Vault-OS : Update #19

I've been doing quite a bit of tinkering and testing.

I got WIN98SE running from a 32MB Compact Flash Card with DOS 7.1 on both my old laptops and that is in addition to a 2.5 MB executable I have written with this cross platform kit. Since WIN98SE comes up in 12 seconds from power on running off the flash card and appears to be extremely stable, obviously this operating system can be used in very low specification PCs of almost any recent x86 blend. I would not have believed this possible if I had not seen it with my own eyes.

I managed to find enough SD-RAM to put 16 megs on both laptops and the PC-104 compatible SBC boards I got already came with plenty of RAM to run Win98SE. This seems to be sufficient for a 200mhz Pentium to run the scaled-down Win98 version and the application at a pretty good clip.

Once you've got Windows '98, of course you have internet explorer, apps like notepad, system info, all networking supported, TCP-IP sockets and nearly everything you'd expect from the Windows environment. In addition I get the Windows display system to support my customized GUI look'n'feel under Ultimate++. In addition to all this, Ultimate++ has it's own rich text format, help file format, icon files, multithreaded cooporative multitasking environment, PDF generation and viewing, complete SQL generics and full storage of binary data through serialization (XML, etc.) into the database system or resource files and back. It's like .NET except without the extra 40MB run-time overhead. Wait, that's not all. Ultimate++ comes with it's own easily embeddable scripting language called ESC that can be tailored for any app's needs with a single file. Still not impressed? Well, I did a test and my Windows source code compiled perfectly on Linux the first time. They've got ports for almost every operating system including FreeBSD.

So I get all the convenience of developing, testing and deploying in a Win 32 OS without having to run a virtual machine DOS x86 under QNX Neutrino just to see if the app is working, with a RAD tool that expedites layout design and coding all in one integrated IDE.

Most important of all, the resulting application can be run from any Win 32 OS without the .NET runtime, whether it is WinXP, WinNT, WindowsMe, Windows2000,WindowsForWorkgroups. If you want to try what I have done, you can crush your Windows deployment down to a compact flash card ... or you can just run it on the machine you have now.

Like you'd expect under Windows, I get TCP-IP, HTTP server, Email, SMS and all the other networkable frills that are so difficult to come by under DOS these days.

Does this sound like the best of all possible worlds? I think I have reached the end of my architectural investigation. I don't think it can get any better.

Did Vault-Co Precog Myanmar?

There's a reason I posted this on

http://vault-co.blogspot.com/2008/04/craziest-thing-weve-ever-posted-to.html

Anonymous said...
What prompted this post? Have you had some precognition lately?
May 1, 2008 4:50 AM

Texas Arcane said...
I have felt certainty that something big is coming. Not panic or even fear. Just woke up one morning with certainty that something really shocking is going to happen shortly and a lot of people are going to die.Whether or not these feelings (better to call them "conclusions" made while I sleep) are genuine, it's foolish indeed to presuppose that such intuition would be present throughout the animal kingdom, even observed in microbial life ... then somehow absent in man.I think our noise-to-signal ratio is very high, particularly in modern people raised on television, where 99% of their thought processes revolve around germinal notions put in their heads by the box. Television reduces mental efficiency and it impairs deductive reasoning. Of that I'm certain.
May 1, 2008 10:34 AM

The following day, Myanmar may have lost over a half-million people inside a few hours.

Australia : Bangin' Pathetically on the Outer Hatch

Some meteorologists suspect that the (supposed) first world nation called Australia is less prepared than most third world nations for radical weather accompanying climate change. Even as Myanmar contemplates a possible death toll over a 100,000 from the recent cyclone, their neighbors to the south are finally making nervous observations about their own country. Australia and in particular the Gold Coast is a kingdom of styrofoam houses and tackboard construction that is scarcely equipped to stand up in tougher conditions that are to be expected in these regions at regular intervals.

I was speaking to a guy at work about this the other day. I pointed out that even as Australians waved their beercans at the television and feigned pity for the third world savages always building cheap housing at sea level, their own nation was just a gigantic pool of floating corpses waiting to happen. You would be hard pressed to find construction in undeveloped nations as cheap, unsafe and downright hazardous as that you would encounter here in Oz. It is accurate to say 90% of homes here are not much better than a bucket over your head in a cyclone.

Do not ask for whom the bell tolls. The bell tolls for thee.

They'd Rather Lose Than Nominate Ron Paul

I'd be lying if I told you I had any hope left of any kind for this ship of fools. I just wanted to be an I-told-you-so later on by predicting that Ron Paul would never see the inside of the White House no matter how much public support he got. I'm just glad to see that it is likely Ron Paul will escape an attempt on his life.

Why Prison Planet Won't Work

Destroying is easy. Creating is hard.

I'm 45 years old and I've been watching this station wagon roll downhill my entire life. I've never known anything but descent. Inside the wagon, there are people who know how to turn on the radio and find the kind of music they like to hear on it. "We control the wagon," they say, "because we control what people hear and what they have the options to hear." There's another guy inside the station wagon who knows how to operate the windshield wipers. "I control the wagon," he says, "because I control what people can see." Another guy plays with the red hot cigarette lighter. "I control the wagon more than any of you," this guy says, "because I've got the most dangerous weapon in the wagon at the end of my fingertips." Then there is the guy with his foot on the pedal and brake. "I am the one who controls the wagon, because I can slow it down or speed it up. Nobody has more power than I do."

The station wagon keeps rolling downhill no matter what anyone does. When it hits the bottom going a hundred miles an hour, almost everybody on board will die. Some people scream to put on the seat belts, others make fun of the notion - as if admitting we are going to crash at the bottom will somehow be the prime cause of this event by simply thinking about it.

There is nobody on this wagon who can bring it to a stop or even more incredibly, make it go uphill again. We live in a declining society and all the pathetic a**holes in the illuminati who take such pride in how rapidly they have destroyed our culture and ruined our social fabric know somewhere deep inside that they cannot replace any of this stuff with something better.

The plan was, turn Britain first into a madhouse with multiculturalism, then police the lunatics by putting cameras on every corner and create a de facto police state. Turning it into a madhouse was easy. It is obvious now that there will be no substitutions to replace the order and rule of law that was there previously. All the tech gadgets in the world are just so much flotsam and jetsam against the rising tide of anarchy. You'd need to put a camera inside every human heart and then find somebody to watch that camera. That's not going to happen.

Destroying is easy. Anybody can destroy and call it genius. Creating is hard.

Hunger Makes Men Go Mad

... but this ain't nothin' yet. If you wonder why this doesn't sound as bad as Vault-Co has been predicting since 1998, it's because it is just getting started.

Watch for a temporary glut later in the year and an announcement that people should stop panicking madly running around screaming. That's the time to buy up a whole mess of food before this hits twice as hard the next harvest season. This planet won't be getting any warmer for at least 11,500 years or so.

"We'll be fighting in the streets over food long before the next Ice Age arrives." - Robert Felix

Second Weirdest Thing We've Ever Posted

I saw something funny last night myself.

I have a better explanation than aliens from another planet.

I think there is a lot of undocumented military traffic in the skies over Australia. In fact, I think Australia is used by the United States as a testing lab for most of their newest equipment.

There's a reason the Stealth Bomber was declassified. It's because America got something much better. I think that is what a lot of these folks are seeing out West.

Free Speech Was Not The Idea of The Children Of The Devil

It makes them break out in hives.

Any talk at all about any of the protected classes by law is inherently illegal in the West today. It's just a matter of prosecuting them all.

Chimps Outperform Amerikwans At Most Basic Tasks

Funny, but also true. You get a lot of that on Vault-Co.