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This reminds me of the case of the 500-mile email: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

• rbinv 12y ago
  This is great :-)
• dangoldin 12y ago
  Also the printer that would jam when printing one file: http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200811/print_this_file_your_printer_will_jam.html http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200811/print_this_file_your_pr...
  • couchand 12y ago
    That one is amazing. Just because a bug seems impossible doesn't mean it is. This comment reminds me of the magic switch (story [0], light HN discussion [1]). [0]: http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181045 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181045
    • dangoldin 12y ago
      This one's great! Thanks for sharing. Makes you wish there was a real cause though instead of speculation.
  • thomasbachem 12y ago
    Reminds me of the photocopier that altered numbers in documents: http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_...
    • dangoldin 12y ago
      Whoa that's pretty crazy. It seems the pattern is a 6 being mistaken for an 8 but surprised Xerox didn't release the upgrade when they discovered the issue. Why wait for someone else to call you out on it?
  • nailer 12y ago
    I used to have a very simple HTML email that would cause Outlook 97 to corrupt its PST and need manual rebuilding.
• BostX 12y ago
  Wwoa! Didn't know about /usr/bin/units thx!