Comments | wmjosiah: I love free software

wmjosiah

I love free software

Sep 17, 2004 13:08

Because of, among many things, things like the comments at the top of the dhcpd.leases file ( Read more... )

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wmjosiah September 17 2004, 15:40:12 UTC

Yeah and it was such a meaningful post too, wasn't it? I guess it had been since March or something - I hadn't realized that. Maybe I should post a short update on my life.

error messages fightingmonk October 29 2004, 11:30:19 UTC

My favorite was always "Printer is on fire!" - there is a valid 'istorical basis for that message - it used to actually mean the printer was on fire.

Re: error messages fightingmonk October 29 2004, 11:48:07 UTC

Wow - that was the least enlightening thing I've ever said.

Re: error messages wmjosiah November 8 2004, 07:11:49 UTC

Hehe. Is YOUR printer on fire today?
:)

WHY did printers used to catch fire? Now I'm curious :)

Re: error messages fightingmonk November 8 2004, 10:10:59 UTC

I believe it was a speed issue - the old line printers, if run continuously at high speed, would heat up to the point it was possible for the paper to catch fire. As old parallel ports weren't bi-directional, the only way for the printer to save itself was to do something naughty to the flow control on the port...

Or so I remember.