Sunday, September 30, 2007

The name of the directory is

The title is complete, You need to know how!!

Create a directory named ` '
Can you do this in Windows. When I say create a directory named ` ' , I mean create a directory whose name is .

Looks illogical, right! But after all why it shouldn't be allowed. is not a special character like `*', `/', `\' etc and most of us use spaces within long file names.


I use GNU/Linux with ext3 file system. Simply using the command:

mkdir ' '

will create a directory whose name is ' '.

Doing this in GUI is not allowed. I tried KDE and it simply refused to accept space as an input (as it does in all cases, so no exception here).

Some nice screenshots are here:


Can You see an extra directory here


Why is file manager (konqueror) not showing the name ;-)


Hey what is the path of the file abc !! :-o

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Why Grown Up Kids Hate Milk

"Mummy, I don't like milk.", one of the most common sentences often heard in families when mothers try to force the nutritious white liquid into children's mouth. But why children don't like milk, is it bad taste? I feel something different.

Right from birth, I mean when baby is just a few hours old, the first they get to eat (rather drink) is "milk", through breast feeding. Though the child is unable to decipher the meaning, but the word is encoded into the mind. Child keeps getting milk for next consicutive years and (s)he gets bored of the word "milk" and develops a resistance for it, which results in hatered for a good food.

You may try saying the following lines many times and lets see Yuou still wanna drink...

milk
Milk
mIlk
miLk
milK
MiLk
mIlK
MIlk
mILk
miLK
MilK
MILk
MIlK
MiLK
mILK
MILK....

ha ha...