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A long long time ago, at a gig I desperately despised, I accidentally ran `cat MyResume.pdf`, causing a mix of garbage and readable ascii to print to my xterm.
by subway 8y ago
A long long time ago, at a gig I desperately despised, I accidentally ran `cat MyResume.pdf`, causing a mix of garbage and readable ascii to print to my xterm. Unfortunately somewhere in that binary garbage were the escape sequences to turn on printerControlMode in the xterm.
Not long after, my boss shows up at my desk with a sheet of garbage with snippets of my resume mixed in. Learned an important lesson about accidentally spewing binary data into an xterm that day...
- sevensor 8y agoOuch!