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Old 05-23-2008, 11:50 AM   #1
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Microsoft strange things

Amazing facts about your operation system:

1. An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as "CON".
This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened!
TRY IT NOW !!

2. Open an empty notepad file.
Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes).
Save it as whatever you want.
Close it, and re-open it.
See what happens? ...

3. Open Microsoft Word and type:
=rand (200,99)
then HIT ENTER
and see what happens ...

Wicked stuff ... eh?
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Old 05-23-2008, 11:56 AM   #2
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Bizarre. I just tried 1 and 2.
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Old 05-23-2008, 12:06 PM   #3
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very strange..
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Old 05-23-2008, 12:10 PM   #4
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1. An Indian discovered that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as "CON".
This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened!
TRY IT NOW !!
Myth - "Not being able to name a file or folder 'CON' is a bug or a secret"

Reality - "Several special file names are reserved by the system and cannot be used for files or folders: CON, AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN, NUL. This goes back to DOS 1.0 which didn't support subdirectories, lowercase, or filenames longer than 8.3. 'CON' is a reserved word from the old DOS days, simply meaning 'console'. If you wanted to create a new text file in DOS you could type 'copy con newfile.txt' meaning copy from the console to newfile.txt. This would let you type some lines and when you ended the file you would have a file called newfile.txt containing whatever you wrote in the console. Since they are still relied on with things like batch files (redirect to >NUL) they are still reserved today."

http://blogs.ibibo.com/uttarakhandi/...indows-XP.html

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2. Open an empty notepad file.
Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes).
Save it as whatever you want.
Close it, and re-open it.
See what happens? ...
Myth - "There are Secret phrases like "bush hid the facts" you can type into Notepad"

Reality - "Notepad makes a best guess of which encoding to use when confronted with certain short strings of characters that lack special prefixes. The encodings that do not have special prefixes and which are still supported by Notepad are the traditional ANSI encoding (i.e., "plain ASCII") and the Unicode (little-endian) encoding with no BOM. When faced with a file that lacks a special prefix, Notepad is forced to guess which of those two encodings the file actually uses. The function that does this work is IsTextUnicode, which studies a chunk of bytes and does some statistical analysis to come up with a guess. Sometimes it guesses wrong and displays random characters after you save and open the file. Any combination of characters in the same order 4-3-3-5 will cause the same problem: "Bill lie and cheat" "this app can break", "hhhh hhh hhh hhhhh", "this isa bug dummy" ect..."

http://blogs.ibibo.com/uttarakhandi/...indows-XP.html

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3. Open Microsoft Word and type:
=rand (200,99)
then HIT ENTER
and see what happens ...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212251
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Old 05-23-2008, 12:12 PM   #5
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I tried 'em all, very strange.

Is this proof of Illuminati? LOL
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Old 05-23-2008, 12:15 PM   #6
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Old and as stated above, no mystery.

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/microsoft-magic.shtml
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Old 05-23-2008, 12:36 PM   #7
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Be careful. I'm not sure if its still this way but I read some time ago that there is a way to name a folder that will lock up your system. Like I said, I'm not sure if its still that way but I read that a few years ago.
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Old 05-23-2008, 12:49 PM   #8
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Myth - "Not being able to name a file or folder 'CON' is a bug or a secret"

Reality - "Several special file names are reserved by the system and cannot be used for files or folders: CON, AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN, NUL. This goes back to DOS 1.0 which didn't support subdirectories, lowercase, or filenames longer than 8.3. 'CON' is a reserved word from the old DOS days, simply meaning 'console'. If you wanted to create a new text file in DOS you could type 'copy con newfile.txt' meaning copy from the console to newfile.txt. This would let you type some lines and when you ended the file you would have a file called newfile.txt containing whatever you wrote in the console. Since they are still relied on with things like batch files (redirect to >NUL) they are still reserved today."

http://blogs.ibibo.com/uttarakhandi/...indows-XP.html


Myth - "There are Secret phrases like "bush hid the facts" you can type into Notepad"

Reality - "Notepad makes a best guess of which encoding to use when confronted with certain short strings of characters that lack special prefixes. The encodings that do not have special prefixes and which are still supported by Notepad are the traditional ANSI encoding (i.e., "plain ASCII") and the Unicode (little-endian) encoding with no BOM. When faced with a file that lacks a special prefix, Notepad is forced to guess which of those two encodings the file actually uses. The function that does this work is IsTextUnicode, which studies a chunk of bytes and does some statistical analysis to come up with a guess. Sometimes it guesses wrong and displays random characters after you save and open the file. Any combination of characters in the same order 4-3-3-5 will cause the same problem: "Bill lie and cheat" "this app can break", "hhhh hhh hhh hhhhh", "this isa bug dummy" ect..."

http://blogs.ibibo.com/uttarakhandi/...indows-XP.html


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212251
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Old 05-23-2008, 12:54 PM   #9
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conclusion


you are a dumbfuck
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Old 05-23-2008, 12:59 PM   #10
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you are a dumbfuck
Yes, how could he not already know this obvious information??? EVERYONE knows about stuff from DOS 1.0, I mean wtf?

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Old 05-23-2008, 01:04 PM   #11
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read about this a while ago... and by a while I mean like two years.
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Old 05-23-2008, 01:24 PM   #12
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Huh, some discovered them long time ago - others just now ...
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Old 05-23-2008, 02:57 PM   #13
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copy con autoexec.boot
@echo off
win
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