Re: [Worship] 666. . . and WORSHIP!

[George Townsend <townsend@thunderbird.auc.laurentian.ca>]

Hi ... I'm a computer scientist from the Great White North (Canada). I 
have an observation about the message that sparked this thread.

You know, folks, sometimes a number, is just a number. In the Unix 
operating system, file permissions are captured by a string of 9 bits 
where the bits, left to right are interpreted as:

                 uuugggooo
                 rwxrwxrwx

Where u=user, g=group, and o=others,
and   r=read, w=write, and x=execute

When a file is encoded for transfer, the permisions are generally set to 
read and write for everyone (user, group, and others), but not execute. 
This translates to a 1 bit for each r and w above, and a 0 bit for each 
x, or:
             110110110

Now, 110 in binary is the digit 6, so this number in octal notation is
then 666 as a result. 

So there it is ... simple as that ... no demons or hidden messages ... 
just a simple number that indicates that anyone can read or write the 
file, and no one can execute it.
-gt-
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