ALT+255: Dispelling the Mystery
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Hey, I knew that you could add different characters by using Alt + a number - Foamy posted a whole list of accent mark codes on our monitor so she could type other languages (especially, I suspect, Quenya 
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But I didn't know the particular one for a musical note, and a friend of mine uses that all the time - so thanks for revealing the secret.
As for Alt+255, I didn't care enough to wonder what it was. Sorry for spoiling your mystery, guys.
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) correctly.But I didn't know the particular one for a musical note, and a friend of mine uses that all the time - so thanks for revealing the secret.
As for Alt+255, I didn't care enough to wonder what it was. Sorry for spoiling your mystery, guys.
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Thats ok mary, I'm sure it means nothing to Ur-Vile......
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The reason I didn't get this was that any programer worth his salt knows that the space (nothing) that is normally used is CHR(32). Tecnically CHR(255) is just a space with a higher ascii number.
So actually being ALT+255 is kind of special, and I get the feeling that is not what the expression is suposed to convey
So actually being ALT+255 is kind of special, and I get the feeling that is not what the expression is suposed to convey
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Hmmm...
All I know is this thread was posted as a reaction to another ALT+255 thread, which I can't find. Someone was being very mysterious about it, and someone else saw fit to explain the mystery.
It was all a very long time ago.
All I know is this thread was posted as a reaction to another ALT+255 thread, which I can't find. Someone was being very mysterious about it, and someone else saw fit to explain the mystery.
It was all a very long time ago.
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you haven't seen ALT+255 yet, Cov.CovenantJr wrote:I had no idea you could insert characters like that until I asked Hierachy about ALT+255. We computer illiterate people need to be guided, you know
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As that saying goes: the joke isn't as funny if you have to explain it. 
I remember this little bit of "controversy" from the Watch's past. At the time, I didn't know what ALT+255 meant either, which made it even more amusing to me.
(Though if I recall, in the end the Admins got annoyed enough by the ALT+255 shenanigans to issue a cease-and-desist order.)
I remember this little bit of "controversy" from the Watch's past. At the time, I didn't know what ALT+255 meant either, which made it even more amusing to me.
(Though if I recall, in the end the Admins got annoyed enough by the ALT+255 shenanigans to issue a cease-and-desist order.)
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Yup. I remember that, too.Matrixman wrote: (Though if I recall, in the end the Admins got annoyed enough by the ALT+255 shenanigans to issue a cease-and-desist order.)
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hahahahahahaha... ah ALT+255 was a classic. The cease and desist came for a different reason though.
It was because, you may remember under the old WGD system, one could buy a change of username. Well, I found that you were unable to name yourself simply "ALT+255", but it would accept it if you named yourself "ALT+255ALT+255".
Then, the board would automatically get rid of the extra space. In some cases it would get rid of both... it was, for a time, impossible to send me PMs, for instance. Hence "becoming" ALT+255.
However, shenanigans did not stop there. I realised that if it automatically got rid of the extra space, then another person could probably type in two ALT+255's and change their name to the same thing, and it wouldn't conflict with mine until after the automatic redundant space removal.
So I suggested Murrin give it a go. It worked. We were both "ALT+255". The problem arose when we tried to change our names back. You see, the modification obviously worked by finding the user with the username "[current username]" and changing it to the new name "[new username]". So it found the user with the name " ", and changed it to, say "Murrin". But there were two of us. Both of our names got changed. From that point on (until Vain fixed it), if one of us did something, it would take effect on us both. Name, avatar, sig, etc. Vain fixed it and then ordered the cessation of all experiments into ALT+255, lest the arch itself collapse.
After this... the power of ALT+255 became a fabled and secret legend.
Long live The Brotherhood of the Illuimed Majesty!
It was because, you may remember under the old WGD system, one could buy a change of username. Well, I found that you were unable to name yourself simply "ALT+255", but it would accept it if you named yourself "ALT+255ALT+255".
Then, the board would automatically get rid of the extra space. In some cases it would get rid of both... it was, for a time, impossible to send me PMs, for instance. Hence "becoming" ALT+255.
However, shenanigans did not stop there. I realised that if it automatically got rid of the extra space, then another person could probably type in two ALT+255's and change their name to the same thing, and it wouldn't conflict with mine until after the automatic redundant space removal.
So I suggested Murrin give it a go. It worked. We were both "ALT+255". The problem arose when we tried to change our names back. You see, the modification obviously worked by finding the user with the username "[current username]" and changing it to the new name "[new username]". So it found the user with the name " ", and changed it to, say "Murrin". But there were two of us. Both of our names got changed. From that point on (until Vain fixed it), if one of us did something, it would take effect on us both. Name, avatar, sig, etc. Vain fixed it and then ordered the cessation of all experiments into ALT+255, lest the arch itself collapse.
After this... the power of ALT+255 became a fabled and secret legend.
Long live The Brotherhood of the Illuimed Majesty!
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Brother, you are indeed great.James wrote:After this... the power of ALT+255 became a fabled and secret legend.
Long live The Brotherhood of the Illuimed Majesty!
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