Programming Printers
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@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:
Remember, he ACTUALLY said that he programmed his oven, too.
But he did, he programmed the clock to the correct time of course...
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So finally, seven years after his big thread, my answers are finally posted to "another" forum, as if the millions of readers of the one at that time were not enough. So to make good on his promise, I'm posting my answers here, most of a decade later.
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I miss b0b, haven't seen him in a while.
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Then comes the big that I posted first... then the wrap up...
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And then finally...
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Now we have it backed up in another location for posterity. We'd hate people not to have a record of that one.
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Damn where was I when all that was going down?
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@Dashrender said in Programming Printers:
Damn where was I when all that was going down?
This was October, 2009.
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@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:
@Dashrender said in Programming Printers:
Damn where was I when all that was going down?
This was October, 2009.
Pretty sure I was at SW then, not positive though.
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@Dashrender said in Programming Printers:
@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:
@Dashrender said in Programming Printers:
Damn where was I when all that was going down?
This was October, 2009.
Pretty sure I was at SW then, not positive though.
The thread didn't have all that many people in it. It was Viperluke getting email help. But Curtis went bananas about telnet and BBS systems and programming printers and programming ovens. This was the second worst breakdown that he had that I recall. The worst was the "Internet invented in 1998, I was there" thread that is much harder to find. He's had so many like these over the years, but getting him to SAY that he's a programmer because he sets the time on the oven is what really, really ends it all.
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This is my favourite thing on the Internet today. This is as good as the cat hackers.
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Well I had a post that I was almost done formating, and I was going to check a name and lost it. Grrr. Anyways. That was one stupidly arrogant, and completely off base act on his behalf.
The OP just needed help and all he did was derail the whole thing.
If someone did that in the middle of the dc down the other day that would have been horrible.
To @Dashrender I believe I was on SW then if I recall. Unfortunately I missed that one!
I always have looked up to @scottalanmiller it was clear he was very smart and knowledgeable. I was beyond excited when him and @Mike-Davis started up the Spice Corp in the area. Just sad it took be almost 10 years to be able to go and meet them both.
Very comical read thank you Scott!
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@prcssupport said in Programming Printers:
Well I had a post that I was almost done formating, and I was going to check a name and lost it. Grrr. Anyways. That was one stupidly arrogant, and completely off base act on his behalf.
The OP just needed help and all he did was derail the whole thing.
If someone did that in the middle of the dc down the other day that would have been horrible.
To @Dashrender I believe I was on SW then if I recall. Unfortunately I missed that one!
I always have looked up to @scottalanmiller it was clear he was very smart and knowledgeable. I was beyond excited when him and @Mike-Davis started up the Spice Corp in the area. Just sad it took be almost 10 years to be able to go and meet them both.
Very comical read thank you Scott!
Glad to add some Friday night entertainment. The best part is that he claims to currently work for Offix.com and asked that this be sent on to them so that his employer can verify that he is indeed a qualified printer programmer and that he does amazing work (and, I'm guessing, that he is a qualified oven programmer as well.)
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@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:
@prcssupport said in Programming Printers:
Well I had a post that I was almost done formating, and I was going to check a name and lost it. Grrr. Anyways. That was one stupidly arrogant, and completely off base act on his behalf.
The OP just needed help and all he did was derail the whole thing.
If someone did that in the middle of the dc down the other day that would have been horrible.
To @Dashrender I believe I was on SW then if I recall. Unfortunately I missed that one!
I always have looked up to @scottalanmiller it was clear he was very smart and knowledgeable. I was beyond excited when him and @Mike-Davis started up the Spice Corp in the area. Just sad it took be almost 10 years to be able to go and meet them both.
Very comical read thank you Scott!
Glad to add some Friday night entertainment. The best part is that he claims to currently work for Offix.com and asked that this be sent on to them so that his employer can verify that he is indeed a qualified printer programmer and that he does amazing work (and, I'm guessing, that he is a qualified oven programmer as well.)
I wouldn't want anyone to read that. To summarize his own words SW is a professional forum, where professional answers and are expected. His professionalism was lacking and he might have well just "shoved the guy over the edge of a cliff on camera"
Someone should have asked for that video explainer. That he said he would post of him doing it "programming" again. I'm sure the company would love that for proof! -
@prcssupport said in Programming Printers:
Someone should have asked for that video explainer. That he said he would post of him doing it "programming" again. I'm sure the company would love that for proof!
I've been waiting seven years for that!
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@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:
OMG I forgot how good this stuff was. Offix.com is going to love reading this.
There's always something to learn. Connecting that large old Centronics plug is actually programming in this case? Hell, if configuring is programming today, what am I as a developer? A supernatural being?
No, seriously, from what I understood he's talking about configuring things, maybe creating some macros to switch paper feeds or printing a form template stored on the printer (Lexmark and many other "big" printers can do this).
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Actual video of me programming my coffee pot to brew coffee...
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@thwr said in Programming Printers:
No, seriously, from what I understood he's talking about configuring things, maybe creating some macros to switch paper feeds or printing a form template stored on the printer (Lexmark and many other "big" printers can do this).
Yup, I have a good friend who is a programmer (like a 10X big time programmer that works for places like Dell and major consulting firms and names his own price) and his father in law thought his job was a joke, even though he earned way more than him and got to work from home or anywhere that he wanted and was a third his age and never had to go to college, yada yada) because the father in law was a video game programmer himself.
Well, actually he meant that he installed a video game once. Like Curtis, he thought that "installing software", you know like popping in the floppy and double clicking on the install icon, was what programming meant. Programming is just too complex of a subject for many people. Once they can't grasp what software does, they tend to start imagining that programming is something that they have seen or could understand and weird concepts start to arise. Like changing the time on your analogue watch becomes programming. Write a poem is programming the paper. Putting soap in the dishwasher is programming the dishwasher. Driving a car is real time programming. Writing your diary in bed is embedded programming.
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@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:
@thwr said in Programming Printers:
No, seriously, from what I understood he's talking about configuring things, maybe creating some macros to switch paper feeds or printing a form template stored on the printer (Lexmark and many other "big" printers can do this).
Yup, I have a good friend who is a programmer (like a 10X big time programmer that works for places like Dell and major consulting firms and names his own price) and his father in law thought his job was a joke, even though he earned way more than him and got to work from home or anywhere that he wanted and was a third his age and never had to go to college, yada yada) because the father in law was a video game programmer himself.
Well, actually he meant that he installed a video game once. Like Curtis, he thought that "installing software", you know like popping in the floppy and double clicking on the install icon, was what programming meant. Programming is just too complex of a subject for many people. Once they can't grasp what software does, they tend to start imagining that programming is something that they have seen or could understand and weird concepts start to arise. Like changing the time on your analogue watch becomes programming. Write a poem is programming the paper. Putting soap in the dishwasher is programming the dishwasher. Driving a car is real time programming. Writing your diary in bed is embedded programming.
Oh I think @fuznutz04 made a pretty good statement about what programming is (not)
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@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:
@thwr said in Programming Printers:
No, seriously, from what I understood he's talking about configuring things, maybe creating some macros to switch paper feeds or printing a form template stored on the printer (Lexmark and many other "big" printers can do this).
Yup, I have a good friend who is a programmer (like a 10X big time programmer that works for places like Dell and major consulting firms and names his own price) and his father in law thought his job was a joke, even though he earned way more than him and got to work from home or anywhere that he wanted and was a third his age and never had to go to college, yada yada) because the father in law was a video game programmer himself.
Well, actually he meant that he installed a video game once. Like Curtis, he thought that "installing software", you know like popping in the floppy and double clicking on the install icon, was what programming meant. Programming is just too complex of a subject for many people. Once they can't grasp what software does, they tend to start imagining that programming is something that they have seen or could understand and weird concepts start to arise. Like changing the time on your analogue watch becomes programming. Write a poem is programming the paper. Putting soap in the dishwasher is programming the dishwasher. Driving a car is real time programming. Writing your diary in bed is embedded programming.
A bit offtopic: I just had to think about my old mentor. He was like Yoda, like 200 years old, always smiling, barely speaking German at all (he was from Poland). He once said: "Wait 15-20 years, you will see that a lot of developers will actually configure things instead of doing real development." - this was in the context of the massive amount of upcoming frameworks. And he was right: I just had a meeting about a project where a partner used like 10 different frameworks (not little APIs but full blown frameworks) to run a little embedded webserver - they failed big time, the result was unstable like nothing else I could imagine.
Anyway, long story short: IT is big, there's a lot of misconception and wrong understanding of things.
