Bush Hid the Facts
Here is a nifty trick that you can try at home:
- find a WinXP box near you
- open notepad
- type in the exact phrase: bush hid the facts
- don’t press enter, and save the file
- open the file with notepad
- gawk with amazement
Try it! I dare you! I double dare you! If it doesn’t work, you’re probably doing it wrong or you are not on winxp platform.
Apparently this is a weird bug that makes Notepad to mess up the encoding for some files that have exactly 15 alphanumeric characters and 4 spaces in the pattern of hhhh hhh hhh hhhhh. In fact this very line will produce the same result. Another one that works is Bill fed the goats
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September 8th, 2006 at 4:31 am (1079) [Quote]
Bill did what?! An outrage I say!
Posted usingSeptember 8th, 2006 at 10:23 am (1080) [Quote]
LOL!
Posted usingSeptember 8th, 2006 at 4:02 pm (1082) [Quote]
I’d love to try this… Too bad I removed all copies of notepad on my PC
Posted usingSeptember 8th, 2006 at 4:48 pm (1084) [Quote]
Really? Why?
I use EditPlus on my windows box but I never realy bothered purging notepad even though I never use it.
Did you ever open binary file in notepad? That’s how it looks when you open the bush file.
Posted usingSeptember 8th, 2006 at 4:51 pm (1085) [Quote]
I can’t stand notepad - It can’t handle files with only CR *or* LF, it can only do them in Windows encoding, which uses CR&LF.
I use EditPad Pro for editing everything… txt, php, css, html, sql, java, xml… and more
I removed notepad because I used to use EditPad Lite, and I had replaced the notepad exe file with the editpad lite exe… But I can’t do the same thing with EP Pro, so I just left it without any notepad
Posted usingSeptember 8th, 2006 at 10:34 pm (1087) [Quote]
I never really replaced the exe - I just associate all the file types with my alternate editor. But yeah - I can see how that would happen. Heh…
Posted usingSeptember 9th, 2006 at 8:40 pm (1090) [Quote]
Btw, isn’t notepad.exe in the list of protected core files? If it is, you may be able to restore it by running sfc or something like that…
Posted usingSeptember 9th, 2006 at 8:45 pm (1091) [Quote]
Indeed it is - but I hate notebad, so I’m in no rush to restore it
All files open in EditPad pro now instead
Posted usingSeptember 10th, 2006 at 2:41 pm (1096) [Quote]
Bloody hell, the first time I miss my erased Win XP. Gotta try it at school.
Posted usingSeptember 11th, 2006 at 1:07 am (1111) [Quote]
Heh! I didn’t realize how many people kill their notepad this way
Posted usingSeptember 14th, 2006 at 11:12 pm (1148) [Quote]
Haha, I just scared somebody with it!
//Dan
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