Fun_People Archive
30 May
Hook. Line. Sinker.

Date: Tue, 30 May 95 12:36:28 PDT
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: Hook.  Line.  Sinker.

Forwarded-by: bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris)

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From: insom@math.ucr.edu (Chris Ulrich)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Hidden messages in executables

In article <1995May27.193202.11289@mixcom.com>,
Steven Mading  <Steven.Mading@mixcom.com> wrote:
>>On Fri, 26 May 1995, Bruce James Robert Linley wrote:
>>
>>> So, has anyone discovered any other interesting or unusual messages
>>> buried in executables?
>
> While not strictly an executable, whenever I run somthing
> through the debugger on an RS6000, and I dump the contents
> of the the registers, I notice that the unitialized registers
> all contain the binary value '11011110101011011011111011101111',
> which in hexidecimal is 'deadbeef'.

I was recently looking through this strange file called /dev/mem on my
computer.  It is pretty big, but I don't remember putting it on my system.
The people who wrote linux must have the same sense of humor as me,
because any strange string I look for with that grep program is in this
file.  Frustratingly, my computer crashes whenever I try to edit the file.

Chris

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[So my question is: how long until the "folk process" turns the sender's domain
on this message into AOL.COM?  BTW, if "/dev/mem" means nothing to you then you
probably missed half the jokes in this ... sorry.  I can explain... -psl]
Fun_People Archive 30 MayHook. Line. Sinker.

Fun_People Archive
30 May
Hook. Line. Sinker.
