Microsoft’s Crazy Facts…….

A colleague at work had gotten this from the Net. Please check it out and please, please, please try to explain. They’re weird. Here it is:

Microsoft’s Crazy Information

Magic #1

Nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere regarding the computer that could be called because “CON”. This might be something cute cool…and unbelievable. .. At Microsoft the complete Team, could not answer the reason why this gone wrong! TRY IT Today, IT WILL LIKELY NOT CREATE “CON” FOLDER

Magic #2

This really is something attractive cool as well as clean…and additionally unbelievable. .. At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, could not answer why this happened! Try it out yourself…

Open Microsoft Statement and type”
=rand (200, 99)

As well as then hit ENTER

MAGIC #3

For those of you using Windows, do the following:
1. Open a particular empty notepad file
2. Type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes)
3. Conserve it as whatever you prefer.
4. Close it, and also re-open it.

Is it just a really strange bug?

I know I am straying just a bit off center here dealing alongside what exactly is, basically, just a forwarded urban legend e-mail.

However the neat thing about every one of the 3 of these “magics” would be that areas are real, parts are false, and also all have completely rational reasons.

Initial, let’s throw out the falsehood: plenty of people at Microsoft can tell you exactly what’s going on in each of all these instances.

Even maybe Bill himself, though he’d did not really get dragged into something silly such as this.

#1: you can’t create a folder called CON.

True.

In reality, I think you’d have to jump through a couple hoops to get a file known as CON because well. There may be techniques to force one and/or some other, however in general, you can’t create a file also known as CON.

“CON” is a reserved name that dates in return to the days of MS-DOS and additionally is brief for “CONsole”. The idea is that any program could write to the screen or perhaps read from the keyboard simply by starting and additionally performing on a file by the name of CON. Try this sometime within a Windows Command Prompt:

COPY readme.txt CON

“None of all these are really ‘magic’ at all. They’re just meant actions or explainable pests.”

For the example “readme.txt” is just about any convenient text file you have laying about. Which will result the file to generally be “copied to the console” – i.e., shown throughout the screen.

Different possibly booked filenames consist of things like COM1, COM2, as well as so on for your own serial or perhaps modem ports, and LPT1, LPT2 and so forth for printer ports.

#2: =rand(200,99) in Microsoft Phrase outputs a bunch of stuff.

Real.

The rand() function is in Word particularly to automatically generate text. In some versions it produces the string “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” (every character inside the standard English alphabet). Apparently, it may generate some other text in different versions.

It’s intentional, since documented here in Microsoft’s knowledgebase.

The first quantity, by the way, is the amount of paragraphs of automatic text to generate, and also the 2nd is the number of lines in each paragraph.

For more fun, try the =lorem() function; same idea, different text.
#3: “Bush hid the facts” in notepad comes back Chinese or different characters.
True. (Depending on your own adaptation of Notepad.)
I hadn’t in reality heard about this, however positive sufficient – a quick Google gave me the answer right away.
It’s a bug in a couple versions of notepad which is nothing more than misinterpreting a particular ANSI text file since Unicode. While “Bush hid the facts” is popular among conspiracy theorists and internet meme generators, there are really several different keyword patterns that can generate the same issue.
Since I replied, it’s a known bug in Notepad. It appears to have been fixed in recent versions and also upgrades of both XP and additionally Vista.
It’s furthermore recorded more totally here upon Wikipedia.
None of these are really “magic” at every one of the. They’re just meant actions or explainable bugs.