Microsoft's telemetry features in Windows 10 are a privacy advocate's nightmare. Now that Microsoft is trying to back port these "features" into existing versions of Windows, it seems like many of us have no future upgrade path. Sure there is Linux, but I have some older Windows software that I still want to use. ReactOS is still out there, but does not look like there have been any updates in a while.
Does the Soylent community believe it is possible to get this project going full steam to producing a useable alternative for existing Windows users?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 22 2015, @04:32AM
I can confirm the issue with USB-RS232 converters (FTDI cables and virtualbox in my case). The delay between characters is much longer and irregular, amongst other subtleties. Difference is I have a Windows host and linux guest. Anyway what I did to solve this once and for all is use socat in the guest and a python script on the host (found somewhere on internet) so that serial traffic is redirected over TCP between host and guest. I've checked with the oscilloscope and it looks exactly like direct traffic this way.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday October 22 2015, @12:01PM
Thanks for that tip. I'll look into it.
(Score: 2) by jcross on Thursday October 22 2015, @09:11PM
You can also get dedicated hardware serial to ethernet converter boxes. I used these to replace a rats-nest of serial cables in the office of a manufacturing plant and they seemed to work quite well, at least for printers and dumb terminals and that sort of thing.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday October 22 2015, @09:45PM
That could work straight from the VM to the serial port. Though, powering it up in the field might be a problem unless it could be powered from USB.