I was just wondering?

I was just wondering, what’s up with that……looking at my board temperature, and their ok…I’m using Aida32, still works for me….http://majorgeeks.com/Aida32_-_Enterprise_System_Information_d183.html …I found in something, that I’m not sure about…in the Server section, under Account Security, I found “Min/Max Password Age 0 / 49710 days”, My question is who comes up with the number? I did the math, and I’m not that good, used the computer calculator….49710 divided by 365 = 136.19 +. And the big question is will my computer stop working at that time, the 136 years I mean?……….wobbles

 

NO, that is your "secret" "Death Clock" ticking away Wobbles .........................Hey Fred some dude down in California found the dang clock, didn't you cover up that bloody "Back door"

 

Just be sure to update every 128 minutes or who knows??

 

Mwahaha.

Fiendish.

I've worked out why that number is there. I'm debating as to whether I should give it away yet or let the geeks try and figure it out

HINT: Think integers.

 

overflow ?

 

Overflow? no.

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49710 days
Find that in seconds...
49710 * 24 * 60 * 60
=  4294944000

Right.  

In computers numbers are represented by binary bits, 1 or 0.  
To work out the maximum number of a binary number sequence 
(unsigned, i.e. always positive) use the following equation

max number = 2 ^ n
(including 0 and the max)
Where n is the number of bits.  

So what if we knew the max number (or near enough) and wanted 
to work out how many bits were required to represent that 
number.  We do the following

max number = 2 ^  n
log(base 2) max number = n

calc.exe doesn't let you do log base 2, so we do log base 10 
and then divide by log base 10 of 2.  Lets throw some numbers
 in.

(log 4294944000  / log 2)  = 31.99999


Roughly 32.  Hmm, 32-bit integer.  But not quite.  What gives? 
 Check out the granularity.  It's in DAYS.  Given that the 
number we calculated was in seconds, we can be pretty sure that
 we lost a fair bit of accuracy when we scaled down to seconds
 from days.  

So to be precise, the age of the password is:
4294967295 seconds, or, in binary..

11111111111111111111111111111111

Now does it all start to make sense?  :)

The age of your password is actually
81 years, 144 days, 6 hours, 28 minutes, 15 seconds

 

sort of overflow lol, I know what I meant!