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- Threnody, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31But when you put a 1 or 0 in notepad you're not generating binary. Each 1 is a full byte of ASCII and each 0 is a full byte of ASCII, not a bit of machine code. If you open up a binary in notepad you see a bunch of gibberish, not a ton of 1s and 0s.
- Yorn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22I just did this, I typed it in, saved it as exe, double-clicked and nothing is ¥lú Ü4
- Threnody, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Putting a bunch of 1s and 0s in an ASCII file and naming it .exe does not a compiled executable make. Reported inaccurate.
- TwoDotOh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14You're kidding me, right? I mean, the front page? What the hell, digg? We're better than this, guys. I'm sad now. This is the single most depressing thing that I have ever seen on the front page.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15You've got to be kidding me. 79 people dugg this article to the front page? Everyone who dugg this article should be banned from digging articles in the future. This is simply embarassing.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Let's see here:
"0" is 0x30
"1" is 0x31
0x30 and 0x31 appear to be opcodes for XOR (variants) in x86 assembler. I'm not sure how this would accomplish a formatting of the drives, but then again I thought the beginning of an exe is just a stub which indicates what type of program it is (DOS, win32, etc.). - deadmoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9This can't be accurate. It seems too ridiculous to be true.
- aldenhg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9As others have said, no way it works as they say. If there were some way to make notepad save the 1s and 0s as binary it might work, but I still have my doubts.
- dbpigeon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9In a compiled executable, the 1s an 0s are bits. In a .txt file, the 1s and 0s are bytes.
- hazmattie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Hey... I've got a new notepad "formatter":
1. Create a new file
2. Type in "deltree c:"
3. rename this file to "iknownothing.bat"
4. in your command prompt (if you can get that far), type in "iknownothing.bat".
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just hit your computer with a baseball bat. - anonatron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Does anyone read this stuff before digging it? Seriously, this is amazingly obvious BS... this kid has to be reading his stats and laughing his ass off! From now on, I will only submit stories that link back to my own site and cover such subjects as "Modding your xbox 360 with a cheese sandwich" and "copying DVD's using a zerox machine and an ice pick"!
- zone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It opened/closed a blank DOS window... but nothing happened... strange tho.. when I do the same with random 1s and 0s it gives me an error..
- Daed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5How many `problem' markings does a story require before it is removed?
- mpeters13, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5give me a freakin' break.... reported as lame.
- WayneGoode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This was a prank that posted to a forum. I guess this guy believed it and copied it to his blog without testing it. See http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20090 as one possible source.
- Warptera, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Why do it this way when it's MUCH easier to do it the conventional way?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4all lies
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2All I have to say to this is "..."
The way the page is written is just horrible. I expected it to be a batch file (which would be ridiculously easy to write), but instead it's just a silly post trying to claim that ASCII 0s and 1s are the same as on/off bits. Woohoo. - Daed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's not good, seems like several people have marked it as inaccurate (myself included) yet it's still sitting there on the front page, just mocking us.
- jamelt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2that was hilarious, i hope you know that was a joke right... lol @ "this will make your computer not boot"
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3As I said before, Windows and DOS before it treat .EXEs without the MZ header as a .COM file.
http://sandpile.org/ia32/opc_1.htm
Although Notepad can save in Unicode two-byte format, which can throw 0x00, 0xFF 0xFE into the mix, though the last two only at the beginning. I don't know the details about UTF8 which Notepad can also save. The default is Ansi, though.
The instructions don't say anything about alternate format saving though. - thecrazymonk86, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2if you know the basics of computer science, one would see that its not possible to turn text into complied machine code for all the reasons stated above.
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1However, we're talking about a 2-byte unicode file that just contains the Unicode for the character "1" and the character "0" plus the opening byte order marks. The opening byte order marks are what put the FE and FF into the mix. Otherwise the resulting Unicode file would just have 0x00 in front of the equivalent 0 and 1 ansi codes.
As I seem to understand from Windows filenames, for most Latin characters Unicode is the 16-bit equivalent to 8-bit ansi codes. - artanis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12-byte unicode will "throw in" much more than just 0xFF and 0xFE. Most all combinations are considered unicode chars. UTF-8 will throw in more specific chars, since they use continuation bits.
Examples at:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Description - webtweakers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You are not authorized to view this resource.
You need to login.
? - ProTrader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1link is dead
- genrik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1in notepad "format (drive letter here):"
save as "filename.bat"
presto - atheken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1in notepad, no.... vi(m), maybe.
- iUser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Umm...this makes no sense at all. As said above, the 1's and 0's are not even stored as binary but as a byte of ASCII.
- tylerni7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2All this person did is run those commands through an ASCII to Binary program. If you check it (you can all try http://www.theskull.com/javascript/ascii-binary.html ), running the binary through just comes out with the command. For the 90 of you that dugg this, you are really stupid. Like everyone said... text is stored as bytes, you would have to use strange characters to get the bits that you wanted for the actual commands. The author of this is really stupid too, if they actually thought translating text into ASCII made it an executable file...
Now, 01001001001000000110100001101111011100000110010100100000011110010110111101110101
00100000011000010110110001101100001000000110110001100101011000010111001001101110
01100101011001000010000001100001001000000110110001100101011100110111001101101111
01101110001011100010111000101110 ! - boelder, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3"This simple little link shows you how you can take down ANY lame website using good ole' Digg!"
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Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. - Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2still notepad is a bit of a swiss army knife
website creation
java file creation
txt file creation
php creation
some other possible stuff - k3ymaster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2That guy was obviously a 10 year old just finding out about DOS, I mean, why using notepad when you can just write a command, or write a .bat file?, even if writing binary in notepad would magically compile something useful, what's the point in writing something in binary? that's like reinventing the wheel. It's like doing a shutdown command on DOS to turn off your PC when you can do it with just two clicks.(not the best example but you get the idea).
This story better disappear from the front page or we'll have to dOs the hell out of Digg.com until they fix their algorithms. ;) - tommajor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2or just make a batch file...
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echo y|format d: /s /v - dvdjon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Just saw this blog that i got from the "who blogged this entry" it has some good info too :
http://www.nothingtoseeheremovealong.com/crudetechnologies/ - OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1ht#X5""P^,VP_5~A(E)(EVIPAD@4Q#/IO8[E)@]"BG,>E$B4=@G@?)POP>__G@K$)K@@0B'*"WL:RA@Z@@:AO :TL"^A@@"#(? /EFT@O8[U?'B4Q#OA@**8./5C)BF-Q4,E!=@!R=O.C@P3PPKDM[Q3 XV(VE Y)A?CM@@&U00^ZB@&M*UAXV0(C10:*=@,#JB5-O;("@];OL@
I think rwanger wrote this. make it all one line. it doesn't format your harddrive though. :) - JeffP, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2everytime i refresh the frontpage, this load of shiat gets 2-3 more diggs...i'm losing faith quickly...
- jarbro, on 07/23/2009, -4/+4maybe we can come up with some binary that will format this guys brain and save the rest of us from this stupidity!
- Opethian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This has to be the third time that this topic (creating executables in Notepad specifically) reached the main page. Seems that there are groups organised here doing this kind of promotion. That's just sad, that hole will keep on getting bigger.
- tommajor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1why does it all center around notepad, there's also gedit, and a number of other editors... ;-)
- Skeuomorph, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Thanks dvdjon. While I think the notepad thing isn't really going to work, the sequence I blogged will. To start "debug" go to a DOS prompt and type "debug" and enter. Then enter that data. But you WILL lose your drive.
Ohgr, you'd do it because format doesn't remove all partition information. Neither does fdisk.
If you frequently install different operating systems, you'll run into situations where DOS/Windows cannot take back over a drive. The info I blogged really resets the drive, and Windows can use it again. Those 15 lines can save you from having to chuck a drive or never use it in Windows again. - spyder91, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Didn't have to read the article, reported as inaccurate... I think I can some up this whole thing... ANY F@!#$ING IDIOT WHO BELIEVED THAT NEEDS DRAGGED OUT INTO THE STREET AND REPEATEDLY HIT WITH A BLUNT OBJECT. Yeah... I think that expresses it well.
- BHRecon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0lol how does this thing keep getting diggs??
- Technopundit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Why bother? Get a DOS disk.
- hackwrench, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1However it does make a .COM file which last I checked Windows and DOS before it treats a file with the EXE extension that doesn't begin with the signature MZ. Anybody want to pop this into a debugger and see what opcodes get generated? It still doesn't seem likely that this would result in opcodes leading to a format.
- D4V1S, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2***** nerds...lol just kidding...but seriously, go out and get some sun don't let this work you up so much.
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