(comment is a little off-topic, feel free to downvote) I'm curious how ReactOS stacks up to Windows 2000.
I have a similar image with ReactOS if you want to compare :) https://github.com/hectorm/docker-qemu-reactos
Thanks!
Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
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Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
#152I really wish docker (not specifically but containers frameworks) had support for graphical output. Be really cool to containerise visual apps.
They can-- I know someone who runs xorg in a container with SPICE output support, but not sure on the specifics.
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> 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.
Ha - nice. I won a web design contest from Road Runner in one of their youth categories. That machine was our office PC for a good seven or eight years. Now that I think about it, I'm amazed the hard drive didn't fail. I think I set up a backup system, but I genuinely can't recall how I had it rigged up at the time.
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I preferred XP with the classic theme, some of its utils were improved.
Which utils? I think XP introduced the “switch user” option. But I couldn’t find much in XP to justify the additional drain on memory and CPU. However I might not have needed the same utils you came to prefer (Every user is different).
XP was the first that shipped the RDP server in the base... before that you pretty much needed to go up to one of the server SKUs of the OS, or buy third party remote access software.
It also added a bunch of newer parts of 802.11 that were necessary for many wifi networks -- particularly corporate ones.
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And a hundred million isn't enough to be real?
It is a joke to say that it is not a real OS. But if you want to argue: You could say that a 'real OS' must be 'mostly POSIX-compliant' [1]. That way most other OS (Linux, MacOS, iOS) but not Windows would be included in your definition of a 'real OS' ;-) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX#Mostly_POSIX-compliant
regardless of anything else, windows is older than posix... so posix should arguably be windows compliant :P
Re: Show HN: Windows 2000 on Docker
#156I actually cut my sysadmin teeth on Windows 2000, and found myself wondering how on earth they could `docker exec` a shell. These were, comparatively, the dark ages of Windows administration, and almost all tasks were done through a GUI.
The implementation is nothing short of genius: they use a Windows version of `netcat` (the common UNIX tool, but compiled for Windows from the Windows 2000 Resource Kit), then use `srvany` (also from the Windows 2000 Resource Kit) to start `netcat` as a system service, but with `cmd.exe` piped to its standard in and out.
Kudos on this solution!
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#157I got my first laptop in the year 2000, it was a hand me down and weighed like three bricks but I loved it so much. In the next year I found out the high school decommissioned computer parts and started picking them up and building working machines at home.
The hardest thing in setting up a local area network at home for me was finding a router (we were poor and I couldn't just buy it). But I did get hold of a crossover cable and was able to set up a LAN running win 2k between two machines.
That made me at least as happy as watching Angelina Jolie play Lara Croft in Tomb Raider.
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#158Finally! We've been waiting for Windows containers to hit feature parity with Linux for a long time! /s
Lol. Gave me a good chuckle!
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#159This 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 ther…
That link 404s for me.
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On the one hand, it’s a sign of technical prowess to be able to accommodate browsers going that far back. On the other, it’s kind of embarrassing not to have a barebones version of your website load in case an old browser is detected. IE5 had Ajax after all, what more does a search box really need? The answer? Endless tracking and cookies and phoning home. God forbid someone uses a browser we can’t use to collect inf…
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.