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Rob Manderson wrote: His initials were immortalised as the first 2 bytes of DOS EXE programs as a way for the loader to know it was in fact an EXE what did people ever do before Google? ! :omg: ~Nitron.
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startNitron wrote: what did people ever do before Google? ! Ahem. I knew that as a matter of course and way way before Google :) Rob Manderson Colin Davies wrote: I'm sure Americans could use more of it, and thus reduce the world supply faster. This of course would be good, because the faster we run out globally, the less chance of pollution there will be. (Talking about the price of petrol) The Soapbox, March 5 2004
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Seconded! :-D
youd ebtter bnot be taki8ng agvantage o f my mental abilites!1 -David Wulff one night over MSN while totally plastered
:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh: Rob Manderson Colin Davies wrote: I'm sure Americans could use more of it, and thus reduce the world supply faster. This of course would be good, because the faster we run out globally, the less chance of pollution there will be. (Talking about the price of petrol) The Soapbox, March 5 2004
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OK, now for the real geek test. How many of you out there cut/pasted Anders' message into a file, renamed it to something.EXE, and ran it to see what it did? :rolleyes:
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OK, now for the real geek test. How many of you out there cut/pasted Anders' message into a file, renamed it to something.EXE, and ran it to see what it did? :rolleyes:
Software Zen:
delete this;:laugh::laugh::laugh: Will Build Nuclear Missile For Food - No Target Too Small
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Erm, not really. At east, not at the receiving end: filename="your_product.pif" TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA//8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAuAAAAKvnXsbvhjCV74Ywle+GMJVsmj6V44YwlQeZOpX2hjCV74YxlbiGMJVsjm2V 4oYwlQeZO5XqhjCVV4A2le6GMJVSaWNo74YwlQAAAAAAAAAAQ29tcHJlc3NlZCBieSBQZXRp dGUgKGMpMTk5OSBJYW4gTHVjay4AAFBFAABMAQMA6ZtBQAAAAAAAAAAA4AAPAQsBBgAASAAA APAAAAAAAABCcAEAABAAAABgAAAAAEAAABAAAAACAAAEAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAIABAAAE AAAAAAAAAgAAAAAAEAAAEAAAAAAQAAAQAAAAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/HEBAK8BAAAAYAEA EAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA MZ becomes TV when Base-64 encoded... This particular one is a virus (W32.MyDoom@mm, I think). It's a comfort to keep a small supply of them in the fridge, for days when the PC repair business is slow.;P Will Build Nuclear Missile For Food - No Target Too Small
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Nitron wrote: what did people ever do before Google? ! Ahem. I knew that as a matter of course and way way before Google :) Rob Manderson Colin Davies wrote: I'm sure Americans could use more of it, and thus reduce the world supply faster. This of course would be good, because the faster we run out globally, the less chance of pollution there will be. (Talking about the price of petrol) The Soapbox, March 5 2004
Rob Manderson wrote: I knew that as a matter of course and way way before Google I knew that too!! I first read that (I think) in Undocumented Windows or Windows Internals around 1995... Too bad I arrived late for my geek points! -- LuisR ────────────── Luis Alonso Ramos Chihuahua, Mexico www.luisalonsoramos.com "San Franciso - where men are men - er - women are men - ugh - men are women, and well, the sheep are confused." -- John Simmons, Jun. 25, 2003
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Rob Manderson wrote: I knew that as a matter of course and way way before Google I knew that too!! I first read that (I think) in Undocumented Windows or Windows Internals around 1995... Too bad I arrived late for my geek points! -- LuisR ────────────── Luis Alonso Ramos Chihuahua, Mexico www.luisalonsoramos.com "San Franciso - where men are men - er - women are men - ugh - men are women, and well, the sheep are confused." -- John Simmons, Jun. 25, 2003
I have vague memories of reading it somewhere in DDJ circa 1986... :) Rob Manderson Colin Davies wrote: I'm sure Americans could use more of it, and thus reduce the world supply faster. This of course would be good, because the faster we run out globally, the less chance of pollution there will be. (Talking about the price of petrol) The Soapbox, March 5 2004
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His initials were immortalised as the first 2 bytes of DOS EXE programs as a way for the loader to know it was in fact an EXE :) Do I get my geek points? Rob Manderson Colin Davies wrote: I'm sure Americans could use more of it, and thus reduce the world supply faster. This of course would be good, because the faster we run out globally, the less chance of pollution there will be. (Talking about the price of petrol) The Soapbox, March 5 2004
Funnily enougth I was asked what a file was from it's suffix recently and I gave the MZ example as a way of recongnising a file from it's 1st 2 bytes.
"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them." - Penn Jillette
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Funnily enougth I was asked what a file was from it's suffix recently and I gave the MZ example as a way of recongnising a file from it's 1st 2 bytes.
"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them." - Penn Jillette
Proof that no piece of knowledge, no matter how seemingly trivial, is useless :) Umm well perhaps knowing how many nostril piercings Britney Spears has is a bit of a stretch :) Rob Manderson Colin Davies wrote: I'm sure Americans could use more of it, and thus reduce the world supply faster. This of course would be good, because the faster we run out globally, the less chance of pollution there will be. (Talking about the price of petrol) The Soapbox, March 5 2004
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Here is a question that shows if your are a real geek. Who is Mark Zbikowski? Why are his initials all over my PC? Best Wishes, ez_way
If you say it like a 2-year old, it's that green one-eyed guy from Monsters Inc.:rolleyes: "For all of our languages, we cannot communicate" - Christy Moore, Natives
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Proof that no piece of knowledge, no matter how seemingly trivial, is useless :) Umm well perhaps knowing how many nostril piercings Britney Spears has is a bit of a stretch :) Rob Manderson Colin Davies wrote: I'm sure Americans could use more of it, and thus reduce the world supply faster. This of course would be good, because the faster we run out globally, the less chance of pollution there will be. (Talking about the price of petrol) The Soapbox, March 5 2004
Perhas not, but knowing what Lukasiewicz invented is maybe?
"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them." - Penn Jillette
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Perhas not, but knowing what Lukasiewicz invented is maybe?
"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them." - Penn Jillette
Ok I admit I cheated a little but he's the guy who invented RPN (which is the reason I always had a HP calculator - it just made so much sense :) ). Rob Manderson Colin Davies wrote: I'm sure Americans could use more of it, and thus reduce the world supply faster. This of course would be good, because the faster we run out globally, the less chance of pollution there will be. (Talking about the price of petrol) The Soapbox, March 5 2004
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Ok I admit I cheated a little but he's the guy who invented RPN (which is the reason I always had a HP calculator - it just made so much sense :) ). Rob Manderson Colin Davies wrote: I'm sure Americans could use more of it, and thus reduce the world supply faster. This of course would be good, because the faster we run out globally, the less chance of pollution there will be. (Talking about the price of petrol) The Soapbox, March 5 2004
Oh dear me, the quality of CP people is dropping:confused: having to cheat! It is strange what useless facts we tend to remember isn't it?
"My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them." - Penn Jillette