Sudhakaran mullassery
Microsoft - The Magic
Bug 1: NOT A BUG. BASIC DOS RESERVED NAMES CANNOT BE USED.
It is in fact perfectly true that you cannot create a folder named "CON", nor can you rename an existing folder to "CON". However, there is no mystery surrounding this restriction whatsoever. The "team" at Microsoft, and a great many others besides, know perfectly well why you cannot name a folder "CON". "CON" and a number of other character strings are in fact reserved names that go back to the days of DOS and cannot be used to name folders or files. Other reserved names are:
PRN
AUX
NUL
LPT1
COM1
Potential drive letter - A: to Z:
A number of others
If you try to name a folder using one of these reserved names, the name will automatically revert to the default, generally "New Folder".
Depending on exactly how you save the file, you may instead receive a warning message advising that a file with that name already exists. However, even if you choose "Yes" to overwrite the existing file, you will still not be allowed* to save the file.
While there is no mystery about this issue, it might have saved user confusion if Windows displayed an explanatory error message when attempting to create a folder with a reserved name as well.
BUG 2 : Silly programming bug.No conspiracy theory. happens in other letters too. ANSI UNICODE bug.
This is a rather mundane programming bug. It seems probable that a certain combination and/or frequency of letters in the character string cause Notepad to misinterpret the encoding of the file when it is re-opened. If the file is originally saved as "Unicode" rather than "ANSI" the text displays correctly. Older versions of Notepad such as those that came with Windows 95, 98 or ME do not include Unicode support so the error does not occur.
So, nothing weird here at all...except perhaps for the fact that someone, somewhere had nothing better to do than turn a simple software glitch into another lame conspiracy theory. other examples: try "Bill fed the goats" or "hhhh hhh hhh hhhhh" . Many sentences which has character strings in the pattern 4 letters, 3 letters, 3 letters and 5 letters will give the same result.
BUG 3: NO MAGIC HERE. These Rand() is an intended function for testing multiple sentences fast for microsoft word designed specifically BY MICROSOFT.
Using the rand() function in the way described automatically adds several sentences and paragraphs that repeat the words, The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. These words are often used for testing because, together, they contain all the letters in the English alphabet in one concise and coherent sentence. Such a sentence is known as a pangram.
You can alter the results of the rand() function by adding numbers in the round brackets. The first number controls the number of paragraphs while the second number controls the number of sentences in each paragraph. For example, using "rand(3,5)" will add three paragraphs of five sentences each.
Far from being a mystery, this is a well-documented feature of Microsoft Word that simply allows sample text to be quickly added to a document for testing purposes.Microsoft ofcourse knows this and you can get more details on how this function works on the following link:
http://support.
microsoft. com/default. aspx?scid= kb%3Ben-us% 3B212251 Regards,
Shiman Gangadharan
From: MULLASSERY SUDHAKARAN [mailto:mksudhakara
n@hotmail. com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:50 AM
To: shiman.g@sesindia.com; govindbrao@yahoo. com
Subject: FW: [Keralites] Fw: Microsoft - The MagicMicrosoft - The Magic
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................ ......... ......
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