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Does exactly what it says on the tin. Some of the nonsense contained herein may be very loosely related to The Sisters of Mercy, but I wouldn't bet your PayPal account on it. In keeping with the internet's general theme nothing written here should be taken as Gospel: over three quarters of it is utter gibberish, and most of the forum's denizens haven't spoken to another human being face-to-face for decades. Don't worry your pretty little heads about it. Above all else, remember this: You don't have to stay forever. I will understand.
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I dig it, true - but it's mainly because it's all Greek to me, y'know? I wish I got it, instead... :|
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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... :|
I fixed your spelling mistake.
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:lol: :P

Well, that, too. Still, the sentiment remains the same... *Sigh* :|
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James Blast wrote:WTF!
That is all you have to say? Sheesh, I figured that you would be trying to make up the distance. :innocent:
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smiscandlon wrote:
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... :|
I fixed your spelling mistake.
I swear that you have posted the exact same reply as I was going to write on dozens of occasions. :lol:
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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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wierd :o

i wonder if thats a known vulnerability :o

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 :lol: :notworthy:

that is very odd though.
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Phew! :lol:
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Carpathian Psychonaut wrote:Hmmmmm, 16777215 is 0xFFFFFF - I'm guessing we had a buffer filled up and dumped somewhere in passing?
Nothing like a good dump... ;D
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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? ;D
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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? ;D
He takes off into cyberspace and returns a couple of jiffies later as an annoying 8-bit cluster.

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Quiff Boy wrote:on the plus side i've deleted the dubious account, refreshed all post counts and regenerated the stats - all all is back to normal :lol: :notworthy:.
Is that a good thing or not? ;D
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oh lord... *scuttles out of thread*
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Izzy HaveMercy wrote:
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? ;D
He takes off into cyberspace and returns a couple of jiffies later as an annoying 8-bit cluster.

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BillyBadBreaks wrote:
Izzy HaveMercy wrote:
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? ;D
He takes off into cyberspace and returns a couple of jiffies later as an annoying 8-bit cluster.

IZ.
He is an annoying 8-bit cluster NOW! :wink:
:lol:

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?

:oops: :lol:
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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?

:oops: :lol:
HL is slow at the moment... and just had a Critical wan.

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Aye, ditto. :|
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It has been slow for me as well. Yesterday it kept freezing on me, from two different places where I logged on. Did anyone else have that problem? I blame the high post spammer and James.
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post spammer, not me, never me :innocent: :lol:
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Carpathian Psychonaut wrote:
SINsister wrote::eek: Do tell, Carps! This is interesting!
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 - 1
This smells like a database error (MySQL?)

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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James Blast wrote:that's just what I was thinking...
Same here.

First thing I thought was "this is a medium size integer if I ever saw one" :lol:


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