Had a client today with a scanner issue and this happens.
“Well, that dog won’t hunt!”
Task failed successfully.
Why is the ghost of Mark Twain haunting your scanner?
It’s an acronym: T.W.A.I.N. (edit: a backconym, as was pointed out - I’ve also heard that the weird upper case name came first, and the weirder acronym was added later.)
“Technology without an interesting name.”
And… That’s all I remember about it, at the moment.
Well, also that it broke often, and threw weird errors like the one pictured.
You folks printed out his works for the last time.
I always hated “Error: No Error Has Occurred”
Mainly because it had no button to close or acknowledge, so you had to reset your machine.
We all thought AI gonna rule us over by force, but in reality they just gonna gaslight all of us.
I seem to remember some annoying shit called TWAIN from decades ago, which was always giving me errors and headache. Is that still a thing?
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It still is, it’s a standard for imaging devices.
Oh, thank you. I had forgotten that!
And also a nightmare.
Yes. Now that the memories are coming back, I do notice most of them aren’t very nice…
I read this as wain and
Is Taiwan still a thing?
I thought this was .ml for a second /s.
What’s this I hear about problems with your TPS reports? Didn’t you get the memo?
File scanned fine but you forgot the cover sheet.
People are worried about the end of Win 10 and this mad lad still uses ancient wizardry
PC LOAD LETTER!?
fucking TWAIN drivers were the bane of my existence at one time.
fucking Windows 98!
Ya, this pic just gave me flashbacks. I thought I had buried that for good.
Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment! Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment! Corporate accounts payable, Nina speaking. JUST a moment!
There’s no softwaregore community?
Yay for success, I guess?
Those damn TPS reports and Lumbergh.
Must have been an HP scanner/printer.
