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I may or may not have made somebody's shared-via-SMB-over-dialup printer print "FEED ME CHEESE" in huge figlet-generated letters. I may or may not have giggled

I may or may not have made somebody's shared-via-SMB-over-dialup printer print "FEED ME CHEESE" in huge figlet-generated letters. I may or may not have giggled maniacally when their IP address stopped returning PINGs immediately following. I may or may not have wished, for nearly 25 years, that I could have seen the face of the person who was sitting by that printer.

nicholasjarnold 5y ago
Haha! There was a very similar exploit that could be accomplished on (any?) HP printer connected to the network via TCP/IP using those Jetdirect cards. Essentially you could send some data over a raw socket connection that would cause the typical `READY` message on the printer's LCD to say whatever you want. It was a lot of fun to change READY to LOW ON CHEESE. IIRC it was a perl script that was floating around the net back then... Good times.
- EvanAnderson 5y ago
  I enjoyed doing that, too. >smile< My go-to for PJL "exploits" like that was "INSERT COIN".
  - shrimp_emoji 5y ago
    >< as RP delimiters??? In all my years, I've never seen that before.
    - EvanAnderson 5y ago
      No idea where I picked it up. Looking back at old email I can see that I've been doing it since at least 2004. I'd guess longer but I didn't do a good job logging old forum posts, BBS messages, etc. I only really do >smile< that way. They look like dimples to me and it makes me smile.