RE: what is Hex?
- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:03:43 -0500
21, but yes he is, Thanks Chris
Take care,
Sina
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Marlon Brandão
de Sousa
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2008 12:12 PM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: what is Hex?
Are you serious about Sina being 22 years old only? Man I have seen people
who have studied computers for many more than this quantity of years and
don't seen to know a half of what Sina knows easily ...
Marlon
2008/2/15, Chris Hofstader <chris.hofstader@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> God Sina, you bring back memories of Z80 and needing to "poke"
> instructions and data into memory before execution. I would have
> thought you, who was born in 1986 would never had to get to that
> level. Personally, I think it's a really valuable exercise even if
> one never actually needs to use it in a "real" program just to get a
better understanding of what a processor "sees"
> and how base 16 numbers can be turned into both instructions and data
> depending upon how the processor looks at them.
>
> In the network edition of "Bank Street Writer" a word processing
> program written entirely in assembly, that was pretty popular in the
> years before you learned to talk, I added a function called,
> "DON'T_CALL_THIS." If you did call it the program would crash as the
> instructions looked random. If, however, you looked at the last
> handful of bytes of the program as ASCII, it read "FSMITHISAWORM."
> Frank Smith, a really great guy, was the client on the gig and we
> decided to immortalize him in an Easter Egg that only an ubergeek could
find.
>
> Now, just for shits and giggles, try to reconstruct the function in
> 80x86 assembly and receive the truly wasted chunk of time award.
>
> cdh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sina
> Bahram
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 9:28 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: what is Hex?
>
> *smile*, wlel actually, if you really want to get down to it ... it can
be.
>
> Assembler compiles down to executable instructions to the processor,
> which are most often and most easily read in hex.
>
> I used to know almost all of the 8086 instructions and some of their
> hex equivalents a while back. It's really useful when analysing
> exploit and virus code.
>
> Take care,
> Sina
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Hall
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 8:47 PM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: re: what is Hex?
>
> Right, but it almost sounds like some sort of programming language.
>
> Have a great day,
> Alex
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >From: Joseph Lee <joseph.lee22590@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Date sent: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:27:12 -0800
> >Subject: re: what is Hex?
>
> >Hi Alex,
> >It's a shortened form of hexadecimal.
> >Cheers,
> >Joseph
>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >>From: Alex Hall <mehgcap@xxxxxxx
> >>To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>Date sent: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:18:21 -0500
> >>Subject: what is Hex?
>
> >>Hi all
> >>Whatis this Hex that has been talked about
> >recently?
>
> >>Have a great day,
> >>Alex
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