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Lynx is not outdated. It’s actively maintained and updated. Last release is a couple months old.
Lynx doesn't support JavaScript like every other modern browser. It is outdated.
In tech, we call this "opinionated".
Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
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Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you mean linux? because docker is just an interface foe cgroups, namespaces and chroot.
the docker system including all the bells and whistles. But indeed I could've just said linux is playing catch-up in this area too...
To be absolutely fair, the first adequate namespaces implementation came out in kernel version 3.8, so that puts us in 2013, when talking capabilities to run %process% in a "container". Admittedly, a few years later than illumos. But then again, illumos was just playing catch-up with *BSD back then, as jails were available since 2000 ;)
By the way, what is your primary motivation for using illumos? genuinely curious.
Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
#163I just ran this on a Fedora machine and connected to Windows using rdesktop. It works and it's amazing. I like it. The Internet will surely be confused today with a surge of traffic from Internet Explorer 5. Incidentally, google.com still loads and allows searching; bing.com does not load.
google is, ironically, one of the few remaining "major" sites which support http.
i'm a bit of a browser historian, so i regularly browse the web in everything from mosaic, to ie3 and netscape, firefox 3.x, and all the modern-day favorites such as links and w3m.
so i started building my own websites with all the oldies in mind. it takes some tweaking, but not that much, and i enjoy strolling^Wsurfing down memory lane, looking at that gorgeous ie3 menubar, which was replaced with a flat gray in ie4, or writing something in opera 12.x.
Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
#164Windows 2000 running in VM in Docker. Might as well skip the docker stage as it does not really add anything. Otherwise sweet memories. I used Win 2K as a workstation at the time. Loved it.
>Windows 2000 running in VM in Docker. Might as well skip the docker stage as it does not really add anything.
Arguably, it adds the ability to have a network of them, set to different virtual networks in an easier manner than regular qemu bridging.
At least that was my first thought. Then again a)I'm really bad at qemu so anything that makes things easier is welcome b)I'm even worse at working with Docker.
(Hence "arguably" ;-))
Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
#165I really wish docker (not specifically but containers frameworks) had support for graphical output. Be really cool to containerise visual apps.
I suggest that you look up x11docker.
Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
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Isn't this a security vulnerability?
For IE5, there's two distinct obstacles to serving https. 1) It's unlikely to accept any x.509 certificates you can get issued under today's CA/B guidelines; and I'm also not sure how many CAs from then are still valid, either because they had too small of keys or they expired 2) I'm not sure if ie5 supports TLS 1.0 and if it does, it's probably not by default, because that how things were back then. Given these cond…
When working at Transmeta as a QA engineer, I remember finding a software bug in the Crusoe processor that prevented IE 5.5 from working with SSL.
Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
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I've also used Server 2019 on a desktop and it's pretty solid. A couple of pointers: - If you're considered a "student" by any means, you probably have access to an institutional email address that gives you access to Azure for Students. Through the Azure site, you can download an ISO for any LTSC edition of Windows Server (including Datacenter) and get a valid license key. This is a great way of saving money and avo…
Way back in the day I played Max Payne on a Win2k server and it worked great. Couldn't make the OS crash even if I tried. Best MS OS ever.
Better than Windows ME?!
Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
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I like to boot up old operating systems for UI design inspiration. Software really felt different back then. This sort of “pointless” project saves me a lot of hassle!
Is it that hard to do directly using QEMU? https://wiki.qemu.org/Windows2000
No it’s not that hard. But this lets me do it with a single command. No need to track down a disk image with a working key, configure the VM, and then run the slow installer. With this I can go do whatever silly thing I wanted to do that much faster.
Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
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Careful with your claims. What is the supply chain of that win2k iso? You could be compromised before you even begin. Just because it is past EOL doesn’t mean you chuck all security best practices out the window. “Oh well it’s end of life, might as well store passwords in plaintext” Microsoft still owns copyright on Win2k, so you could be met with a cease and desist or you could be liable for infringement.
If you connect windows 2000 to the internet, you're probably owned within a few minutes regardless. Similarly for xp pre-sp2.
What? Can you elaborate? If I spin this up in a container, even though it has access to the internet, how am I owned within a few minutes, given that my firewall is in place and I don't expose any port of this container to the internet?
Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
#170I was completely obsessed with Terminal Services and the powers therein