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3 Interesting Facts About Microsoft Windows
1. You Can't Create A Folder Named "Con". At least, some people can't.
2. Write The Following Text Into Notepad:
"Bush Hid The Facts"
Save the file and see what happens.
3. Open Microsoft Word And Type
=Rand(200, 99)
And Press Enter. Even in Office 2013.
How'd this happen?
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is SILENCE, the second is LISTENING, the third MEMORY, the forth, PRACTICE and the fifth is TEACHING others!
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GeekBond wrote: 1. You Can't Create A Folder Named "Con"
This is because CON is a MS-DOS device file. You cannot create a directory with this name for the same reason you cannot create a directory called COM1 or COM2 etc or LPT1.
Because they are reserved for MS-DOS use.
Imagine trying to create a directory called "C:" and think of the ensuing problems from doing that. This is also why the character : is invalid for a directory/file name.
GeekBond wrote: "Bush Hid The Facts"
Opening the file shows me the exact contents that I saved into it, no change.
GeekBond wrote: Open Microsoft Word And Type
=Rand(200, 99)
http://geekswithblogs.net/kakaiya/archive/2005/06/26/44712.aspx[^]
Apparently it is called "sample text".
So no, they are not bugs.
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Which Windows OS are you running?
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is SILENCE, the second is LISTENING, the third MEMORY, the forth, PRACTICE and the fifth is TEACHING others!
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XP
You can't create those directory names on ANY version of DOS or Windows.
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Sure you can, try typing in Command Prompt
mkdir \\.\C:\NUL
You can use any of the restricted names, deleting it is the tricky part, or you could just use unlocker[^]
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is SILENCE, the second is LISTENING, the third MEMORY, the forth, PRACTICE and the fifth is TEACHING others!
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Great, I clicked the link and my AV caught several drive by download trojans.
The owner might want to check that site.
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GeekBond wrote: 1. You Can't Create A Folder Named "Con". At least, some people can't.
Read here why not[^]
GeekBond wrote: 2. Write The Following Text Into Notepad:
"Bush Hid The Facts"
Save the file and see what happens.
Nothing happens.
GeekBond wrote: 3. Open Microsoft Word And Type
=Rand(200, 99)
And Press Enter. Even in Office 2013.
This is called an Easter egg[^]
In some cases, my signature will be longer then my message...
<em style="color:red">ProgramFOX</em> ProgramFOX
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Yes, I've Windows 7, so nothing happened.
In some cases, my signature will be longer then my message...
<em style="color:red">ProgramFOX</em> ProgramFOX
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Re: In some cases, my signature will be longer then my messge...
In this instance, your signature has more spelling errors than your message 
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Oops, I didn't notice that!
Thank you!
jsc42 wrote: messge
Message! 
In some cases, my signature will be longer than my message...
<em style="color:red"> <b>ProgramFOX</b></em> ProgramFOX
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 Well spotted. Serves me right.
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GeekBond wrote: 1. You Can't Create A Folder Named "Con". At least, some people can't.
As others have said, RESERVED NAMES.
GeekBond wrote: 2. Write The Following Text Into Notepad:
"Bush Hid The Facts"
Save the file and see what happens.
Nothing on my machine (Win 7 Ultimate)
More Info Here[^]
GeekBond wrote: 3. Open Microsoft Word And Type
=Rand(200, 99)
And Press Enter. Even in Office 2013.
Easter egg, and
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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1. Correctly so, it's one of the special device names.
2. Nothing happens.
3. This is well known, it generates 200 x 99 lines of random text. You can check by using a different combination of numbers.
One of these days I'm going to think of a really clever signature.
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2. Is just a bug where certain combinations can cause Notepad to interpret the file contents as Unicode
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Try searching for "*.sin" in Windows Explorer.
John Smith
Teacher Information Technology
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... and it finds nothing.
Aparently my PC is sin free. 
Strange UI
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No sin on my pc either.
TOMZ_KV
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It finds nothing. What does that do?
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is SILENCE, the second is LISTENING, the third MEMORY, the forth, PRACTICE and the fifth is TEACHING others!
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I did not see anyting happening for No. 2.
One more intesting fact in Windows 7: If you type correct credentials during login, you are in right away. However, if you type a wrong password, it takes much longer time to get a message back.
TOMZ_KV
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Yeah, that happens.
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is SILENCE, the second is LISTENING, the third MEMORY, the forth, PRACTICE and the fifth is TEACHING others!
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I think it's because when you log on your machine cached credentials are checked first. If no cached credentials are found, then the normal conversation with SAM is taking place and it is more time taking.
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That's an intentional 1980's era security feature, and you're glad it does that
It's to increase the time it takes to try invalid passwords, thereby reducing the effectiveness of brute force attacks by trying different passwords at the login prompt.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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That is an interesting approach, simple and effective. I assume that Windows did not have a way to lock down the machine after a number of atempts at that time.
TOMZ_KV
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