Everything here applies to this as well. Thanks, VMware. In Microsoft's case it turned out that nothing was using that value and it could be replaced without breaking things. With luck that's true here as well.
I'm so tired of this political correctness. F/OSS used to be fun. Where did all the fun go? Oh yes, we buried ourselves in crap and forgot why we started doing F/OSS in the first place.
Choosing this kind of hex constant tends to mark one as not having grown out of being the kind of horrible little boy who giggles at the result of multiplying 13844502 by four and turning the calculator upside down. (I speak here as someone who was that kind of horrible little boy when I was 14.)
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I'm so tired
Date: 2012-11-13 02:50 pm (UTC)Oh yes, we buried ourselves in crap and forgot why we started doing F/OSS in the first place.
Re: I'm so tired
Date: 2012-11-13 05:51 pm (UTC)Re: I'm so tired
Date: 2012-11-15 08:32 pm (UTC)Re: I'm so tired
Date: 2012-11-15 08:39 pm (UTC)It's obvious they did not seek to hurt anyone.