Off-topic but very cool... actually weird! :-)

TRICK #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

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TRICK #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? Confused?

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TRICK #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

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Regards,
- Graeme -

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This is probably an urban legend that nobody can answer this: CON is a reserved device name (console, try echo asdf > CON) like e.g. COM1. You can't create a folder called COM1 either if you're system has COM1.

Yes, but the 'Bush hid the facts' one is just plain weird.

Not sure why Graeme thinks we all have MS Word, though...

2008/8/26 Florian Klaempfl :

Florian Klaempfl wrote

This is probably an urban legend that nobody can answer this: CON is a reserved device name (console, try echo asdf > CON) like e.g. COM1. You can't create a folder called COM1 either if you're system has COM1.

I expected something like that, but would the same then apply to something like STDOUT? Yet I can create a file named STDOUT

I still can't find a logical reason for (2).

(3) is really handy if you need a instant Word document of 260 pages! :-)

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- Graeme -

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

:)

It's a bug in notepad which guesses the encoding wrong. I saw once an explaination ... wait ... wikipedia knows it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_hid_the_facts

CON stands for console.

Back in the DOS days you could create a text file really quickly by going

copy con bla.txt

Then you typed your text and when you were done type ctrl-z and enter. Still works in Vista if you open a command prompt :)

* Demo coders use "copy con demo.exe"
* REAL demo coders use "copy con demo.zip"

Dave Coventry wrote

Yes, but the 'Bush hid the facts' one is just plain weird. Not sure why Graeme thinks we all have MS Word, though...

:-) I don't even have it installed - I had to Remote Desktop to a Windows machine to test all three. Linux and OpenOffice do not have any of the issues. ;-)

Regards,
- Graeme -

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I am sure 3) is called a "feature" rather than a bug...

Though I doubt it's documented.

Gerald P?ttler wrote

* Demo coders use "copy con demo.exe" * REAL demo coders use "copy con demo.zip"

* Die hards program using a roll of toiletpaper and a toothpick.