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I'm glad you put 'sense of humour' in quotes, since this is more school boy snickers than humour. I investigated a bit to determine what the hex code was actually used for. Slashdot says it's a magic constant passed from the kernel to MS HyperV virtualization environment. It's a magic constant in the sense that it represents the identity of the Linux kernel which it is interfacing with.

Anyway, this whole thing has been blown way out of proportion. These sort of things are frequently buried in code. The only reason somebody noticed this one is it's use as part of a data passing protocol. BFD! The Linux folks were just miffed that they were assigned a puerile ID by MS.

I did find an amusing comment on reddit while trying to figure out what the hex code was used for:
"Why are big boobs sexist? I'm willing to bet that a sizable (sic) percentage of the males working on the kernel have them."
 
bcworkz said:
I did find an amusing comment on reddit while trying to figure out what the hex code was used for:
"Why are big boobs sexist? I'm willing to bet that a sizable (sic) percentage of the males working on the kernel have them."
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:rofl:

And yeah... the inverted commas were there for a reason!! :thumbsup:
 
You'd think they'd have more important things to worry about, after recording their first ever loss...

In other related news, The Z80 mnemonic in assembly language for C5 is Push_BC. Lots of people speculated over that's why Clive called his little buggy the C5 :)
 
Is that the whoflungdung chip, or the gigglyvalve? I would have interfaced with dyhydraVDU or hidden it under the squiggly port :?


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Stuart Truman said:
markeg said:
Number of times I've seen "fubar" within code :roll: ........ must be a slow news day
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The number of times I've had a development manager use that word when doing a status report!
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Mine are all "snafu" now........ :wink:
 
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