Computer takes it's own life

[The_KiD]

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

T h e c o m p u t e r g o t v e r y p o o r l y a n d d e c i d e d t o e n d i t ' s o w n s u f f e r i n g

 

[Tom0]

cannot find "poor"

edit: oh wait p o o r... that worked..

 

[meghatronic]

Also, that's **** grammar. Typical computer.

 

[p4radox]

cannot find "poor"

You need spaces between each letter.

Pretty cool.

 

[SGCWill]

LOL found it.

Reminds me of Rise of the Triads and all its' easter eggs.

 

[Luke]

Try typing p o o r as he said.

 

[markk]

Who actually finds these things?

 

[Ja (:]

W h y d i d t h e c o m p u t e r s h u t d o w n u n e x p e c t e d l y ?  ‚ T h e c o m p u t e r g o t v e r y p o o r l y a n d d e c i d e d t o e n d i t ' s o w n s u f f e r i n g .

^ Bit before it too

 

[4p]

Who actually finds these things?

I know yea...

 

[hardc0re_tid]

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.

 

[Mephisto]

THIS is a computer taking its own life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJDztqCG91g

 

[agw_01]

W h y d i d t h e c o m p u t e r s h u t d o w n u n e x p e c t e d l y ?  ‚ T h e c o m p u t e r g o t v e r y p o o r l y a n d d e c i d e d t o e n d i t ' s o w n s u f f e r i n g .

^ Bit before it too

ROFL, computer tells jokes.

 

[MookJong]

Anyone got any more eastereggs, I remember the cool one in Windows 98 where you had to click on all the different cities on the time zone map.

Never really seen many for XP

 

[deuse]

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.

 

[Beerbaron]

argh none of this works in vista

 

[agw_01]

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.

 

[G-MAN2004]

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.

Lol, wtf

 

[Greenlizard0]

Lol thanks - anybody know of any other cool ones?

 

[Burnsy2023]

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.

Ahh, the notepad encoding bug, how we love you.

Burnsy

 

[Scania]

Lol thanks - anybody know of any other cool ones?

1. Find an old BBC Micro or a ROM image of the operating system.
2. If a BBC Micro, extract the OS ROM (not the BASIC ROM) and read the contents.
3. Look at locations 3C00-3EFF. These are 'dead' space in the ROM, normally hidden by custom hardware.
4. Marvel at how many names you can fit into 768 bytes!


The BBC micro O/S had a catch-all error message it used when it couldn't make sense of what you'd typed at the command prompt.

It simply said:

"Silly"

I miss my Beeb.