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Simpler "Hello World" Demonstrated In C 582

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @10:03PM from the non-obfuscated dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wondering where all that bloat comes from, causing even the classic 'Hello world' to weigh in at 11 KB? An MIT programmer decided to make a Linux C program so simple, she could explain every byte of the assembly. She found that gcc was including libc even when you don't ask for it. The blog shows how to compile a much simpler 'Hello world,' using no libraries at all. This takes me back to the days of programming bare-metal on DOS!"

Throttle Shared Users With OS X — Is It Possible? 403

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 04, 2010 @05:11PM from the throttle-the-snot-instead dept.

whisper_jeff writes "I work in a design studio where the production director is also the owner's son (translation = he can do no wrong). He is fond of accessing a designer's computer via filesharing and working directly on files off of the designer's computers rather than transferring the files to his computer to work on them there. In so doing, he causes the designer's computer to grind to a near-halt as the harddrive is now tasked with his open/save requests along with whatever the designer is doing. Given that there is no way he's going to change his ways (since he doesn't see anything wrong with it...), I was wondering if there was a way to throttle a user's shared access to a computer (Mac OSX 10.5.8) so that his remote working would have minimal impact on our work. Google searches have revealed nothing helpful (maybe I should Bing it... :) so I was hoping someone with more technical expertise on Slashdot could offer a suggestion."

Comment 2.9 Million spots? (Score 1) 555

by Spintronic on Tuesday June 20, 2006 @12:43PM (#15570244) Attached to: Chinese Students' Cheating Techniques - Don't Try at Home

The article states there were only 2.9 million vacancies for a country of 1.3 billion people. That's crazy! This is after 10 minutes of googling: In the US it's estimated that there are over 15 million people in US schools (National Center for Education Studies - http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/2005063.pdf -pdf, see page 27). If 1/4 of those are freshmen spots that would be about 3.75 million or so spots a year - for a country of almost 300 million. You can do the rest of the math, but maybe the answer is yes - maybe they should build one or two more universities.

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