User talk:Mph94 - Revision history

Jnc: /* Question(s) about my Virtualbox Tutorial */ Yes; images can be sized and moved around

2023-03-21T00:44:13Z

Question(s) about my Virtualbox Tutorial: Yes; images can be sized and moved around

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	I have two questions:		I have two questions:
	* Is there a way to resize images and/or generate thumbnails? The guru meditation picture I inserted is a lot larger than I thought it would end up being (because I assumed that it would be a thumbnail).		* Is there a way to resize images and/or generate thumbnails? The guru meditation picture I inserted is a lot larger than I thought it would end up being (because I assumed that it would be a thumbnail).
	* What would be the best way to share the floppy images people need to boot from? Neozeed used uuencode to post a copy of the boot42 image for vax, but it's fairly small. 2.88 megs (the approximate size of two floppies) isn't really huge but it might be unwieldy for people to cut/paste and work with. I'm considering using github to share virtual machines the way that he used sourceforge, but I'm not sure that is allowed (by github) or not. I'd appreciate any insight or suggestions you can give me on how to share images in a stable and semi-permanent (so the links will still be around in 2033, etc) way. [[User:Mph94\|Mph94]] ([[User talk:Mph94\|talk]]) 22:50, 20 March 2023 (CET)
			: Yes; the <nowiki>[[File:]]</nowiki> reference can take arguments to size and move the image around. I'll do an example edit on that page; you can then tweak it to whatever you want. I' also make sure our minimal Help: section covers how to do it. [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 01:43, 21 March 2023 (CET)

			* What would be the best way to share the floppy images people need to boot from? Neozeed used uuencode to post a copy of the boot42 image for vax, but it's fairly small. 2.88 megs (the approximate size of two floppies) isn't really huge but it might be unwieldy for people to cut/paste and work with. I'm considering using github to share virtual machines the way that he used sourceforge, but I'm not sure that is allowed (by github) or not. I'd appreciate any insight or suggestions you can give me on how to share images in a stable and semi-permanent (so the links will still be around in 2033, etc) way. [[User:Mph94\|Mph94]] ([[User talk:Mph94\|talk]]) 22:50, 20 March 2023 (CET)

Mph94: replied to jnc and inquired about images

2023-03-20T21:51:01Z

replied to jnc and inquired about images

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	Use of the 'Show preview' button allows you to see how your formatting will look without filling the article history with a lot of minor updates. Thanks! [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 11:27, 20 March 2023 (CET)		Use of the 'Show preview' button allows you to see how your formatting will look without filling the article history with a lot of minor updates. Thanks! [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 11:27, 20 March 2023 (CET)

			Hi, thanks for the heads up and the tip. As you can tell I have literally zero experience with wiki markup and protocol so the advice is very much appreciated! [[User:Mph94\|Mph94]] ([[User talk:Mph94\|talk]]) 22:50, 20 March 2023 (CET)

			== Question(s) about my Virtualbox Tutorial ==

			I'm going to continue working on the [[Installing FreeBSD 2.0 On Virtualbox]] article. Right now it needs to be completed, reformatted to be easier to read, and condensed.

			I have two questions:
			* Is there a way to resize images and/or generate thumbnails? The guru meditation picture I inserted is a lot larger than I thought it would end up being (because I assumed that it would be a thumbnail).
			* What would be the best way to share the floppy images people need to boot from? Neozeed used uuencode to post a copy of the boot42 image for vax, but it's fairly small. 2.88 megs (the approximate size of two floppies) isn't really huge but it might be unwieldy for people to cut/paste and work with. I'm considering using github to share virtual machines the way that he used sourceforge, but I'm not sure that is allowed (by github) or not. I'd appreciate any insight or suggestions you can give me on how to share images in a stable and semi-permanent (so the links will still be around in 2033, etc) way. [[User:Mph94\|Mph94]] ([[User talk:Mph94\|talk]]) 22:50, 20 March 2023 (CET)

Jnc: Sign Lars' note

2023-03-20T10:40:51Z

Sign Lars' note

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	==4.x BSD==		==4.x BSD==

	Hello and welcome! I also have a bit of an interest in the 4.x BSD series. I managed to follow the instructions in MIT's Chaosnet patch set for 4.1BSD, and I'm currently trying to make 4.3BSD and X10 talk to an emulated VAXstation 100. I have ready to run disk images in http://lars.nocrew.org/tmp/Chaotic-4.1BSD.tar.bz2 and https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/prebuilt-emulator-images-with-interesting-software-installed		Hello and welcome! I also have a bit of an interest in the 4.x BSD series. I managed to follow the instructions in MIT's Chaosnet patch set for 4.1BSD, and I'm currently trying to make 4.3BSD and X10 talk to an emulated VAXstation 100. I have ready to run disk images in http://lars.nocrew.org/tmp/Chaotic-4.1BSD.tar.bz2 and https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/prebuilt-emulator-images-with-interesting-software-installed [[User:Larsbrinkhoff \|Larsbrinkhoff ]] ([[User talk:Larsbrinkhoff \|talk]]) 13:11, 2 March 2023‎

	== Talk page formatting ==		== Talk page formatting ==

Jnc: /* Talk page formatting */ new section

2023-03-20T10:27:37Z

Talk page formatting: new section

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	Hello and welcome! I also have a bit of an interest in the 4.x BSD series. I managed to follow the instructions in MIT's Chaosnet patch set for 4.1BSD, and I'm currently trying to make 4.3BSD and X10 talk to an emulated VAXstation 100. I have ready to run disk images in http://lars.nocrew.org/tmp/Chaotic-4.1BSD.tar.bz2 and https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/prebuilt-emulator-images-with-interesting-software-installed		Hello and welcome! I also have a bit of an interest in the 4.x BSD series. I managed to follow the instructions in MIT's Chaosnet patch set for 4.1BSD, and I'm currently trying to make 4.3BSD and X10 talk to an emulated VAXstation 100. I have ready to run disk images in http://lars.nocrew.org/tmp/Chaotic-4.1BSD.tar.bz2 and https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/prebuilt-emulator-images-with-interesting-software-installed

			== Talk page formatting ==

			Hi, we generally follow the Wikipedia style for Talk: pages: i) use a section header, and ii) sign all comments using the MediaWiki '''<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>''' special form, which turns into a sig and a timestamp. (See the end of this entry to see how it looks. Yes, the information is all available through the 'history' tab, but after a while it can be work to figure out who wrote what. See [[Help talk:Introduction to Categories]] for an example of how these suggestions make Talk: pages easier to follow.)

			Use of the 'Show preview' button allows you to see how your formatting will look without filling the article history with a lot of minor updates. Thanks! [[User:Jnc\|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc\|talk]]) 11:27, 20 March 2023 (CET)

Mph94: Moving my introduction onto my user page where it belongs

2023-03-03T05:12:26Z

Moving my introduction onto my user page where it belongs

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	Hi! I do not work in IT nor am I a programmer. What I am is an enthusiast who has followed "The Unix Heritage Society" since 2002 and has played with both virtualization and emulation for approximately the same amount of time.

	Currently I spend the most amount of time playing with 86Box and Simh. There are changes I think need to be made to some of the 4BSD simh tutorials but instead of stampeding towards the publish button I will be copying the pages and making the changed versions available here first, so that people may comment on them before I get rid of the old versions.

	~~I intend on doing something similar for the 86Box tutorials I will be writing.~~

	~~Long time lurker (~12 years? at least 10) glad to be here and helping out.~~

	==4.x BSD==		==4.x BSD==

	Hello and welcome! I also have a bit of an interest in the 4.x BSD series. I managed to follow the instructions in MIT's Chaosnet patch set for 4.1BSD, and I'm currently trying to make 4.3BSD and X10 talk to an emulated VAXstation 100. I have ready to run disk images in http://lars.nocrew.org/tmp/Chaotic-4.1BSD.tar.bz2 and https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/prebuilt-emulator-images-with-interesting-software-installed		Hello and welcome! I also have a bit of an interest in the 4.x BSD series. I managed to follow the instructions in MIT's Chaosnet patch set for 4.1BSD, and I'm currently trying to make 4.3BSD and X10 talk to an emulated VAXstation 100. I have ready to run disk images in http://lars.nocrew.org/tmp/Chaotic-4.1BSD.tar.bz2 and https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/prebuilt-emulator-images-with-interesting-software-installed

Larsbrinkhoff: Some 4BSD stuff for you?

2023-03-02T13:11:09Z

Some 4BSD stuff for you?

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	Long time lurker (~12 years? at least 10) glad to be here and helping out.		Long time lurker (~12 years? at least 10) glad to be here and helping out.

			==4.x BSD==

			Hello and welcome! I also have a bit of an interest in the 4.x BSD series. I managed to follow the instructions in MIT's Chaosnet patch set for 4.1BSD, and I'm currently trying to make 4.3BSD and X10 talk to an emulated VAXstation 100. I have ready to run disk images in http://lars.nocrew.org/tmp/Chaotic-4.1BSD.tar.bz2 and https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/prebuilt-emulator-images-with-interesting-software-installed

Mph94: personal introduction and statement of intent

2023-03-02T01:55:13Z

personal introduction and statement of intent

New page

Hi! I do not work in IT nor am I a programmer. What I am is an enthusiast who has followed "The Unix Heritage Society" since 2002 and has played with both virtualization and emulation for approximately the same amount of time.

Currently I spend the most amount of time playing with 86Box and Simh. There are changes I think need to be made to some of the 4BSD simh tutorials but instead of stampeding towards the publish button I will be copying the pages and making the changed versions available here first, so that people may comment on them before I get rid of the old versions.

I intend on doing something similar for the 86Box tutorials I will be writing.

Long time lurker (~12 years? at least 10) glad to be here and helping out.