That unicode flipper is awesome =)

A related thought on .dot files on Windows: once ntfs-3g became good enough to be enabled by default, I tried creating a folder on a NTFS partition with an “illegal” name (":"), since Linux has absolutely no restrictions about this. Windows booted ok, saw the folder (though I couldn’t open/rename/delete it). I was somewhat surprised that it didn’t crash ;) (remember c:\con\con?)

7331 ‘ǝɹǝɥ sʞɹoʍ ʇı ɟı ǝǝs ǝɯ ʇǝl (I hope this won’t break anything in the database, or elsewhere :-)

If you read Raymond’s site every now and then, you’ll see that most of such decisions were made to prevent users from harming themselves; the file system itself can deal with those things easily.

Yes, CON I remember; bumped into that when I was at the uni, here is a full list of such names: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx

Canon A550 huh? you should really get a SLR, I hate digicams, besides you can find acceptable small SLRs too, small enough to take it everyday with you…

Actually, CHDK works with many other Canon cameras, not only the A550.

Can you suggest a small SLR? I always thought these devices are the size of a horse, so carrying one with me on a daily basis is out of the question. Do you refer to Canon Powershot G7?

G7 is not an SLR, I have a Nikon D40, and I suggest this camera to anyone, while it appears to be not so small, actually it is for a SLR, and weights only x2 more than your A550, you can see a review here: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond40/

There are some experiments in combining a big image sensor in a small body but the result is definitely not a SLR