Random Tech Stuff

What can I say? I ran an old Live CD of a 10-year-old version of Ubuntu Linux (11.04) and played around with it.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfY_W9tt7NFOwFdhjGQEHrw
BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Cuq91JIghCWN/
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@MeditativeComputing:c
Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-801865
DTube: https://d.tube/#!/c/meditativecomputing21
Minds: https://www.minds.com/philosophersdrink/

Part 1 of this OpenIndiana session. OpenIndiana is the direct continuation of OpenSolaris. It was forked during the time when the future of OpenSolaris was uncertain. Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle in 2010. Here in this part, we've installed LibreOffice already. I play around with the UI of it. I also browse firefox, which has a propensity to crash on this VM. Not sure whether it's the conditions of my VM or something else. I also install and run Wine. Lynx has been installed, but I run it in the next part. Parts 2 and 3 won't be on YouTube. Check out the links.

https://www.openindiana.org/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfY_W9tt7NFOwFdhjGQEHrw
BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Cuq91JIghCWN/
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@MeditativeComputing:c
Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-801865
DTube: https://d.tube/#!/c/meditativecomputing21
Minds: https://www.minds.com/philosophersdrink/

Part 2 of this OpenIndiana session. Still installing items. Sadly, winetricks doesn't seem to be one of them. The Wine version available for OpenIndiana 4.17. The latest is 6.0 stable and 6.9 development at the time of this video. I download and run Graphmatica, a very old program. I also use Lynx to check out the Floodgap Gopher Proxy.

https://www.openindiana.org/
http://www.graphmatica.com/
http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfY_W9tt7NFOwFdhjGQEHrw
BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Cuq91JIghCWN/
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@MeditativeComputing:c
Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-801865
DTube: https://d.tube/#!/c/meditativecomputing21
Minds: https://www.minds.com/philosophersdrink/

Part 3 of this OpenIndiana session. I finally get DOSBox installed, firefox crashes again which I see crashed the pkg command for some reason. Might be something to do with the fact it's in a VM on an old laptop. Not sure. I use the Wine Internet Explorer for browsing WineHQ and one of the songs from The Police. I ran DOSBox successfully, and had to close it with the 'kill -9' commands.

https://www.openindiana.org/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfY_W9tt7NFOwFdhjGQEHrw
BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Cuq91JIghCWN/
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@MeditativeComputing:c
Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-801865
DTube: https://d.tube/#!/c/meditativecomputing21
Minds: https://www.minds.com/philosophersdrink/

This is a live CD session of Puppy Linux Fossapup64 9.5. Here I play with it by checking out a few apps that come with it. I also muck around with the appearance settings. Instead of Firefox, there is a browser called Pale Moon, based on Firefox. It's good as a rescue system and a highly portable Linux system. I used it 11 years ago as version 4.3.1.

https://puppylinux.com/index.html#download

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfY_W9tt7NFOwFdhjGQEHrw
BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Cuq91JIghCWN/
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@MeditativeComputing:c
Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-801865
DTube: https://d.tube/#!/c/meditativecomputing21
Minds: https://www.minds.com/philosophersdrink/

Corel Linux is a very old Linux distro. Version 1.0 was released 1999. It ended up being a failed attempt to penetrate the Linux market. A shame really, because the installation and operation really wasn't hard at all. However, Windows 98 was the biggest thing at the time of course. I decided to run in a virtual machine using Connectix Virtual PC in an OS/2 Warp 4 VM. Why not?

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfY_W9tt7NFOwFdhjGQEHrw
BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Cuq91JIghCWN/
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@MeditativeComputing:c
Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-801865
DTube: https://d.tube/#!/c/meditativecomputing21
Minds: https://www.minds.com/philosophersdrink/
Gab: https://gab.com/MeditativeComputing

If you'd like to donate, I'll take fiat and crypto money.

SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/meditatingcomputerworkshop (Still working on it)

LBRY Credits: bYdtAkTQjEFneZaL1KagV3tdhEGvrSxiVM
Bitcoin: 3EhanMSzf9mVnV6LS7kvY1zGofoTdZNBjD
Ethereum: 0xe1a2d177a544350985b04444222585c6493b2ab3
Monero: 46CDkS4FJ2LEAzgpbznLUHFZAvPbcN1ZsZek6ekEoMJLGYMWaZ8KX4MManqygJL2Hp27r2stajteZh27esJMRnS5ACUsFN6
Electroneum: etnjxNySVwz7zocWN8AtP8W7dqcR4cfcvf9zFDuufcjnJeVQFB3df9cR7yzNqpNS6vcvg3QPybqq2Rc3L78rV3Vp9sarKxi4np

Another old version of Microsoft Excel, this time running on OS/2 1.2. This version is from 1989. This is me just playing around with the fonts and checking out what it has to offer.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfY_W9tt7NFOwFdhjGQEHrw/
BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Cuq91JIghCWN/
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@MeditativeComputing:c
Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-801865
DTube: https://d.tube/#!/c/meditativecomputing21

Something you won't find every day. Here is a very old card game from 1988 running on OS/2 1.2. A nice Solitaire game that looks pretty decent for its time. This predates the much more familiar Solitaire for Windows that came with Windows 3.0 in 1990.

There's a limitation where you can only take either the last card or the entire pile of cards to move them. Other than that I quite like how its done.

Here's the game: https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/games/casino/patience.zip

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfY_W9tt7NFOwFdhjGQEHrw/
BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Cuq91JIghCWN/
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@MeditativeComputing:c
Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-801865
DTube: https://d.tube/#!/c/meditativecomputing21

No music this time. Just a little clip of me using OS/2 Warp 4 on a VirtualBox machine connected to the Internet. NOTE: The clip glitches a bit towards the end unfortunately. The site I browsed is a very old one from 1994, Mosaic Communications Corporation. This version of IBM WebExplorer that was bundled with OS/2 is from 1995.

Check out the site I browsed: http://home.mcom.com/

A couple of specs of the virtual machine:
64MB RAM
AMD PC-NET III

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfY_W9tt7NFOwFdhjGQEHrw
BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Cuq91JIghCWN/
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@MeditativeComputing:c
Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-801865
DTube: https://d.tube/#!/c/meditativecomputing21
BrandNewTube: https://brandnewtube.com/@MeditativeComputing

A blast from the past for me. I remember there was a similar edition from Expert Software called 40 games. I found this on archive.org. This is a collection of games written for Windows 3.x. So I thought "why not run it on an OS/2 virtual machine with Windows 3.1 compatibility?"

Also, I had to really edit the recording done by VirtualBox because, on my computer, the VM recording was crap. No music.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfY_W9tt7NFOwFdhjGQEHrw
BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Cuq91JIghCWN/
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@MeditativeComputing:c
Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-801865
DTube: https://d.tube/#!/c/meditativecomputing21
BrandNewTube: https://brandnewtube.com/@MeditativeComputing

A quick clip going over installing a very old version of StarOffice from 1999. This is the last version of StarOffice that ran on OS/2. More about StarOffice and derivatives like OpenOffice and LibreOffice will come in another clip.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfY_W9tt7NFOwFdhjGQEHrw
BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Cuq91JIghCWN/
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@MeditativeComputing:c
Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-801865
DTube: https://d.tube/#!/c/meditativecomputing21

Here's something. I managed to install a very old version of Virtual PC before it became Microsoft Virtual PC. This is Connectix Virtual PC from Innotek. Watch how well it installed and see how I create virtual machines. In particular, I set up a virtual DOS machine. It was merely for demonstration as OS/2 is more than capable of running DOS programs and games. This is actually an OS/2 guest on my machine running its own virtual machine. In order to run a virtual machine within a VirtualBox machine, ensure that 'Nested Paging' is enabled. I will do more with Virtual PC on OS/2 in later videos.

I also increased the RAM of the OS/2 guest it was running in to 1GB.

This version of Virtual PC is 5.0, from 2002. Microsoft released their own versions: Virtual PC 2004, and then 2007. Then it became Windows Virtual PC in 2009. It was then succeeded by Hyper-V: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V

Where to find it: https://ecsoft2.org/virtual-pc (you'll want version 5.0 26/9/2002)
MS-DOS 7.1 (not actually an official release): https://winworldpc.com/product/ms-dos/7x OR https://archive.org/details/dos71cd

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfY_W9tt7NFOwFdhjGQEHrw
BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Cuq91JIghCWN/
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@MeditativeComputing:c
Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-801865
DTube: https://d.tube/#!/c/meditativecomputing21
Minds: https://www.minds.com/philosophersdrink/
Gab: https://gab.com/MeditativeComputing

If you'd like to donate, I'll take fiat and crypto money.

SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/meditatingcomputerworkshop (Still working on it)

LBRY Credits: See my Odysee channel to send in tips.
Bitcoin: 3EhanMSzf9mVnV6LS7kvY1zGofoTdZNBjD
Ethereum: 0xe1a2d177a544350985b04444222585c6493b2ab3
Monero: 46CDkS4FJ2LEAzgpbznLUHFZAvPbcN1ZsZek6ekEoMJLGYMWaZ8KX4MManqygJL2Hp27r2stajteZh27esJMRnS5ACUsFN6
Electroneum: etnjxNySVwz7zocWN8AtP8W7dqcR4cfcvf9zFDuufcjnJeVQFB3df9cR7yzNqpNS6vcvg3QPybqq2Rc3L78rV3Vp9sarKxi4np

XBill is a very old parody game where you stop all of these Bills from replacing perfectly working systems with a virus called Wingdows, cleverly disguised as an operating system. I thought that this would be a little entertaining given all the craziness going on right now.

http://www.xbill.org/
Classic moment as Bill entered court for his antitrust suit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFa1eHOEvyg

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfY_W9tt7NFOwFdhjGQEHrw
BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/Cuq91JIghCWN/
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@MeditativeComputing:c
Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-801865
DTube: https://d.tube/#!/c/meditativecomputing21
Minds: https://www.minds.com/philosophersdrink/