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Posted: 25 Sep 2007, 23:56
by 6FeetOver
I dig it, true - but it's mainly because it's all Greek to me, y'know? I wish I
got it, instead...
Posted: 25 Sep 2007, 23:57
by smiscandlon
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.
Posted: 25 Sep 2007, 23:58
by 6FeetOver
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 00:40
by Petseri
James Blast wrote:WTF!
That is all you have to say? Sheesh, I figured that you would be trying to make up the distance.
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 00:41
by Petseri
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.
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 04:58
by CellThree
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
You're making my head hurt...
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 09:11
by Quiff Boy
wierd
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.
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 09:15
by James Blast
Phew!
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 09:20
by mh
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...
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 10:23
by markfiend
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?
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 11:19
by Izzy HaveMercy
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?
He takes off into cyberspace and returns a couple of jiffies later as an annoying 8-bit cluster.
IZ.
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 13:55
by Petseri
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
.
Is that a good thing or not?
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 17:27
by emilystrange
oh lord... *scuttles out of thread*
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 18:09
by BillyBadBreaks
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?
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!
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 18:17
by smiscandlon
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?
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!
I only feel safe laughing at that because I know his bark is worse than his byte.
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 18:29
by 6FeetOver
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 18:38
by smiscandlon
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?
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 18:39
by Izzy HaveMercy
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?
HL is slow at the moment... and just had a Critical wan.
IZ.
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 18:41
by 6FeetOver
Aye, ditto.
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 18:42
by James Blast
see above
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 19:05
by Petseri
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.
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 19:25
by James Blast
post spammer, not me, never me
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 22:45
by nowayjose
Carpathian Psychonaut wrote:SINsister wrote: 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.
Posted: 26 Sep 2007, 23:04
by James Blast
that's just what I was thinking...
Posted: 27 Sep 2007, 06:50
by Izzy HaveMercy
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"
IZ.
