Internet
Tuesday — June 8th, 2010

Internet

Everything you have been thought about the internets is wrong! The internets are nothing but a big cloud you can connect to via cables. There’s always a cable somewhere and there’s always a cloud. That explains pretty much how you can access the internets in so many places.

Recenly the cable is being replaced with a cable made of air.

Also, keys flying out of my keyboard turns out to be a true story. So as the O3O face and the coffee.

Do not overuse the internets. They may thunderbold you.

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I forgot

Sorry, portugues only this time, I woulnd’t be able to translate even if I wanted to :(

Eu esqueci-me de tanta coisa.
Se calhar até me esqueci um pouco de quem era…
Estive a olhar para trás, ontem. E vi coisas de que não em lembrava, pequenos pedaços do meu ego que tinha esquecido. E as memórias, que demoraram a chegar, mas que quando chegaram deram cabo de mim.

Havia tanta coisa…
Estava tudo cheio de gente, era uma imensidão, éramos tantos e tão poucos! E eu, que por desleixe, vos deixei ficar – ou terá sido o contrário? – e me esqueci do que era e do que fazia e do que gostava de fazer.

Foi bom voltar.
Queria ficar lá, mas já não é a mesma coisa. Mas gostava que voltasse a ser. E vi todos os rostos antigos e sempre imutáveis e vi tudo o que fazíeis com a minha ajuda e reparei na imensidão de tempo que vos deixei sem poderes andar sequer. É triste. Perdi tanta coisa.
Quero recuperar.

E faço o esforço e o esforço faz-me dores de cabeça. Já não é a mesma coisa, mas gostava que voltasse a ser. Quero recuperar o braço que perdi.

E olho para mim no tempo que vivi sem eles e não me vi por isso mais infeliz. Poderá ser… Que não precisasse deles? São uma parte de mim, uma parte que até há bem pouco tempo não consideraria amovível.

Mas os tempos mudam.
As ideias mudam, as vontades mudam, os ventos mudam.
O mundo não quer saber se eu me esqueci deles ou não. O Sol levantar-se-á no dia seguinte quer eu tenha recuperado aquilo que era ou não. O Universo não quer saber.

Mas quero eu.

Trying

You try.
You fall.
You get up.

You look at yourself and your knees are hurt.

You look back and your knees are scared.
You’ve fallen before, you can fall again.
Scary.


I’ve been feeling like literature.

The folder named “con”

Music atm: Ela foi para a Guerra – Os Azeitonas

Hey guize!

I’ve been on my regular studying marathon for a few days by now, but, just like everyone else, I deserve a few breaks every now and then. So, while surfing the interwebs in one of these breaks, it was really peculiar for me to find out I couldn’t create a folder named “con” on any Windows System. I can say this really made quite curious.

Something as big as this must have a meaning.

And this is precisely why I challenge you to create a folder with said name. Then tell me what happened! ;)

Truth is, after a few frustrating attempts, I decided to Google the big reason and here’s the conclusion I came to:

Apparently, the name “con”, like many other names I’ll tell you later, is a word reserved by the OS and can’t be used for either directories or files. Queer! It was quite funny to know that this is probably caused by some residual MS-DOS code.  Back then, these words were used to name Devicesambiguousity (call them mouse, keyboard, printers, whatever), and having a folder or file with said name would cause on the system, but probably that’s going too far…

For whoever’s interested, here’s a lil’ list:

  • CON
  • PRN
  • AUX
  • NUL
  • COM[1-9]
  • LPT[1-9]

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_file#Device_files

But of course, this is not what you wish to know. By now you probably tried to make the scary “con” by yourselves and therefore I’ll show how you can get there and ease your pain (oooh, it’s really good to have a search engine around!):

So, go to the command prompt (Run > cmd) and go to your favourite directory (I picked Desktop since that’s where I put my scary stuff!) and do:

  • mkdir \\.\C:\con

By this time, this must have happened:

And even more interesting, from the commmand prompt view: (oh, there are my awesomely-named files among the garbage!):

To get rid of it, just go for the inverse:

  • rmdir \\.\C:\con

And goodbye new toy!

Intersting adventure, no? xD