Solve : Windows XP bug?

1.	Solve : Windows XP bug?
Answer» Yeaaaap! I believe Windows XP has a little bug (if not many!). Please confirm to me if this is not a bug: Sometimes when you try to browse from your Open/SaveFileDialog on your LOCAL machine to a location on your remote machine on your LAN, your LAN's present computers tend to randomly appear/disappear by choice. If they are not there, then that is not NICE because you would like to save your file on that network location but it's not available right now. You could save it to your local machine and then cut and paste it to your remote machine but that's not how I want it done. Anyway this is apparently due to a bug in the Windows Master Browser (COMPUTER Browser service) that forgets to clear its own cache and shows random? behavior. What I do is I have a nice little start menu function I wrote: @ECHO OFF net stop browser net start browser (it's a .bat shortcut) So if anyone knows how to fix this bug other than this way, that would be nice. Treval Might be a bug, might be one of their great 'features'! Here's some fun ones... 1. Nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as “CON”. "CON" is a reserved name that dates back to the days of MS-DOS and is short for "CONsole". Other possibly reserved filenames include things like COM1, COM2, and so on for your serial or modem ports, and LPT1, LPT2 and so on for printer ports. 2. 1.) Open an empty notepad file 2.) Type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes) 3.) Save it as whatever you want. 4.) Close it, and re-open it. Yay Microsoft is Anti-GEORGE Bush, not a conspiracy, well that makes up for some of their evil!?!! 3. Open Microsoft Word and type =rand (200, 99) And then press ENTER. For even more fun, try the =lorem() function; same idea, different text.Sigh... Of course, I could be wrong... Treval: Suggest you report potential "bugs" to Microsoft. Are you sure your network has the "optimal" configuration to support this? Microsoft's "computer browsing" functionality is more complicated than most of us realize. See these Microsoft links: o Computer Browsing for SOHO Networks with Microsoft Windows o Troubleshooting Computer Browsing on SOHO Networks with Microsoft WindowsThat's some funny stuff. =PAzzaboi: OK, I tried number two, the "Bush" exercise. Strange... Is that what's known as an "Easter Egg"?It's kinda the same as a 'Easter Egg', but 'Easter Eggs' are actually created for fun, this was not done on purpose. 'Bush hid the facts' is the common name for a bug present in the function IsTextUnicode, which causes a file of text to encode. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_hid_the_facts It's not the characters itself but the structure of the sentence, number of characters and spaces (4 3 3 5). For example: 'this app can break' 'this cat can split' 'xxxx xxx xxx xxxxx' 'abcd efg hij klmno' Why someone made it 'Bush hid the facts' as the popular one was however anti George Bush. Since it's nearly the Easter holidays and you're at least in the spirit, for some actual software and movies 'Easter Egg' fun you can go to: http://www.eeggs.com/Quote from: Azzaboi on March 27, 2010, 05:48:21 PM 1. Nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as “CON”. This isn't a bug. It works this way intentionally. http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/10/22/55388.aspx Additionally, it's not a bug in "IsTextUnicode": http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/01/30/363308.aspx It's more an unintended side effect. There is no way to determine the difference between text like "this app can break" or "bush hid the facts" and a few others, since their unicode representation has a dual meaning. As explained in the blog posting, if you have East Asian Language support installed, you don't see the box character; you see a series of asian characters. Also, it would appear that they fixed this in Vista/7.... I think they changed notepad, not the function, though. I think notepad now simply uses the BOM mark at the start of the file to determine wether it's unicode. I can't seem to get the third one to work in Word 97, 2000, or 2003.... I guess I'm doing it wrong. Quote from: Treval on March 27, 2010, 01:39:10 PM Sometimes when you try to browse from your Open/SaveFileDialog on your local machine to a location on your remote machine on your LAN, your LAN's present computers tend to randomly appear/disappear by choice. If they are not there, then that is not nice because you would like to save your file on that network location but it's not available right now. You could save it to your local machine and then cut and paste it to your remote machine but that's not how I want it done. Don't know if this would work, but you might be able to toss the UNC path to the network location and press enter, and then maybe the view will show it.Well might not be a bug, but still cool fun. Yes they fixed the notepad in Vista/7 I miss my XP! lol The thrid works fine for me in Word 2007, but should work in all most all versions. Just copy and paste the line, then press enter, as soon as you press enter it triggers a lot of text. The text is different for people I think? I get like 689 pages! =rand (200, 99) Quote On the Insert tab, the galleries include items that are designed to coordinate with the overall look of your document. You can use these galleries to insert tables, headers, footers, lists, cover pages, and other document building blocks. When you create pictures, charts, or diagrams, they also coordinate with your current document look. You can easily change the formatting of selected text in the document text by choosing a look for the selected text from the Quick Styles gallery on the Home tab. Blah blah blah, etc.... =lorem() Quote Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Maecenas porttitor congue massa. Fusce posuere, magna sed pulvinar ultricies, purus lectus malesuada libero, sit amet commodo magna eros quis urna. Nunc viverra imperdiet enim. Fusce est. Vivamus a tellus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Proin pharetra nonummy pede. Mauris et orci. Quote Don't know if this would work, but you might be able to toss the UNC path to the network location and press enter, and then maybe the view will show it. Yes it works and I know it works, but that's not my point. =P My point is you being able to do all this in the Save/OpenFileDialog. =) Also that rand and lorem() work in Word 2007. Oh oh, and I got Excel 97 for the special reason that it has a nice 3D easter egg! =P I've tried it out and it's true. You get transported to a nice rough 3D mipmap sort of area! =D LOL @ "The following are Myths" (see bottom of page): Windows XP Secrets Tbh, most of them aren't secrets to me.. lol.

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Yeaaaap!

I believe Windows XP has a little bug (if not many!). Please confirm to me if this is not a bug:

Sometimes when you try to browse from your Open/SaveFileDialog on your LOCAL machine to a location on your remote machine on your LAN, your LAN's present computers tend to randomly appear/disappear by choice. If they are not there, then that is not NICE because you would like to save your file on that network location but it's not available right now. You could save it to your local machine and then cut and paste it to your remote machine but that's not how I want it done.

Anyway this is apparently due to a bug in the Windows Master Browser (COMPUTER Browser service) that forgets to clear its own cache and shows random? behavior. What I do is I have a nice little start menu function I wrote:
@ECHO OFF
net stop browser
net start browser
(it's a .bat shortcut)

So if anyone knows how to fix this bug other than this way, that would be nice.

Treval

Might be a bug, might be one of their great 'features'!

Here's some fun ones...

1.
Nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as “CON”.

"CON" is a reserved name that dates back to the days of MS-DOS and is short for "CONsole". Other possibly reserved filenames include things like COM1, COM2, and so on for your serial or modem ports, and LPT1, LPT2 and so on for printer ports.

2.
1.) Open an empty notepad file
2.) Type “Bush hid the facts” (without the quotes)
3.) Save it as whatever you want.
4.) Close it, and re-open it. Yay Microsoft is Anti-GEORGE Bush, not a conspiracy, well that makes up for some of their evil!?!!

3.
Open Microsoft Word and type
=rand (200, 99)
And then press ENTER.

For even more fun, try the =lorem() function; same idea, different text.Sigh... Of course, I could be wrong...

Treval: Suggest you report potential "bugs" to Microsoft.

Are you sure your network has the "optimal" configuration to support this? Microsoft's "computer browsing" functionality is more complicated than most of us realize. See these Microsoft links:
o Computer Browsing for SOHO Networks with Microsoft Windows
o Troubleshooting Computer Browsing on SOHO Networks with Microsoft WindowsThat's some funny stuff. =PAzzaboi: OK, I tried number two, the "Bush" exercise. Strange... Is that what's known as an "Easter Egg"?It's kinda the same as a 'Easter Egg', but 'Easter Eggs' are actually created for fun, this was not done on purpose.

'Bush hid the facts' is the common name for a bug present in the function IsTextUnicode, which causes a file of text to encode.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_hid_the_facts

It's not the characters itself but the structure of the sentence, number of characters and spaces (4 3 3 5). For example:
'this app can break'
'this cat can split'
'xxxx xxx xxx xxxxx'
'abcd efg hij klmno'

Why someone made it 'Bush hid the facts' as the popular one was however anti George Bush.

Since it's nearly the Easter holidays and you're at least in the spirit, for some actual software and movies 'Easter Egg' fun you can go to: http://www.eeggs.com/Quote from: Azzaboi on March 27, 2010, 05:48:21 PM

1.
Nobody can create a FOLDER anywhere on the computer which can be named as “CON”.

This isn't a bug. It works this way intentionally.

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/10/22/55388.aspx

Additionally, it's not a bug in "IsTextUnicode":

http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/01/30/363308.aspx

It's more an unintended side effect. There is no way to determine the difference between text like "this app can break" or "bush hid the facts" and a few others, since their unicode representation has a dual meaning. As explained in the blog posting, if you have East Asian Language support installed, you don't see the box character; you see a series of asian characters.

Also, it would appear that they fixed this in Vista/7.... I think they changed notepad, not the function, though. I think notepad now simply uses the BOM mark at the start of the file to determine wether it's unicode.

I can't seem to get the third one to work in Word 97, 2000, or 2003.... I guess I'm doing it wrong.

Quote from: Treval on March 27, 2010, 01:39:10 PM

Sometimes when you try to browse from your Open/SaveFileDialog on your local machine to a location on your remote machine on your LAN, your LAN's present computers tend to randomly appear/disappear by choice. If they are not there, then that is not nice because you would like to save your file on that network location but it's not available right now. You could save it to your local machine and then cut and paste it to your remote machine but that's not how I want it done.

Don't know if this would work, but you might be able to toss the UNC path to the network location and press enter, and then maybe the view will show it.Well might not be a bug, but still cool fun. Yes they fixed the notepad in Vista/7 I miss my XP! lol

The thrid works fine for me in Word 2007, but should work in all most all versions.
Just copy and paste the line, then press enter, as soon as you press enter it triggers a lot of text. The text is different for people I think? I get like 689 pages!

=rand (200, 99)
Quote

On the Insert tab, the galleries include items that are designed to coordinate with the overall look of your document. You can use these galleries to insert tables, headers, footers, lists, cover pages, and other document building blocks. When you create pictures, charts, or diagrams, they also coordinate with your current document look. You can easily change the formatting of selected text in the document text by choosing a look for the selected text from the Quick Styles gallery on the Home tab. Blah blah blah, etc....

=lorem()
Quote

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Maecenas porttitor congue massa. Fusce posuere, magna sed pulvinar ultricies, purus lectus malesuada libero, sit amet commodo magna eros quis urna.
Nunc viverra imperdiet enim. Fusce est. Vivamus a tellus.
Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Proin pharetra nonummy pede. Mauris et orci.

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Don't know if this would work, but you might be able to toss the UNC path to the network location and press enter, and then maybe the view will show it.

Yes it works and I know it works, but that's not my point. =P My point is you being able to do all this in the Save/OpenFileDialog. =)

Also that rand and lorem() work in Word 2007.

Oh oh, and I got Excel 97 for the special reason that it has a nice 3D easter egg! =P I've tried it out and it's true. You get transported to a nice rough 3D mipmap sort of area! =D

LOL @ "The following are Myths" (see bottom of page):
Windows XP Secrets

Tbh, most of them aren't secrets to me.. lol.

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