[Off Topic] Re: Linux security

[Matthew Kuiken]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 04 May 2006 20:04, Adriano Varoli Piazza wrote:
>   
>> On 5/4/06, Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
>>     
>>> --
>>> If only you and dead people understand hex,
>>> how many people understand hex?
>>>       
>> 0xdeae people, obviously.
>>     
>
> congratulations! you win the first prize of deaf bytes worth of 
> connectivity, delivered to your desktop from any host of your choice!
>
> I've had that sig for a month now and you are the first one to 
> respond. Maybe the joke is beyond most people. Nah, can't be. Maybe 
> it's just an old joke:-)
>   
It's just obscure enough to be very difficult.  Once I saw the answer, 
it still took a while to understand the joke, and to realize that the 
second 'e' was not a typo.  I've even been trying to figure it out since 
I first noticed it in your sig a couple of weeks ago...  Maybe I'm just 
slow.  I'm even an embedded/VHDL programmer, so I'm used to using 
deadbeef as a testing tool.

Now that I understand the joke, I'm going to have to use it on the guys 
from work.  It should be fun!

Thanks,
-Matt