Re: PRINTER ON FIRE, HELP!!
On Monday 25 February 2008, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:10:53PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > On 02/24/08 21:05, zomgapenguin@temporaryinbox.com wrote:
> > > PLEASE HELP, when I tried printing debian told me that my printer
> > > is on fire. Upon inspection I found no signs of fire but I fear
> > > that if I do not find the fire soon my printer will die, PLEASE
> > > HELP!!! URGENT AS I NEED TO PRINT A MEMO FOR BILL GATES!!!
> >
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=102893054014512&w=2
>
> Cool - thanks for the link! I had always assumed the message was just
> another of unix's quirky in jokes rather than a reference to something
> that, at one point, could have actually happened.
>
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Actually, the link is incorrect. The ribbon would stretch on the most
heavily hammered side (left) thus causing skew. Smart ops would flip the
ribbon when they started getting ribbon checks.
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