Much Clearer Than “PC LOAD LETTER”

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• Hey Joey, I’ve seen this done before. In face, I wrote a blog last year about it, AND I have a VS 2008 solution for your readers to try out….uh….play with! LOL

  A great Geek April Fool’s joke for the office HP LaserJet printer
  http://www.pchenry.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/117/Default.aspx

  This IS a lot of fun to watch people’s reactions to a printer saying things like,
  Press Cancel to Continue.
  Do I look landscape with this paper?
  Please don’t go Office Space on me?!
  Completed downloading the internet, please insert more paper
  Double-Double for me please?!

  There’s a few references in there too (including the code). Have a good one!

• Here is the Ruby Version of the Printer hack...

  #!/usr/bin/env ruby
  # Simple HP Printer Hacker
  # Written in Ruby by Erik Gregg
  # 6/9/06
  # Status Usage: hp-message.rb status
  # Message Usage: hp-message.rb message ""
  require 'net/telnet'
  begin
  if ARGV[0].nil?
  puts "Read the script.
  Status Usage: hp-message.rb status
  Message Usage: hp-message.rb message \"\""
  exit
  end
  host = Net::Telnet::new("Host" => ARGV[0],
  "Port" => 9100,
  "Timeout" => 5,
  "Prompt" => /\b/n)
  if ARGV[1] == "status"
  host.cmd("@PJL INFO STATUS") { |c| print c }
  elsif ARGV[1] == "message"
  host.cmd("@PJL RDYMSG DISPLAY=\""+ARGV[2]+"\"")
  else
  puts "Oh Cmon. Look at the syntax inside me."
  exit
  end
  host.close

  rescue Timeout::Error
  puts "Time to go now!"
  exit 1
  end

• LOL nice to see my photo still exists in the cracks and crevices of the internet.