Insert Coin - Out of Cheese
A friend sent me this link about hacking the printer display for HP printers. While I thought changing the display to “Insert Coin” was cute, the thing that really got me laughing was the story of a hospital intern changing a printer to say “Out of Cheese”. I used to work at a hospital help desk and imagined someone calling and trying to explain that her printer claims to be out of cheese. Too funny!
Note (November 11, 2007): I just noticed this link is broken… I’m going to leave it up in the hopes it’s a temporary problem. Basically it’s about “hacking” the display of a networked HP printer to display whatever you want.
http://kovaya.com/miscellany/2007/10/insert-coin.html
October 18th, 2007 at 11:53 am
I agree, that one made me literally LOL. Now to go find a victim..