See, you can tell the admin types. We have our files properly organized in neat folders.
See, you can tell the admin types. We have our files properly organized in neat folders.
Originally posted by Sapphire Nights
I was poking around in his computer yesterday (I installed Wolfinstein) and found a directory called c:\windows\other. I thought, I never saw a directory in windows called "other" So I opened it and found 2 gig of .jpg's. Then I started clicking on them and opening them. And low and behold I found down and dirty porn.
He came back into the room and saw what I was doing and he got very nervous. He gave me so much grief about the guy that sent me nudies. So I pretended to be offended to get a bit of revenge. He was like "well...umm...aaaa...well...you see...I don't know where THAT came from" I said, "Can't you come up with a better lie than that?" He just looked at me like the cat that ate the canary.
Hey, I've been around. I know you guys all have porn folders. I really don't care. But I am not telling him that
I wonder what he will come up with to make me "unmad". I am hoping for flowers. That is what he did last time he made me mad.
Originally posted by Kokensu
Hmm apparently you guys are ill-informed.
Of course you'd have to date back to DOS days to know this one probably so I can't blame you. Oh well here it goes...
If you go into DOS mode(or just a dos prompt) try holding down the ALT key and press 255 on the number pad.
By holding down the ALT key and hitting these numbers you're entering codes for all the ascii characters. 255 happens to be a blank space. However it's not really a space it just appears that way. Here's the trick.
If you create a directory and name it ALT+255(don't type the plus obviously ) it will show up as a space or underscore. So what? you ask. Well try to cd to that directory in the dos prompt. The ONLY way you can get into it is to type in that code(alt+255). So what? you ask again.
Well the cool thing about this is that windows 9x can't read this symbol. If you try to double click on this folder in windows explorer it will give you an error. If you do a search for any files stored in this directory they will not show up as windows cannot cd into it. You can get into this directory by going into DOS and renaming it to something normal.
It works great for storing passwords, confidential files and for those of you who have it, Pr0n. I don't think it works in NT based os's though so win2k and XP may not work with it(they may be able to read the directory).
Also there are more codes then 255 that do the same thing but I'm not telling all those.
bah, just tried it and it doesn't work for XP
/me has no pr0n on his computer at all costs!
Originally posted by WildfireX2000
That was before linux invaded my computer, and stole 2 GB of perfectly good HD space.
Not that this is my case (I don't have pr0n on my Comp/share a computer), but I think it's the fact that a lot of people need to share their comps with family members .Originally posted by Boom
What's with hiding your files? What is everyone so ashamed of?
Originally posted by SimplyCosmic
Another reason why you kids need to get a true multi-user operating system (WinNT/2000/XP, Linux, *BSD, etc) and just block of your files.
At the very least it'd prevent mom or sis from accidently deleting system files the next time one of those virus hoax letters comes around.
Originally posted by Sapphire Nights
Hey, I've been around. I know you guys all have porn folders.