Quickie - Stuck packets

[technical.angel]

So, I get a call first thing that the business office can't print. I make sure the print server isn't down, as they claim (I know it's not, since the phone would be off the hook due to the mass of employees who think it necessary to PRINT ALL THEIR EMAILS (but that's a rant I won't go into now).

I then head over there. I ask the receptionist if she can print. She hadn't tried yet, so she does, that's when we find the printer is offline.

I bounce the power on the printer... wait... wait.... wait... still no printy.

I locate the network cable, lift it up to trace it back. I was about to climb up on the counter to get to the router when... PRINTY!

I turn to the receptionist. "Stuck packet, I just had to shake it loose."

[Geek King]

*snerk*

That's as good as the old "lost token" gag from back in the day when you had token ring networks.

[Chromatix]

Or having to empty the bit bucket.

(Note for the normal: the bit-bucket is a term for anything used as a data dead-end. The data simply disappears "into" it, it never gets full.)

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Or, as I would put it:

The printer had a touch of constipation. But it's flowing much better now after giving it an enema.

[otakuneko]

Or the Dilbert variation, "just had to straighten the cable a bit. Those zeros slide right through, but sometimes the ones get stuck."

[Captain Trips]

Or the Dilbert variation, "just had to straighten the cable a bit. Those zeros slide right through, but sometimes the ones get stuck."

I always thought that the ones, being skinny, get through okay but the zeroes are just too fat.

[Chromatix]

It's because the 1's are spiky - they dig into the sides.