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nepal_republic

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I got this in email. just copied and pasted.

try out these tricks and see the magic for urself.....
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...............................

rajeshkc

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haha..that is so cool

but scary at the same time..

i didnt get #2

nepal_republic

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me too at first time wasn;t able to get 2.

Just use notepad (no text editor)

rajeshkc

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2 still not working..what is supposed to happen?

mno

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for #2 when I reopened I got this "000000" instead of "bush hid the facts"

gundaa

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thats soo weird!!!

when i did bush hid facts it turned into chinese/japanese characters.

OcRam

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Explanation of no. 2

Notepad uses the IsTextUnicode WinAPI function to recognize the text encoding of a file. This function does some statistical analysis to come up with a guess for the text encoding when special markers defining the encoding are missing. The recognition of a text file as a Unicode file can be triggered by the following:

The user enters any combination of symbols in 4 words in the length of 4 characters (first word) - 3 characters (second word) - 3 characters (third word) - 5 characters (fourth word). The words can also be random and, meaningless. (for example, type one of these: "This app can break", "bush hid the right facts", "well its the blast" or some Linux reference)
The file must be saved and Notepad closed.
After re-opening the file, the typed letters are interpreted as Unicode sequences, resulting in a garbled text with hieroglyphs or rectangles (depending on the font)

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MillionDollars

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Sorry to spoil the party.

1. Magic 1

CON is a reserved word in windows. Try creating a folder called lpt1, com1 etc. etc.

2. Magic 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_hid_the_facts

3. Magic 3

http://www.guy-sports.com/humor/urban_myth/urban_myth_rand.htm

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