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		<title>By: Angel - win $100 on my blog</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-24677</link>
		<author>Angel - win $100 on my blog</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-24677</guid>
					<description>While these are cool, I don't believe that Microsoft can't explain them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While these are cool, I don&#8217;t believe that Microsoft can&#8217;t explain them.</p>
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		<title>By: Eine Sammlung an &#8220;Ostereiern&#8221; (Easter Eggs) - Tolle Webseiten</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-24682</link>
		<author>Eine Sammlung an &#8220;Ostereiern&#8221; (Easter Eggs) - Tolle Webseiten</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-24682</guid>
					<description>[...] bin ich durch einen Post von Desi Baba wieder darauf aufmerksam geworden, dass wenn man z.B. in Word =rand(200,99) eingibt und Enter [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] bin ich durch einen Post von Desi Baba wieder darauf aufmerksam geworden, dass wenn man z.B. in Word =rand(200,99) eingibt und Enter [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Dj Flush</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-24704</link>
		<author>Dj Flush</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-24704</guid>
					<description>Magic #1 is not really a magic and Microsoft has gave an explanation for it

The reason why you cannot save a folder named CON is because it is a function used by Windows itself</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Magic #1 is not really a magic and Microsoft has gave an explanation for it</p>
<p>The reason why you cannot save a folder named CON is because it is a function used by Windows itself</p>
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		<title>By: Fouad Zaryouh Blog &#187; Microsoft Secret Revealed for Desinotes.com</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-24706</link>
		<author>Fouad Zaryouh Blog &#187; Microsoft Secret Revealed for Desinotes.com</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-24706</guid>
					<description>[...] &#160;Desinotes.com is a great blog about online business, the articles are sometime quit interesting to read. I was looking at my subscribed RSS using NetVibes of course when I saw the last post by desinotes.com titled&#8220;Three Things that Microsoft Can?t Explain!&#8221; [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] &nbsp;Desinotes.com is a great blog about online business, the articles are sometime quit interesting to read. I was looking at my subscribed RSS using NetVibes of course when I saw the last post by desinotes.com titled&#8220;Three Things that Microsoft Can?t Explain!&#8221; [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: fouad zaryouh</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-24707</link>
		<author>fouad zaryouh</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-24707</guid>
					<description>Hi,

Hey I found all the answers for the bugs !
http://www.zaryouh.com/2007/08/21/microsoft-secret-revealed-for-desinotescom/


take care and keep doing good job.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Hey I found all the answers for the bugs !<br />
<a href="http://www.zaryouh.com/2007/08/21/microsoft-secret-revealed-for-desinotescom/" rel="nofollow">http://www.zaryouh.com/2007/08/21/microsoft-secret-revealed-for-desinotescom/</a></p>
<p>take care and keep doing good job.</p>
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		<title>By: Brad</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-24753</link>
		<author>Brad</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-24753</guid>
					<description>Interesting.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting.</p>
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		<title>By: nismar</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-24781</link>
		<author>nismar</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-24781</guid>
					<description>Tested the third magic rand(200,99) Interesting. Keep helping new bloggers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tested the third magic rand(200,99) Interesting. Keep helping new bloggers.</p>
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		<title>By: nelly</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-24800</link>
		<author>nelly</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-24800</guid>
					<description>Hey like the magic.. in the Magic 3 i tired others numbers like rand (199, 99) or rand (200, 98) but the same thing come on the screen.. check it out..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey like the magic.. in the Magic 3 i tired others numbers like rand (199, 99) or rand (200, 98) but the same thing come on the screen.. check it out..</p>
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		<title>By: Vikas</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-24861</link>
		<author>Vikas</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-24861</guid>
					<description>=rand (100) 

Try this and you will get the same result as #3</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>=rand (100) </p>
<p>Try this and you will get the same result as #3</p>
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		<title>By: agentn</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25155</link>
		<author>agentn</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25155</guid>
					<description>Very cool!  Switch to mac, that's what I say!  :)

Submitted this post to http://www.charchaa.com/three_strange_things_microsoft_cant_explain_on_windows</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very cool!  Switch to mac, that&#8217;s what I say!  <img src='http://desinotes.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Submitted this post to <a href="http://www.charchaa.com/three_strange_things_microsoft_cant_explain_on_windows" rel="nofollow">http://www.charchaa.com/three_strange_things_microsoft_cant_explain_on_windows</a></p>
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		<title>By: himanshu</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25293</link>
		<author>himanshu</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25293</guid>
					<description>It's a test feature. It's been in Word for a long time.

You can vary the numbers to get a different number of results. The first number is the amount of lines, and the second the amount of times the sentence is printed per line.

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet. As such, it's a convenient test phrase when testing things like fonts and markup.

testing take efforts :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s a test feature. It&#8217;s been in Word for a long time.</p>
<p>You can vary the numbers to get a different number of results. The first number is the amount of lines, and the second the amount of times the sentence is printed per line.</p>
<p>The sentence &#8220;The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog&#8221; is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the alphabet. As such, it&#8217;s a convenient test phrase when testing things like fonts and markup.</p>
<p>testing take efforts <img src='http://desinotes.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /></p>
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		<title>By: Mukund Lahoty</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25444</link>
		<author>Mukund Lahoty</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25444</guid>
					<description>The last one is very common it was even in Chetan hagats novel....
The second one did not work on my vista and the first one was admittedly interesting.....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The last one is very common it was even in Chetan hagats novel&#8230;.<br />
The second one did not work on my vista and the first one was admittedly interesting&#8230;..</p>
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		<title>By: XippiX.nl &#124; De Esmée Denters onder de weblogs! &#187; Wat Microsoft niet kan</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25617</link>
		<author>XippiX.nl &#124; De Esmée Denters onder de weblogs! &#187; Wat Microsoft niet kan</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25617</guid>
					<description>[...] Microsoft niet kan verklaren is bijvoorbeeld waarom het aanmaken van een nieuwe map met het woord &#8220;CON&#8221; niet kan. Zo [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] Microsoft niet kan verklaren is bijvoorbeeld waarom het aanmaken van een nieuwe map met het woord &#8220;CON&#8221; niet kan. Zo [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Fred Garvin</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25628</link>
		<author>Fred Garvin</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25628</guid>
					<description>CON is short for console and is a reserved word used by the system.  Not really that hard to figure out.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CON is short for console and is a reserved word used by the system.  Not really that hard to figure out.</p>
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		<title>By: Tofudisan</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25634</link>
		<author>Tofudisan</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25634</guid>
					<description>"=rand (x,y)" (where x = any number and y </description>
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		<title>By: Jay</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25641</link>
		<author>Jay</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25641</guid>
					<description>#1 - Easy.  It's because they're restricted keywords held over from DOS.  Anyone who has worked (or developed) on MS operating systems for a long time should know that.  Microsoft can definitely explain that - they even fixed an issue relating to it several years ago.  

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/fq00-017.mspx

CON  - Console
LPT - Line Printer
COM1 - Serial Port 1
COM2 - Serial Port 2

Numerous others.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#1 - Easy.  It&#8217;s because they&#8217;re restricted keywords held over from DOS.  Anyone who has worked (or developed) on MS operating systems for a long time should know that.  Microsoft can definitely explain that - they even fixed an issue relating to it several years ago.  </p>
<p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/fq00-017.mspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/fq00-017.mspx</a></p>
<p>CON  - Console<br />
LPT - Line Printer<br />
COM1 - Serial Port 1<br />
COM2 - Serial Port 2</p>
<p>Numerous others.</p>
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		<title>By: Nick Hegenbarth</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25644</link>
		<author>Nick Hegenbarth</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25644</guid>
					<description>The sequence “CON” is an old MS-DOS reserved word. “CON” means console. Here are the other reserved words: PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The sequence “CON” is an old MS-DOS reserved word. “CON” means console. Here are the other reserved words: PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9.</p>
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		<title>By: Tim</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25645</link>
		<author>Tim</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25645</guid>
					<description>Actually I remember back in the old DOS days, when you didn't have an editor on your boot disk you could do a:
copy con 

What you type from here on is saved in the file as an exact copy. So you had to write the contents of the file without errors and end the file with ctrl-m</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually I remember back in the old DOS days, when you didn&#8217;t have an editor on your boot disk you could do a:<br />
copy con </p>
<p>What you type from here on is saved in the file as an exact copy. So you had to write the contents of the file without errors and end the file with ctrl-m</p>
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		<title>By: Tim</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25646</link>
		<author>Tim</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25646</guid>
					<description>Should have said "copy con somefile"</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Should have said &#8220;copy con somefile&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: lw64</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25653</link>
		<author>lw64</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25653</guid>
					<description>Magic 2 is just a error in notepad, you can get the error with words other than Bush hid the facts, as long as the First word is exactly 4 letters long, the second word has to be 3 letters long, the third word also has to be exactly 3 letters long and the fourth word has to be 5 letters long, so you could type ffff fff fff fffff and get the same result</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Magic 2 is just a error in notepad, you can get the error with words other than Bush hid the facts, as long as the First word is exactly 4 letters long, the second word has to be 3 letters long, the third word also has to be exactly 3 letters long and the fourth word has to be 5 letters long, so you could type ffff fff fff fffff and get the same result</p>
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		<title>By: Aaron</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25657</link>
		<author>Aaron</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25657</guid>
					<description>i did  =rand (200, 98) and it did 231 pages of it, =rand (10, 0) goes to line 11; its real weird
=rand (01, 01) does one line of it :)
theres too many errors like this to count, because its windows
and bill gates wouldn't no anyway he just stole the software and patched it together to make an OS</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i did  =rand (200, 98) and it did 231 pages of it, =rand (10, 0) goes to line 11; its real weird<br />
=rand (01, 01) does one line of it <img src='http://desinotes.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
theres too many errors like this to count, because its windows<br />
and bill gates wouldn&#8217;t no anyway he just stole the software and patched it together to make an OS</p>
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		<title>By: Aaron brown</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25659</link>
		<author>Aaron brown</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25659</guid>
					<description>they prob. can explain it all, they just don't want to like how the snoop in ur files every time ur connected to the internet :&#124; 
they no, believe me they no it all :(</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>they prob. can explain it all, they just don&#8217;t want to like how the snoop in ur files every time ur connected to the internet <img src='http://desinotes.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_neutral.gif' alt=':|' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
they no, believe me they no it all <img src='http://desinotes.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /></p>
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		<title>By: Vinay</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25747</link>
		<author>Vinay</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-25747</guid>
					<description>Thanks to all who have commented and clarified. The post has received overwhelming response. My question is: If Microsoft well knows these things why don't they have a "Dialog Box" pop up when a user performs this action saying that "CON" is a reserved function or that the others are "Test Features" or whatever. Microsoft is well known for giving detailed &#38; unnecessary instructions (esp by pop up boxes) for every silly thing, how come they missed out leaving this unanswered to an user? A Software Techie might figure this out; but for the average Joe it will look like Magic - As it did to me!   - Vinay</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks to all who have commented and clarified. The post has received overwhelming response. My question is: If Microsoft well knows these things why don&#8217;t they have a &#8220;Dialog Box&#8221; pop up when a user performs this action saying that &#8220;CON&#8221; is a reserved function or that the others are &#8220;Test Features&#8221; or whatever. Microsoft is well known for giving detailed &amp; unnecessary instructions (esp by pop up boxes) for every silly thing, how come they missed out leaving this unanswered to an user? A Software Techie might figure this out; but for the average Joe it will look like Magic - As it did to me!   - Vinay</p>
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		<title>By: Scott</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26042</link>
		<author>Scott</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26042</guid>
					<description>In the RAND one, the first number is the number of paragraphs, the second number is the number of sentences in each paragraph.</description>
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		<title>By: Nick Cellino</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26110</link>
		<author>Nick Cellino</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26110</guid>
					<description>A dialog box does pop up when a user tries to name a file with the forbidden words. The message reads, "This file name is reserved by Windows. Choose another name and try again".</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A dialog box does pop up when a user tries to name a file with the forbidden words. The message reads, &#8220;This file name is reserved by Windows. Choose another name and try again&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: 3 cose che Microsoft non potrà mai spiegare &#171; chi non mi ama mi tema</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26111</link>
		<author>3 cose che Microsoft non potrà mai spiegare &#171; chi non mi ama mi tema</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26111</guid>
					<description>[...] ps. quest&#8217;elenco è in parte una traduzione di questo articolo [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] ps. quest&#8217;elenco è in parte una traduzione di questo articolo [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Rash</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26116</link>
		<author>Rash</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26116</guid>
					<description>As I'm sure a lot of people have said, but all these things have been explained. It's nothing weird about any of them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As I&#8217;m sure a lot of people have said, but all these things have been explained. It&#8217;s nothing weird about any of them.</p>
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		<title>By: Twoply</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26175</link>
		<author>Twoply</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 22:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26175</guid>
					<description>The European Union has got it right,
Just slowly leave windows and go linux.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The European Union has got it right,<br />
Just slowly leave windows and go linux.</p>
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		<title>By: CX</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26222</link>
		<author>CX</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26222</guid>
					<description>I use a Mac now, switched to mac instead of upgrading to Vista, well NEway, I've seen the 1st one and the third one but what happens when you type in Bush hid the facts??</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I use a Mac now, switched to mac instead of upgrading to Vista, well NEway, I&#8217;ve seen the 1st one and the third one but what happens when you type in Bush hid the facts??</p>
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		<title>By: Bigduke</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26229</link>
		<author>Bigduke</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26229</guid>
					<description>OK so I checked up what the notepad bug was, apaprently those boxes belong to the Chinese character set under unicode and when translated using google translator comes out to be "Offer Benren Mount Tou video games seized Meng", still reading up to find the reason.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK so I checked up what the notepad bug was, apaprently those boxes belong to the Chinese character set under unicode and when translated using google translator comes out to be &#8220;Offer Benren Mount Tou video games seized Meng&#8221;, still reading up to find the reason.</p>
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		<title>By: Brian</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26235</link>
		<author>Brian</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26235</guid>
					<description>The notepad bug is due to a faulty implementation of unicode detection.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad#Unicode_detection</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The notepad bug is due to a faulty implementation of unicode detection.  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad#Unicode_detection" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad#Unicode_detection</a></p>
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		<title>By: Jill.</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26450</link>
		<author>Jill.</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26450</guid>
					<description>it has nothing to do w/ "bush"- it has do do w/ the # of characters. type something in to a new text file w/the same amt of characters as" bush hid the facts" and see what happens

jill</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it has nothing to do w/ &#8220;bush&#8221;- it has do do w/ the # of characters. type something in to a new text file w/the same amt of characters as&#8221; bush hid the facts&#8221; and see what happens</p>
<p>jill</p>
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		<title>By: creepyron</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26536</link>
		<author>creepyron</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26536</guid>
					<description>OMG ... i don't believe this these are freaking crazy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OMG &#8230; i don&#8217;t believe this these are freaking crazy.</p>
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		<title>By: wrxtrash</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26575</link>
		<author>wrxtrash</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26575</guid>
					<description>"CON" is a name of device - in Windows you cannot name a file like a device. You're so smart and you forgot old DOS? How did you create file in it" Hint: "copy CON ..."

"Bush" is just and easter-egg, not a bug. rand() probably too, or it is some debug function they forgot to remove. Notice it is similar to Excel function call.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;CON&#8221; is a name of device - in Windows you cannot name a file like a device. You&#8217;re so smart and you forgot old DOS? How did you create file in it&#8221; Hint: &#8220;copy CON &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Bush&#8221; is just and easter-egg, not a bug. rand() probably too, or it is some debug function they forgot to remove. Notice it is similar to Excel function call.</p>
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		<title>By: Someone</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26607</link>
		<author>Someone</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26607</guid>
					<description>Those things you call unexplainable are all easy to explain.
The 1st is because it's a windows function (con meaning console).
The 2nd is because of notepad not knowing which encoding to use when opening the file.
The 3rd one is just an easter egg.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those things you call unexplainable are all easy to explain.<br />
The 1st is because it&#8217;s a windows function (con meaning console).<br />
The 2nd is because of notepad not knowing which encoding to use when opening the file.<br />
The 3rd one is just an easter egg.</p>
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		<title>By: Stefano Johnson</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26678</link>
		<author>Stefano Johnson</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-26678</guid>
					<description>For #3.  "=rand (200,99)" means 200 paragraphs with 99 sentences per paragraph. "=rand (200)" is the same as "=rand (200,5)". (200,99) seems to be the upper limit. 9 words per sentence... I made an excel chart... I was bored... OMFG... I'm a nerd.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For #3.  &#8220;=rand (200,99)&#8221; means 200 paragraphs with 99 sentences per paragraph. &#8220;=rand (200)&#8221; is the same as &#8220;=rand (200,5)&#8221;. (200,99) seems to be the upper limit. 9 words per sentence&#8230; I made an excel chart&#8230; I was bored&#8230; OMFG&#8230; I&#8217;m a nerd.</p>
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		<title>By: spooky</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-27003</link>
		<author>spooky</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-27003</guid>
					<description>MS doesn't explain easter eggs because no one explains easter eggs.  Almost every OS has them.  They're little gifts from the programmers to those who can find them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MS doesn&#8217;t explain easter eggs because no one explains easter eggs.  Almost every OS has them.  They&#8217;re little gifts from the programmers to those who can find them.</p>
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		<title>By: ¡Tres cosas que Microsoft no puede explicar! &#171; Breaking News (?)</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-27004</link>
		<author>¡Tres cosas que Microsoft no puede explicar! &#171; Breaking News (?)</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-27004</guid>
					<description>[...] Fuente Translation: Strellyta! [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] Fuente Translation: Strellyta! [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Amol Tarte</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-27699</link>
		<author>Amol Tarte</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-27699</guid>
					<description>Its Amazing! I knew 2 of the 3 magics but I didnt know about Notapad!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its Amazing! I knew 2 of the 3 magics but I didnt know about Notapad!</p>
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		<title>By: Senan</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-27827</link>
		<author>Senan</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-27827</guid>
					<description>I have been using number 3 as a teacher for over 4 years when I wanted students to place text on a page. You can do the same in Excel except it looks like this:

=rand()*100

Then fill down to generate random numbers</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been using number 3 as a teacher for over 4 years when I wanted students to place text on a page. You can do the same in Excel except it looks like this:</p>
<p>=rand()*100</p>
<p>Then fill down to generate random numbers</p>
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		<title>By: Nathan Pinno</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-28239</link>
		<author>Nathan Pinno</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-28239</guid>
					<description>Definately the 3 coolest errors in Microsoft Products. Anyone know of any other?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Definately the 3 coolest errors in Microsoft Products. Anyone know of any other?</p>
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		<title>By: WhiteEagle&#8217;s Aerie and Blog &#187; Here&#8217;s a cool post about MS bugs&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-28240</link>
		<author>WhiteEagle&#8217;s Aerie and Blog &#187; Here&#8217;s a cool post about MS bugs&#8230;</author>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-28240</guid>
					<description>[...] this is a cool post about 3 popular well-known bugs in Microsoft products. All are classics, and even [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] this is a cool post about 3 popular well-known bugs in Microsoft products. All are classics, and even [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Jason</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-28387</link>
		<author>Jason</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-28387</guid>
					<description>MAGIC 3 
is not really a bug
and can be explained by microsoft
its actually a feature of word 
put there to create random text however long you want
(hence the 'rand')</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MAGIC 3<br />
is not really a bug<br />
and can be explained by microsoft<br />
its actually a feature of word<br />
put there to create random text however long you want<br />
(hence the &#8216;rand&#8217;)</p>
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		<title>By: Jason</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-28388</link>
		<author>Jason</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-28388</guid>
					<description>also in notepad if you write
'this app can break' it does the same thing</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>also in notepad if you write<br />
&#8216;this app can break&#8217; it does the same thing</p>
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		<title>By: kishor patil</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-29231</link>
		<author>kishor patil</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-29231</guid>
					<description>it is really works but how could i get more like this</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it is really works but how could i get more like this</p>
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		<title>By: Ravi Prasad</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-29463</link>
		<author>Ravi Prasad</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-29463</guid>
					<description>chk dis out ....this guy seems to be a expert

http://arunonfire.blogspot.com/2007/08/create-folder-named-con-in-windows.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>chk dis out &#8230;.this guy seems to be a expert</p>
<p><a href="http://arunonfire.blogspot.com/2007/08/create-folder-named-con-in-windows.html" rel="nofollow">http://arunonfire.blogspot.com/2007/08/create-folder-named-con-in-windows.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Sam Nadir</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-29466</link>
		<author>Sam Nadir</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-29466</guid>
					<description>cool man..this really explains how to create the CON folder

http://arunonfire.blogspot.com/2007/08/create-folder-named-con-in-windows.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>cool man..this really explains how to create the CON folder</p>
<p><a href="http://arunonfire.blogspot.com/2007/08/create-folder-named-con-in-windows.html" rel="nofollow">http://arunonfire.blogspot.com/2007/08/create-folder-named-con-in-windows.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Mike</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-30898</link>
		<author>Mike</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-30898</guid>
					<description>I wonder if these will work on Vista!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wonder if these will work on Vista!</p>
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		<title>By: Eddie Starr</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-31466</link>
		<author>Eddie Starr</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-31466</guid>
					<description>Hey everyone, thanks for being awesome!
Please help support me, http://www.starrsearch.net</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey everyone, thanks for being awesome!<br />
Please help support me, <a href="http://www.starrsearch.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.starrsearch.net</a></p>
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		<title>By: chx</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-31821</link>
		<author>chx</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-31821</guid>
					<description>FYI

CON is a virtual file for the display screen

try copying a file to CON and you'll see it displayed on the screen.

type this in dos:

copy sometextfile.txt CON

and you'll get sometexfile.txt content displayed on the DOS screen.

thus the reason why you can't name a file CON

if I remember correctly, there are also PRN which redirects to your printer, so if you want to print some thing in MS-DOS, you'd type

echo Hello World! &#62; PRN

or

copy myfile.txt PRN

it's a reminiscent of those DOS days.

and please.. don't say bill gates can't explain it unless you've asked him yourself.

that's just b.s.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>FYI</p>
<p>CON is a virtual file for the display screen</p>
<p>try copying a file to CON and you&#8217;ll see it displayed on the screen.</p>
<p>type this in dos:</p>
<p>copy sometextfile.txt CON</p>
<p>and you&#8217;ll get sometexfile.txt content displayed on the DOS screen.</p>
<p>thus the reason why you can&#8217;t name a file CON</p>
<p>if I remember correctly, there are also PRN which redirects to your printer, so if you want to print some thing in MS-DOS, you&#8217;d type</p>
<p>echo Hello World! &gt; PRN</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>copy myfile.txt PRN</p>
<p>it&#8217;s a reminiscent of those DOS days.</p>
<p>and please.. don&#8217;t say bill gates can&#8217;t explain it unless you&#8217;ve asked him yourself.</p>
<p>that&#8217;s just b.s.</p>
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		<title>By: zorawar</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-32688</link>
		<author>zorawar</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-32688</guid>
					<description>1. We can create a folder named CON or LPT or COM by a
simple way.
Right click and do create folder process. While naming
the folder, type 'CON' and Hold ALT key &#38; press the
number 255.
EX 'CON' + (hold alt + '255'). 

This process would create a folder named CON and a
space with it. You cannot explictely give a space
because windows cuts off the excess spaces before or
after the name.
 
2. Is the difference between ASCII and Unicode. It's just a matter of Notepad defaults. You see, when you save the file, in the "Encoding" field, the default drop-down is set to ANSI. So, by default, Notepad saves as ANSI. But if you do a File -&#62; Open, the default Encoding is set to Unicode. That's exactly what happens when you double click a saved file. Notepad knows the path, but not the Encoding. So it uses the default Unicode encoding, which spits the Chinese characters as explained above. 
And that's about it. No easter eggs, no conspiracies, no Bush interventions. Just plain old Microsoft. 

NOTE:

There are other strings that cause Notepad to screw up, including "this app can break", "this api can break", "this cat can split", "jane can not dance", "text wit hou tcaps" and even "abcd efg hij klmno" and "xxxx xxx xxx xxxxx". 


3. "rand means random in almost all programming languages. This function is
provided by Microsoft to generate random text in documents for testing 
purposes. If you change the numbers in paranthesis, it will change the 
number of sentences it generates. The first number is the number of
paragraphs it will generate and the second number is the number of sentences 
to each paragraph. Try it."</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1. We can create a folder named CON or LPT or COM by a<br />
simple way.<br />
Right click and do create folder process. While naming<br />
the folder, type &#8216;CON&#8217; and Hold ALT key &amp; press the<br />
number 255.<br />
EX &#8216;CON&#8217; + (hold alt + &#8216;255&#8242;). </p>
<p>This process would create a folder named CON and a<br />
space with it. You cannot explictely give a space<br />
because windows cuts off the excess spaces before or<br />
after the name.</p>
<p>2. Is the difference between ASCII and Unicode. It&#8217;s just a matter of Notepad defaults. You see, when you save the file, in the &#8220;Encoding&#8221; field, the default drop-down is set to ANSI. So, by default, Notepad saves as ANSI. But if you do a File -&gt; Open, the default Encoding is set to Unicode. That&#8217;s exactly what happens when you double click a saved file. Notepad knows the path, but not the Encoding. So it uses the default Unicode encoding, which spits the Chinese characters as explained above.<br />
And that&#8217;s about it. No easter eggs, no conspiracies, no Bush interventions. Just plain old Microsoft. </p>
<p>NOTE:</p>
<p>There are other strings that cause Notepad to screw up, including &#8220;this app can break&#8221;, &#8220;this api can break&#8221;, &#8220;this cat can split&#8221;, &#8220;jane can not dance&#8221;, &#8220;text wit hou tcaps&#8221; and even &#8220;abcd efg hij klmno&#8221; and &#8220;xxxx xxx xxx xxxxx&#8221;. </p>
<p>3. &#8220;rand means random in almost all programming languages. This function is<br />
provided by Microsoft to generate random text in documents for testing<br />
purposes. If you change the numbers in paranthesis, it will change the<br />
number of sentences it generates. The first number is the number of<br />
paragraphs it will generate and the second number is the number of sentences<br />
to each paragraph. Try it.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Ghillie Suits &#187; Three Things that Microsoft Can&#8217;t Explain! by Blogging with Desi Baba</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-46429</link>
		<author>Ghillie Suits &#187; Three Things that Microsoft Can&#8217;t Explain! by Blogging with Desi Baba</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-46429</guid>
					<description>[...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here&#8217;s a quick excerpt [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here&#8217;s a quick excerpt [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Ghillie Suits &#187; Three Things that Microsoft Can&#8217;t Explain!</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-51052</link>
		<author>Ghillie Suits &#187; Three Things that Microsoft Can&#8217;t Explain!</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-51052</guid>
					<description>[...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here&#8217;s a quick excerpt [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[&#8230;] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here&#8217;s a quick excerpt [&#8230;]</p>
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		<title>By: Jochen</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-54098</link>
		<author>Jochen</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-54098</guid>
					<description>1.con stands for console and therefore, like prn, lpt1, etc, can not be used as a file name
To demonstrate, on the command line, enter 
copy con test.txt

then type something
then hit Ctrl-Z

There will be a file called test.txt with whatever you typed in in.

2.File came out fine. If, instead of the instruction, you copy and paste the text, the character set will be wrong.

3.Is a macro in Word and has nothing to do with Windows.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1.con stands for console and therefore, like prn, lpt1, etc, can not be used as a file name<br />
To demonstrate, on the command line, enter<br />
copy con test.txt</p>
<p>then type something<br />
then hit Ctrl-Z</p>
<p>There will be a file called test.txt with whatever you typed in in.</p>
<p>2.File came out fine. If, instead of the instruction, you copy and paste the text, the character set will be wrong.</p>
<p>3.Is a macro in Word and has nothing to do with Windows.</p>
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		<title>By: Gaurab</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-57585</link>
		<author>Gaurab</author>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-57585</guid>
					<description>expln

2. SAVE THE TEXT IN UTF-8 FORMAT IN NOTEPAD, EVERYTHING WORKS FINE</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>expln</p>
<p>2. SAVE THE TEXT IN UTF-8 FORMAT IN NOTEPAD, EVERYTHING WORKS FINE</p>
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		<title>By: A</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-62536</link>
		<author>A</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-62536</guid>
					<description>So, that second one with the Bush hid the facts. I tried a couple others. This app can break did the same thing, but Bush hid the truth actually worked. This means the bug isn't necessarily in the pattern of 4-3-3-5, but the specific word choice. Interesting</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, that second one with the Bush hid the facts. I tried a couple others. This app can break did the same thing, but Bush hid the truth actually worked. This means the bug isn&#8217;t necessarily in the pattern of 4-3-3-5, but the specific word choice. Interesting</p>
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		<title>By: M</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-63016</link>
		<author>M</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-63016</guid>
					<description>In case someone wants to mess with their computer.
You cannot create a folder named “Com” but you can rename an existing folder to Com.
If its a problem to the OS to have a folder named Com then this just goes to show how well tested MS software really is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In case someone wants to mess with their computer.<br />
You cannot create a folder named “Com” but you can rename an existing folder to Com.<br />
If its a problem to the OS to have a folder named Com then this just goes to show how well tested MS software really is.</p>
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		<title>By: iwmpop</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-77556</link>
		<author>iwmpop</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-77556</guid>
					<description>"CON" - well I typed exactly as written into my bookmarks, create new folder, and it did so!
What was in the folder? Well....."Three things that Microsoft Can't Explain.....!"</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;CON&#8221; - well I typed exactly as written into my bookmarks, create new folder, and it did so!<br />
What was in the folder? Well&#8230;..&#8221;Three things that Microsoft Can&#8217;t Explain&#8230;..!&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Dah dah dummy</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-87285</link>
		<author>Dah dah dummy</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-87285</guid>
					<description>You mean *you* can't explain them, because you're dim.

Does "desi" mean "fucking imbecile"?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You mean *you* can&#8217;t explain them, because you&#8217;re dim.</p>
<p>Does &#8220;desi&#8221; mean &#8220;fucking imbecile&#8221;?</p>
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		<title>By: Saim Baig</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-92075</link>
		<author>Saim Baig</author>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-92075</guid>
					<description>These are very cool tricks.Where did u find these?Thanks for the share.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These are very cool tricks.Where did u find these?Thanks for the share.</p>
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		<title>By: Manav</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-92402</link>
		<author>Manav</author>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-92402</guid>
					<description>Amazing tricks, i read d comments too, but the beauty lies in..how and wer from did u get dem all???, logics behind dem, is totallu a different story,
tahnx a lot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Amazing tricks, i read d comments too, but the beauty lies in..how and wer from did u get dem all???, logics behind dem, is totallu a different story,<br />
tahnx a lot.</p>
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		<title>By: UMAR</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-100814</link>
		<author>UMAR</author>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-100814</guid>
					<description>I KNOW WHY (CON) FOLDER IS NOT MAKE 
BECOUSE CON WORD IS A VARIABLE AND THE START IN THE FOLDER SETTING THE PROGRAMMER LET A VARIABLE AS A (CON = NEW FOLDER)
THATS WHY CON IS NOT TYPE IN FOLDER. BASICALLY CON MEAN NEW FOLDER.
TELL ME SIR I AM RIGHT. SIR I AM KNOW I AM RIGHT.
THANKS</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I KNOW WHY (CON) FOLDER IS NOT MAKE<br />
BECOUSE CON WORD IS A VARIABLE AND THE START IN THE FOLDER SETTING THE PROGRAMMER LET A VARIABLE AS A (CON = NEW FOLDER)<br />
THATS WHY CON IS NOT TYPE IN FOLDER. BASICALLY CON MEAN NEW FOLDER.<br />
TELL ME SIR I AM RIGHT. SIR I AM KNOW I AM RIGHT.<br />
THANKS</p>
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		<title>By: windows vista serial number</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-105622</link>
		<author>windows vista serial number</author>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-105622</guid>
					<description>&lt;strong&gt;windows vista serial number...&lt;/strong&gt;

haha gotta love Windows......</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>windows vista serial number&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>haha gotta love Windows&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Ryan</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-114483</link>
		<author>Ryan</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-114483</guid>
					<description>1. that "bush hid the facts" thing has been explained. I can't remember it offhand, but it also happens when u type other things in the same fashion (one four-letter word, two three letter words, and a five letter word.)

2. only one of these is an actual bug. that =rand(a,b) function has been there for a while and is a TESTING FUNCTION.

3. microsoft can explain each of these.

you fail.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>1. that &#8220;bush hid the facts&#8221; thing has been explained. I can&#8217;t remember it offhand, but it also happens when u type other things in the same fashion (one four-letter word, two three letter words, and a five letter word.)</p>
<p>2. only one of these is an actual bug. that =rand(a,b) function has been there for a while and is a TESTING FUNCTION.</p>
<p>3. microsoft can explain each of these.</p>
<p>you fail.</p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
		<link>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-123622</link>
		<author>John</author>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://desinotes.com/three-things-that-microsoft-cant-explain/#comment-123622</guid>
					<description>Nice Troll.  You've hooked a lot of responders!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice Troll.  You&#8217;ve hooked a lot of responders!!!</p>
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