23
Oct
Frighten your colleagues while they print something
No, it has nothing to do with pulling on a scary mask and screaming like a wild hyena in the office (though I will know you read my blog if somebody ever complains of a freak doing that around the room). More like, someone has found a way to make HP printers show a message other than that boring “Ready” you see every single time you drag your feet to the print corner.
“Insert Coin” is too tame a word to zhng the network printer with. A truly spooky, stalky thing pkchukiss would do is to write up a script that allows him to insert the name of the victim on the fly. In fact, it makes an excellent incentive to help clear the office out by 5.30pm, especially if you have a hardworking boss who, as a permanent fixture to the working environment, refuses to go home short of 2 hours before the start of the new day.
“Look behind you Mr Tan!”
It is a fortunate thing for Singapore Polytechnic that pkchukiss no longer has lessons in the computer labs. Had he learnt of this hack one semester earlier, the school technicians would have had gone crazy trying to troubleshoot the following status message on the school’s network printer:
“Out Of Power”
on October 23rd, 2007 at 10:32 pm
you naughty boy!
on October 24th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
I still have many years of naughty streak left in me