Nothing In Particular

[Ali Tait]

Not good Steve, hopefully covered under warranty?

Need to get mine booked in for a gearbox service.

[steve s]

To right Ali, it's out of warranty unfortunately but it's a comon fault on her model, so hoping for bmw to admit a portion of responsibility

[Ali Tait]

Hopefully Steve. Which model is it?

[steve s]

It's a 2 series she bought after her hip replacement op
She could get in and out of it easily
Looking at the net it's a common fault on that model and they have replaced a quite a few foc, so fingers crossed.

[simon]

Nightmare Steve. Glad you got away okay Steve.

[steve s]

Nightmare Steve. Glad you got away okay Steve.

That was the important thing catching the flight simon, just starting to feel relaxed now.. May post a pic of my new bike later..

[simon]

Ah yes, good to see you're over the worst

[brig001]

Realised today that despite IP and MAC addresses both being octets, IPs are (nearly) always decimal and MACs are always hex. I have no idea why - probably to do with non-techies not being familiar with hex and they are more likely to be concerned with IPs than MACs

Brian

[Nick]

Also you can generated a hex IP address that looks like a four part DNS name. De.ad.be.ef

[pre65]

Basildon social services have funded 4 weeks recovery for Mum in a care home at Laindon, quite close to Mike H's old stamping ground.

They think the move will be tomorrow. (Tuesday).

[jack]

Also you can generated a hex IP address that looks like a four part DNS name. De.ad.be.ef

Ah! 0xDEADBEEF - the absolute favourite for poisoning stacks and pool memory... used it loads of times... an alternative to 0xBADCAFE.

Here's an example I wrote about 10 years ago for stack checking on MSP430s... as it's only a 16-bit machine, I only used the 0xBEEF part...

https://e2e.ti.com/support/tools/code-c ... tack-usage

[brig001]

I always used 0xAA55 mainly because it’s a nice binary pattern, but I suppose anything recognisable would do. No idea if that is more or less likely to appear than any other pattern though - I guess it depends on context

Nice bit of code and bookmarked - thanks

Brian

[Mike H]

Basildon social services have funded 4 weeks recovery for Mum in a care home at Laindon, quite close to Mike H's old stamping ground.

They think the move will be tomorrow. (Tuesday).

Trying to think where there's a care home in Laindon. Did a Google ..... there's several! Have you got a name for it?

[pre65]

Woodbury Court, Tavistock Road.

Seems they now can't move her till tomorrow.

[Mike H]

Woodbury Court, Tavistock Road.

Seems they now can't move her till tomorrow.

Ah right yes. Don't know it that well tho, and the area more so when I was a kid. Bet it's changed tho.

So it's the 4 weeks is it, and then?