I’ve got email from one of my friend.. unbelievable though read the explanation for all of them at the end of the post
MAGIC #1
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
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.
Noticed the weird bug? No one can explain!
MAGIC #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
=rand (200, 99)
And then press ENTER
And see the magic…..!
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(1)Because con, com, com1, aux, prn, nul, com2+, lpt1, etc. are microsoft reserved keywords. These words have specific meaning in windows and DOS environment. The user can not redefine them. They are pretty much redundant, but they are still built into the operating system and you can not create folders with those names in windows to avoid conflicts and to maintain backward compatibility. Note that con is the device name for console, prn for printer, lpt for line printer, etc. It was discovered years back.
Still if you are hell bent on beating Microsoft, Go on Make your day
You can create CON folder using following steps,
Open command line interpreter
Type mkdir slash slash dot slash d colon slash CON
Press enter and open ur d drive you can see CON folder
(2) This is a bug with all 4-3-3-5 Strings
After the ASCII-to-hex conversion of the string, Notepad rearranges the hex codes not according to ASCII standards, but to Unicode, and that messes it up.
Here’s the example:
Take “bush hid the facts”. The hex codes (they can be seen with any hex editor you want to download) for the string are:
62 75 73 68 20 68 69 64 20 74 68 65 20 66 61 63 74 73
Arrange the codes to make up Unicode characters and you get:
7562 6873 6820 6964 7420 6568 6620 6163 7473
You’ll notice that every code is hyperlinked. If you click on each one of them, you’ll see that each one represents a Chinese “letter”.
So this whole thing’s cause is the coincidence that the 18 ASCII characters happen to represent 9 Unicode characters. And, of course, Windows’ inability to determine the right encoding of the file.
Just to tickle your senses try:
“this api can break”
“this cat can split”
“jane can not dance”
“text wit hou tcaps”
“abcd efg hij klmno”
(3) This is a documented feature of Word to create text.
=rand() is a function.
the 200,99 means
200 paragraphs of 99 sentences each.
In versions up to 2003 it will be “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” In version 2007 it is better text.
This feature is turned on by DEFAULT, and is disabled when the Replace text as you type option is turned off.
To turn this option on or off
•click AutoCorrect on the Tools menu
•click AutoCorrect tab
•Replace text as you type check box.
Archive for September, 2007
Today’s Professional Management FUNDAS… I know you must have experienced these lines…
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“We will do it” means “You will do it”
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“You have done a great job” means “More work to be given to you”
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“We are working on it” means “We have not yet started working on the same”
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“Tomorrow first thing in the morning” means “Its not getting done “At least not tomorrow!”
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“After discussion we will decide-I am very open to views” means ” I have already decided , I will tell you what to do”
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“There was a slight miscommunication” means “We had actually lied”
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“Lets call a meeting and discuss” means “I have no time now, will talk later”
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“We can always do it” means “We actually cannot do the same on time”
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“We are on the right track but there needs to be a slight extension of the deadline” means “The project is screwed up, we cannot deliver on time.”
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“We had slight differences of opinion “means “We had actually fought”
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“Make a list of the work that you do and let’s see how I can help you” means “Anyway you have to find a way out no help from me”
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“You should have told me earlier” means “Well even if you told me earlier that would have made hardly any difference!”
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“We need to find out the real reason” means ” Well I will tell you where your fault is”
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“Well Family is important; your leave is always granted. Just ensure that the work is not affected,” means, “Well you know…”
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“We are a team,” means, “I am not the only one to be blamed “
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“That’s actually a good question” means “I do not know anything about it”
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“All the Best” means “You are in trouble “
From book THE LAST MUGHAL, The fall of a dynasty, Delhi, 1857, page 300-301
Zahir Dehlavi, who attended on Zafar as a page throughout the siege, saw him sink lower and lower as july gave way to August, until he reached a state approaching helpless despair. ‘He was always in a sad and melancholy mood,’ Zahir wrote long afterwards, and at ll times his eyes were full of tears. In the evenings he used to go in and sit in his oratory, the Tasbih Khana, by himself and would curse the rebels. We were instructed to be persent by turns, and one night while I was on duty, we heard the guard asking us all to be alert, and we all put on our turbans and got ready. When the king appeared, we all stood up and greeted him. The king sat in the tasbih khana on his low throne, leaning back against a bolster. Then he addressed us saying, ‘do you realize the full consequences of what is happening?’ Shahzada Hamid Khan replied, ‘After one hundred and fifty years your Majesty’s prestige has been restored, and the lost Empire of the Mughals has returned.’
The King shook his head. ‘My children,’ he said, ‘you do not understand. Listen: I did nothing to attract this destuction. I did not have treasures and riches, nor land nor Empire. I was always a beggar, a Sufi sitting in a corner in search of God, with a few people around me, eating my daily bread. But now the great fire that was lit in Meerut has, by the will of the Lord, blown over to Delhi, and it has set this great city alight. Now it seems I and my line are destined to be ruined. The name of the great Timurid [Mughal] Emperors is still alive, but soon that name will be completely destroyed and frogotten. These faithless people [The sepoys] who have rebeleed against their masters, and have come here for shelter, will all be gone before long. When these people have been unfaithful to their own leaders what can i expect of them? They have come to ruin my house, and once they have ruined ti they will flee. Then the English will cutoff my head, and those of my children, and they will display them on top of the fort. They will not spare any one of you, and fi any of you are saved, then remember what I am telling you: even when you will take a morsel of bread in your mouth it will be seized and flung far off from you, and the noble men of Hindustan will be treted like base villagers.
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