Comment by dangoldin
11 years ago
Also the printer that would jam when printing one file: http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200811/print_this_file_your_pr...
11 years ago
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.