➠ October 19, 2007
hpsetdisp.pl
An old hack, rediscovered: Change the “00 READY” message on HP printers. I used variants of this at uni (“00 RAEDY” and “PAPER UPSIDE DOWN” were favourites of mine), and at AnagramOfPanties (in those glorious bubble days, I ran a script which displayed the current stock price on printers).
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About 2 years, 4 months ago, Rod commented:
I take no credit for the web interface at HWCEE -- that was Rod McLean's work. After he got a bollocking, he took out the printer-changing bit and left it up as a slanderous message board.
The days, those very much, were.
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About 2 years, 4 months ago, Iain T commented:
Those were the days. I seem to remember Adrian Hurt being particularly annoyed about one of the LJs insisting it needed cheese. Didn't someone - quite probably you - put up a wee webpage to let anyone change the message?