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Another Undocumented Feature
From: mick at pauldotcom.com (Michael Douglas)
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:58:42 -0400
Yep it was right up there with the ping of death "goodness". So while security has a long way to go on every OS, it's nice to see that forward progress* is being made. - Mick * Though sometimes it really feels like two steps forward three steps back! ;-P On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Pat<nutjob.ie at gmail.com> wrote:
This should be fixed for a while now Anyone remember the CON CON bug from 98/95 if you told a machine to open c:\con\con\anything.fil it would blue screen On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:2009/7/19 Dimitrios Kapsalis <dimitrios at gmail.com>:My XP is completely patched and it created a NULL folder.Just read the article, it is NUL, not NULL. I can't create NUL.On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:2009/7/19 Tom Brennan - Personal <jinxpuppy at gmail.com>:right click the windows desktop and create a folder named: CON or PRN or NULL <smirk>NULL works ok in a completely unpatched XP, the other two names are ignored. _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com_______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com_______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com_______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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- Another Undocumented Feature Pat (Jul 21)
- Another Undocumented Feature Dimitrios Kapsalis (Jul 19)
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