tell James or not?
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I fixed your spelling mistake.SINsister wrote:I dig it, true - but it's mainly because it's all Geek to me, y'know? I wish I got it, instead...
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I swear that you have posted the exact same reply as I was going to write on dozens of occasions.smiscandlon wrote:I fixed your spelling mistake.SINsister wrote:I dig it, true - but it's mainly because it's all Geek to me, y'know? I wish I got it, instead...
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You're making my head hurt...Carpathian Psychonaut wrote:
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 0
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i wonder if thats a known vulnerability
i'll check on the phpbb sites about it...
on the plus side i've deleted the dubious account, refreshed all post counts and regenerated the stats - all all is back to normal
that is very odd though.
i wonder if thats a known vulnerability
i'll check on the phpbb sites about it...
on the plus side i've deleted the dubious account, refreshed all post counts and regenerated the stats - all all is back to normal
that is very odd though.
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Phew!
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Nothing like a good dump...Carpathian Psychonaut wrote:Hmmmmm, 16777215 is 0xFFFFFF - I'm guessing we had a buffer filled up and dumped somewhere in passing?
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I'm worried that we only get a three-byte INT value for our postcount.
I mean, what happens when James makes his 16777216th post?
I mean, what happens when James makes his 16777216th post?
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He takes off into cyberspace and returns a couple of jiffies later as an annoying 8-bit cluster.markfiend wrote:I'm worried that we only get a three-byte INT value for our postcount.
I mean, what happens when James makes his 16777216th post?
IZ.
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oh lord... *scuttles out of thread*
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He is an annoying 8-bit cluster NOW!Izzy HaveMercy wrote:He takes off into cyberspace and returns a couple of jiffies later as an annoying 8-bit cluster.markfiend wrote:I'm worried that we only get a three-byte INT value for our postcount.
I mean, what happens when James makes his 16777216th post?
IZ.
You still think swastikas look cool
The real nazis run your schools
They're coaches, businessmen and cops
In a real fourth reich you'll be the first to go
The real nazis run your schools
They're coaches, businessmen and cops
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BillyBadBreaks wrote:He is an annoying 8-bit cluster NOW!Izzy HaveMercy wrote:He takes off into cyberspace and returns a couple of jiffies later as an annoying 8-bit cluster.markfiend wrote:I'm worried that we only get a three-byte INT value for our postcount.
I mean, what happens when James makes his 16777216th post?
IZ.
I only feel safe laughing at that because I know his bark is worse than his byte.
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My connection's running reaaallly slow right now. Is it possible to crack a joke so bad it actually degrades the performance of the entire internet?
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HL is slow at the moment... and just had a Critical wan.smiscandlon wrote:My connection's running reaaallly slow right now. Is it possible to crack a joke so bad it actually degrades the performance of the entire internet?
IZ.
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see above
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post spammer, not me, never me
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This smells like a database error (MySQL?)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!
From http://www.xnote.com/howto/mysql_field_types.html:
MEDIUMINT
A medium-size integer
The signed range is –8388608 to 8388607. The unsigned range is 0 to 16777215
Of course I could be totally wrong but a 3-byte sized integer is somewhat unusual otherwise.
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that's just what I was thinking...
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Same here.James Blast wrote:that's just what I was thinking...
First thing I thought was "this is a medium size integer if I ever saw one"
IZ.