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, 07:15, 18 March 2008→Strange ._0X Jpeg's
It is full of code and such and has Adobe Photoshop cs3 written near the top. im not sure how much of a
lead it is but I found this strange to include files that are not in a wallpaper package.
link to walpapers wallpapers http://yearzero.nin.com/wallpaper/index.html There is likely nothing hidden in these files, nor is there anything strange about them. On the Macintosh, there is additional data that may be stored with a file beyond what a Windows PC stores. When the file is transported across systems non-natively, the additional bits need to be preserved in some way. The convention is to create files of the same name, but prefixed with ._ to make them hidden, to hold the extra data. The apparently extra files in the zip are just these files from a Mac. This should not be surprising as it is well known Trent does most of his work on a Mac. When the archive is unzipped on a Mac, the data in the extra files is merged back transparently and only 8 regular files appear as a result. The purpose of the extra data becomes obvious when the files are looked at in Finder. All 8 files are shown as being created by Photoshop and set to open with Photoshop (if available) rather than with the default handler for files of .jpg type. 08.jpg has a larger ._08.jpg because it also has a thumbnail rather than the default icon.