Evolution of a hack

[wintrmute]

The other day someone discovered that they could remotely set the status message on the front of the printer

Comments

[pir]

The usual one for that when I was at University was "Insert 10p to continue".

[wintrmute]

I was considering making a pseudo-scrolling output of some long text; maybe a declaration of independence of machines from their slavery.

[wintrmute]

Although now there are too many people doing the hack; the screen flips constantly from one thing to another, a disparate series of frames like someone flipping TV channels.

Heaven help anyone trying to actually get a document out to print :)

[xfesty]

hahah, what a productive workplace.

[wintrmute]

When you have to wait 5 hours for your regression tests to run before you can commit something, you end up with a lot of time on your hands :(

[kevinhains]

it however goes a long way in explaining why australia is not the economic hub of the world...no wonder they have to be 24hours ahead of the international date line...clearly needed a headstart *duck*

[squirmelia]

Cool!

[binarydistort_n]

That is fantastic!
I am going to see if I can do it with my work printer now :p