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bojinx
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This is a post I found on another webpage ....... I thought it was interesting especially if your into nerdy computer stuff.
*Originally posted by evilfantasy
MAGIC #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, couldn't answer why this happened!
TRY IT NOW ,IT WILL NOT CREATE " CON " FOLDER
MAGIC #2
For those of you using Windows, do the following:
1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type "Bush hid the facts" (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it.
is it just a really weird bug? :-??
MAGIC #3
microsoft crazy facts
This is something pretty cool and neat...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened!
It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out yourself...
Open Microsoft Word and type
=rand (200, 99)
And then press ENTER
then see the magic...............................
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i like it : )
Haha... love it
Futilez - Mature MMORPG Community
Correcting people since birth.
CON one worked, I dont have word so i cant try it
But i cant get the Bush hid the facts to work. Anyone know why?
Tried them all. Really cool stuff.
well thats a new one to me..haha
They...are...watching......
The first two I hadn't seen before. The third someone showed me, I guess a programmer somewhere got bored.
Since Warpig asked.
The first one is apparently a backwards compatibility with DOS or DOS based systems. I don't remember all the details but, for example, "LPT1" and "PRN" also won't work as file names. I think there are eight to ten reserved words. LPT1 is a port, of course. I think PRN was the Printer. I'm not sure how exactly it worked but I imagine you could copy or write outputs to "PRN" from anywhere and it'd get sent to the print buffer.
In the case of CON, this is actually pretty funny. There is a command "copy con" which is basically a program for making short batch files. You typed "copy con <filename>.bat", then you'd be able to enter batch file commands in the console. End the last line with CTRL+Z (produces a ^Z in the console) and press enter and it will copy the file to the current directory. However, you can't go back lines in the file. So for anything complex you'd want to use a real text editor.
Whats great is it still works in XP (at least I have it). If you open the console and type "copy con test.bat" then "calc" followed by CTRL+Z and enter, type "test" into the console, it should launch the calculator.
The second one is Notepad messing up reading the Unicode characters under certain circumstances. It doesn't happen for every string but "hhhh hhh hhh hhhhh" does the same thing on my computer. So does "Bats eat all money". The 4, 3, 3, 5 sequence (Bush hid the truth) seems to be part of it.
Maybe the H's are for George H. W. Bush? The bat one is a little harder to unravel.
Nice info, Thanks!