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4 Sep 2024 17:16:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: My name is Dexter Dew...  
From: Invisible
Date: 10 Dec 2009 10:52:41
Message: <4b211949@news.povray.org>
>> Random fact of the day: British Telecom telex machines have a default 
>> password of "TX LOL". I have no idea why...
> 
> Stream of consciousness...
> 
> The hex string 0xDEADBEEF is used by some software as a debug marker, and by 
> some systems to indicate memory that has been cleared of useful data.

Makes perfect sense to me.

The question, of course, is why the hell I'd know about telex machines. ;-)


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