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Old 11-02-2007
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Weird notepad thing
Thanx to Taima from xfire for this one.

Open note pad up.

Type "bush hid the facts"(without the quotes)

Save it as what ever you want.

Reopen it and see what happens.

Very odd indeed.
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Old 11-03-2007
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It didn't do anything, maybe it's just a easteregg for XP and not Vista :P
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Old 11-03-2007
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Yup, just tried it and all I get is: See attachment, because if I try and copy and paste it into the reply window, it just comes up as 畢桳栠摩琠敨映捡獴, which is even weirder.

I haven`t a clue why this happens, but would sure love to know.

Regards Howard
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Old 11-03-2007
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Obviously only works with xp, didnt know that.
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Old 11-03-2007
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howard, i went to open you attachment and i got "bush hid the facts" lol

Im eager to try it on my XP machine now :P
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Old 11-03-2007
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Lol, that`s very strange.

I don`t get that at all.

Regards Howard
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Old 11-03-2007
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From Wikipedia:
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While "Bush hid the facts" is the sentence most forwarding around the Internet, the bug does not exclusively occur with that phrase. The bug will manifest itself with many sentences of a particular structure: One word with 4 letters, two or more words with 3 letters, one word with 5 letters. Except for the starting character all the letters must be lower case. Other phrases that will expose the same bug are: "Bill can not dance", "John has the parts", "this app can break", and "Feel the new power".

The bug appears when such a string is entered into Notepad (with no other characters) and then saved as a text file. Upon reloading the file into Notepad the text will be replaced with nine Chinese characters (or squares if the language pack has not been installed).
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Thanks for that SNGX, I`ll sleep better now.

Regards Howard
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Cool, cheerz for the info sngx.
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Old 11-03-2007
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Wow, pretty cool.
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Old 11-03-2007
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Yeh, sorry for the buzzkill. But I thought I had seen something about that working with a few other things before, so I looked it up real quick
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Old 11-04-2007
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I figured there was an explanation as I'm not usually one to jump on conspiracy theories... lol!
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Old 11-09-2007
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From Wikipedia:
nah, i don't believe it! wikipedia must be part of conspiracy!
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Old 11-09-2007
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Lol LuckyM.
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Old 11-09-2007
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People are sheep.
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Old 11-24-2007
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The reason it happens has to do with the way Notepad saves txt files:
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Originally Posted by eeggs.com
This is a bug where notepad misinterprets the encoding,
it is not an easter egg...

"abcd efg hij klmno", "xxxx xxx xxx xxxxx" or anything similar will work to.

It will only occur if the file is saved as ANSI
Also, this does not work on windows 95, 98, ME
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