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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 - PRN - AUX - NUL CON, incidentally, was a device file used to capture whatever was printed onscreen. 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 <http://in.mg50.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Software_bug> present in the function IsTextUnicode of Windows NT 3.5<http://in.mg50.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Windows_NT_3.5> and its successors, including Windows XP<http://in.mg50.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Windows_XP>, which causes a file of text encoded in Windows-1252<http://in.mg50.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/Windows-1252> or similar encoding to be interpreted by applications that use it (such as Notepad) as if it were UTF-16LE <http://in.mg50.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/UTF-16>, resulting in mojibake <http://in.mg50.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/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<http://in.mg50.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/American_National_Standards_Institute> string is passed to the Win32 charset detection<http://in.mg50.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/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 <http://in.mg50.mail.yahoo.com/wiki/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 <http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1>) 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 <http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=212251>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 ------------------------------ *From:* Srinivasan MS * * *Sent by a wellwisher* * sent untested for exploration * *Subject:* Fwd: Things that Microsoft can never explain..Really Gud... Pls try the magic urself :: 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 (don’t copy paste,just type) =rand (200, 99) And then press ENTER And see the magic?..! *G**o**o**d **D**a**y** **!* cnu.pne
