Three things that even Microsoft can't explain!!

[pusa07]

Three things that even Microsoft can't explain!!
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, 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…..!:eek:

[kj_rc]

Wow nice...

[shalinda]

coooooooooooooooooool

[kj_rc]

Wow...nice, Thanks for shearing

[pusa07]

no prob!

[binu_rulz]

repost

[zCexVe]

Did the microsoft ever able to explain the things ???? :P :P

[milindasenarath]

repost
but above r true

[sri_lion]

Its not that Microsoft can't explain.. they WONT explain!!

How can they not explain?:frown: they are the ones who coded it!!:rolleyes:

It could be few possibilities why Microsoft is unable to answer

1. Microsoft internal policies

2. Like an Artist put signature on the Art, some programmers also do crazy things while developing...... to sort of put a unique signature into it.

3. It could also be for the ease of testing purposes of some functions... to check some things actually work in the final product (People accidentally bump into them)

4. Normally the ones that attend to these kind of Q&A sessions has very limited knowledge of actual programming procedures and they'd certainly would not know what programmers actual coding! ALL THOSE MARKETING FELLAS!!:rolleyes:

5. else IT'S NOT MICROSOFT'S PROGRAM AT ALL!!:shocked:

these are ones that I can think of!

[badtnc]

ai ban ea??

[pusa07]

1st 1 is a bug.. may be they made all those lil gimmicks just 2 create amusement.
ny way.. its cool..

[nabil]

well da first one is reserved folder names by microsoft. second 1 probably coded by a bush supporter or bill gates sucking up to bush. third one could b done deliberately to check for sumthing.

[x-pert]

Three things that even Microsoft can't explain!!
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


Maybe an Indian found it by coincidence. But we, Sri Lankans have the explanation....

Exp 01.
You can rename folders as "con"
Try this: md \\.\c:\con

Exp02.
Yes, you can't create a folder called CON. Because Con = console (A reserved word in the Windows OS. The same as the phenomena of disallowing to create a variable called int in many programming languages.

In Exp 01, it actually creates a folder called <space>con.

to delete a con folder: rd \\.\c:\con



Not only con, but you have many reserved words like: CON, AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN, NUL ;)

Source: Microsoft ;)




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.
Noticed the weird bug? No one can explain!




Its nothing to do with Bush. It has something to do with a sentence with a character string of 4, 3, 3, 5 characters. Try "Bill fed the goats"

And it's a bug in ANSI coding standard.


Sources: wiki & hoaxslayer.






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…..!:eek:


:lol:

This is an inbuilt macro function to check the characters. In fact, the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" contain all the letters in the alphabet.

(200, 99) means the number of paragraphs and the number of sentences respectively.

Source : me ;)

[pusa07]

genius..

[nimaz]

kuul

[cha_sl]

hmmm,, X-pert alrdy gave the anaswers , that microsoft couldn't answer... :rolleyes:

[sajithgamage]

cool man thnx

[sajithgamage]

Maybe an Indian found it by coincidence. But we, Sri Lankans have the explanation....

Exp 01.
You can rename folders as "con"
Try this: md \\.\c:\con

Exp02.
Yes, you can't create a folder called CON. Because Con = console (A reserved word in the Windows OS. The same as the phenomena of disallowing to create a variable called int in many programming languages.

In Exp 01, it actually creates a folder called <space>con.

to delete a con folder: rd \\.\c:\con



Not only con, but you have many reserved words like: CON, AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN, NUL ;)

Source: Microsoft ;)






Its nothing to do with Bush. It has something to do with a sentence with a character string of 4, 3, 3, 5 characters. Try "Bill fed the goats"

And it's a bug in ANSI coding standard.


Sources: wiki & hoaxslayer.








:lol:

This is an inbuilt macro function to check the characters. In fact, the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" contain all the letters in the alphabet.

(200, 99) means the number of paragraphs and the number of sentences respectively.

Source : me ;)

he he

;) ;) ;) ;) ;)

[anurudda]

Its not that Microsoft can't explain.. they WONT explain!!

How can they not explain?:frown: they are the ones who coded it!!:rolleyes:

It could be few possibilities why Microsoft is unable to answer

1. Microsoft internal policies

2. Like an Artist put signature on the Art, some programmers also do crazy things while developing...... to sort of put a unique signature into it.

3. It could also be for the ease of testing purposes of some functions... to check some things actually work in the final product (People accidentally bump into them)

4. Normally the ones that attend to these kind of Q&A sessions has very limited knowledge of actual programming procedures and they'd certainly would not know what programmers actual coding! ALL THOSE MARKETING FELLAS!!:rolleyes:

5. else IT'S NOT MICROSOFT'S PROGRAM AT ALL!!:shocked:

these are ones that I can think of!

correct... :D:D

[siri24]

maraine machan. how did you know it?????

[henderson]

Maybe an Indian found it by coincidence. But we, Sri Lankans have the explanation....

Exp 01.
You can rename folders as "con"
Try this: md \\.\c:\con

Exp02.
Yes, you can't create a folder called CON. Because Con = console (A reserved word in the Windows OS. The same as the phenomena of disallowing to create a variable called int in many programming languages.

In Exp 01, it actually creates a folder called <space>con.

to delete a con folder: rd \\.\c:\con



Not only con, but you have many reserved words like: CON, AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN, NUL ;)

Source: Microsoft ;)






Its nothing to do with Bush. It has something to do with a sentence with a character string of 4, 3, 3, 5 characters. Try "Bill fed the goats"

And it's a bug in ANSI coding standard.


Sources: wiki & hoaxslayer.








:lol:

This is an inbuilt macro function to check the characters. In fact, the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" contain all the letters in the alphabet.

(200, 99) means the number of paragraphs and the number of sentences respectively.

Source : me ;)

you are the expert. :yes:

[chanaka89]

ela

[heshan123]

cool

[draco]

wow

[bk1206]

its nice

[binu_rulz]

CON LPT1 LPI2 ....LPT7 are ports if u nm a fldr wi them they internally conflict...........................

[geethq]

pisu case ne:P

[nuwa1]

man nam dannawa x-pert oya tika kiyanawa kiyala, mokada math oya tikama ahagaththane he he he he

[E.A.R.THARANGA]

Have to try it .Thanks

[kawomir25]

wow...

[chanakacm]

mare maru.............

[chanakacm]

marai ban ,,,,,,,Niyamai

[TDM]

ela mahan

[rash87]

thnx 4 sharing!

[gtkisaru]

Pissu Kora....maxxa machan...thanks

[yasiru1]

ela ela

[rush16]

that's greaaaaaaaaaaaaat!!:lol::lol::lol::lol:

i love it!

http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/9513/shihanreal2ia9.png

[navin2]

thanks

[ywicky]

Wow!

[Kalindugayan]

appata siri

[fazaal24]

hehe,,,Old Magics Lol..!:lol:

[sakala]

thx buddy...I knew 1st one......thx 4 others

[romero2005]

api dannawa
CON file hadanda bari ekata hetu tiyanawa

[kimalakimala]

You're right brother !
Its not that Microsoft can't explain.. they WONT explain!!

How can they not explain?:frown: they are the ones who coded it!!:rolleyes:

It could be few possibilities why Microsoft is unable to answer

1. Microsoft internal policies

2. Like an Artist put signature on the Art, some programmers also do crazy things while developing...... to sort of put a unique signature into it.

3. It could also be for the ease of testing purposes of some functions... to check some things actually work in the final product (People accidentally bump into them)

4. Normally the ones that attend to these kind of Q&A sessions has very limited knowledge of actual programming procedures and they'd certainly would not know what programmers actual coding! ALL THOSE MARKETING FELLAS!!:rolleyes:

5. else IT'S NOT MICROSOFT'S PROGRAM AT ALL!!:shocked:

these are ones that I can think of!

[nibm_harry]

Try karala balannam....Thanks

[TΞΞNSTAR™]

repoast..
but worth readin again hehe..

[Doggyluv]

cooool

[Chinthakas]

elz........

[lala85d]

Macho, 1st magic ekanam EK eke thawa thread ekkath thibuna. 2nd n 3rd nam patta:yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes:

[HIVOLTAG3]

THNX NICE POST

[OscarNonis]

I heard about this matter about 10 years ago.

This is DAMN old news

'con' is a reserved word from the old DOS days, simply meaning 'console'. If you wanted to create a new text file in DOS you could type 'copy con newfile.txt' meaning copy from the console to newfile.txt. This would let you type some lines and when you ended the file with ^Z (DOSish for 'end of file') you would have a file called newfile.txt containing whatever you wrote in the console. This is indeed still possible in the Windows XP console, and can you see what mess it would cause if you let files or folders have the name 'con'? What would 'copy con newfile.txt' then mean? BSOD?

this is a list of other DOS devices that can't be used as folder names:
CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.

[x-pert]

Maybe an Indian found it by coincidence. But we, Sri Lankans have the explanation....

Exp 01.
You can rename folders as "con"
Try this: md \\.\c:\con

Exp02.
Yes, you can't create a folder called CON. Because Con = console (A reserved word in the Windows OS. The same as the phenomena of disallowing to create a variable called int in many programming languages.

In Exp 01, it actually creates a folder called <space>con.

to delete a con folder: rd \\.\c:\con



Not only con, but you have many reserved words like: CON, AUX, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, PRN, NUL ;)

Source: Microsoft ;)






Its nothing to do with Bush. It has something to do with a sentence with a character string of 4, 3, 3, 5 characters. Try "Bill fed the goats"

And it's a bug in ANSI coding standard.


Sources: wiki & hoaxslayer.








:lol:

This is an inbuilt macro function to check the characters. In fact, the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" contain all the letters in the alphabet.

(200, 99) means the number of paragraphs and the number of sentences respectively.

Source : me ;)
Well well well... People don't go through the whole thread before replying it seems... :no::D:D

[pusa07]

repoast..
but worth readin again hehe..


Man I dont like that word.. :growl: :angry: :growl: :angry:

[Thanu]

repost
but great

[randula01]

Its not that Microsoft can't explain.. they WONT explain!!

How can they not explain?:frown: they are the ones who coded it!!:rolleyes:

It could be few possibilities why Microsoft is unable to answer

1. Microsoft internal policies

2. Like an Artist put signature on the Art, some programmers also do crazy things while developing...... to sort of put a unique signature into it.

3. It could also be for the ease of testing purposes of some functions... to check some things actually work in the final product (People accidentally bump into them)

4. Normally the ones that attend to these kind of Q&A sessions has very limited knowledge of actual programming procedures and they'd certainly would not know what programmers actual coding! ALL THOSE MARKETING FELLAS!!:rolleyes:

5. else IT'S NOT MICROSOFT'S PROGRAM AT ALL!!:shocked:

these are ones that I can think of!

THANX DEAR.................

[prasannaf]

nice

[MagmificentROO]

e maraine................

[kasunsankalpana]

repostde manda:P
Thankz bro

[ereshthush]

ela ela :D thanks

[tharuksha123]

wow.

[rith]

top badu

[AlienX]

MAGIC #1

An Indian found that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the Computer which can be named as "CON."

MAGIC #2
It was discovered by a Brazilian.



Indian karayatai Brazilian karayatai issella oka gana danna un hitiya... nikan boru gahanna epa.




At Microsoft the whole Team, couldn't answer why this happened!

MAGIC #2

At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened!



Umba gihilla ahuwada ungen... :lol::lol:

These arent magic...
Magic 1
CON is a past DOS command this is why you cant create such a folder. But there are ways to by pass this and create CON folders in other ways..

Magic 2
Did you try some other sentences. "Bush hid the facts" This is a bug in ANSI char set .
If you try "xxxx xxx xxx xxxxx" you get the same scenario. It has to do something with the combination 4,3,3,5 . :P

Magic 3
There is no magic here. This is a function (macro) used to check the fonts. the sntence you get contains all the alphabatical letters and numbers. :P


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[JKSSSS]

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[antoniodilen]

wierd

[Shiwantha]

thanx

[Aragorn]

repost bt thnx for putting it...

[cthabrew]

ha ha wow

[hushprincess]

amazing!!

[nuwanthabandara]

WOW

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