Re:Show HN: This website moves your mouse cursor
by don-code on Friday April 02, 2021 @04:35PM
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The network space on my university campus was flat and unfirewalled - one big /16 on which every device had more or less unfettered access to every other device.
Sometime in my senior year, I read that there was a PJL command that could set the ready message on networked HP printers.
Naturally, I wrote a script that walked the entire /16 and would attempt to set the ready text to "Low Toner". My girlfriend convinced me not to run it, so I changed it to "Low Mayonnaise" and ran that instead.
For the next few weeks, seeing "Low Mayonnaise" on printers was a pretty common sight. It disappeared on its own as printers were reset, or error conditions triggered, but it did feel pretty satisfying.
Sometime in my senior year, I read that there was a PJL command that could set the ready message on networked HP printers.
Naturally, I wrote a script that walked the entire /16 and would attempt to set the ready text to "Low Toner". My girlfriend convinced me not to run it, so I changed it to "Low Mayonnaise" and ran that instead.
For the next few weeks, seeing "Low Mayonnaise" on printers was a pretty common sight. It disappeared on its own as printers were reset, or error conditions triggered, but it did feel pretty satisfying.