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  • abbreviation system

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  • I was meant to say the min sys req is 4.2 or higher not 2.4, as mentioned in my last post.

    Review: BlackBerry App World. Verdict: Good Enough. 2009

  • On the Xbox 360, the game’s main sys­tem, the graph­ics daz­zle and the cars evoke a real­is­tic sense ofspeed.

    Test Drive Unlimited « Snarkmarket 2006

  • WinUSB includes the WinUSB kernel-mode driver winusb. sys, which is an integral part of WDF user-mode driver framework (UMDF) support for USB drivers, and the WinUSB user-mode dynamic link library Winusb. dll.

    MSDN Blogs 2009

  • An integer-wrapping vulnerability exists in the font parsing subsystem within win32k. sys, which is responsible for constructing a table of directory entries.

    TechNet Blogs 2009

  • - there's even a nice packet waiting for us, called sys-auth / pam_usb.

    StarBlog 2008

  • Now, I want analyses of land-prawns made, and I want to know just what Miss Tresca found in them; whether it was really hokfusine, or anything similar to it, or just trace-presences of titanium, and I want to know how it gets into the land-prawns 'sys'tems and where it concentrates there.

    The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

  • But one kind of sys admin delights in actually taking a look at data all over the network, looking for juicy tidbits to start rumors.

    TechRepublic Blogs 2010

  • · Open "C: \windows\system32\drivers" (or some other folder with real ". sys" files) first, before navigating to "C: \"

    TechNet Blogs 2010

  • The Greek word derived from a particle sys, meaning "together" - an element that shows up in other words such as synergy ( "working together") or symphony ( "sounds together").

    Christian Science Monitor | All Stories 2010

  • Our clients realize they need more than solutions that only address the techni - cal standards - they look to our team for practical knowledge in areas such as sys - tems architecture and data capture that are essential to successful IFRS implemen - tation.

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  • computer jargon for system

    April 27, 2009

  • I've never heard this used as a standalone. It is almost always used for something like sysadmin.

    April 28, 2009