no I am not joking.
I received this today:

1: You can’t create a folder named CON in windows
2: If you create a new file with notepad and write the text “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes), save it and reopen it, the text is “hidden”.

Well … it might sound like something really bad but it’s just a bug and there is not much behind it. 


to 1. CON like LPT1, COM1 … are DOS devices and somehow windows gets confused and refuses to create the folder.

to 2. The text “Bush hid the facts” is not what causes notepad to hide anything. The problem is that the text is misinterpret as UTF-16, this bug can be reproduced with several sentences, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_hid_the_facts 

As you can see, these are just software bugs and there is nothing more behind it :) 

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One Week Back to Windows - OSNews.com

One of the things that has always made Unices so popular and admired was the shells out there. In fact, most operating systems today have some sort of a competent CLI interface. This is for two reasons. Firstly, in order to offer a way to automate repetitive tasks. Secondly, because you may expect to login remotely, without having access to a graphical environment. And thirdly, because there are cases when you will simply discard the GUI, like when running a web server.

Windows sticked to cmd.exe, which is essentially a slightly polished version of command.com. Command.com itself is little more than a CP/M shell clone. So essentially, cmd.exe offers the same facilities which computers were offering 25 years ago, on Z80-based machines. Needless to say, this is very painful

Oh yes how true. I now have to search for some software that can change the size of some images in batch and also watermark them. Since ImageMagik is available for windows it would be quite easy if windows had some usefull shell, but how do you do this on windows?

for ii in *.jpg
do
  convert -resize 600x600 $ii $ii
done

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Interested in runing Mac OSX on a normal PC? Don't ask me how to get it running, I have a mac but check out the folowing forum post, here you will find an answer. 

[HowTo] XP + OSX 10.4.4-10.4.7 native dual boot - InsanelyMac Forum

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Disable Non Genuine Windows Warning Messages: WGA Workarounds remove WGATray.exe » Digital Inspiration Disable Non Genuine Windows Warning Messages

Got the annoying Windows message to get genuine? Method 2 seems to be the easiest one (no safe mode reboot, not much work no deleting)
But since I have a Mac and my Linux servers, this doesn't really bother me so M$ you won't get a fucking cent from me !

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Oh I love this one. Just received this from Moga, an article on TheRegister. I think my colleagues know just too good how it feels to come back from a meeting and find a rebooted PC and all you work is gone. I must say I was lucky until now since I was always in front of the pc as windows wanted to reboot and game me some time to hit a cancel button. This reminds me of a other story. Imagine writing a 300 Pages doc. With the "oh so powerful and much better then OpenOffice" Winword. You save the document and the next day you want to open it and print it, but no no … Winword has other plans, it simply crashes. This happened to my colleague. Thank good I had an older version of OpenOffice installed, I opened the "corrupt" winword .doc file without a problem, saved it again as .doc file for winword (which then had only 1MB instead of 3) and the file could be opened again in winword, without any problem and nothing was missing. Just some tables looked strange, but that was fixed much faster then writing 300 pages from 0.

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Oh isn’t this great! This is a old “feature” from outlook but today it once again pissed me off!
Since there are so many stupid users that click on everything they get via email, what does Microsoft do? They add a bug ( called feature at Microsoft ) so that “potential dangerous” file are hidden in outlook and you can’t open them.
So I had to sent such a baaaad file with a .cer extension ( certificate ) which actulay was just a simple text file with some rows of text in it ( a public key ) but hey … this could be such a bad virus so thanks Outlook for protecting me from virus, or rather from blocking me doing my work. But why complain? M$ is sooo much beter and M$ is sooo much cheaper then Linux and open source! yes yes .. the M$ financed study shows it black on white! Linux and OS and GPL is baaad!

Billy & Co ( especialy Steve Balmer ) I wish you die of a real painful death !

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My sister broke her Windows once again! Don’t know if this time she realy did something wrong or if just the windows paches screwed things up.
Anyway the behaivoir of the pc was that the explorer was crashing all the time, I don’t mean the Internet Explorer, I mean the normal stupid explorer. So couldn’t do anysthing with the PC. No network options could be changed, no Controlpanel no nothing ! always just a crash.
Since I had an idea that some windows updates could be the problem I wanted to deinstal them, but how without controlpanel ?
After a fast search over the internet (thank good the internet knows everything!) I found something how I could call just the Software controlpanel so I hoped it didn’t crash also while executing. Well I tried this little command
rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL appwiz.cpl
and was very happy to receive a software controlpannel where I could deinstall the last 4 patches and rebootet the pc, and everything was back to normal again.
Thanks to this neat site that helped me: http://masterbootrecord.de/english/rundll.php

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After having a bit more time I thought it would be time to install linux on my laptop since windows started to do stupid things ( bluescreens and stuff like that ) and after receiving a ubuntu cd Package from moga (ecxod ) I started my new adventure for this week which as usual started as a bad week again. <br /><a href=”http://www.livadaru.net/cristian/index.php?/archives/8-guid.html#extended”>Continue reading “My windows got screwed again”</a>

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