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Posted by sobriquet on 10/31/07 03:03
On 18 okt, 22:17, "AMUN" <spambloc...@bell.net> wrote:
> I've got to ask if anyone else is encountering this.
>
> At random times when starting an upload manually, no matter what size the
> file is it immediately jumps to Complete with this same size listed.
> e.g.
> 4,294,967,295 of 2.034 Complete or
> 4,294,967,295 of 365,450,034 Complete or
> 4,294,967,295 of 725.254.305 Complete Etc.
>
> This has actually been happening for months now, but never seems to affect
> other files/transfers, and often the same user will reque and the same file
> starts fine.
> So I just ignore it, along with the 0 share mow-rons who keep messaging me
> to start their downloads
>
> I have reloaded Winmx and even redownloaded it, and the same error keeps
> popping up, just randomly.
>
> What really bugs me is why always that same errant file size of
> 4,294,967,295
> ?????????
>
> Are the Winmx god's somehow trying to tell me something, Aliens ?, are the
> winning lottery numbers encoded in that magic number.
> Should I write a movie script and sell it to Hollywood about that number
> ????
It happens to me as well in winmx.
It's not a mysterious number... it's (2^32)-1, so a typical number you
see for computers, because it's the number of possibilities for 4
bytes (1 byte being 8 bits).
Just like you always hear people talking about 16 million colors (3
bytes = 2^24 = 16777216).
Other typical numbers that tend to pop up in the context of computers
are 2^16=65536 and 2^8=256 (like ascii codes <Alt>+0..255).
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