Mystery Magic?

Strange. I thought there would be a catch but they are straight forward and true. :confused

MAGIC #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

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.
is it just a really weird bug? :-??

MAGIC #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
then see the magic...............................

 

Impressive.

I made the text file, re-opened it, and it still said Bush hid the facts!

Awesome!

:rolleyes

 

Came out [] [] [] [] [] [] on mine.

 

But when I copy and paste it it is this. 畢桳栠摩琠敨映捡獴

 

Must be an XP thing.

 

Quite possible, I just did it on a 98 and the last two didn't do anything.

 

spooky :eek

 

Number 3 still works is Office 2007!

 

Well, the third one is not a big wonder...
I think that this =rand (200, 99) was made to check something and then they forgot to remove this

 

also, if you change the numbers, it changes how the results look


~C

 

Got curious and started googling. Found this.

P.S. I found the "Windows mystery" on a web page and it was not a swipe at Bush from me.

I ran the characters through a translator and it came back as this.

Chinese: □□□touches □□reflects picks □

Japanese: 畢? ? 摩? ? Projection? ?

Seems to be just gibberish. :confused

 

Tough luck if your name is Con Constantinopolous, or similar.
No offence meant to our Greek readers.:major Bazza

 

畂桳栠摩琠敨映捡獴 is what it came out on my computer. a straight copy and paste is what I did there

 

that doesn't surprise me at all. the amount of code bloat and legacy code is huge with MS

 

376 full pages of:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

 

they released a "Critical" patch to remove the swastika looking character out of the codex. nothing MS does surprises me anymore

 

OK, more google. Calltaker must have been on to something.

Wikipedia
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is a 35-letter pangram (a phrase that uses all the letters of the alphabet) that has been used to test typewriters and computer keyboards because it is nicely coherent and short.

=rand (200, 99) must be used for testing?

 

They have all forgotten that CON is the console DEVICE and as such represents an operating system protected string. In the old days of DOS before EDIT or NOTEPAD, there was an easy way for a tech to create a batch file from the keyboard. Using the command line syntax:
C:\>COPY CON C:\test.bat<enter>
@ECHO Everything that I'm now typing would be entered into the TEST.BAT file. To terminate this redirection requires that you press the character combo ctrl-z. On your screen it would look like this: ^Z<ctrl-Z><enter>

Above is a legitimate batch file that will run on any windows machine that can open a command console. If you want to duplicate this for yourselves, where you see <enter> hit the Enter key, and <ctrl-Z> hit the combo Ctrl-Z. Also, the bold text is what you actually type. After it's built you'll see "1 file(s) copied" and you can then type at the prompt:
C:\>test<enter> ( the text below will appear )
Everything that I'm now typing would be entered into the TEST.BAT file. To terminate this redirection requires that you press the character combo ctrl-z. On your screen it would look like this: ^Z

 

Nice one Promethos.
That seems to be the toughest piece of the puzzle.
While googling around on these I saw many message boards with "why" and "how". But nobody knew.
As always MajorGeeks has at least one person who can connect the pieces. Very nice.:guitar

 

I was surprised to hear that the Microsoft Team didn't have anybody on staff that knows about their protected strings. Two more that come to mind are PRN and LPT1. You probably can't create a folder with those names either. Sooner or later, someone will type in those strings and voila, the Microsoft Team will be stumped again.

Edit: Just took a look at an old DOS book. Also can't use COM1, COM2 ... COM9, NUL, LPT1 ....LPT9, AUX and occasionally CLOCK$. How soon we forget.

 

Haha, you blew the doors off of that mystery.

Honestly it probably depends on which MS team they asked. The helpline team? Or the programming team?

 

Whatever team can't answer the question, obviously doesn't own any books. Of course, Bill Gates would have known, as he wrote some of the early driver code, including the notoriously crude/broken PRN code which was maintained by software engineers well past it's sell-by date. After all, who would've had the stones to suggest scrapping it???

 

Hey prometheos man your going make the WHOLE Geek world think that all us Canuck Geeks are "Old". I can just hear the youngens saying "Hey whats DOS Dude", and here I was trying to chase young Geek chicksLOL......Great memory prometheos, guess I will have to dust off the old DOS bible myself from time to time.

 

Well BCGray, I'm not exactly thaaaaat old. However, I'm of the generation that loaded boot code into computers by toggling 16 switches and an enter button. And that was just to get the darn thing to run the punched paper-tape reader with the actual start-up code which was used to control the magnetic tape drives which in turn held the daily batch routines. When that computer didn't run, tens of thousands of dollars per hour was lost. I got to be pretty fast at boot-strapping that thing after some god-awful lightning strike. Very happy days.....they were.

 

Heya a "Big Blue Boy", well I hated those darn "IBM Punch Cards" too prometheos, and those dang sixteen switches then load to memory............If they only knew....GUI schmooy, every entry of one key stroke they now make took us took us at least ten minutes, and god forbide we make a mistake, that would take hours to find, but I'm Hijacking here. PM me if you get a chance prometheos

 

How soon we forget !!
Too true, and I go back to "ye olde DOS days" Bazza

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I go back to the IBM 360, or slightly earlier. False floors, etc.
Pardon me for slightly hi-jacking also. Bazza

 

There is a cracker urban legend that says something along the lines of if you open a new word page and type your registration info at the top of the page and then type =rand (200, 99) and let it run itself out you will get a product key for the version of office you are running.

Don't bother trying it, it doesn't work.