Programming Printers

thwr

@fuznutz04 said in Programming Printers:

Actual video of me programming my coffee pot to brew coffee...

Coffee Programming

Need a written guide, can't really follow along with just the video when "programming" is so complex.

Hope that helps:

void getCoffee(unsigned char intensity)
{
  switch(intensity)
  {
    case 1:
    case 2:
    case 3:
      outputCoffee(intensity);
      break;

    default:
      outputMilk();
      break;
  }
}

nadnerB

@fuznutz04 said in Programming Printers:

Actual video of me programming my coffee pot to brew coffee...

Coffee Programming

0 out of 5
Instructions unclear. Nuts caught in ceiling fan.

RamblingBiped

I've been programming since the late 80's. I can remember setting the time on my parent's VHS so they could record a TV show.

I can't believe I've been leaving that off my resume all these years!

scottalanmiller

@RamblingBiped said in Programming Printers:

I've been programming since the late 80's. I can remember setting the time on my parent's VHS so they could record a TV show.

I can't believe I've been leaving that off my resume all these years!

That's nothing, in the old days we used to program using analogue turn dials! That's when the hard core programmers were still around. You young whipper snappers have it easy with your buttons and digital displays.

stacksofplates

@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:

@RamblingBiped said in Programming Printers:

I've been programming since the late 80's. I can remember setting the time on my parent's VHS so they could record a TV show.

I can't believe I've been leaving that off my resume all these years!

That's nothing, in the old days we used to program using analogue turn dials! That's when the hard core programmers were still around. You young whipper snappers have it easy with your buttons and digital displays.

I remember programming my grandmas rotary phone to make phone calls!

scottalanmiller

We used to have them like this. Look at those complex dials! Only an expert could cook like this.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:

We used to have them like this. Look at those complex dials! Only an expert could cook like this.

WTF, no popcorn button. Do not want.

scottalanmiller

@JaredBusch said in Programming Printers:

@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:

We used to have them like this. Look at those complex dials! Only an expert could cook like this.

WTF, no popcorn button. Do not want.

Kids today could never use one of these!

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:

@JaredBusch said in Programming Printers:

@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:

We used to have them like this. Look at those complex dials! Only an expert could cook like this.

WTF, no popcorn button. Do not want.

Kids today could never use one of these!

hell, I can barely use that

Carnival Boy

@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:

We used to have them like this.

We still do!

thwr

Kiddies... this is HARDWARE PROGRAMMING in its purest form:

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thwr

@RamblingBiped said in Programming Printers:

I've been programming since the late 80's. I can remember setting the time on my parent's VHS so they could record a TV show.

I can't believe I've been leaving that off my resume all these years!

Do you remember ShowView (VCR Plus+, G-Code, VideoPlus+)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_recorder_scheduling_code

RamblingBiped

@thwr said in Programming Printers:

@RamblingBiped said in Programming Printers:

I've been programming since the late 80's. I can remember setting the time on my parent's VHS so they could record a TV show.

I can't believe I've been leaving that off my resume all these years!

Do you remember ShowView (VCR Plus+, G-Code, VideoPlus+)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_recorder_scheduling_code

Hmm... on second thought maybe it was the early 90's?

Brains

@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:

I found it!!

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/79629-do-not-have-access-to-hosted-email

You can finally learn everything that there is about programming printers.

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Also,
W T F
http://www.djfixxx.com/

It feels like I stepped through some sort of Magic Way Back Machine.

Actually, it seems he upgraded his site in 2008 and added that nifty top menu!

DustinB3403

@Brains said in Programming Printers:

@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:

I found it!!

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/79629-do-not-have-access-to-hosted-email

You can finally learn everything that there is about programming printers.

I would murder for a programmer who can install ink / paper into a printer.

#MurderforOGPrinterProgrammers

thwr

@DustinB3403 said in Programming Printers:

@Brains said in Programming Printers:

@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:

I found it!!

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/79629-do-not-have-access-to-hosted-email

You can finally learn everything that there is about programming printers.

I would murder for a programmer who can install ink / paper into a printer.

#MurderforOGPrinterProgrammers

Called (task) dispatching

Documentation: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.threading.dispatcher(v=vs.110).aspx

RojoLoco

@Brains said in Programming Printers:

@scottalanmiller said in Programming Printers:

I found it!!

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/79629-do-not-have-access-to-hosted-email

Also,
W T F
http://www.djfixxx.com/

It feels like I stepped through some sort of Magic Way Back Machine.

Actually, it seems he upgraded his site in 2008 and added that nifty top menu!

I wish I had the time to hire him as a DJ, just so I could shoot at him with a pellet gun when he showed up.

thwr

@RojoLoco said in Programming Printers:

I wish I had the time to hire him as a DJ, just so I could shoot at him with a pellet gun when he showed up.

http://www.djfixxx.com/index-old.htm this is... The Hague. We need The Hague.

thwr

@thwr said in Programming Printers:

@RojoLoco said in Programming Printers:

I wish I had the time to hire him as a DJ, just so I could shoot at him with a pellet gun when he showed up.

http://www.djfixxx.com/index-old.htm this is... The Hague. We need The Hague.

Wait, this is Curtis' page?

RojoLoco

@thwr said in Programming Printers:

@thwr said in Programming Printers:

@RojoLoco said in Programming Printers:

I wish I had the time to hire him as a DJ, just so I could shoot at him with a pellet gun when he showed up.

http://www.djfixxx.com/index-old.htm this is... The Hague. We need The Hague.

Wait, this is Curtis' page?

Yes sir. If you know anything about audio, go read through that site. He thinks "biamped" speakers are equivalent to redundant servers / HA. If this asshole had ever walked into Guitar Center and tried to claim any of his BS while I was working, there would have been literal bloodshed... like a tripod mic stand across the skull, then up the ass. While I never ran into Curtis level incompetence in those days, our trouble customers were pretty much verbally abused until they started shopping elsewhere.