🚀 go-pugleaf

Adam Glass writes:
=>Does anyone out there have any great revenge stories? I was wondering
=>what to give a particular sys admin (who is absolutely, universally
=>hated with a passion) when I graduate this spring.

Well, this won't help you at all in getting back at your poor, defense-
less sysadmin (:->), but it is a good revenge story:

This story came to me third- or fourth-hand, so most of the details are
omitted and some are probably made up.  It seems that there was this 
programmer at Printronix who was working merrily along until the day
that the Powers-That-Be told him, "finish up what you're doing and clean
out your desk."  (The reasons for this decision are lost in the annals
of history.)  Our programmer was not happy about losing his job, but he
went back to his office to finish his project, which was a set of diag-
nostics for Printronix's latest invention.

That's when he planned his revenge.  The printer he was testing was of
the drum variety, with the optimization that it always took the shortest
path to the next character to be printed *even if it meant spinning the
disk in the opposite direction*.  So he wrote a test which insured that
the drum would change direction for *every character*.  Then he left.

Rumor has it (Hell, rumor has this entire story!) that the printers
walked across the floor for a while, before they fell all to pieces.
Rumor also has it that Printronix had to redesign the printers to make
them pass the test!

				-Garison-


PS: If anyone can verify this story, please do so and let me know.  If
    anyone can refute this story, blame my sources.		-g