I pulled off a real true printer hack yesterday - using a real hack saw.
I am currently converting several power plants from Token Ring to Ethernet. Since the company is kinda cheap, we're deploying D-Link parallel port print servers. Almost all of the printers we're putting these on are HP's, but one particular LaserJet model has some plastic behind the parallel port making it impossible to plug one of these things in. In the past I had simply told the boss it wouldn't fit with an "I'll take care of it" answer, on one of these occasions I was lucky enough to find an Ethernet Jet Direct card just collecting dust on a shelf that worked. Yesterday the boss wasn't around, and the client responsible for the printer said to go for it when I told him there was nothing behind the plastic. Worked great.
On another note, when I got home last night my little cousin was here. Granny had made gumbo, she announced "It's ready using whatever utensil's you want". There were a bunch of pencils on the cabinet. Just to get under my cousins skin, that's what I used, right out of the pot. He had a hard time dealing with that. Poor kid, needs the "kid shelter" removed from around him and a reality slap occasionally. I then asked him if he could use chopsticks. No was the answer, of course. I don't know if I have ANY grandparents down type relatives that can. Oh well, most rednecks can't.
On another note, when I got home last night my little cousin was here. Granny had made gumbo, she announced "It's ready using whatever utensil's you want". There were a bunch of pencils on the cabinet. Just to get under my cousins skin, that's what I used, right out of the pot. He had a hard time dealing with that. Poor kid, needs the "kid shelter" removed from around him and a reality slap occasionally. I then asked him if he could use chopsticks. No was the answer, of course. I don't know if I have ANY grandparents down type relatives that can. Oh well, most rednecks can't.