I just noticed...
Jul 3, 2022 12:18:25 #
DirtFarmer wrote:
When I was in Grad School, some hacker ran a program that sent a job to the printer that included a couple hundred lines of all asterisks. The lines were separated by a carriage return but no line feed. The result was that the printer would cut through the paper at that point and jam.
************************************************************************************** It wasn't me.
************************************************************************************** It wasn't me.
Those were the days! That is funny.
I blame the system programmers they should have rejected the print job for that. You did say it was a hacker so maybe he was teaching them lesson. LOL.
You know printing has never been easy. Remember having to format each line? Thank gosh those days are past. But printing is still not easy and it can be ver time consuming. I have a CAD program I use at work that won't print the letter c. Only on my system. That really messes up the notes on drawings. I have changed computer systems several times, and the CAD program has been updated many times, it still does this. IT has no clue why. The ghost in the machine? The work around is print to PDF and queue that to the printer.
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