Russia in Midst of Astonishing Military Buildup
Russia laughs at NATO
U.S. is completely broke - Kwan Dollar is Worthless
Rush to Nowhere for Fallen Nation
Major Crash for Markets in the Works?
UK and Britain Will Also Drop Like a Stone
Can you smell the fallout yet?
VAULT DWELLERS SERVED
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
The Ultimate Shelter Operating System Is Also Within Your Means
So Tex, after ten years of work and several different attempts to develop the ultimate architecture for a Vault, finally manages to buy a copy of Citrix Metaframe for one penny on EBay. It's the Holy Grail. The Rosetta Stone that turns any x86 machine into a powerful zero maintenance thin client that will run the highest level applications in a distributed framework environment and even support the lowliest DOS workhorse written in PowerBasic and share databases, files and archives across an intranet LAN inside even the most ambitious underground fortress. Even run IPX underneath the hood, which means connection to any Ethernet device!
Tex has arrived. He's managed to concoct the sort of network architecture you might expect to see running inside of Black Mesa in Half-Life.
What good does this do you? Citrix Metaframe remains one of the most expensive pieces of software you can buy for Windows and the licenses are even costlier. Unless you can score a miracle off of EBay like Tex did, how are you supposed to build an equivalent network for your shelter using Tex's free software and general paradigm? (Of which at least one version will be released this year, guaranteed.)
More importantly, how will Tex ever sell his E-Book VAULT-OS : Heterogeneous Computing for Survival when the only way you can make use of his software is with Citrix Metaframe?
Do not despair. Vault-Co research labs never sleep. Once we started to get a handle around the thin client framework, it was only a matter of time before we discovered a near-zero cost alternative. What put us on the right track was discovering that Citrix licensed most of the Metaframe engine to the developers of XP at Microsoft for their RDP layer.
The link above is to a light version of Winterminal, a stripped down PXE Linux client specifically designed as a Windows Thin Client that will run off (now standard) Windows XP Terminal services! The minimum hardware specs are a 486 with 8 megs of ram! There is no 16 bit client like under Metaframe, but let's be honest, who on earth is that demented they would need to be able to run Vault-OS on a 286 or XT device?
So all you will need is a laptop for your server running XP Terminal services and hooked up to an Ethernet hub and you can fill your own shelter with high powered terminals over several miles underground if you want!! Using all of Vault-Co's software and standalone programs in addition to all the other functionality available from Win XP, the most stable version of Windows!!
I recommend you download this software client while it is still available, there is not much around of this quality that is still free.
Tex has arrived. He's managed to concoct the sort of network architecture you might expect to see running inside of Black Mesa in Half-Life.
What good does this do you? Citrix Metaframe remains one of the most expensive pieces of software you can buy for Windows and the licenses are even costlier. Unless you can score a miracle off of EBay like Tex did, how are you supposed to build an equivalent network for your shelter using Tex's free software and general paradigm? (Of which at least one version will be released this year, guaranteed.)
More importantly, how will Tex ever sell his E-Book VAULT-OS : Heterogeneous Computing for Survival when the only way you can make use of his software is with Citrix Metaframe?
Do not despair. Vault-Co research labs never sleep. Once we started to get a handle around the thin client framework, it was only a matter of time before we discovered a near-zero cost alternative. What put us on the right track was discovering that Citrix licensed most of the Metaframe engine to the developers of XP at Microsoft for their RDP layer.
The link above is to a light version of Winterminal, a stripped down PXE Linux client specifically designed as a Windows Thin Client that will run off (now standard) Windows XP Terminal services! The minimum hardware specs are a 486 with 8 megs of ram! There is no 16 bit client like under Metaframe, but let's be honest, who on earth is that demented they would need to be able to run Vault-OS on a 286 or XT device?
So all you will need is a laptop for your server running XP Terminal services and hooked up to an Ethernet hub and you can fill your own shelter with high powered terminals over several miles underground if you want!! Using all of Vault-Co's software and standalone programs in addition to all the other functionality available from Win XP, the most stable version of Windows!!
I recommend you download this software client while it is still available, there is not much around of this quality that is still free.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Apocalypse Trifecta: Step One - Amerikwa Implodes
It's by the numbers, exactly the way this blog has been predicting since ten, nearly eleven, years ago. We're not psychic, so we don't have the lottery numbers. As for all this, pretty spot on.
No communist intervention will avert anything. Communism is what caused this disaster.
All nations will call in their debts to the world's greatest debtor
America will be reduced to third world penury in the worst economic collapse in human history
The race war being primed in the 'Kwa the last two decades will finally kick off
Tyrants go to war when things are failing at home, this will be no different
Russia Will Prime South America For Nuclear War
McCain is better than Obama because he is virtually guaranteed to drive Russia into World War III whether they want it or not. Cross your fingers and hope he gets in.
War on every front against all nations and every man against his brother
In case you're doubting the momentum is missing for World War III in this hideous, disastrous mess, just remember it all pales beside the consequences of the coming Ice Age and worldwide cooling. That will be the third rail of the Apocalypse Trifecta that seals the world's doom.
If you'll just stop and quietly think your way through the implications, you'll come to the same conclusion I did ten years ago.
I N E V I T A B L E.
No communist intervention will avert anything. Communism is what caused this disaster.
All nations will call in their debts to the world's greatest debtor
America will be reduced to third world penury in the worst economic collapse in human history
The race war being primed in the 'Kwa the last two decades will finally kick off
Tyrants go to war when things are failing at home, this will be no different
Russia Will Prime South America For Nuclear War
McCain is better than Obama because he is virtually guaranteed to drive Russia into World War III whether they want it or not. Cross your fingers and hope he gets in.
War on every front against all nations and every man against his brother
In case you're doubting the momentum is missing for World War III in this hideous, disastrous mess, just remember it all pales beside the consequences of the coming Ice Age and worldwide cooling. That will be the third rail of the Apocalypse Trifecta that seals the world's doom.
If you'll just stop and quietly think your way through the implications, you'll come to the same conclusion I did ten years ago.
I N E V I T A B L E.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Econo-Armageddon for Kwanzanians
It's all my fault. I told them to switch to toilet water.
Scccccrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeccccchhhhhh .... CRASH What was that about China needing our business so badly they would keep investing in us no matter what?
The Only News You Really Need To Know
The article is a bit deceptive.
The solar wind has dropped off to nearly zero, which has never been seen since the instruments existed to monitor it.
Lest you be deceived to the contrary, the sun's output is not "an important factor" in life here on Earth. That's something only a leftist nut could possibly blurt out. It's the only force that matters. Like a naked man in the arctic, standing next to a bonfire is the only thing keeping you alive. If it goes out or dies to mere embers, you can do all the jumping jacks you want ... that's the way you'll be found frozen solid. The Sun's warmth and energy output across many spectrums is the only thing that makes life possible here on Earth. One year without proper output ... "ice age normal" ... and there would be no agriculture, no harvest and no food. That's six billion people with empty stomachs. Could get a tad dicey.
Notice in the article, the Sun's magnetic flux is tied to the heliosphere which is part of our protective shield from cosmic radiation. Now you know why there are so many radiophiles and extremophile bacteria and fungi on Earth that appear to have kept their genetic adaptive traits so sharp from recent usage.
It's funny to think modern people honestly regard the Sun as "an important factor" ... sort of like nice holiday decorations in the food court at the mall. Where else do they think the heat would come from?
A guy at work told me the other day, "Heat comes from the oceans and the sun is a contributing factor." He's talking about the fact that the water on Earth acts as a heat reserve for energy from the Sun. He had not quite realized yet where the heat in the water came from originally.
The solar wind has dropped off to nearly zero, which has never been seen since the instruments existed to monitor it.
Lest you be deceived to the contrary, the sun's output is not "an important factor" in life here on Earth. That's something only a leftist nut could possibly blurt out. It's the only force that matters. Like a naked man in the arctic, standing next to a bonfire is the only thing keeping you alive. If it goes out or dies to mere embers, you can do all the jumping jacks you want ... that's the way you'll be found frozen solid. The Sun's warmth and energy output across many spectrums is the only thing that makes life possible here on Earth. One year without proper output ... "ice age normal" ... and there would be no agriculture, no harvest and no food. That's six billion people with empty stomachs. Could get a tad dicey.
Notice in the article, the Sun's magnetic flux is tied to the heliosphere which is part of our protective shield from cosmic radiation. Now you know why there are so many radiophiles and extremophile bacteria and fungi on Earth that appear to have kept their genetic adaptive traits so sharp from recent usage.
It's funny to think modern people honestly regard the Sun as "an important factor" ... sort of like nice holiday decorations in the food court at the mall. Where else do they think the heat would come from?
A guy at work told me the other day, "Heat comes from the oceans and the sun is a contributing factor." He's talking about the fact that the water on Earth acts as a heat reserve for energy from the Sun. He had not quite realized yet where the heat in the water came from originally.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
What is a "client" under Citrix Metaframe?
Basically, anything that runs on x86 hardware is a client or can be made into a client in approximately five minutes with their client installer packages. Very few of the devices pictured above cost me more than $10.00 to build or buy. At least half the devices pictured above will run the basic Vault-OS kernel inside Citrix or else on simple x86 hardware connected or not to a local LAN/Ethernet. It was a very good idea I had to build the initial version of Vault-OS on IPX communication, because if I had used TCP-IP I would have had a lot of problems getting it to work on Citrix. Luckily a virtual packet driver for DOS makes everything all run together seamlessly without any headaches. So far I have crapped my pants about ten times when I realized I can turn the Citrix server on or off and not even cause a hitch in the interprocess comms between the DOS applications running on the same lines. That's just plain awesome.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Vault-Co No More?
I'm thinking seriously of closing down this blog and just concentrating on the new Vault-OS page I've been working on.Things in general have taken such a turn for the worse lately it doesn't seem there is much point in continuing with news links as we have done for ten years.
America has formally been nationalized into a communist country with all financial control of assets residing with the state through the "bailout." Not much use in warning people any longer about that.
The new Ice Age is upon us. In coming years it's going to get crazy cold. What else to say?
The agricultural system has basically collapsed. Shortages are the new reality. We said to pack it.
Russia, China, Venezuela/South America, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, North Korea are one big alliance sharing military technology and weapons, in addition to controlling the Panama Canal and 90% of the world's resources. No point in any more warnings about the U.S. being isolated.
World War III is now being recognized by most of the mainstream media as an inevitability soon in geopolitics. We don't have to stay on the soapbox warning about that.
Demographic changes have past the failsafe point in almost all the Western nations. It's hardly worth talking about at this stage. Everybody left with the means is packing their suitcase.
World War III is now being recognized by most of the mainstream media as an inevitability soon in geopolitics. We don't have to stay on the soapbox warning about that.
Demographic changes have past the failsafe point in almost all the Western nations. It's hardly worth talking about at this stage. Everybody left with the means is packing their suitcase.
I think after ten years of issuing dire warnings, the time is past for prognostication. The things we have talked about on this blog are upon us. I believe my time would be best spent on developing Vault-OS and the accompanying products rather than spending another minute updating this blog.
Vault-OS : Mind Blowing Thin Client Tech on EBay
I have four mindblowing things to tell you.
- Citrix Metaframe NT had a 256 color DOS installable thin client for 16 or 32 bit mode, with complete access to the NT server desktop through Metaframe. This would have to be one of the strangest pieces of software in the history of DOS, but it works great!!
- The DOS Metaframe client also permits external virtual control of it's workspace from the NT Host and all terminal/text functionality.
- I got a copy of Citrix Metaframe NT Server off Ebay for .01 cent (!) and $10.50 S&H.
- I got a copy of Windows NT 4.0 with 8xTerminal licenses for $5.00 bucks off EBay.
So basically, let's say you have a great DOS only 8086 program running on your card, like my version of Vault-OS written in PowerBasic currently under development. How do you achieve complete rock solid interoperability of this legacy system with any other system and/or thin client including Linux, Macintosh, Windows 95/98/2000/ME/XP, Breadbox Ensemble ... all over Ethernet including with IPX protocol? With Citrix Metaframe. I used it heavily in my work about 10 years ago and it was incredible, combined with Windows NT.
Some of you may remember me recommending this book last year (cost me $2.00) as being one of the better Vault-oriented guides to heterogeneous networking I have ever read.
I landed two WYSE thin clients for $4.00 each last week at the same time. I've been spraypainting them to rebrand them as Vault terminals, of course. I was successfully able using this guy's code and guidance to rewrite the BIOs so both of them now display SVGA at 1024x768 on mini B&W televisions and CCD monitors!!!
I plan to have photos up of a lot of the new stuff soon. I promise you that some of the tech you will see running shortly will be the most incredible stuff to ever come out of Vault-Co in it's ten year history.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
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