[Tripredacus]

Lool

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Microsoft has ‘fessed up to inserting the hexadecimal string “0xB16B00B5” in the Linux kernel.

Redmond has hung its head in shame because, once you remove the initial zero and x, then squint at the remainder in just the right way, the result is the term “BIG BOOBS”. The offending string is no mere frippery: it is apparently pressed into service whenever Hyper-V virtualises Linux.

http://www.theregist...boobs_in_linux/

[jaclaz]

Tripredacus, on 20 July 2012 - 10:53 AM, said:

Lool

Sure , the issue was proabably that the original :

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0x6E00690063006500200072006F0075006E006400200062007200650061007300740073002000790075006D006D007900

was a bit too long.

Both the guys making a fuss about this and those apologizing for it must be 13 or younger.

It's a few years that the "magic Bytes" in any MBR or PBR are 55AA, which for these reasons:
http://thestarman.pc.../mbr/AA55H.html
are actually 0xAA55

So everyone has on *any* device a string containing an offending word (if read along pseudo l33t grammar rules).

What gives?


jaclaz

This post has been edited by jaclaz: 20 July 2012 - 11:41 AM

[CoffeeFiend]

jaclaz, on 20 July 2012 - 11:32 AM, said:

It's a few years that the "magic Bytes" in any MBR or PBR are 55AA

It's been used in several other places too, like ROM signatures (that's how you'd detect them back in the DOS days, along with the CRC check) and it's also one of the common patterns to test RAM with (because of the alternating 1's and 0's)

[jaclaz]

CoffeeFiend, on 20 July 2012 - 11:52 AM, said:

It's been used in several other places too, like ROM signatures (that's how you'd detect them back in the DOS days, along with the CRC check) and it's also one of the common patterns to test RAM with (because of the alternating 1's and 0's)

Yep , and is also quite good for clogged cables .
References :
http://www.911cd.net...pic=21827&st=23
http://www.msfn.org/...f-usb-transfer/

jaclaz

[Tripredacus]

I wonder how many people are offended that when the OS crashes, it takes a dump in the Windows folder?

[jaclaz]

Tripredacus, on 20 July 2012 - 02:52 PM, said:

I wonder how many people are offended that when the OS crashes, it takes a dump in the Windows folder?

Think about this.
The Windows desktop is ("is" is to be intended until the Metro crap will take ownership of everything including our souls ) as a metaphor of your office.
So you have the desk(top), your File Cabinet (you remember Windows 3.x ?) and - of course - what in plain English is called "wastepaper basket" or "wastepaper bin".
Have you ever said in your life the sentences like:

• I just received by mail, besides the usual invoices and bank reports, a strange looking envelope, as soon as I opened it and I realized that it was junk mail, I threw it in the wastepaper bin.
  
• I just received by mail, besides the usual invoices and bank reports, a strange looking envelope, as soon as I opened it and I realized that it was junk mail, I threw it in the wastepaper basket.
  
• I just received by mail, besides the usual invoices and bank reports, a strange looking envelope, as soon as I opened it and I realized that it was junk mail, I threw it in the bin.

?

I would bet that you have, though I would also bet that you NEVER said in your life the sentence:

• I just received by mail, besides the usual invoices and bank reports, a strange looking envelope, as soon as opened it and I realized that it was junk mail, I threw it in the recycle bin.

You have to admit that you are essentially politically incorrect and anti-ecologist! and a numebr of people may take offence by your poor usage of the "appropriate" term when you throw your waste paper in the waste paper bin (instead of throwing your "to be recycled paper" to the "recycle bin" )

jaclaz

[GrofLuigi]

jaclaz, on 20 July 2012 - 03:22 PM, said:

recycle bin

I think trash was taken by GemOs and MacOs, wastebasket by MacOs, trashcan by AmigaOs, Shredder by OS/2 Warp, and Microsoft wanted to be hip...

OK, i found some more history...

GL