Computer takes it's own life

Fantom · 27 Sep 2007 at 18:15

burnsy2023 said:
Ahh, the notepad encoding bug, how we love you.

Burnsy

What does it say? Vista here

Butters · 27 Sep 2007 at 18:22

L337 LooX said:
What does it say? Vista here

nothing, it just encrypts it with squares

SwishSpencor · 27 Sep 2007 at 18:22

deuse said:
Load up Notepad

Type "bush hid the facts"

save the document, any name works.

Close it.

Open it again.

what you open isn't what you typed.

I'm sure we had an explanation to why it does this on here before.

Burnsy2023 · 27 Sep 2007 at 18:22

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/300088/notepad_secret_trick/

Have a look here for an explination: http://susampal.blogspot.com/2006/06/character-format-interpretation-bug-in.html

Burnsy

Stretch · 27 Sep 2007 at 18:29

I didn't think MS were allowed to put undocumented "features" in their software because the US government wouldn't buy it otherwise?

Col_M · 27 Sep 2007 at 18:33

hardc0re_tid said:
whats the name that you cannot name a folder in windows. when you try to name it with the name, it will not allow you for some reason.

All of these...
CON
PRN
AUX
NUL
LPT1
COM1

and there are others too which i'm not aware of

Camalot · 27 Sep 2007 at 18:49

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/295717/windows_xp_hidden_star_wars_movie/

From what they say, its no hidden secret, apparantly your just connecting to some server

AWBbox · 27 Sep 2007 at 20:17

The_KiD said:
Someone just showed me this and it made me laugh, but is probably old, but a nice little MS Easter Egg

click start and run and type: c:\windows\system32\msgina.dll

choose to open it with notepad (not wordpad).

Then search for "p o o r" (without quotes).

Read the whole line you find it on

I just found another thing in the same document, there's several windows logos made out of ASCII art :eek:

nikebee · 27 Sep 2007 at 21:02

Camalot said:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/295717/windows_xp_hidden_star_wars_movie/

From what they say, its no hidden secret, apparantly your just connecting to some server

As you said, thats no hidden secret at all... It's just Telnet connecting to a server which shows the animation that can be found here

http://www.asciimation.co.nz/

silversurfer · 27 Sep 2007 at 21:14

Col_M said:
All of these...
CON
PRN
AUX
NUL
LPT1
COM1

and there are others too which i'm not aware of

Is that the same in vista also?

telnet is one of the original internet protocols that predates all this fancy http stuff, its still used now. You can telnet to your router I think, its for remote server control and the original rpg/wow stuff was done in it purely in text

In that movie, telnet is the windows program (its like http, a protocol) and the towel part is the remote server (like overclockers is) that provides the stream of text that is forming the animation.

No server or switch off the dsl & they'd be no text just an error message. You could still telnet the router or computers connected locally on a lan, also maybe your printer, etc

My routers 'easter egg'

'Another Easter Egg found on Microsoft Windows XP is to simultaneously hold the Alt, shift and the number 2 keys in the Solitaire game to produce a forced win'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(virtual)

The_KiD · 27 Sep 2007 at 21:29

telnet is useful for testing port numbers and stuff like that

You can telnet to websites like google on port 80 (they dont do anything once you do but hey)

It is also used when doign stuff with Cisco equipment at times.