today was my first school day, all that happened was a quick introduction and tour of the building and a heads up about getting all the neccessary equipment tomrrow.
almost all of my classmates have already been here so i feel fairly outcasted, but i hope i could fit in there somewhere, they all seem generally nice.
as you may or may not have noticed, i went to germany for 6 whole days (from the 17th to the 23rd (yes i travelled right before the crowdstrike incident, very lucky i know))! :D one of my dad's old friends lived in Lubeck and gave us the idea of coming over here so we did just that.
we actually had to stop at Gdansk and stayed in their airport for a cool 6 hours or so but after that we were headed to Hamburg!
after being stuck at the Deutsche Bahn ticketing machine for a solid 10 minutes we bought a family ticket and got on the train to Lubeck, dad's sheer tiredness led him to a Doner restaurant near Lubeck's train station and that's where we met his friend, his current job was being a taxi driver and he does seem to love it, the amount of people he knew around the city was amusing to say the least.
Their home was two joint apartments with the keys always being on the doors (security measures are very high indeed). we mostly occupied one of the apartments where his son and daughter's living room were present, as well as a living room (which we slept in). I was mostly around his son (which was an unexpectedly huge ishowspeed fan) and he seemed like a chill dude. His cousin also accompanied us for most of our ouside trips, the poor lad was deaf and semi-mute (as in he can only blurt out keywords that should give you a bottomline understanding of what he's talking about), really active and friendly guy, and a graduate in computer science!
most of the trip was sightseeing around Lubeck, of which i took not a lot of pictures
my dad and his friends (one of which moved over from his home all the way from Berlin to see him) went clubbing and having the time of their lives, i wasn't invited for obvious reasons
did i mention dad's friend's son does basketball training? went to his workout place (which was going to shut down for four weeks afterwards) and watched him shoot a couple of hoops, wasn't very interested but i appreciated his efforts, he seems to love the sport
overall, it was a very limited but fun trip, and i got to experience a little bit of germany, who doesn't want that? ;D
So, while i was going through IFA Wartburg's vast selection of songs, my interest for Red Star OS rekindled, i tried to run the North Korean macOS bootleg on qemu way back when i was using a mac and it was a complete failure, but now that i've got a laptop that could natively virtulize it, i thought "hey, why not try it out?"
but running Red Star alone is boring, and everyone's already done that, so why not throw in another anti-capitalist OS on top of it? enter: DEMOS
DEMOS was the USSR's version of BSD Unix and started development all the way back in '82 until the soviet demise in '91, by then it had apparently reached version 3.0
so, let's get started shall we?
get your copy of Red Star OS from ArchiveOS and your copy of DEMOS from Google Code's archives (oh the irony). spin up a vm of Red Star in VirtualBox, it'll only install there, the default options that VirtualBox gives should be good enough. enable the root account (by opening the terminal and typing rootsetting and enetring the password for the root user) while you're at it (trust me, you'll need it). you can optionally remove the spyware and change the UI language to english (by inputting sed -i 's/ko_KP/en_US/g' /etc/sysconfig/i18n /usr/share/config/kdeglobals and rebooting).
mount your iso of Red Star back into the vm and open the optional.repo file and install everything from it
now with all that done, go ahead and throw your copy of DEMOS in a folder on your host system and run mkfsiso on it to convert it to an iso you could mount to the vm, then you just unzip the contents and run demos.sh right?
nope, as it turns out the pdp11 emulator needs at least glibc 2.11, thankfully the optional repo we installed ships glibc 2.10 so we're not far behind.
get your copy of glibc 2.11 here and throw it in the same folder as DEMOS on your host system and rerun mkfsiso. mount it once again onto Red Star and copy the .tar.gz to anywhere you want (i prefer to drag and copy it to the desktop)
extract it with tar -xf glibc-2.11.tar.gz and cd into the resulting folder, the rest of the procedure is going to be your standard glibc compilation: making a build direcotry, cding into it and running ../configure --prefix=/usr, make and last but not least, make sure to switch to the root account (told ya you'll need it) with su and then run make install (you'd see a couple of popups at this point, don't worry as that is just Red Star's "integrity checker" in action, you can disable it in system prefrences if you want to). restart the system immediately afterwards
now you can run demos.sh just fine!
DEMOS will ask for boot parameters, just press enter. the next couple of prompts will ask for time and dates, you can skip them by just pressing enter. once you get to a colon prompt, enter root to login to DEMOS' root account
so, what can you do on DEMOS? well...uh...not anything i could think of, the demos.ini file that's in the same folder as demos.sh mounts a floppy.img to kmd0, so throw any .img file you want with the same name in there and go ham.
that would be me, mr. georgemoody. i've moved over here for educational reasons, did an entrance exam for an IB school and i'd say i did pretty alright, just a bit heavier than what i thought, it's a simple residancy permit for now but according to my mom i could acquire a citizenship if i stay here for 4/5 years, i could try to understand finnish in the meantime
oh and if you've been keeping up with me on tiny.tilde.website you might've noticed my new shiny laptop (that's less shinier physically cause it's plastic), an Asus FA617NS to be precise, and boy is it good stuff, it's currently running arch with NsCDE running as the DE and i've never been happier in my goddamn life, all i need is to install steam on it and put it on a proper desk
anyways, that's been my life for these past weeks or so, hope yours is better, or at least less chaotic.
yup, did this again, first it was neocities, now its envs. to be fair, i had a fair few reasons to move out of neocities, it felt a bit restrictive that i had to use their meh html web editor. as for envs, well, i don't want to put all of my eggs in one basket so i felt like moving my website out of there and keeping it for emails and stuff. plus, my envs site will stay as an archive of whatever i could fill it with.
but this should be my new home, for now.