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Journal Journal: Skrek Linux

HP and Dreamworks SKG have announced a strategic alliance - "aimed at revolutionizing animation production." The success of "Shrek" and the input of HP during the production phase clinched the deal. The deal is said to include "the addition of more than 200 high-end Linux-based workstations, a 500-processor Linux renderfarm, 15 terabytes of storage and a high-speed Ethernet-based infrastructure"

This article was submitted 2002-01-31 04:01:21 Shrek Linux (articles,news)
UPDATE:Article was rejected...

BSD

Journal Journal: My Library Runs NetBSD!

My local library seems to be running NetBSD on some thin-client PCs, complete with 15in LCD screens. Following are the results from a javascript browser sniff:

Navigator Object Data
navigator.appCodeName: Mozilla
navigator.appName: Netscape
navigator.appVersion: 4.5C-NAV [en] (X11; I; NetBSD 1.3I-NCOS i386)
navigator.userAgent: Mozilla/4.5C-NAV [en] (X11; I; NetBSD1.3I-NCOS i386)
navigator.platform: NetBSDi386
navigator.javaEnabled(): false

Version Number
parseInt(navigator.appVersion) - major:4
parseFloat(navigator.appVersion) - minor:4.5

Browser Version
nav:true
nav2:false
nav3:false
nav4:true
nav4up:true
nav5:false
nav5up:false
nav6:false
nav6up:false
ie:false
ie3:false
ie4:false
ie4up:false
ie5:false
ie5up:false
ie6:false
ie6up:false

aol:false
aol3:false
aol4:false
opera:false
webtv:false

JavaScript Version
js:1.3

OS win:false
os2:false
mac:false
unix:true
sun:false
irix:false
hpux:false
aix:false
linux:false
sco:false
unixware:false
mpras:false
reliant:false
dec:false
sinix:false
bsd:true
freebsd:false
vms:false

Object Detection Tests
document.all: false
document.anchors: true
document.cookie: true
document.forms: true
document.getElementById: false
document.getElementsByTagName: false
document.documentElement: false
document.images: true
document.layers: true - NS6 gives false here*
document.links: true

window.frames: true
window.length: 0

Method Detection Tests window.RegExp: true
window.Option: true

Screen Properties
window.screen: true
screen.height: 600
screen.width: 800
screen.availHeight: 600
screen.availWidth: 800
screen.colorDepth: 0

Document Properties
document.URL: http://www.webreference.com/tools/browser/javascript.html

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