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Eliminate the shipping costs by (instantly-ish) remotely "printing" replacement parts at the customer's location. Holy shit man ... That's got potential!

Finished the video and am still completely unimpressed. The guy is whining about aspects of every touch based interface ever designed and blaming it on Windows 8. Which is a total load of crap.

Lack if UI consistency? Bull Shit. If it's on the screen it's click-able there is no fluffy decorations. Now Apple's iWorld? Absolute Zero consistency in control design let alone application design. They just let the artsy fartsy crowd go flat out ape shit creating anything that looked like anything that did anything.

The start button is and has always been tied to the Windows key ... That's why it not a standard 102 key keyboard. And the Windows key still does exactly what it always did even on a (Surface) tablet. So what's with all the simpering and whining?

Hey couldn't find Control Panel. Really?!? I usually just hit the Win key, type control and (hit enter) am there. Vista/7/8 ...Still works the same way. Unless you're either being intentionally obtuse, grew up in a cave.

OMFG How does anybody close an application?!?!? Derp! Alt + F4 ... Just like since the (9x) beginning of friggin time.


He should have skipped trying to be funny and just stuck to making a concise point ... at least the video would have been a much shorter waste of time.

Okay 10 minutes in and this really just sounds like a bunch of verbal shenanigans. The guy's biggest complaint  so far is basically that he is to stupid to use a touch interface. Seriously?!? Who in their right mind would confuse swipe with cursor movement by trying to touch-pad a touch screen?? The cursor jumps to where ever you put your finger ... Which is exactly how all of them work. If he wants to attach that aspect of user interaction then Droid and iWord suck just as bad if you're intent on being a clumsy assed obtuse retard.

(It's the end of the world as we know it~) I~Feel~Fine~...

I'm predicting particularly nasty anal probes for you~! Infidel!

Why... Is that song stuck in you head now too.  ... I've been bouncing between that and U2's It's a beautiful day.

(It's the end of the world as we know it~) I~Feel~Fine~...

fSekrit

This happily puts text onto the display of my HP 2420.

Hay good choice, the 2420 is a great printer. I work for an HP ASP (Authorized Service Provider) so I get to see most of their stuff as it's used/survives IRL. There's a few I wouldn't touch with a 10' pole ... But most are quite good. That one is excellent.

pWidget was written primarily around HP devices, but should work equally well with any non host based PCL Laser printer (Lexmark, Xerox, Brother, Canon, etc). PCL (Printer Command/Control Language) based drivers are pretty much the standard in the industry for laser printers. The only variance it how fully it is supported on any given device (e.g. not all printers accept all commands).

[NANY 2013 Entry Information]

NANY 2013 Entry Information

Application Full Name	PRNter Widget
Application Short Name	pWidget.exe
Version	v1.0.0.85
Short Description	Printer Update Utility
Supported OSes	Win2000 and up
Web Page	This be it
Download Link	[attach=1]
System Requirements	A Computer A Printer
Version History	v1.0.0.85
Author	Stoic Joker

Description
PRNter Widget was written to assist our tech with updating printer details after a repair in the field. Frequently a laser printer will need to have a component replaced that causes it to lose it's serial number, page count, or firmware revision. This often results in the tech needing administrative right on a client's network so that an update file can be sent to the printer. PRNter Widget eliminates the need for Admin rights by passing the new serial, page count, or firmware directly to the printer via the installed driver. Plain text files and (save print job) .PRN files can also be sent to a printer using this utility.

Being that I'm currently on vacation, much of the testing was handled by one of the other techs in our IT department. The tech in question (an aspiring game programmer) actually conjured up the original POC bits for this project. This is why he is also listed in the About box as Nippitz.

Features
Send .PRN, Plain Text, or Firmware files to a printer.
Update a PCL Compliant Laser Printer's serial number, page count (total or color), or Display Text (more fun that useful)

Planned Features
Currently Undecided.

Screenshots
[attachimg=2]

Usage
Installation
Unzip, run, it's totally portable.

Using the Application
This utility was written to work with any PCL Compliant Laser Printer. The update commands will not work with an ink printer. The result of sending a file (of any kind) to an ink printer has not been tested.

Uninstallation
Delete it.

Tips
Start by experimenting with updating the Display text first (assuming you printer has a display). It's the easiest and safest way of finding out if your printer is PCL compliant. Most printers have a 16 character max buffer size for the display text (mine currently says: Bull Shit!).

Known Issues
While much of the code was reused from other reliable sources ... This particular utility has not been extensively tested.

I have successfully updated the firmware on an HP LaserJet 2300dn that I swiped from the office for testing purposes with pWidget (it lived).

I FREAKING LOVE THAT SONG!!!!!!

Slang, because anything can mean anything in slang if you use the right inflection. I'd like to be able to program in slang, because then I could just paste shit out of the phone book and compile it.


If you were half as drunk as I am ... You'd be laughing right now.

Sheesh, what the heck is happening??  Look at the events lately:

Well, the world as we know - as was often said in the 70's - is going down the tubes.

I remember the punchline
(at least I think it's the punchline) -
 
jumping up and down and shouting where-the...

 

@barney - Me too especially in the morning (snap, crackle, damnit..)

I don't have 2010, but in 2007 you simply highlight the row you want to split at, then select '
Split Table' from the layout tab (under table tools in the menu bar)

Derp! Cool ... Never saw that one before.

I don't think you can outside of copy/pasting it beneath itself and then deleting the parts you don't want in each.

Everyone here keeps saying things about using brain cells, but for those of us with zero navigation on good days, you are supposed to be able to rely on the GPS to have a clue. So yes, if the Apple maps go from almost usable to this level of silliness, sure, that qualifies that someone goofed.

When sitting at an intersection, my GPS said "turn left here" ... But it was up to me to grasp the fact that the light was red.. Responsibility for ones own actions and all that, Ya know?

That being said, I too am an honorary member of the Fakawi Indian Tribe (assuming anyone remembers that old joke).

Oh well, there goes my idea of starting a company to print giant realistic guns made of chocolate.

Shit! ..I'd of loved to get one of those ... Just to see the look on the security guards face when I started licking it as they frisk me.

Talk about humiliation for Apple... That has to hurt.

Hay, at least they showed the sense necessary to admit defeat before there was an actual body count.

Thing was... there is a body count.

Some people were harmed yes... But for a typical corporation to blink it takes a minimum of 100 nuns and orphans to raise an eyebrow of caring. Kind of like Firestone and Ford playing Duck season vs. Rabbit season back in the 90s. Apple (i feel) caved in a timely fashion.

...Now stop arguing before I accidentally say something nice about Apple and have to be horsewhipped.

Talk about humiliation for Apple... That has to hurt.

Hay, at least they showed the sense necessary to admit defeat before there was an actual body count.

Anyone else ever do this? Step back. Chill. Meditate. Come back and solve a critical issue?

Yes, sleeping/sobering up seem to have equal success rates.

Even back when I was a mechanic, I'd frequently sit back smoke a cigarette and let my mind drift when at an impasse. This strangely allowed answers to (seemingly) fall from the sky. In reality I think it just a case of forcing ones self to forget where they're at so that on reassessment you have the opportunity to spot what was being messed. It's a forest/trees cure.

[I have an HP Windows PDA]

Windows? Really? Hm. Guess I need to check some newer phones then. Last time I checked, they sucked badly. I have an HP Windows PDA, and man... sucky just doesn't begin to describe it. It's a bit older though, and I suppose that I'm being a bit harsh there.

A bit older?? The fact that it's called a P.D.A. puts it back about a decade. I've yet to hand my HTC Aspire (WMP7) to anyone that didn't comment on how smooth the graphics. Several folks had to flip it over to check the logo before commenting/believing it was Windows..

My wife got a Galaxy SIII a few weeks ago. The phone has worked just fine for her, but battery life OOTB hasn't been stellar. Granted she doesn't charge it daily (not a heavy user), and only mentioned the battery life thing once ... so it may not actually be that bad.

The owners of our company (both droide fanatics) both got a Galaxy SIII last weekend. But I'm on vacation so I'm not (going to ask...) sure how there getting along with them.

I would go so far to say if you're searching for porn with Google Images, it's hotter now with safesearch on because they removed all the seo spam porn images. The rest can't be prevented. Cat's out of the box. Reading this thread for example made me browse for porn now just to see what the hubbub is all about when I wasn't planning to browse for porn.

(Okay, strictly in the interest of science...) Confirmed.

That is a windows setting.
The default windows clock - calendar displays a bit above the taskbar and away from the edge as well.

Correct(ish), The calendar's position is hard-coded into T-Clock based on (mimicking) the behavior/position of the default Windows pop-up calendar.

Hey, I didn't realize the NSA had a Kids Page!

Yeah, remember kids...if daddy spends too much time is the basement/garage...you should tell someone. And if one or more of your parents gets arrested...you could win an X-Box!!!

It isn't that the SatNav misplaced 30,000 people, that's irrelevant - it could just as easily been a paper map, it's that the idiots completely ignored their surroundings.

+1  ...And 2 points for Charles Darwin.