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Our fine man Herr Blast is currently not listed as the high poster.

How in heck did that happen?!

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...

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...

And stabbing. You forgot the stabbing.

A glaswegian keyboard will melt..

So who's currently listed as the most-prolific poster now, then?

Some blimin' Spambottom

It appears to be a he-she monster beast thing called Protcromsoabs with about 17 million posts.

What's happened there Guv'nor!?

Yeah, now I see...I think we've all just entered the Twilight Zone.

0% of the total posts on HL... aye right ye are!

Total posts: 16777215
[100.00% of total / 16777215.00 posts per day]

That'll be hard to beat !

Hmmmmm, 16777215 is 0xFFFFFF - I'm guessing we had a buffer filled up and dumped somewhere in passing?

Carpathian Psychonaut wrote:Hmmmmm, 16777215 is 0xFFFFFF - I'm guessing we had a buffer filled up and dumped somewhere in passing?

@ Carpathian Psycho-Geek

smiscandlon wrote:

Carpathian Psychonaut wrote:Hmmmmm, 16777215 is 0xFFFFFF - I'm guessing we had a buffer filled up and dumped somewhere in passing?

@ Carpathian Psycho-Geek

Sadly, I looked at the number of posts and thought "I recognise that from somewhere". How deeply geek (but still quite interesting;D)

Do tell, Carps! This is interesting!

I'm lost already...

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

Some bot randomly stuffing buffers to possibly cause software malfunctions?

The CIA? KGB?
GeSTaPo?
The Bronco 49ers?

Or just a "Hey look, I the best spammer in the world"-shte.

FBI surely?

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

Holy crap.

Maybe a word with the Quifflet about this?

Zuma wrote:FBI surely?

Flippin' Buffer Inflation?

Carpathian Psychonaut wrote:

Zuma wrote:FBI surely?

Flippin' Buffer Inflation?

Is that something to do with pinball?

SINsister wrote:

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

Holy crap.

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