Programmer's Wallpaper

[AngelHoof]

1. Read Chris's post.
2. Google search for UNIX dd.
3. Find http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)
4. lol'd

You won... :(

[Seraphimsan]

just tried your technique chris, can't get it to work :O it's telling me "bogus header information" when I try to open the bmp.

[chrisname]

Bawww... Open it in a hex editor and write 0x08 0x42 0x4D 0x50 (should show up as .BMP). I think bitmaps start with 0x08; PNGs do.

[Seraphimsan]

alright :O I'll give it a try :P

[Seraphimsan]

meh I'll write a program to randomize the bmp in the morning (written in c) xD

[Null]

I have written a useless program like this before and there's the result: http://i36.tinypic.com/3586yp0.jpg

[helios]

0x08 0x42 0x4D 0x50 (should show up as .BMP). I think bitmaps start with 0x08; PNGs do.

...What? The BMP magic number is 42 4D 36 (BM6).
And the PNG magic number is 89 50 4E 47 (‰PNG) and then possibly a CRLF sequence.

[Duthomhas]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file_format

[chrisname]

@helios,
I thought PNGs started with 0x08? I tried opening a PNG that I had accidentally saved as JPEG and the error was that it "Starts with 0x08"...

Maybe it was the other way around..?

[z05DSL3A]

PNG has an 8 byte signature: 89 50 4E 47 0D 0A 1A 0A

There are various newline characters to allow for detecting unwarranted automated newline conversions.

[NGen]

http://www.macwallpapers.in/wallpaper/Leopard-Grass-Blades/

:F

[clover leaf]

I got a whole bunch of them. My favorite is a painting of a light-house.