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Title: Some light amusement for the easily amused
Post by: Barry Scott on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 02:37:49
I have shamelessly copied the below from another forum i frequent.

I did smile quite heartily at these strange 'problems' below.


#1

Somebody discovered that no-one can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named "CON". This is something pretty cool...and unbelievable... If you're a geek like me. At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn't answer why this happened!

TRY IT NOW ,IT WILL NOT CREATE " CON " FOLDER


#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.

Strange bug eh?


#3

This is something pretty cool and neat...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened!

Try it out yourself...

Open Microsoft Word and type

=rand (200, 99)

And then press ENTER
then see the magic...

Oh well, it was my bed time hours ago. Ciao.  8)


Title: Some light amusement for the easily amused
Post by: axs on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 02:45:11
that was entertaining, thank you.

my god that sounded sarcastic.


Title: Some light amusement for the easily amused
Post by: flammableBen on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 02:49:57
#1 is a hangup from the ol' dos days.

#2 doesn't do anything.

#3 Don't have word so can't test it, is it one of those eastereggs like that ace one in the old version of Excel where you could fly about?


Title: Some light amusement for the easily amused
Post by: axs on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 02:51:36
2 does do something?!!


Title: Some light amusement for the easily amused
Post by: flammableBen on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 02:56:53
makes you save a pointless document on your computer? Does nought for me.


Title: Some light amusement for the easily amused
Post by: axs on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 02:58:17
works for me.


Title: Some light amusement for the easily amused
Post by: flammableBen on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 03:01:25
Did nothing for me. And I feel like an idiot for trying twice.


Title: Some light amusement for the easily amused
Post by: axs on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 03:01:47
your notepad must have the GRID.


Title: Some light amusement for the easily amused
Post by: land_of_bo on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 08:54:46
And not the nice type of GRID


Title: Some light amusement for the easily amused
Post by: magicroundabout on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 09:19:41
worked for me


Title: Some light amusement for the easily amused
Post by: SwindonTartanArmy on Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 16:47:01
#2 just turned into squares for me? is it supposed to do something fancy??? :|


Title: Some light amusement for the easily amused
Post by: Batch on Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 17:04:19
1. CON is a reserved word, same as LPT1, etc.

2. Squares, that's what it does. It hides the facts :)

3, causes "the quick brown dog jumped over the lazy fox" repeated.


Title: Some light amusement for the easily amused
Post by: sonic youth on Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 17:18:20
it's CON not COM batch.


Title: Some light amusement for the easily amused
Post by: Batch on Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 17:22:32
CON then, typo.


Title: Some light amusement for the easily amused
Post by: sonic youth on Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 17:25:35
what's CON then? i know COM and LPT1 are ports on older motherboards but don't know what CON is


Title: Some light amusement for the easily amused
Post by: genf_stfc on Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 17:31:23
on a sort of similar note, those of you with an interest in nano-tube technology may be interested in a recent publication in the respected Chemical Communications journal:

Dachi et al, Chem. Commun., 2007, 1733 "Electrochemical synthesis of metal and semimetal nanotube–nanowire heterojunctions and their electronic transport properties"
http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/CC/article.asp?doi=b614147a

and everyone else on the TEF will be interested in their abbreviation of "Copper Nano-Tube" especially since Cu is the chemical symbol for copper.  For those of you that don't have access to the paper, here is one of the figures from it.

http://www.rsc.org/ejga/CC/2007/b614147a-ga.gif

The paper repeats the above abbreviation in almost every line, with such gems as "formation of CuNTs depends on gold spattering", "CuNTs have an outer diameter of about 80 nm".  I've heard of mouse's ears before, but thats ridiculous !


Title: Some light amusement for the easily amused
Post by: Colin Todd on Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 17:48:22
:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  fucking brilliant genf