Posted by AMUN on 10/31/07 03:43

"sobriquet" <dohduhdah@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> 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).
>

Darn. Not typical enough.
How come it never comes up as my account balance when I bank online ?

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