Weird Mefi bug

December 11, 2002 6:07 AM

Most weird thing I've seen on Metafilter in a while. I got this

-1073741819 (0xc0000005)

When I hit the home page. More suspicous - I had just read the Dick Cheney thread.
posted by dhacker to Bugs at 6:07 AM (8 comments total)

I've been getting this on and off all day, but it seems to be getting worse at the moment - it's mainly the home page (and when that loads, I'm getting a lot of 'Connection Error' messages) but also happening all over the place - I've been through five to post this!

Oh, and now it's happening when I hit 'post' too...
posted by monkey closet at 6:35 AM on December 11, 2002

I've seen that 3 times this morning. Twice when I tried to read comments and just now when I wanted to come to MeTa to see if anyone else was seeing it. No Cheney for me, though. I was just reading about cubicles...from inside my cubicle.
posted by donnagirl at 6:36 AM on December 11, 2002

internal server errors, -1073741819 (0xc0000005), and dick cheney. "she canna take mooch more captain!" the site is beginning to break up, the rats have abandoned ship and headed off in an IRC lifeboat.
posted by quonsar at 6:40 AM on December 11, 2002

I understand that people who live near Matt have been complaining about mysterious booms.
posted by crunchland at 10:10 AM on December 11, 2002

That's 'cause Matt is da bomb.
posted by webmutant at 11:27 AM on December 11, 2002

The Cheney thread is my fault. I fucked it all up... Damn It! Gimme another chance?
posted by Witty at 12:39 PM on December 11, 2002

If only the address were 0xc0000001. Then we'd know how k-k00l Matt really is.
posted by Nelson at 1:43 PM on December 11, 2002

Hmm...

-1073741819 x 9112001 = -117.838202498002

--==01/17/83==--
Now, transpose the 83 and you get:

--==01/17/38==--
SweetFancyMoses!!!

This just happens to be the day Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a letter to the Red Cross requesting aid for Chinese civilians.

Spooky, isn't it?
posted by Opus Dark at 12:52 AM on December 12, 2002