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So why CAFEBABE ? it is a random hex value looking like words or intentional to say that ? edit, found it : https://dzone.com/articles/the-magic-word-in-java-c
by on_and_off 6y ago
So why CAFEBABE ?
it is a random hex value looking like words or intentional to say that ?
edit, found it : https://dzone.com/articles/the-magic-word-in-java-cafebabe https://dzone.com/articles/the-magic-word-in-java-cafebabe
- mettamage 6y agoI never thought of CAFE as a hex word. I always knew about DEADBEEF and so on. Now I feel that there should be a website that lists all kinds of fun hex words. Like CAFEFACE
- Donckele 6y agoMagic Numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming) Hexspeak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak
- Symbiote 6y agoWe don't really need a website to do it: grep -i '^[0-9a-f]*$' /usr/share/dict/words
- raverbashing 6y agoI'd say you might want to grep for [0134567] instead (being charitable) and maybe use sed y command to find the l33t equivalences 0 - o 1 - I 3 - E (redundant) 4 - A (redundant) 5 - S 6 - G 7 - T
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- grishka 6y agoIIRC Facebook uses IPv6 addresses that have face:b00c in them
- duskwuff 6y agoApple uses a bunch of hexspeak for error codes in iOS, including 8BADFOOD ("ate bad food"), C00010FF ("cool off" - related to thermal events), and DEAD10CC ("deadlocc" - deadlock). There's also DEFEC8ED ("defecated"), which was used by OpenSolaris for core dumps.
- twic 6y agoCAFED00D was used as the magic number for the pack200 compressed class file format.