll need a key. If there's a key sticker on the bottom of your laptop (possibly under the battery) that key will work.

Ah, in that case it has probably automatically activated.

If you right click the desktop background and choose Personalise it will tell you if it needs to acivate.

Great. Then you're all set.

Are you sure you don't want to do the Linux bit now? It only takes 5 minutes ...

Press Windows-R and in the Run dialog type control and click OK

At the top right change the display to Small icons

Then click Programs and features

Then on the left click Turn Windows features on/off

Scroll down to the bottom and tick Windows subsystem for Linux then click OK.

And restart when prompted

When it's restarted and you've logged in open a command prompt again.

Actually, when do you need to leave for college?

This shouldn't take long, but maybe it's better to finish it off when you're back from college.

Should be OK then

When the command prompt opens type the command bash

@JohnRennie So much temptation

hello

@BernardoMeurer Meh. I was never that convinced about turntable platforms ...

@JohnRennie Ah, neither am I, I just want nice looking furniture!

We used to nick a paving stone and put the turntable on that

@JohnRennie I've been considering making a hollow slab out of black acrylic and filling it with sand

Sup

Did you guys here about Kim's new weapon

He can reach any place on the planet now

Isn't he kind to allow us all to live

@Kenshin If he tries to nuke Brazil the warhead will get stolen from the bomb the second it crosses the border, I'm not concerned

@Blue Erm, that's changed in the latest update of Windows. I'll have to Google how to complete the install. Maybe go to college now and I'll check the details for when you're back.

Brazil doesn't have the structure to support an event of the magnitude of a nuclear attack

lol

@JohnRennie I KNOW HOW

@Blue Enable developer mode

then go on the windows store

barabim-barabom

The WSL is there

Search linux or smth

@Blue OK, but this will extend the time. I'd pause it for now.

I recommend OpenSUSE from the ones available

@Blue Concentrate on the exams now :-)

The rest is straightforward anyway ...

@JohnRennie IT'S SO COLD! again :(

@BernardoMeurer wow, yes ...

@JohnRennie Told ya

I know about malware

They don't have SUSE tumbleweed?

But the best option would be for Blue to find out what variant of unix his college uses and choose the same. It's probably Ubuntu simply because Ubuntu is the best known distro.

@JohnRennie Meh, it really doesn't matter

the only difference is the package manager

Ubuntu really sucks

it causes all sorts of problems beginners shouldn't have to deal with

Like ABI incompatibility

The release based model is crap

Like you have to deal with TexLive being the version from when Knuth was 12

Shrug

It just sucks

@0celo7 Installed Antergos and apparently likes it

My grandfather runs Antergos and says it works well

:)

Anyway, I'm real tired

I'm heading off

@JohnRennie Don't install any more malware while I'm gone, will you?

Goodnight John!

Goodnight, sleep tight :-)

Dream only open source dreams.

sorry had an impromptu game of league with friend who was about to go to bed :p

@BernardoMeurer It's ntfs

@BernardoMeurer Thanks I'll give recuva a try before I do anything deeper... I've been playing a lot already

@user929304 I don't know if I have any particularly good posts on the issue, but search the site for "rigged Hilbert space" and you'll find several posts on it. Take heed, though, that almost no one actually uses such rigged spaces in practice - the mathematically rigorous approaches usually try to avoid having to talk about these "states" at all.

One more successful Windows 10 install behind me, and it's time for ... a coffee!

@JohnRennie ::sips delicious green tea::

To be honest I'm not sure I really taste the coffee. I tend to automatically reach for it while I'm working. Any hot liquid would probably do :-)

Coffee is at least a relatively cheap vice ...

Now I suppose I should check the review queues ... sigh

@JohnRennie I suppose good tea is more expensive than cheap coffee :/ Although still a fraction of the cost of alcohol...

Although I have to admit, this green tea smells nicer than coffee :) ::awaits massive backlash::

To each his own poison :-)

@Mithrandir24601 I just drank fermented drink with green tea flavor, finding green tea really tastes not good. I should not choose the green tea flavor.

@CaptainBohemian Nah - a proper, good green tea is delicious. The stuff you find in supermarkets is appalling

I think I probably just don't like tea, no matter what kind of tea.

also, i find tea would hinder sleeping.

``hinder sleeping" means it makes me not able to fall asleep even when I am very tired.

so I usually try my best to avoid tea unless there is no other choice of beverage.

@CaptainBohemian You only get one shot at life. Why waste it on sleep? :-)

why drink tea

it's just leaves in water

leaf juice

p. gross

who even came up with tea

look at this leaf

I'm gonna boil it

and drink it

i don't waste it on sleeping. It's just not easy for me to sleep sometimes. I don't want tea to make sleep even harder.

Opium is better for it

Apple are rubbish - official!!!

Nothing new

"He found that by entering the username "root", leaving the password field blank, and hitting "enter" a few times, he would be granted unrestricted access to the target machine."

That's a pretty big oversight

"Apple would not confirm or deny whether it knew about the flaw beforehand." So... They knew about it then :P

Well we don't know

Because like

Either answer is bad

If they don't know they appear stupid

If they know, they're fucking with their customers

So there's no winning scenario here

Since this is a pretty fucking dumb bug, not noticing it isn't gonna make them appear good

This isn't some leet haxx

Well, considering "a member of Apple's support forums had posted details of the flaw more than two weeks ago"

that doesn't look very good indeed

"twice"

I can see the cogs running in the developper's head

"Hm, I need some way to log in to debug easily"

"But I can't just type root without password, that wouldn't be safe"

"WAIT!"

"I have a solution!"

@Slereah yep... It almost sounds like a deliberate back door

Well I'm sure it makes the Apple people's job easier

But they could at least make it harder than that

like at least don't leave the password blank

maybe make the password "password"

I should probably sleep now