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Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by calvinmorrison »

tinus_hn wrote: post #58
schwartzworld wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using their own outdated, unsupported browser? Why should they develop websites against a 22 year old browser version?

I realize that it probably doesn’t pay, but it wouldn’t be that difficult to implement just a form to type queries and a basic html result page that works without javascript.

Welcome to my Friday nightmare. Some update broke dropdowns on IE9 because, apparently plain form select HTML is no longer a viable thing because we can't beautify it. Why my erp to UPS connector needed beautification I don't know. I call, they know, everybody using IE (as required by this connector) is down. Great. Patch rolls in the morning and suddenly looks like chrome is supported.

Sigh

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by mobilio »

Crontab wrote: post #27
tiernano wrote: post #6

Someone posted that 2k was the last nt edition without bloat... I think that was wrong (plus comment seems to have been deleted). 2k3, 2k8, 2k8r2, 2k12, 2k12r2, 2016 and 2019 all have no bloat or random crap... 2022 is mostly the same.... And comes with (chrome) edge too... Since the xp days I have always skipped the home/pro/workstation editions of windows and used server... Gave more features I needed, like hyper v…

I was always a fan of NT4, personally speaking.

You're not alone.

But you can't run any game because DirectX. I've copied some files from Windows98 and was manage to use some games in windowed mode.

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by formerly_proven »

chronogram wrote: post #123
rbanffy wrote: post #119

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Thinkpads are a good bet for Linux compatibility because they are very popular with Red Hat and Ubuntu kernel developers. They’ll do whatever it takes to make Linux run well on their machines.

In a sense yes, but like my current Latitude 7xxx and those original Thinkpad Xxx it’s just paying for a premium product and getting premium hardware and premium chips inside so I get hardware that staffs a development team that makes good drivers and that has manufacturers that staffs a development team good enough to put it on fwupd.

no tux no bux

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

hn_throwaway_69 wrote: post #7

This brings back great memories. Windows 2000 sparked my interest in computing. I was in elementary school and was obsessed with the 'Log on to' dropdown box on Windows login screens, and how you could use the same credentials on any PC. Somehow I managed to salvage an old computer and source myself a copy of the ISO and managed to setup an ADDS domain controller and join my mother's laptop to the domain. I went and…

I am a little older than you and was writing c++ for windows 2000. One of the funnest things i did was write something called an MS-GINA driver. It let you completely replace that login screen with your own login screen. Think of the possibilities: write your own login screen that looks just like the original, but sends credentials to my remote server.

But if you had any bugs in your driver, BSOD all the way and there was no recovery. Complete reinstall.

edit: reference https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauth

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by mayli »

spydum wrote: post #139
IshKebab wrote: post #126

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Is it that hard to do directly using QEMU? https://wiki.qemu.org/Windows2000

I think thats basically all this is.. qemu inside a container?

Yes, and just this time for windows 2k, an OS can bring some nostalgia for certain folks.

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by kortex »

throwaway69123 wrote: post #115

I really wish docker (not specifically but containers frameworks) had support for graphical output. Be really cool to containerise visual apps.

You can do it, I've done it, for the express purpose of GUI apps in containers. You have to mount in a Xwindows socket. There's info out there how to do it.

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by LogonType10 »

0x0 wrote: post #101
grepfru_it wrote: post #15

Questions about this implementation's legality? Liability? Security? https://github.com/hectorm/docker-qemu-win2000/blob/master/D... Makes me think this is done as a POC, but definitely fork a local copy as you can just swap that line out with your local copy of a Win2k ISO

Well they seem to add vnc and netcat shell listeners to the startup scripts so it is kind of backdoored on purpose already outside of what's in the iso

That's not what backdoor means.

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by locusofself »

This reminds me of a job I had about 13 years ago. I worked for a startup called SafeDesk. The idea was that we created custom debian-based live images that we network (PXE) booted to diskless PCs. So naturally the system would be instantly "wiped" when rebooted. We sold this to a few libraries and schools and even prisons.

Somehow we got into running vmware player with Windows 7 (?) on those diskless systems because of course some customers wanted windows. We PXE booted linux and then ran windows on it through vmware. It was insane and pretty stupid and terribly slow, but I learned a shitload about linux from that job.

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