Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
by bobbyi_settv on Friday October 02, 2020 @01:44AM
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No, he renamed it to "package: An Amazing Project.json"
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OMG even better :-))
My mind did not parse anything after ":"
Windows doesn't even let you have a colon in a filename!
I suppose it is because the colon is used for NTFS alternate data streams, see the example in the introduction here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/stre...
Re:One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020
by sumtechguy on Friday October 02, 2020 @10:19AM
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Wonder if NTFS 'lets' you. I know the API does not let it. But I wonder if you could get it in a different way. I know you can sneak case sensitivity in here and there.
Think I shall go ruin a VM tonight... :)
Had a hell of a time downloading a torrent with a colon in the name.