Dear Sir
Thank you for forwarding the Three Magics of Microsoft.
On searching for the explantations I come across the following:
How the Magic works?
The following explanations are given in Wikipedia and other sources:
1.Nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the Computer
which can be named as "CON".
Explanation:
In MS-DOS, several special "device files" were available to aid in performing
certain tasks, such as clearing the screen or deleting extraneous output from a
program. In order to maintain backwards-compatibility, all versions of Windows
up to and including Windows Vista will refuse to allow you to create a file
with these "reserved" device file names. The following are some of the file
names are reserved: CON, incidentally, was a device file used to capture
whatever was printed onscreen.
* CON
* PRN
* AUX
* NUL
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.
Noticed the weird bug? No one can explain!
Explanation:
rom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bush hid the facts (sometimes also this app can break) is the common name for
a bug present in the function IsTextUnicode of Windows NT 3.5 and its
successors, including Windows XP, which causes a file of text encoded
in Windows-1252 or similar encoding to be interpreted by applications that use
it (such as Notepad) as if it were UTF-16LE, resulting in mojibake. When "bush
hid the facts" is put in a new Notepad document and saved, closed, and
reopened, the words "畢桳栠摩琠敨映捡獴" appear instead.
While "Bush hid the facts" is the sentence that is most commonly presented on
the Internet to induce the error, it does not exclusively occur with that
phrase. The bug can be triggered by many sentences with alphabetic characters
and spaces in a particular order (4-space-3-space-3-space-5),
(4-space-5-space-3-space-5), and (1-space-4-space-3-space-3) as well as other
combinations that can be parsed into valid (if nonsensical) Chinese characters
in Unicode.
The bug occurs when the ANSI string is passed to the Win32 charset
detection function IsTextUnicode with no other characters. Because of this bug,
IsTextUnicode will return TRUE, which means that applications that uses it will
incorrectly interpret it as UTF-16LE. For example, if you load a text file with
the string into a text editor that uses IsTextUnicode, the text will be
displayed as nine {4-3-3-5}, ten {4-5-3-5}, or seven {1-4-3-3} Chinese
characters—or rectangles if the language pack has not been installed. To
retrieve the original text using Notepad, bring up the "Open a file" dialog
box, select the file, select ANSI in the "Encoding" list box, and click Open.
3.Again this is something funny and can't be explained? 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 (don’t copy paste,just type)
=rand (200, 99)
And then press ENTER
And see the magic?..!
Explanation:
It is a Word function (undocumented in the online Help but documented in
the Microsoft Knowledge Base) that can be useful in certain circumstances.
The rand function
The Microsoft Knowledge Base article How to Insert Sample Text into a Document
in Word explains the use and syntax of the function: “to quickly insert sample
text into a document.” To do this, type =rand() in the document where you want
the text to appear, and then press Enter.
Note: The rand function works only if you have “Replace text as you type”
enabled in Tools | AutoCorrect Options. It will also not work if the insertion
point is immediately after a page or column break.
In Word 2003 and earlier (English versions), the inserted text is that hardy
perennial: “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,” which contains every
letter in the English alphabet. As the KB article explains, different language
versions of Word use different text.
In Word 2007 =rand() produces several paragraphs of text telling you useful
things about galleries, Quick Styles, and themes in Word 2007. If you want
quick brown foxes instead, you can use the syntax =rand.old().
S.V.SAI BABA
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From: Srinivasan MS <[email protected]>
Sent: Wed, 20 January, 2010 2:01:45 PM
Subject: Things that Microsoft can never explain..Really Gud...
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>>MAGIC #1
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>> An Indian found that nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the Computer
>>which can be named as "CON". This is something funny and inexplicable? At
>>Microsoft the whole Team, couldn't answer why this happened!
>> TRY IT NOW, IT WILL NOT CREATE A "CON" FOLDER
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>> MAGIC #2
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>> For those of you using Windows, do the following:
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>> 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.
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>> Noticed the weird bug? No one can explain!
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>> MAGIC #3
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>> Again this is something funny and can't be explained? At Microsoft the
>>whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happened!
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>> It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out yourself?
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>> Open Microsoft Word and type (don’t copy paste,just type)
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>> =rand (200, 99)
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>> And then press ENTER
>> And see the magic?..!
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>>*G**o**o**d **D**a**y** **!*
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