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And then there would be hell to pay, oh yes, and it ain't just CAPCOM who'd be grumpy. If you follow Wayne Hale's blog (he was a Shuttle flight director for a long time, then became Shuttle program manager, then eventually retired from NASA), he talks of how sacred and practically mission-critical that coffee was. Keeping the coffeemakers supplying an endless flow of burnt brew was nearly as important as making sure the facility didn't lose power. They're all massive coffee addicts. Interfere with the coffee machine and you'd be lucky to get out of there alive!
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WTF geoffrey? If the job was so important that its failure would bring down the entire company, the moron should have been given enough compute power to get the job done without stopping everyone else from getting their jobs done.
Anyone who thinks it's OK to hog a SHARED RESOURCE for several days doing something that resource was never intended to do in the first place and then act like a bullying brat about it would find their employment around here to be a short one. They have no business working in a place with other people.
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Off all the things this comment is, being first is not one of them.
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Normally, the printer driver for a postscript device writes a Postscript program to generate your printout. It then sends it (as a text file), to the printer. The printer runs the Postscript program and generates your printout.
You can also cheat. You write your Postscript program in a text editor and send it directly to the printer, bypassing the printer driver. The printer can't tell the difference between a Postscript job to crunch numbers, and a Postscript job to print a page. Back in the olden days, I actually did this (on a DEC LaserWriter), and it worked. The only drawback to this was that Postscript was similar to Forth, and Forth skills were not very common.
A lot of printers contain very capable CPUs to run the graphics engine. They could probably fly through a well-written Postscript program.
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Ctrl^D or Ctrl^M
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Something just dribbled out my right ear, and I think my right retina has become detached.
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Yeah, that's why I'm official now. It's a shame, I kind of liked being (unregistered)
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I was simply stating that, in my opinion, geoffrey wasn't admitting defeat and instead executed a successful trolling. If redblacktree thought something else I am not one to tell him what he meant. He meant what he said, which is why I fixed it for myself, not for him...
Capeesh?! :)
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You don't "wield responsibility." You are saddled with responsibility and you wield authority.
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Obligatory link: ps-httpd: http://www.pugo.org:8080/
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I don't know if anyone mentioned it yet- I stopped reading after the first page of circular arguments- but Geoffery is obviously a troll.
He was quite successful recently with his massive derailing of another comment section by suggesting "Sometimes rolling your own custom database is more secure than the ones made by people who actually know what they are doing lewl!"
Normally I don't mind the troll feeding, its basically all that happens in these comment sections. But I found the arguments to be especially boring and tame. If you're going to start arguments and stay stupid things (and by all means, please do) at least have the decency to make it entertaining for the rest of us to read.
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Yayyyy, another Penguicon story. These were great. Made my day to hear, too bad there weren't too many more.
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Fuck You. Fuck Your Face. Fuck Your Job. Fuck Your Name. Fuck Your Khakis. Fuck Your Shoes.
Fuck Your Mom. Fuck Your Dad. Fuck Your Sister. Fuck Your Brother. Fuck Your Kids. (I'll) Fuck Your Wife.
Fuck Your Cat. Fuck Your Car. Fuck Your House. Fuck Your Goldfish. Fuck The Bushes Along Your Front Walk.
Fuck Your Mailbox. Fuck Your Mailman. Fuck Your Refrigerator. Fuck Your Television. Fuck Your Star Wars Action Figure Collection.
Fuck Everything About You.
Fuck You...
Fuck You...
Fuck You.
Seriously, go Suck A Caribou's Ass.
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Pope is incarnation of Vishnu only, asshat. And stop to be using my name.
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All you nerds are a bunch of jerkoffs, and you deserve every punch you've ever received.
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Grammatically, that sentence is a disaster. Please try again.
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Then it is a hung job that isn't ever going to print and needs to be resubmitted.
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I've actually written postscript code that did nontrivial work in the printer. (It let us print cool graphs from stupid reporting software.) While the processors in early postscrip printers were fast, the actual PS interpreter wasn't a speed demon when it came to nonrendering tasks. The idiot would've been better off doing his number crunching in just about any compiled language.
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Yes, it's real. Real as real can be. I don't want to hurt you C-Octo. I want you to stick around a long, long time.
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Who wouldn't punch this?
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Also, what makes you think he isn't morbidly obese and doesn't have a neck? Ever thought of that, tough guy?
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A good point.
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Then again, based on the crap you write, I'm going to rescind the whole "smart guys like yourself" bit. Carry on lame-o. :P
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Oh, now you're just being mean. That's not nice at all.
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Curve ball swung at and hit for a double:
If you're a manager and you know you have an critically-important-but-large print job that will stop the rank and file from getting their work done, wouldn't you either print it off-hours (or, as the case may be, delegate it to someone else to print off-hours)? After all, if you're preventing your reports from getting their work done, chances are you also won't hit your quarterly numbers, rendering your 50 MB report useless.
(4/10 - 3 for concept and incendiary first post, 1 for getting me to respond)
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No normal print job of a few KB should take hours to complete. So if that situation occurs the normal solution is to kill the job.
If, for some strange reason, you decide to use the printer in a fashion it is not supposed to be used you SHOULD put a note up describing what and WHY you are doing it.
Not doing that is compounding the already big error.
If a car has broken breaks you do not glue the door lock, you put a note up warning about the broken breaks ;)
Most normal printer problem solution charts recommends killing any job that looks hung in the queue.
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Come on then fuckface, want to have a go? Think you're hard enough? You silly little wanker, just fuck off.
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Wasn't "The printer sat in the hallway, hooked up to an old PC that was the de facto print server."? Probably just Win98SE printer sharing. Since the tool wasn't printing anything, his print job should have been killed and his connection to the printer should have also been terminated.
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Incarnation of vishnu is not to be taking form for anuther 2,000 years.
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Uh-oh. Flaming is one thing, but now you've gone and committed a federal offense!
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Normally I don't care much about the "your mom" jokes, but calling his mom a fat guy: +1