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Old 16th November 2005, 03:21   #1
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Really Really Interesting

Guys Guy Guys.Something really interesting for you people to wack your brains.I dont know how many of you know this.Lets get started.

Try saving any file or try creating a folder by the name CON on your PC.I bet it just wont allow you to.And the most shocking news is even Bill Gates hasnt found out a solution to this.

Happy Renaming..

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Old 16th November 2005, 03:28   #2
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Ya man...what the heck!!!
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Old 16th November 2005, 03:31   #3
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True Man ,, Cant Be Done !!

Well i tried it and i got a msg that "the file name"CON" is a reserved device name .

Does any one know what it means . i am sure Bill gates would know yaar
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Old 16th November 2005, 03:53   #4
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It's not a bug, just a reserved name in Windows. Goto command prompt and create a new folder with the name CON. It'll work.
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Old 16th November 2005, 04:04   #5
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Its not just CON, you cannot create PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.

Its not any bug as gr8guzzler already pointed out.. These are just Reserved Device names.

Old but funny hoax...
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Old 16th November 2005, 08:05   #6
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Hmm...kept on trying and failed miserably :(, I kinda figured out only later that its a reserved word
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Old 16th November 2005, 08:54   #7
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Type "=rand(200,99)" in MS Word and see what happens..
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Old 16th November 2005, 10:12   #8
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rand is a special funciton.

200 is the number of lines, and 99 is th nuber of times per line so you will get 200*99 brown fox..."
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Old 16th November 2005, 18:37   #9
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Guys one of my friend informed about the Bill Gates stuff about even he not knowing as to how it happens and i really wonder.Even i did not believe him.But its fun.Isn't it?
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Old 16th November 2005, 19:26   #10
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Because they are all reserved names in Windows Operating Environment.
"con" is console
"aux" is auxillary
"nul" is null
And Microsoft not knowing it is crap ... it's a known fact
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Old 5th December 2005, 13:08   #11
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Try the following in Windows XP to create names with reserved words.
# Click on 'Start' --> 'Run'
# Type 'cmd'
# Type ' mkdir \\.\c:\con' - Create directory
# Type 'rmdir \\.\c:\con' - Delete directory
Bill Gates not knowing this is a gimmick to spread the message across, that's not believable at all

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Old 5th December 2005, 19:06   #12
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See here, you'll find lots of similar stuffs

www.eeggs.com

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Old 5th December 2005, 21:11   #13
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koool

Thats sum really kool tricks guyss....
cheers.....
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Old 9th December 2005, 11:08   #14
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http://gadgets.fosfor.se/the-top-10-...b-drives-ever/

usb sticks:d
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Old 9th December 2005, 11:22   #15
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Quote:
Originally Posted by navin
rand is a special funciton.

200 is the number of lines, and 99 is th nuber of times per line so you will get 200*99 brown fox..."
And it also contains all the English alphabets A-Z
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