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Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by hn_throwaway_69 »

mikehollinger wrote: post #44
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…

> 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. Ha. That brings me back as well. I installed (pirated) Windows 2000 Advanced Server onto a Compaq that I won. I ran my own active directory which let me share printers to my mom's laptop (an iBook at the time), and our other PC. It was total overk…

Eerily similar to me! Minus winning the computer, would have begged someone instead!

My mother wasn't very happy with my experiments with group policy, which included adding the secure attention sequence (control alt delete) to her login screen. And various lockdowns of the start menu and Windows Explorer :)

Overkill is an apt description.

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by throwaway984393 »

This is amazing! Does anyone know if KVM hardware virt works on EC2 / ECS / Lambda / other cloud or VPS vendors?

Also, does anyone know which versions of Windows have restrictions on where you can run it? IIRC, recent versions stipulate you can't just run your own copy of it virtualized without an approved hardware vendor? Or maybe I'm crazy. I know with MacOS the EULA states you can't run it on anything but Apple hardware (thanks, Apple).

If only their EULAs weren't so restrictive, it would be easy to spin up a build+test cluster for your apps for all platforms. Sucks that developing cross-platform is now legally/financially more troublesome than it is technically.

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by tomc1985 »

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…

Yup. This exact thing pretty much lead me to a network admin job during college. I had friends that got hired as admins in high school, by the high school, and I was super jealous. The pay sucked but it was a humble start to my career in tech.

God now I am getting nostalgic for the huge network drive shared by the entire school. That shit was wild

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by authed »

mysterydip wrote: post #25

Windows 2000 was my favorite version of the OS. I kept it running far longer than I should reasonably have. Thanks for giving me another reason to fire it up!

Same... XP was almost as good because it was basically the same thing, except for its ugly skin.

But even if Windows 2000 would make a come back, I would not switch back to Microsoft because they would probably incorporate their newest tracking methods.

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by speedgoose »

Narretz wrote: post #69
speedgoose wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't this a security vulnerability?

For who? For Google? Or for the client? The server's security shouldn't be dependent on https

Both. If you can stop a https redirect by rewriting the user agent header, it can be used to track the Google searches for example. HSTS would help if the browser did connect to the https website recently, but it looks like a security vulnerability to me.

I just realized after writing this comment that if you can rewrite http headers, you can also stop the redirect so perhaps it doesn't matter.

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by cesarb »

laumars wrote: post #42
qsort wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I completely agree. People fondly remember XP, but Windows 2000 was peak Windows. It almost looks like a real operating system :)

I agree. People often forget that early releases of XP was basically just a re-skinned 2000 but with a few tweaks for games and fonts. The problem was those skins ended up doubling the memory and CPU requirements. In fact XP was a pretty bloated OS on hardware from 2002. It wasn’t until much later into the life of XP when hardware caught up and newer service packs added enough to the OS to really differentiate it fro…

People also often forget that Windows XP was the first Windows to have WGA, which was fairly controversial. Windows 2000 was the last Windows version you could truly own, instead of having to beg Microsoft for permission every time you reinstalled or replaced hardware.

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by grepfru_it »

hectorm wrote: post #65
grepfru_it wrote: post #51

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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.

The ISO is downloaded from WinWorld, which is a website dedicated to archiving old software, it's certainly community maintained but at least gets some scrutiny. I also searched the checksum and it matches with other sources, but as there is no longer an official Microsoft source you can never be entirely sure. I've done my best to confirm the legitimacy but if anyone has an original CD it would be awesome if they co…

My suggestion is to not embed third party urls for infringing software.. that makes you a target. Inside leave that variable empty and make suggestions on where one could find the media whether it’s the original or from questionable third party websites.

This is how popular emulators survived the 90s, they emulate the bios but force you to find the firmware yourself. Even if it means downloading from an unknown source without a supply chain and running unknown code on your computer. The emulator and author are in the clear

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by IronWolve »

I really liked how stable W2k was as a workstation. I could run a bunch of terminals, programs and hardly ever had a crash. Nothing is worse working an outage or deployment and POOF there goes your desktop.

This was also around the time you could even run bbwin and themes, and tweak it some for fun. Pretty sure cygwin was also around.

Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker

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Post by mixmastamyk »

laumars wrote: post #42
qsort wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I completely agree. People fondly remember XP, but Windows 2000 was peak Windows. It almost looks like a real operating system :)

I agree. People often forget that early releases of XP was basically just a re-skinned 2000 but with a few tweaks for games and fonts. The problem was those skins ended up doubling the memory and CPU requirements. In fact XP was a pretty bloated OS on hardware from 2002. It wasn’t until much later into the life of XP when hardware caught up and newer service packs added enough to the OS to really differentiate it fro…

I preferred XP with the classic theme, some of its utils were improved.
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