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Barry Scott

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« 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


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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?


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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.  Cool
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« Reply #1 on: Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 02:45:11 »

that was entertaining, thank you.

my god that sounded sarcastic.
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flammableBen

« Reply #2 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?
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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 02:51:36 »

2 does do something?!!
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flammableBen

« Reply #4 on: Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 02:56:53 »

makes you save a pointless document on your computer? Does nought for me.
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« Reply #5 on: Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 02:58:17 »

works for me.
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flammableBen

« Reply #6 on: Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 03:01:25 »

Did nothing for me. And I feel like an idiot for trying twice.
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« Reply #7 on: Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 03:01:47 »

your notepad must have the GRID.
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« Reply #8 on: Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 08:54:46 »

And not the nice type of GRID
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« Reply #9 on: Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 09:19:41 »

worked for me
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« Reply #10 on: Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 16:47:01 »

#2 just turned into squares for me? is it supposed to do something fancy??? :|
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« Reply #11 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 Smiley

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

« Reply #12 on: Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 17:18:20 »

it's CON not COM batch.
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« Reply #13 on: Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 17:22:32 »

CON then, typo.
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sonic youth

« Reply #14 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
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