Comment by tagawa 11 years ago This reminds me of the case of the 500-mile email: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html 8 comments tagawa Reply dangoldin 11 years ago Also the printer that would jam when printing one file: http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200811/print_this_file_your_pr... couchand 11 years 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 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181045 dangoldin 11 years ago This one's great! Thanks for sharing. Makes you wish there was a real cause though instead of speculation. thomasbachem 11 years ago Reminds me of the photocopier that altered numbers in documents: http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_... dangoldin 11 years 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 11 years ago I used to have a very simple HTML email that would cause Outlook 97 to corrupt its PST and need manual rebuilding. rbinv 11 years ago This is great :-) BostX 11 years ago Wwoa! Didn't know about /usr/bin/units thx!
dangoldin 11 years ago Also the printer that would jam when printing one file: http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200811/print_this_file_your_pr... couchand 11 years 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 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181045 dangoldin 11 years ago This one's great! Thanks for sharing. Makes you wish there was a real cause though instead of speculation. thomasbachem 11 years ago Reminds me of the photocopier that altered numbers in documents: http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_... dangoldin 11 years 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 11 years ago I used to have a very simple HTML email that would cause Outlook 97 to corrupt its PST and need manual rebuilding.
couchand 11 years 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 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181045 dangoldin 11 years ago This one's great! Thanks for sharing. Makes you wish there was a real cause though instead of speculation.
dangoldin 11 years ago This one's great! Thanks for sharing. Makes you wish there was a real cause though instead of speculation.
thomasbachem 11 years ago Reminds me of the photocopier that altered numbers in documents: http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_... dangoldin 11 years 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?
dangoldin 11 years 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 11 years ago I used to have a very simple HTML email that would cause Outlook 97 to corrupt its PST and need manual rebuilding.
Also the printer that would jam when printing one file: http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200811/print_this_file_your_pr...
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 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181045
This one's great! Thanks for sharing. Makes you wish there was a real cause though instead of speculation.
Reminds me of the photocopier that altered numbers in documents: http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_...
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?
I used to have a very simple HTML email that would cause Outlook 97 to corrupt its PST and need manual rebuilding.
This is great :-)
Wwoa! Didn't know about /usr/bin/units thx!