30th April 2001
Software is designed to help you complete rudimentary tasks. Though, programmers are known for their wit as well as their wisdom. They often design (and hide) easter eggs inside their programs. Getting to them is half the fun! I've featured a few popular secrets in the past -- as oxymoronic as that may sound. Recently, I picked up my virtual basket and went hunting for a few new ones. Say, what do you know about Wassily Kandinsky? Yeah, sounds like a total geek -- and he's sitting inside Windows 9x right now! Search your hard drive for the DOSSETUP.BIN file (tap F3 to bring up the dialog quickly). It may be in the Windows \ Options \ Cabs folder; if you don't have it, this trick won't work. Be sure to open DOSSETUP.BIN in some kind of text editor -- like Wordpad. Okay, so now that it's loaded, click the binoculars icon to bring up the Find dialog. Do a search for the word "Wassily" and... enjoy. I'm not gonna tell you what it says; that'd ruin the surprise, eh.