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mdshunk

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It's a glitch that shows up in vB sometimes, and it's always the same number. 65535. It's also 1111111111111111 in binary or ffff in hex. It's the highest 16 bit number there is, and often shows up in errors.

The cure:
Check the "Messages: xxx" box at the top right of the message list and then choose "Mark as read" from the pulldown menu in the lower right of the PM list. Click "Go" and it will mark all messages as read and reset your totals correctly.
 

roger

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George Stolz said:
Because I broke it. :)

Send an email to sean@mikeholt.com to fix the glitch - I once accidentally gave someone 65535 posts on their post count, despite the member only posting twice. Weird glitches happen every now and then.

I thought I remembered it being more like 6,000,000. :)

Roger
 

LarryFine

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mdshunk said:
It's a glitch that shows up in vB sometimes, and it's always the same number. 65535. It's also 1111111111111111 in binary or ffff in hex. It's the highest 16 bit number there is, and often shows up in errors.
It's also the number 64K really is, the same way 1K is really 1024.
 

celtic

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NJ
LarryFine said:
It's also the number 64K really is, the same way 1K is really 1024.

:confused:

How do you get a 5?
I thought it went something like:
1+itself=2
2+itself=4
4+itself=8
8+itself=16
16+itself=32
32+itself=64
64+itself=128
128+itself=256
256+itself=512
512+itself=1024

...and so on.
(What is that... n to the second or something?)
 

480sparky

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Iowegia
celtic said:
:confused:

How do you get a 5?
I thought it went something like:
1+itself=2
2+itself=4
4+itself=8
8+itself=16
16+itself=32
32+itself=64
64+itself=128
128+itself=256
256+itself=512
512+itself=1024

...and so on.
(What is that... n to the second or something?)

Because binary starts out on zero, not one. So an even amount of numbers will end on an odd number. 65535 is the 65,536th number in the sequence.
 

George Stolz

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Queue up the Twilight Zone music, because this 65533 private message thing just happened to me!?! :-?

Edit to add - Marc's trick worked.
 
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celtic

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NJ
George Stolz said:
Queue up the Twilight Zone music, because this 65533 private message thing just happened to me!?! :-?

If you insist on breaking stuff - you should at least know how to fix it.:mad:


[Saw your edit.....too late to stop the freight train :D]
 
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