Fun with Red Star OS

Post by SturgeonsLaw » Wed, Nov 24, 2021, 1:15 PM UTC

reaperducer wrote: post #111

danielvaughn wrote: post #5

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In a former job, I had to inspect network traffic on my mac. So I install Charles, open it up, and start looking around. I was astounded how much network activity is going on that I had no idea about .

Macs have always had incredible network use, even way back in the dialup days when I started working with them. The software seems to be designed to assume a perfect, exceedingly fat network connection at all times, and that all processes can do what they want with it. In all the years I've been using Macs, as far as I can tell, there is nothing in the OS that says, "Oh, the person is sending e-mail over a crappy cel…

Post by dng88 » Wed, Nov 24, 2021, 1:55 PM UTC

kenned3 wrote: post #113

typon wrote: post #92

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I knew a South Korean prof who chose to live in North Korea (as a philanthropic act) and teach at their top university (His research was in Embedded Electronics). Conversations with him completely changed my mind on North Korea, because prior to that my only context was through American/Canadian mainstream media (read: propaganda). I still think its a dictatorial regime that needs to be abolished and the North Korean…

This. If anyone thinks North America isn't actively involved in propaganda as well, they are delusional. The amount of "anti-china" comments i come across on the internet is shocking, and I can tell the posters have never left the US, let alone been to the country of their targeted "hate". Where do these strong views come from if they haven't been there, and probably have minimal contact with people who have?

Post by anthk » Wed, Nov 24, 2021, 4:59 PM UTC

rwmj wrote: post #156

anthk wrote: post #127

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That's bullshit because Qemu it's an emulator too, so it will run Solaris and W95 perfectly. I am not a virt engineer but I could run W95, OS2 and heck, even Mac OS 9 under Qemu, recently. Seriously, if you are a virt engineer, drop your title down :). Qemu has an ISA pc module, and you need to disable kvm just to be sure. Set the CPU to Pentium and everything will be fine.

You might want to experiment yourself before making bold assertions, because you are wrong. I've just tried these (with qemu-system-x86-6.0.0-7.fc35.x86_64): • Microsoft_Windows_NT_Server_Version_4.0_227-075-385_CD-KEY_419-1343253_1996.iso (1996, own copy) Installer starts, locks up with screen corruption about 5 seconds in. • https://archive.org/details/windows-95_fixcpu_iso_windows_is... (1994-ish) Cannot read the…

   >qemu-system-i386  -M help 
   isapc                ISA-only PC

   >qemu-system-i386  --version
   QEMU emulator version 6.1.0
   Copyright (c) 2003-2021 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers

   qemu-system-i386 -cdrom $CDROM -m 32 -vga cirrus -net nic,model=pcnet -net user -cpu pentium -hda $DISK

Post by elzbardico » Wed, Nov 24, 2021, 8:11 PM UTC

ceejayoz wrote: post #75

whimsicalism wrote: post #64

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LOL yeah the US does the exact same thing. I would pay to read a newspaper that (somewhat satirically) reported on the US the way we report on our adversaries. Complete with referring to police as "security forces", including wild speculations about the backstabbing behind-the-scenes of their top politics, etc.

The Washington Post does this occasionally. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/29/how-weste... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/... "'Culturally, Americans are a curious lot,' said Andrew Darcy Morthington, an United Kingdom-based commentator who once embarked on a two-year mission trip to teach rural American children and therefore qualifies as an expert on U.S. affairs."

Post by iggldiggl » Thu, Nov 25, 2021, 2:57 PM UTC

SturgeonsLaw wrote: post #171

reaperducer wrote: post #111

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Macs have always had incredible network use, even way back in the dialup days when I started working with them. The software seems to be designed to assume a perfect, exceedingly fat network connection at all times, and that all processes can do what they want with it. In all the years I've been using Macs, as far as I can tell, there is nothing in the OS that says, "Oh, the person is sending e-mail over a crappy cel…

Windows updates (and other first and third party downloads) can be downloaded through the background intelligent transfer service (BITS) which uses idle bandwidth, and throttles the download when something else is using the pipe.