At work, we use a couple of 150 kW units from these guys. They monitor and dispatch the units as needed and even do peak shaving for our building when there's a high demand for power on the grid. Our units are gas powered generators and end up costing us less than using power off the grid during the summer and other times of the year.
DTE Energy Technologies has put together a realiable power solution together for our company!
It's important to note that this anouncement only affects FreeBSD -current. -current also supports alpha, ia64 (Itanium2), pc98 and sparc64.
The -stable branch currently only supports i386, pc98 and alpha. When the 5.x branch will be deemed to be stable, all of -current's architectures will get official ISO images and testing using a wider audience will be possible. At this point work on 6-current will begin.
I usually don't bite the bait, but this one just begs for it...
When Steve Jobs found himself with a looming deadline and short on cash for the release of the upcoming Apple platform, which they christened 'Macintosh', he turned to Bill Gates (and Microsoft) for assistance. It was Microsoft programmers which assisted Apple in the development and completion of the original MacOS. In return, Microsoft got to borrow concepts which debuted, and where made popular on and by the Macintosh. Part of the deal required Microsoft to make a substantial amount of it's software available for the Mac for 10 years (Microsoft extended that in 1995, when it bought a significant non-voting share of Apple). Think Word 5.1, Office 98 for Mac, Internet Explorer, etc.
It is for this very same reason that Apple didn't sue Microsoft when Windows 95 was released; even though a lot of the concepts such as Advanced Drag and Drop and the Scrapbook-like Clipboard which the Macintosh pioneered, featured in this operating system.
It's interesting to see the number of Mac users that don't know the history of their platform claim that Microsoft "copied", when it was their engineers that developed a substantial part of it in the first place!
I'm sure that Google has done it's homework. I would be shocked if they accepted to advertise a site that endorses/promotes the mistreating (or abuse) of children.
The paper only returns a value of 42 to the operating system.
The contest actually required that a number of arguments to be set up, a syscall be called, AND control be returned to the operating system. Though this might seem trivial, it still adds overall bytes to the program. (Think of it this way, the string is 55ish bytes long then you have to add the ELF header and the code!)
... such as SMB, Coda, NFS, AppleTalk and AFS work very nicely. We use a centralized data repository which is backed up daily. Users get access to their data from their stations, finding files takes less time, and backups are a breeze.
Modern IDE drives will handle the traffic that's generated by a decent number of client PCs. This lets you can place a couple of 200GB drives in a machine which will act as a server, and not have to worry about scouring 9 or 10 PCs to find your work! (Note: Some older BIOSes are limited to 45GB, so you might want to check for BIOS upgrades if you run into this issue.)
We're looking for the smallest binary that will accomplish the task at hand without causing any problems or crashes. We'll be testing the binary out on a FreeBSD machine using native FreeBSD, SVR4 and Linux ABI support. Entries using either Linux or FreeBSD syscalls will be accepted.
I have no love for Apple, but if the user is trying to get away from Windows and the only thing keeping him/her from moving away is Photoshop, why not try the other platforms that Photoshop runs on?
If someone's dislike for Microsoft is so strong, I'm sure that they could adapt to something else, or try to afford the more slightly more expensive hardware that their competitors' OSes run on. You can get a *nice* mac for $1500!
I guess I'm a little puzzled as to why that message got modded down, it's by no means a troll, and it's not offtopic.
I get the idea from the tone of the post that the person feels a bit cheated. I find it's usually good practice to give the standard disclaimer before helping anyone out with their IT problems. Good agreements (and accounting) make good friends!
Though I must commend the thought of performing work for free in good faith, I must admit that I have a serious problem with it. Being a consultant myself, I can relate to this issue rather nicely... It's one thing to offer one's services free of charge, but when someone _asks you_ for help, they shouldn't expect you to do the work for free.
You need to compare the list of services that the Unices offer that Windows doesn't (finger, ssh, nfs, and the list goes on). With nothing but IIS-www installed and running, a networked Windows NT box is not secure (See NTBugTraq for a clue).
I dare you to exploit/{break root} a BSD box which has no services/deamons except vanilla Apache running on it. It's damn near impossible! I can say this with certainty, having reviewed the OpenBSD kernel and the Apache port. A great deal of care (and work) has been put into checking buffers in the various network daemons. It appears as if Microsoft has not put this type of extensive effort in their Windows offerings.
It is also sad that there are a lot of companies running this "unaudited code". Though I'm sure Microsoft has removed a lot of blatantly obvious security flaws, I don't think that their security-auditing budget would ever grow to the necessary level to ensure Windows NT's base security.
Remember one thing: Security doesn't sell, shimmer and glitter do.
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At work, we use a couple of 150 kW units from these guys. They monitor and dispatch the units as needed and even do peak shaving for our building when there's a high demand for power on the grid. Our units are gas powered generators and end up costing us less than using power off the grid during the summer and other times of the year.
DTE Energy Technologies has put together a realiable power solution together for our company!
Go read the Constitution and the US Penal Code. Maybe then you'll have an understanding of the issue at hand.
It's important to note that this anouncement only affects FreeBSD -current. -current also supports alpha, ia64 (Itanium2), pc98 and sparc64.
The -stable branch currently only supports i386, pc98 and alpha. When the 5.x branch will be deemed to be stable, all of -current's architectures will get official ISO images and testing using a wider audience will be possible. At this point work on 6-current will begin.
Tag, you're it!
I usually don't bite the bait, but this one just begs for it...
When Steve Jobs found himself with a looming deadline and short on cash for the release of the upcoming Apple platform, which they christened 'Macintosh', he turned to Bill Gates (and Microsoft) for assistance. It was Microsoft programmers which assisted Apple in the development and completion of the original MacOS. In return, Microsoft got to borrow concepts which debuted, and where made popular on and by the Macintosh. Part of the deal required Microsoft to make a substantial amount of it's software available for the Mac for 10 years (Microsoft extended that in 1995, when it bought a significant non-voting share of Apple). Think Word 5.1, Office 98 for Mac, Internet Explorer, etc.
It is for this very same reason that Apple didn't sue Microsoft when Windows 95 was released; even though a lot of the concepts such as Advanced Drag and Drop and the Scrapbook-like Clipboard which the Macintosh pioneered, featured in this operating system.
It's interesting to see the number of Mac users that don't know the history of their platform claim that Microsoft "copied", when it was their engineers that developed a substantial part of it in the first place!
It made slashdot. I think that the word is out. ;)
Mind you, Christianity is not the only religion which states that you're not to defile the body: The Hindus and Muslims have this very same belief.
I'm sure that Google has done it's homework. I would be shocked if they accepted to advertise a site that endorses/promotes the mistreating (or abuse) of children.
The winner wrote an article detailing the technique that he used to create the winning entry. It can be found here.
I guess this is where they stashed the code for the entries.
You might want to refresh the page. It appears as if the winning entries have been published. I'd love to see the rest of them released too.
Wow!
The paper only returns a value of 42 to the operating system.
The contest actually required that a number of arguments to be set up, a syscall be called, AND control be returned to the operating system. Though this might seem trivial, it still adds overall bytes to the program. (Think of it this way, the string is 55ish bytes long then you have to add the ELF header and the code!)
Backups, maybe?
Then he'll have to opt for one of those shiny new 120GB drives. :-)
... such as SMB, Coda, NFS, AppleTalk and AFS work very nicely. We use a centralized data repository which is backed up daily. Users get access to their data from their stations, finding files takes less time, and backups are a breeze.
Modern IDE drives will handle the traffic that's generated by a decent number of client PCs. This lets you can place a couple of 200GB drives in a machine which will act as a server, and not have to worry about scouring 9 or 10 PCs to find your work! (Note: Some older BIOSes are limited to 45GB, so you might want to check for BIOS upgrades if you run into this issue.)
Using GCC 3.2 with -O3 -s gets things down to 2900 bytes. 400 bytes to go.
I have no love for Apple, but if the user is trying to get away from Windows and the only thing keeping him/her from moving away is Photoshop, why not try the other platforms that Photoshop runs on?
If someone's dislike for Microsoft is so strong, I'm sure that they could adapt to something else, or try to afford the more slightly more expensive hardware that their competitors' OSes run on. You can get a *nice* mac for $1500!
I guess I'm a little puzzled as to why that message got modded down, it's by no means a troll, and it's not offtopic.
I get the idea from the tone of the post that the person feels a bit cheated. I find it's usually good practice to give the standard disclaimer before helping anyone out with their IT problems. Good agreements (and accounting) make good friends!
Yet another case of "Live and let learn"...
Though I must commend the thought of performing work for free in good faith, I must admit that I have a serious problem with it. Being a consultant myself, I can relate to this issue rather nicely... It's one thing to offer one's services free of charge, but when someone _asks you_ for help, they shouldn't expect you to do the work for free.
This is where the line should be drawn.
If Photoshop is what you use, why not try it out on MacOS X?
Ahhhh... Nothing like getting caught with your pants down!
No sir. That is incorrect. The current x86 implementations are only LITTLE endian. Before posting lies, please do your homework.
I personally hope Gore did win California as I have no desire to live in a christian theocracy, but it's just too damn early to tell.
George "Dubya" Bush now has root. Live with it!
"There are lies, damned lies, and statistics!"
You need to compare the list of services that the Unices offer that Windows doesn't (finger, ssh, nfs, and the list goes on). With nothing but IIS-www installed and running, a networked Windows NT box is not secure (See NTBugTraq for a clue).
I dare you to exploit/{break root} a BSD box which has no services/deamons except vanilla Apache running on it. It's damn near impossible! I can say this with certainty, having reviewed the OpenBSD kernel and the Apache port. A great deal of care (and work) has been put into checking buffers in the various network daemons. It appears as if Microsoft has not put this type of extensive effort in their Windows offerings.
It is also sad that there are a lot of companies running this "unaudited code". Though I'm sure Microsoft has removed a lot of blatantly obvious security flaws, I don't think that their security-auditing budget would ever grow to the necessary level to ensure Windows NT's base security.
Remember one thing: Security doesn't sell, shimmer and glitter do.