odd..
In Microsoft Windows
- Create a New folder ( you can right click inside any folder, or on your desktop, select ‘New’ then ‘Folder’)
- Try to name the folder ‘CON’, without the quotes
And one more, just cause..
- Open an empty notepad file
- Type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes)
- Save it as whatever you want.
- Close it, and re-open it.
November 27th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
I love this kind of thing!
November 27th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
I think the “con” thing is just because the name is used for system resources or hidden files. That “bush” trick is definitely an intentional easter egg. It only seems to work exactly the way MP instructed, with no other text on the sheet, and only the first time you save it.
November 27th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
When you reopen the text file and paste the stuff into Word it’s all chinese symbols. Don’t know if that’s supposed to happen, but i thought it was cool.
November 27th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Anyone put it in google translate?
comes up with
“畂Benren Mount琠敨Ying seized獴”
November 27th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
conspiracy!
November 27th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Stop it, guys :)
CON is a reserved word in Windows. There are others like that too.
About the notepad thing:
tuka ima bug golqm - that works also
It’s a charset thing - http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/03/24/95235.aspx
November 27th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
oh, i don’t know what happens :(
i guess i’m both happy and sad that i’m a leopard user
November 28th, 2007 at 9:00 am
thanks strahil. I can always count on you guys to explain things I can’t!
November 28th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
The bug will manifest itself with many sentences of a particular structure: One word with 4 letters, two or more words with 3 letters, one word with 5 letters. Except for the starting character all the letters must be lower case. Other phrases that will expose the same bug are: “Bill can not dance”, “John has the parts”, “this app can break”, and “Feel the new power”.
November 28th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
that is cool calenox!
January 5th, 2008 at 8:47 am
_Howd you get these_ this is the most fun I have had in hours.
January 5th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
hours of scouring the web
I am glad you are enjoying it!