Why You Can't Name A File CON In Windows
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- Опубликовано: 19 апр 2020
- The short answer is "backwards compatibility". The long answer is... well, it's the rest of this video.
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*Windows*
Pro: You can name a file *PRO*
Con: You can't name a file *CON*
Godamn it why did I laugh at this..
The same Joke like the top comment, but worse
NICE
This comment is underestimated 😂
@@Arterexius That's not what estimated means...
Tom Scott: Have you ever wondered about why [obscure fact I've never wondered about]?
Me: Well, I sure do now
spoilt milk that’s how it is indeed
Thats tom scott for you
Hes wrong. You actually CAN name a directory "CON". From command line type "mkdir \\?\C:\CON" . This will create at folder 📂 at the root of the C:\ drive called CON.
I was like, whaaaaaat, let me try it
I was actually wondering before, because I somehow found out I cannot save certain filenames and folder names ("con" being one of them), I was actually trying to save those files as an abbreviation to something (I believe "con" was staying for "contact" or "connect" or something similar). It is possible to create those files (or folders) somewhere inside your file tree, but those objects cannot be accessed, nor can you save anything to these files, folders, you cannot remove them and cannot access them. That also means that access denied will deny also removal (it is possible to remove those bugged files and folders, but not with conventional methods). Reason is simple. System thinks you are trying to access a device port that no longer works (or method of access doesn't support that device or simply that device isn't installed), instead of accessing the newly created object. To remove that file or folder (or rename them or otherwise access them), you have to use another operating system (preferably Unix based). Windows/DOS based systems won't be able to interact with these files/folders. A bug in Windows (still present to this day) allows with a special way to create those sort of objects, with no seemable way to interact with them (not even for removal). Linux of course allows creation of those files (heck it allows for creating othwerise conflicting names because unlike Windows/DOS where all files and folders were originally only alphanumerical capital letters based names, the Linux file systems support case sensitive naming (so a file called "Larry" is different than file called "larry"). It is worth noting that it won't work on Windows based file systems (FAT32, NTFS). However, Linux won't check for the reserved file names so it will still allow you to create a file or folder named "con" and such.
In 2018, after finalizing my thesis, I thought of naming the three individual files that I would send to my groupmates "CON", "GRAT", and "ULATIONS". We didn't have a file format or anything since we had to physically print and hardbound the manuscript, so I wanted the names to be lighthearted.
CON.pdf wouldn't work and I got sucked into a rabbit hole of why files can't be named "CON". Ended up naming the files "CONG", "RAT", and "ULATIONS". This video reminded me of that time!
imagine someone seeing the file 'rat' anf then opening it to expect a rat image
@@cat1554 RAT
RAT.pdf
RAT
cong rat
Naming folders CON on my linux machine to assert dominance.
Cons and pros of modern windows file convention.
Pro: you can use punctuation.
Con: you still can't use con.
More like
Pro: you can use punctuation.
The specified device name is invalid
Missed opportunity to say “con: there are no cons”
I think you can use punctuation in Unix/Linux systems
con: no cons
Why can't they just use ext4 :(
I know it won't fix the naming issue but ext4 > ntfs
When Tom said you could open a Word file from 30 years ago I thought to myself "Wait, they had Word in the '70s?" But no, 30 years ago it was the '90s.
This comment made me make dad noises.
MS-DOS came out in 1981, so you could be opening almost 40 year old text files.
My thought was “what computer has a spot for a floppy disc?”
80's. And how old are you?
Office 2010+ cannot open Word 2.0 documents. :(. It can still open Word 97 docs though.
I gotta say, that kind of backwards compatability is what makes much of my corporate work even feasible. Sometimes you need the one specific way of accessing a file that people stopped using a decade ago because its worse than the rest in 90% of cases but makes a workaround for the current situation possible.
Backwards compatibility is what allows younger generations access and explore what someone 20, 40 or so years ago worked on and gain knowledge from it.
At an infrastructure level systems that were put in place to manage telecom or power networks can be so dated that you need that backwards compatibility just to create new and up to date documentation and even then you keep the originals as reference material.
Workarounds are bad though. That’s what causes crap like this to persist because someone didn’t want to actually just fix the problem.
Tom, you are correct. Some major financial institutions in the UK and US still need to use OS/2 for their computing needs.
I know its super crazy. I have a loan through a place that still uses some crazy old windows dos system.
@@Riverrockphotos What does the version of windows look like? Does it have a minus button on the left side of the titlebar?
Bank of America still uses Windows NT 3.51
The thing is - a company would have a program created to perform a function.
Once that program was in use - as long as it performed the function it was designed for - and didn't need to have modifications to it made - they could just keep right on running that program.
If they changed anything - they might mess it up - so they just kept everything running just the way it always had.
One problem here - is that the tools that were used to create the program and in fact the source code for that program might be archived on media that they were no longer able to access - as they no longer had a system that could read it.
Where a company can no longer access their archived programs and data, there are companies whose business is accessing older media - for a price.
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@@Riverrockphotos it shows that you need old tech to have money to lend and the latest tech will have you looking for money from the old tech owners 😂
if you name a Minecraft world "con" it will re-name it "_con_"
Makes sense.
Really.
I wonder if Notch had to put that in...
Magic
*printer starts making cutout origami blocks
@@evangreavu9621 My guess is not. But I might be completely wrong here.
"People don't like change"
I swear if Tom ever wears a blue shirt, I'm not watching ever again
Tom should absolutely wear a blue shirt on April fools Day and just say nothing about it
@@petermarsella6537 It would become the new most disliked video on RUclips.
Whats brackin
You would love asmongold then
*Sorts Tom’s videos by oldest*
Ironic that Windows is so cautious in making any changes that could affect the backwards compatibility of important documents, yet they seem to break my PC with almost every update they put out with pleasure.
There is a way to fix that, and it generally involves switching to an operating system that allows you to name files "CON".
This is the exact reason why I always use some version of windows and have never switched to mac, even though I love the workflow that my friend has setup on her mac when producing audio and doing art projects. I am constantly hooking up old junk and using super old audio devices with very old cables, and its nice to be able to still hook up old things to run within the new software i use. Plus when I'm bored I start pulling out all my old computers, audio mixers, synthesizers, drum machines, and all manner of random junk in my computer room, just to play with it all and mess around. It's also awesome that I can still run DOS in windows ten to play old ass video games ^^
VMware hell of a drug, always used to have a hardware device for "off book" work kinda thing.. but it has to be plugged in to access something
doors swing both ways etc.. makes security take much longer than we all expected, heh
good thing we have genius coders out there, much appreciate them
It is awesome they added Linux on Windows you can actually create a very low risk env now
ah now i remember why i started commenting and reading at the same time
check out NDC conferences if you like smart people WOW they taught me so much just by putting their videos online. LESSONS FROM APOLLO and ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS are soooooooo good
Agreed. But now I have a house full of old Macs because I need them and old Windows PC's because they are cool... I swear I'm not a hoarder.
Same. And even though it's clunky, I still like my old video recorders with the tapes. I bought boxes of tapes. It's good to be able to still download all that stuff.
I also run obsolete stuff quite frequently, most often games. Windows is excellent for that. I still have a 32-bit OS here 😅
I couldn't even set up Mac System 7, too confusing. Meanwhile, I can usually sort out compatibility problems on Windows.
As for audio software, I once wanted to run ancient versions of Ableton Live 🤭
It's not the computing museum without that static noise your ears can't pick anymore.
It's there tho. Can't you hear it?
The ping pang of the dial up. The sound of real connection.
* *Laughs in tinnitus ear ringing* *
@@potatoface4698 mood
@Domen Bremec
Every. Waking. Moment.
I'd totally buy Tom Scott Remastered 2020.
Someone needs to make this a thing
It's rigged, the loot boxes always have red shirts in them.
I have hundreds of hours in the original Tom Scott and love the game to death, but I can't deny that the controls are VERY outdated
@@zeppie_ I came to the comments only to say this!
Casimir Paul totally
This was honestly an amazing way to talk about a story, the script or talking points or whatever it is was just so good in my opinion. I love how you wrapped everything up and got everything related to each other at the end, just amazing 🤩
Actually the 29/2/1900 bug comes from QDOS which is what IBMDOS/MSDOS was based on. The internal calendar QDOS used treated every fourth year as a leap year and Lotus which ran on MSDOS calculated dates using the MSDOS calendar.
"no ones expecting your Iphone to read punchcards"
Well, there's an app idea for someone.
Apple probably already has a patent for it...
What'd be more impressive is an app that lets your phone print punchcards
Well a punch card isn't that different to a very low tech QR code, so would definitely be possible.
dammit. you beat me to the -wait for it- punch! 😂
an app that decodes a punchcard with the camera is definitely doable
Yea, it really sucks when it’s your name. The account user name couldn’t be Con either. Until I started using it as Kon.
Oh so I guess you don't have rainbow in a full 😂😂😡😂😂😡😡😂😡😡😡😡😠😂😉
@@kingvent5005 what?
Literally dozens.
Kingvent tf this guy on
@@kingvent5005 bruh?
I discovered this 20 years ago when I was trying to create a folder called "Con" for my converted mp3 files. Didin't know why it didn't work until now! Thanks :)
I recommend the game Hypnospace Outlaw if you're feeling nostalgic about that time :)
Thoroughly enjoyed this. I have noticed many legacy control panels in Windows 10, but I didn’t know some went all the way back to 3.1!
Microsoft: “Wait! Don’t change that code! What if someone needs to open their 30 year old word excel sheets!” Meanwhile at Apple: “Lmao who even uses opengl anymore?”
DoriNori" lmao who uses 32 bit apps"
@Богдан Кондратов apple isn't one of them.
@@GuardiaNES420 Most games CAN run on OpenGL. Most of them can run DX or Vulkan maybe. Like all Unity games, for example, can be switched from using OpenGL to render to using dx11 by launching them with the "-force-d3d11" argument.
I don't understand, why not make such compatibility optional so you could choose to install a library to open a specific old file instead of creating a dependency hell that would certainly hit them in the future? We use DOSBox for older files after all.
@@sacwingedbatsatadbitsad4346 except that not every game is made in unity...
"So why should I use Linux?"
"You can name your file 'con'."
You can name it in windows too
Actually all UNIX-like systems like Linux use device files for almost everything. But they are in the /dev directory
"You also don't have to rely on a corporation for a critical service but meh, who really cares about that these days."
UNIX > micros*ft
Also, UNIX filenames are case-sensitive and can contain almost any symbol (including :"\|?*).
Also, in text files you don't have to use a newline AND a carriage return character for a line break, as if your monitor was a _particularly stupid_ typewriter.
Also, it's a real™ operating system. POSIX or GTFO! :^)
LPT stands for Line Printer, they were rotating cylinders with almost the complete character set and the number characters even twice around the circumference in 132 places along the the cylinder with 132 hammers that smacked all the characters required one complete line at a time, if only numbers needed to be printed it would be two lines per revolution, I cant́ remember how fast the cylinder rotated but it crazy spewed out up to four copies using three carbon paper layers in continuous form. The office girls were then asked to strip ... meaning to seperate the copies and carbon paper on a rewinder one layer at a time, good old days.
Spot on and thank you for pointing this out for people. This is why I love Windows so much. The backwards compatibility is remarkable. My mother still manages her finances in a 2003 XP version of Microsoft Money that still runs on her latest build Windows 10 PC in 2021. I'd like to see a Mac user run an app from even the previous OS version, or worse yet, from a different architecture (M1 vs Intel vs PPC, SMH).
Rosetta let PPC OSX software run on Intel Macs, and Rosetta 2 lets Intel OSX software run on M1 Macs. At a performance cost for the translation processing, but it does work.
Speaking of PPC, it's hella fun that I can run most modern Linux programs on an old PPC Mac (given you have a way to install PPC Linux). I used Emacs on my iMac G3 to write a few school assignments.
My Abacus from 6000 years ago still calculating, now that's backwards compatibility 😎
I use software that was written in about 1996 on my modern Windows 7 computer
I'm not saying that Apple is as good at backwards compatibility as windows, but you seem to not know that Apple have built in emulation (called rosetta) for X86 applications so they can run on their new ARM processors, and it does it incredibly well.
You've basically made everyone try name a file CON, good job
Easily done.
The biggest con.
@@rossharper1983 You aren't running Windows, right?
And everyone else feel like they're superior because they either use OS X or Linux.
I think it's the french autocensor
"if you're using a windows computer, try this" ok. dammit. hes right.
Hes wrong. You actually CAN name a directory "CON". From command line type "mkdir \\?\C:\CON" . This will create at folder 📂 at the root of the C:\ drive called CON.
@Chris Stoble
I posted something similar, except for files rather than directories.
@@plogoo1 That method creates an unusable root folder in the system. Doesn't count dude!
@@mozzjones6943 totally count. I didn't say it was smart thing to do. Only that he's incorrect that it can't be done!
U actually make my full concept clear and ur expression makes it more intresting
You have just made me go back to a past that I have never actually experienced, but which I have always found fascinating.
And you have also made me reflect on something very important that I took for granted or unnecessary. Thanks Tom, glad to have discovered you!
Italian: Mi hai appena fatto tornare in un passato che non ho mai vissuto in realtà, ma che ho sempre trovato affascinante.
E mi hai anche fatto riflettere su qualcosa di molto importante che davo per scontato o inutile. Grazie Tom, felice di averti scoperto!
In French « con » means “moron”, so we just thought that Windows was a bit susceptible.
I've been scrolling through all the comments for this x)
I believed it, and thought it was dumb because way more offensive french swears were allowed.
Damn! I just wrote a comment saying the same thing 🤣👍
Using the proper quotation marks for each language huh? Neat 👌🏼
@@mrjohnbrush - Me too fck
lots of French people probably noticed you can't name a folder "con", because it's an insult in French some people tried to use that as folder names. Me at least.
I was searching for the french person that said this before me xD
@@kyoyeou5899 many French people pointed that out not only him
Vachement mes cons 😂👍
Please enlighten me as to what "con" means in english. Is it an untranslatable but generally insulting word, or is it directly comparable to something?
@@metroplexprime9901 it's "imbecile" but in way harder
I ran into this a few years ago. We had a project and the abbreviation for a part was Con. Our code broke when it tried to create a directory called CON. I remembered DOS reserved words, looked it up... and was furious.
Yip, I remember we had an old system that was set up to use two dot matrix printers, one to spit out invoices and another for shipping labels on pre-printed, continuous paper. The issue was you had to remember to flip the switch on the rotary printer switch and if you didn't, well chaos would ensue. It had been that way for years.
I came along and a little code change here along with the addition of a second printer port in the computer, and the printer switch and its mass of cables was history.
"And if you didn't, chaos would ensue" could be the title of any programmer's biography.
Fun fact: "Con" is the french word for "dumbass"
I always thought it was for censoring those names that we couldn't name a file "con".
User who don't know french needing to name the photo of a convention
Windows: *Censored*
More like a "Sad fact". How did you reach that idiotic conclusion?
The word "con" can be used as an insult in English, too. It means one who lies or scams you.
As in, "Some call President Trump a con because his statements so rarely match what fact-checkers say."
@@prebenjaeger .
@@prebenjaeger I can't believe someone made a mistake ! Clearly we should just execute them... I'm shaking, quaking even... such actions against humanity shouldn't got unpunished !
That's a darker red t-shirt. I hope you aren't planning on shifting to other color
It's probably to do with him using a screen screen and having to edit the video to look better compared to the background
@@fannyslam Ah yes. The famous screen screen.
That's the version of Tom Scott that's remastered for 2020.
I love my screen screen, always there when I need it
He's becoming Edgy
Tom Scott, master of backwards compatibility. Play his videos in random order, always familiar, always comforting.
I like how Tom shows all the great examples of Microsoft backwards compatibility as I sit at my desk looking at a Zune, which has nearly no compatibility with newer versions of windows.
"New stuff should also support the old stuff"
-Apple has left the chat
Indeed, Apple’s systems are saddled with less technical debt. That’s what makes them better than windows.
Ah, so that’s why they support their iOS devices for 6 years whereas most Android phones only get 2 years of feature updates. Oh wait...
JakeExpertGames I think they might be talking about the catalina updates, or when the iphone dropped all 32-bit apps a few years ago
@@yosoyysoyyo macos dropped 32bit too. dumb asf esp. when 99% of programs are still 32bjt
Eh otherwise they're gonna be stuck with it forever. they did it with PowerPC and survived so they know they can do it again... also it's not hard to recompile and update especially if it's on the App Store... which is also what they want :/ There are pros and cons to either approach but it could've been way worse ...
The block is obviously there to stop con artists from saving their stuff on computers. ;-)
Now we know why Hunter used a Mac.
🤯
…
"Bill Gates unleashes new update for Windows. Con artists hate him."
lmao this cracked me up, ty
I love how I’ve never asked this question my entire life but still watched it.
You got conned.
Thanks Tom; that was fascinating & enlightening.
4:51 is the kind of slick editing you don't expect people to notice when you're actually creating it.
its so smooth
You sir have a speacial eyes, i cant believe u noticed that, congrats!
What did you see ? I didn't notice anything, now I'm curious...
@@vaclavholinka6301 An edited-on disc appears in his hand and slides into the Playstation.
I *swore* that was intentional. The fact that it came together that smoothly is just marvelous.
Microsoft: “We support old systems.”
Adobe: “What does that mean?”
Apple: "Who needs backwards compatibility?" *Rips out 32 Bit program support in macOS Catalina*
Hoi Kay Li I’m still so upset they did that. the only game I can play in my steam library is Garrys Mod and even that is wonky because I have to change the resolutions smh
Windows: “All our operating systems are built on top of the graveyards of the old versions so there’s so many bugs and exploits”
@@jacquesca Microsoft can fix bugs when they appear. I don't see Apple re-adding 32bit support.
@@vista9434 *Funny enough, it is opposite with Apple and older mobile hardware.* They support iPhones, iPads and iPod touches from four-five (!) years ago, while everybody else typically for a year or two at best.
I love your story telling, dude!
I don’t see any signs of you using a teleprompter of any kind, that’s an incredible level of presentation skills, hats off to you sir!
Glad to know when I tried to save all my comic con photos under "CON" and my laptop yelled at me that is wasn't a virus.
The idea that fixing a date bug from nearly four decades ago could wreck a major company's operations (even temporarily) definitely falls into the existentially terrifying side of the tech industry
its why internet explorer still exists someone a lot of companies actually have stuffed based on it
You didn't live through 2000 and the effort put into making sure the world didn't fall over when we went from 1999 99 to 2000 00.
@@adrienneclarke3953 All the supposed chaos when 2000 hit was greatly exaggerated
@@graphite7898 I think the point they're making is that things didn't go crazy because people put in a lot of work. It wasn't going to be like, computers taking over the world, but a lot of software used for fundamental things like bank transactions was going to break if they didn't update the software to interpret dates better.
@@graphite7898 I worked in banking and we had so many old system, we started planning 2 years out. We couldn't afford to have transactions fall over.
As someone with the initials LPT, i'm surprised this hasn't broken some school database or something yet.
Listen, printer, you're not fooling anyone.
At least you're not called Bobby Tables
Good job. I really enjoyed this presentation.
Ok.. I used the node.js fs-api and created a file "con.txt"
now Windows does not let me delete it anymore...
Create the file:
fs.writeFileSync('con.txt', 'hello con!', { encoding: 'utf8' });
------
But you can delete it like this:
fs.unlinkSync('con.txt');
Your fault for using nodejs, I pity you
@@f1refly1337 people enjoy different things
@@f1refly1337 F's in the chat for the JavaScript boys
Don’t toy with the gods
“Headphone jacks get removed”
I’m still upset about this, even years after it’s become “normal”
The headphone jack is still a make or break for me... I vehemently avoid any phone/laptop that doesn't have it.
Same here
@@sonyxperiasmk the latest Samsung ones... Some of the Chinese brands as well... A lot of android manufacturers have adopted the no headphone design philosophy.
Oh, boo boo! Let me play a sad song for you on the world's smallest violin.
@@DDbenkoDD did u just insult your ownself?
This feature caused me no end of headaches. I was writing files for part entities using a folder structure based on attributes, which was failing for the Condenser system (abbreviation: CON).
Great explanation! Thank you very much Tom! 😀👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The pros and ___'s of windows
Alexey Grosman hehe
Goose
porn
@Богдан Кондратов Yes. It runs all the games.
@@lonestarr1490 and practically all software. If it hasn't been ported it is either unimportant or extremely niche.
"You can't name a file con"
Spanish speakers: "Con qué?"
Con ventanas
@@calebf3655 Con el Micro Suave Ventanas, de Guillermo Portones 😂
Alvaro S. *Memo Portones
@@calebf3655 😂
JAJAJAKAJKAJSKAJSKAJDKISDJSjj
Yes, I've had a really tough time copying old prerelease screenshots of the game "Command & Conquer" off an old CD because the creators of the disc had shortened them to "COM" plus a number, heh.
Nicely played Tom, very nice!!!!
I find the Tom Scott 2020 Remaster edition to have duller reds.
I found the handling to be a little slippery
So you're saying the new game is un-fair?
"You might even realize that my trademark red shirt is, in fact, light pink"
....
"One take!"
its to give it a grittier aesthetic
i see the appeal of the remaster but that doesnt change that i cant play it for more than about 10 minutes :(
I'm almost impressed that Tom didn't use the word "legacy" even once in this video.
Also, as always, great work.
That's because Tom's not old enough. :-)
Hes wrong. You actually CAN name a directory "CON". From command line type "mkdir \\?\C:\CON" . This will create at folder 📂 at the root of the C:\ drive called CON.
Chris Stoble That sounds like a "bug" in the ported version or mkdir. Nice find. What happens if you try to use the folder? Rename/move/copy might break?
the way everything in this video tied back together at the end absolutely broke my brain
Such a fascinating video, thank you!!
Backwards compatibilty: Exists
Apple: We’re just going to ignore that.
It is worth noting that a lack of backwards compatibility is why their products tend to run smoother and more organized than the alternatives. It's a trade-off to support and rely on very old software.
@Windows Xienna OMG? What?! Now that will make me reconsider bout upgrading my G4
Tell that to the old ass iPods still supported even now lmao
i miss the cinamon taost crunch app
what?
You're telling me Cornelius and Conrad made it in the obscure name list before me? Outrage I tell you, Outrage!
Don't worry, Con. We still appreciate you, brother!
I personally have known more than 6 or 7 connors in my life
Don’t forget Bort.
beware of walking robots
How is Cornelius an obscure name, has everyone forgot Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus
3:36 didn't have the Con-cept
Right before this, there was an ad that said, "I see you are going to watch a Tom Scott video." I am now questioning if my family sold my data, or if people have security cameras around my house, etc.
"World's Best Cornelius."
The humor in your attention to detail is amazing.
Timmy P Pornelius Hubert
Sadly not Kornelius :(
Imagine trying to save a PNG of a convention called "con."
conventioncon2021
Concon it is.
Kon
Conjunctions
Dashcon
Just found your channel, February of 2022. Don't know how I missed it all these years. RUclips is too big! 😊
It's super cool that backwards compatibility is this important and that Windows has taken notice of it!
I can't name my folder PRN?
Well, gonna have to go with "Homework" then...
Really underrated comment.
@@TheValkyrie9001 Cap
@@TheValkyrie9001 Don't act like you have never watched PRN in your life.
@@erikhendrych190 what even is prn
@@Harlow. a religion
I actually ran into this-"CON" is the abbreviation for a school club I was a part of
club of nerds? :P
club of nincompoops? ....
Club of nonce? :o
Club of necrophilia
club of nuttingonhotgrandmasonyourarea
I tried it right away. 25 years in IT. Didn't know this. Kudo's to you!.
I wish I had a teacher as interesting as you in high school, I learned all this with more interest than anything I did in high school
"Someone, somewhere, MIGHT need to open a 30+yr old windows file."
Like the US Government/Military. We still run essential programs on MS-DOS and Windows 95. 😂
Caleb Shonk wrong they are actually using XP
@Noah hard to update critical systems, if it ain't broke - don't fix it. there are other methods for security, but someday they will have to update, but it requires a seamless transition which is hard/impossible in some infrastructures
@Noah yes and no. It's secure because it's not connected to the internet but it's mainly because so much military tech was made to run on that operating system so everything will work with it.
@Noah no because they would rather spend the money on a tank or something powerful like that because to update everything would cost probably +10 million
"You have the conn."
*Windows for Warships has stopped working and needs to be restarted.*
Tom, if you could explain everything about computers to my mom, that would be great.
Justin did you just quote that line of office space on purpose?
One of the reasons I love Gnu/Linux. Userland never breaks. If your app uses the forward facing APIs, it will probably* never break.
* not for a long time, if not never
4:51 this little animation edit using Tom's gesture is brilliant
next up: why you can’t add FaZe in front of your babies name
Or add the word Clan to it
That reminds me how I still see kids putting faze in their clan tags or in front of their names in games.
That reminds me how I still see kids putting faze in their clan tags or in front of their names in games.
That reminds me how I still see kids putting faze in their clan tags or in front of their names in games.
You can add xXx_ though and 69x420
bruh imagine working at the centre for computing history and tom scott calls you like "hey can i get an 8 minute long static camera shot of the room that I usually film in?"
or a 3 sec gif😂
Or, you'know, a picture.
@@thrawnnoconnection6931 he's not using a picture tho. and I think a GIF wouldn't be of such a high res.
two pictures
@@Vallam23 look at the displays on the right, theres a blue line scrolling through the screen so more than two frames👌
This is great! Your takes are so long btw, you're a great speaker. Though I presume you use autocue?
Its true... Tom Scott's channel is becoming number 1 for all the right reasons.
7:04 "If you change nothing, people will get bored, and move on to something else"
Sports video game players: Allow us to introduce ourselves
Fifa and cod lmao
@@zriraum no, Fifa and Madden. At least cod changes things, and that's a war game.
@@ARandomInternetUser08 CoD keeps changing, but for the worse.
To be fair, sports games do kinda sorta change things. Graphics get slightly better, player stats are updated, and that is it.
Fifa:
"iPhones shouldn't be able to read punch cards"
I see this as a challenge to some RUclipsr. Just the other day I saw someone making a Linux terminal on a typewriter.
@Kevin Counihan my friend sent this exact video to me yesterday
I’m still pissed at Marc for that one, I’ve been thinking about doing that for the better part of a decade, but I was never able to find a teletype local enough to me to have it shipped... :)
iPhones can read punch cards easily, just make a program to read the image of the card and thats it
Douglas Martins but that’s the easy way of doing it
(Edit) also I saw that video too
@@lucasthompson6405 But building a Bluetooth or USB punch card reader is going a bit far in the other direction.
Nicely done about control concerns
5:28 i like that you display the calendar of February 1900 correctly. Nice detail!
My favorite story is that Microsoft specifically reintroduced a DOS bug in Windows 95 after having fixed it, just so that SimCity that relied on the bug would continue to work.
what bug
Eben, kindly link to the story or cite your sources please
not trying to be rude but that was a simple google search
I googled, "simcity windows bug"
@@Belioyt This isn't a research paper. It would be kinda weird to cite sources on a RUclips comment, and if you want to find a story you can search it for yourself.
"Remember, Microsoft, backwards compatability within reason."
"Backwards compatabality forever, for everything. Got it."
Except for device drivers, unfortunately. Old printers, sound cards, video cards, etc.. are very frequently left behind!
I love running old programs on Windows 10 and seeing how they somewhat work sometimes.
Except for Windows XP software.*
Or a lot of cad and engineering software. There was actually a lot of software that windows 10 refused to run and couldn't be modified because the creators/companies no longer worked on it.
@@LeonMatthews That's not due to Microsoft but the companies that produced those products. They make their own drivers.
Our alignment rack hardware still requires a parallel port connection to the computer that operates it…we’ve tried adapters, cables, cards, and so on…but it doesn’t like them. Not easy to find a modern PC that comes with a native parallel port, but we did get one finally from a local computer guy that worked some magic for us.
Runs off to making a punchcard reading program for the iPhone. Though my old punchcard programs ran on a HP minicomputer so I’d have to emulate that too.
You also can't name it "aux", which we found out the hard way, when I named a folder "aux", submitted it to our git repository and made all the windows people unable to update their local copies.
Oops
Not your fault.
:'D haha good job.
Haha this is a great prank
Oh, that's so great...it sucks when you are using a full blown OS but you have to do stupid things so your stuff compatible with the bug pile that is Windows.
@@ChristopherHailey :'D haha I prefer Linux aswell, but you didn't have to suck off Linus Torvall like that. If you like the taste, I don't descriminate.
Back in the 90s a friend in school wrote a program to replace "AUX" by "BUX" in memory, so we could hide games in an AUX folder which the admin was never able to enter or remove.
That's actually a really cool way to exploit this
Based.
Was he the hacker 4chan?
Could you give us the program?
5:05 this is how the Wii U works! It has a wii emulator in it. The Wii (I believe?) also has a gamecube emulator, and can run N64 games just fine.
This, sadly, did not extend to the switch.
Yay finally another Wii u user!
I haven't used windows on my primary machine since school ever since I typically run Linux. Great refresh into windows I honestly don't miss it but occasionally help my mom with her windows machine.
I accidentally found out that you can't name a folder "prn". Don't ask how.
Why?
@@josephmarx4695 why do you think big guy
I think that is the most common one
*no you didnt*
prn is a spreadsheet file of the pre-internet days.
Everyone right now: *Trying to name a file CON*
Everyone: *Gets Surprised*
Exactly what happened to me
me: tries on chrome os
@@Trippik try mkdir \\.\C:\con\
it'll work
@@v1perys that's a folder, though, not a file.
I don't know why, but I did
I can't turn my eyes away from the traveling line on the screen behind
I love your videos!
In France it is a computer joke because "con" means "jerk"
More like an idiot or a prick
@@TMWT all those words mean the same thing you frogs
In Britain a con is either a scam or a person of bad reputation for honesty. Eg a con artist.
I suppose that might even be true in many other English speaking nations. I hope that anyone who _is_ named Con doesn’t take offence though.
The original meaning of "con" in French is c**t (in the literal meaning of the word)
So french windows doesn't let you jerk it around? XD
This video should be in a world record, where 1M+ people have tried naming a folder CON.
Which also happens to mean idiot or twat in French, so bilingual bonus?
I havnt
Simon WoodburyForget ‘CON’ is different than ‘con’ for a computer.
@@SimonWoodburyForget Let me guess... linux?
@@junaidfarooqui1993 not for windows
Many times I had to use old versions of MS-DOS, pre editor, pre edlin even, but they all had copy con.
I still have rs232 and LPT prots in my pc built a couple of years ago - I added a PCI expansion card as I have old gear like a vic20, CPC6128 and amiga etc to talk to
Along with a heap of industrial stuff