cндябеяs Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 Do it practically Then u 'll come to know........ .. MAGIC #1 An Indian found that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the Computer which can be named as "CON". This is something funny and inexplicable. At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn't answer why this happened! TRY IT NOW, IT WILL NOT CREATE A "CON" FOLDER MAGIC #2 For those of you using Windows XP, 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. Noticed the weird bug? No one can explain! MAGIC #3 Again this is something funny and can't be explained. 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 And see the magic.
ludhianvi Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 that's cool stuff :D Any reasons behind the folder and the bush hid the facts ideas?
Guest Shivani Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 :omg: where did you find these ? I knew about the third one though and thought it was no magic trick but something that could be explained
cндябеяs Posted July 17, 2009 Author Posted July 17, 2009 CON is short for console, and is a reserved system name. 2 and 3 :dontknow: edit: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...8VS.85%29.aspx "..Do not use the following reserved device names for the name of a file: CON, PRN, AUX, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9 ..."
Sachinism Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 There are other words as well which you can't use for folder names
DomainK Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 1. These are no magic 2. No Indian found it. 3. These are no surprises.....known for a very long time. 4. MS knew them right from the beginning. 5. Don't believe all the forwarded e-mails you get.
punjabi_khota Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 #2 and 3 are easter eggs, i.e. surprises which are work of a mischievous programmer. These things are pretty common in games too
Kohum Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 =rand (200, 99) this magic works upto rand (8190, 2) and rand (2, 6600) Some macro being built, as cntrl + z gets you back to the rand text you typed.
varun Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 #2 and 3 are easter eggs, i.e. surprises which are work of a mischievous programmer. These things are pretty common in games too Not really .. #2 is actually a bug. It happens when letters and spaces occur in a certain order which makes the system think that these are chinese unicode characters.. Bush hid the facts is a 4-3-3-5 code (4 letters, 3 letters, 3 letters, 5 letters) There are other kind of codes as well.. Another famous one being the 1-4-3-3 code "I want you sir"
Kohum Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 Not really .. #2 is actually a bug. It happens when letters and spaces occur in a certain order which makes the system think that these are chinese unicode characters.. Bush hid the facts is a 4-3-3-5 code (4 letters, 3 letters, 3 letters, 5 letters) There are other kind of codes as well.. Another famous one being the 1-4-3-3 code "I want you sir" If I open this file through word, wordpad, any other editor I see the text that was typed. It's only notepad where the text comes up as chineese characters. 1433 code doesn't appear to work for me either.
varun Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 If I open this file through word, wordpad, any other editor I see the text that was typed. It's only notepad where the text comes up as chineese characters. Yeah notepad uses a legacy buggy version of the API to detect if the text entered is unicode or not.. Not sure if they've fixed it in vista.
Dark Warrior Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 Not really .. #2 is actually a bug. It happens when letters and spaces occur in a certain order which makes the system think that these are chinese unicode characters.. Bush hid the facts is a 4-3-3-5 code (4 letters, 3 letters, 3 letters, 5 letters) There are other kind of codes as well.. Another famous one being the 1-4-3-3 code "I want you sir" yep, #2 is indeed a bug and it has been removed from windows 7
The Outsider Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 Not really .. #2 is actually a bug. It happens when letters and spaces occur in a certain order which makes the system think that these are chinese unicode characters.. Bush hid the facts is a 4-3-3-5 code (4 letters, 3 letters, 3 letters, 5 letters) There are other kind of codes as well.. Another famous one being the 1-4-3-3 code "I want you sir" However if you first type and save : The Outsider hid the facts and then edit and save the file with : Bush hid the facts you can see the text.
varun Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 However if you first type and save : The Outsider hid the facts and then edit and save the file with : Bush hid the facts you can see the text. When you create a new file, that is when notepad decides on finding out what kinda file it is and marks it as such... ANSI or unicode..
The Outsider Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 When you create a new file' date=' that is when notepad decides on finding out what kinda file it is and marks it as such... ANSI or unicode..[/quote'] Thanks - this was puzzling me. :crazy4:
The Outsider Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 When you create a new file' date=' that is when notepad decides on finding out what kinda file it is and marks it as such... ANSI or unicode..[/quote'] Actually, I am still not happy. When I open the junk file which was created by : Bush hid the facts and edit it again with : Bush hid the facts I can see the characters.
varun Posted July 17, 2009 Posted July 17, 2009 Thanks - this was puzzling me. :crazy4: Btw, You can verify it by opening a plain notepad window.. Then clicking on "Open File". When you click on your "bush hid the facts" file, it will show up as unicode below. You can select ANSI to open it with proper encoding and you'll see the contents fine then.
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