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And stabbing. You forgot the stabbing.Ahráyeph wrote:Uh oh. Hell is going to break loose any second. The sky will fall and the earth shall tremble and there will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth...
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It appears to be a he-she monster beast thing called Protcromsoabs with about 17 million posts.
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Hmmmmm, 16777215 is 0xFFFFFF - I'm guessing we had a buffer filled up and dumped somewhere in passing?
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@ Carpathian Psycho-GeekCarpathian Psychonaut wrote:Hmmmmm, 16777215 is 0xFFFFFF - I'm guessing we had a buffer filled up and dumped somewhere in passing?
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Sadly, I looked at the number of posts and thought "I recognise that from somewhere". How deeply geek (but still quite interesting;D)smiscandlon wrote:@ Carpathian Psycho-GeekCarpathian Psychonaut wrote:Hmmmmm, 16777215 is 0xFFFFFF - I'm guessing we had a buffer filled up and dumped somewhere in passing?
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There are some numbers, from coding or rendering, that you just recognise - 255, 65536 and this one is another. Sometimes it's a filled 8 bit or 16 bit binary word, or maybe a buffer size in a certain language. I'd no idea what 16777215 was but knew it was something I'd used or seen before. I just converted it back to hex and realised why it was a known number....256 x 256 x 256 - 1SINsister wrote: Do tell, Carps! This is interesting!
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Some bot randomly stuffing buffers to possibly cause software malfunctions?
The CIA? KGB?
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Or just a "Hey look, I the best spammer in the world"-shte.
The CIA? KGB?
GeSTaPo?
The Bronco 49ers?
Or just a "Hey look, I the best spammer in the world"-shte.
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Holy crap.Carpathian Psychonaut wrote:There are some numbers, from coding or rendering, that you just recognise - 255, 65536 and this one is another. Sometimes it's a filled 8 bit or 16 bit binary word, or maybe a buffer size in a certain language. I'd no idea what 16777215 was but knew it was something I'd used or seen before. I just converted it back to hex and realised why it was a known number....256 x 256 x 256 - 1SINsister wrote: Do tell, Carps! This is interesting!
Maybe a word with the Quifflet about this?
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Flippin' Buffer Inflation?Zuma wrote:FBI surely?
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I know you dig this sort of stuff, SINnie, so I'll add that the -1 was because without it you'd trip over into needing an extra byte (0x1000000). The max in a three byte word is 16777215 but there are 16777216 combinations if you include 0SINsister wrote:Holy crap.Carpathian Psychonaut wrote:There are some numbers, from coding or rendering, that you just recognise - 255, 65536 and this one is another. Sometimes it's a filled 8 bit or 16 bit binary word, or maybe a buffer size in a certain language. I'd no idea what 16777215 was but knew it was something I'd used or seen before. I just converted it back to hex and realised why it was a known number....256 x 256 x 256 - 1SINsister wrote: Do tell, Carps! This is interesting!
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