Re: Worst Error Messages of all Time

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From: br... Brian Cooper
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 17:03

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In article <15...@yunexus.YorkU.CA> shi...@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Paul Shields) writes:
>s...@cs.nps.navy.mil (Steve Lamont) writes:
>
>>In article <1990Sep27....@specialix.co.uk> jo...@specialix.co.uk (Jon Brawn) writes:
>>A core file has the magic number of 0xdeadadb0.  How many other of the
>>hexajokes are there?
>
>Invent your own!
>
>   grep -v '[g-np-zG-NP-Z]' /usr/dict/words
>
>and away we go...
>
I use upper case hex, which lets me get away with using '5' for 'S' and 
'1' for 'I' -- this allows a few more like 'BADC0DE5', 'BAD1DEA5', 'ACCE55ED',
'BA51C0AF', and more ...

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From: br...@Eyring.COM (Brian Cooper)
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Subject: Re: Worst Error Messages of all Time
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Date: 4 Oct 90 17:03:28 GMT
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