Testing VDS. Act II.

Exactly a week ago, we announced the launch of testing our new service - VDS ! We are pleased to note that testing is in full swing, the service is “combing” and is gaining new interesting opportunities. Many asked us when it would be possible to choose the OS of our choice.

So, we present to your attention

New distributions

Now our “testers” are able to install not only CentOS on their VDS. The list was supplemented with the following distributions:

- Debian 4.0 Etch
- Ubuntu Server 8.10

New “testers” when placing an order will be able to choose the operating systems they need. We plan to further expand this list. On the way Fedora, OpenSUSE and Gentoo.

Jabber conference

In addition, we opened the Jabber conference dedicated to VDS!

Anyone can join our conference using the Jabber client. Conference participants can share their thoughts, “discoveries” with each other, consult on a particular occasion regarding testing a new service, and much more. Jabber-conference gives its participants the opportunity to communicate "live" and send instant messages, as in a regular chat. To connect to the conference, you can use our instructions .

In the near future we plan to introduce a number of innovations that will make our VDS service as convenient as possible. I also want to thank our testers and thank them very much for their suggestions and recommendations sent to the email address vds@sweb.ru. We appreciate you!

For those wishing to receive an invite

Demand for invites to test VDS exceeds supply. (This, of course, is very pleasant, we will not hide :) Therefore, in fairness, we decided to give everyone an opportunity to receive an invitation to test using our own mind and ingenuity.

The following are two tasks. Each of them is evaluated in one invite. The winner will be the author of the first correct answer.

1) Decipher what is written here:

% d1% 85% d0% be% d1% 87% d1% 83% 20% d0% b8% d0% bd% d0% b2% d0% b0% d0% b9% d1% 82% 20% d0% b4% d0 % bb% d1% 8f% 20% d0% b2% d0% b4% d1% 81

2) Write the result of the following code:

.globl main
.type main, @function
a: .string "% .5f"
main:
        leal 4 (% esp),% ecx
        andl $ -16,% esp
        pushl -4 (% ecx)
        movl $ -1074790400,% edx
        xorl% eax,% eax
        pushl% ebp
        movl% esp,% ebp
        pushl% ecx
        xorl% ecx,% ecx
        subl $ 20,% esp
        movl% ecx, 8 (% esp)
        movl% edx, 12 (% esp)
        movl% eax, 4 (% esp)
        movl $ 0, (% esp)
        call atan2
        movl $ a, (% esp)
        fstpl 4 (% esp)
        call printf
        addl $ 20,% esp
        popl% ecx
        popl% ebp
        leal -4 (% ecx),% esp
        ret

Send your answers marked "Response to the task" to the address vds-invite@sweb.ru.

Good luck!