Monday, May 3, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Tap dancing in my PJs
My daughter insisted that I post this. Not sure why but it's kind of amusing to me.
My daughter insisted that I post this. Not sure why but I think it's kind of amusing to me.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
HP PSC 1200 Airport Extreme Leopard
I'm posting because I hope this might save somebody else some time.
Problem - a bunch of USB printers don't work out of the box with the Airport Express base station.
In my case it was an HP PSC 1200. I just bought an Airport Express and thought this thing would be plug and play particularly since I had it printing via Linux CUPS shared via Avahi (bonjour)
Anyway - it was recognized immediately but it wouldn't auto select the driver and the list of manual driver choices didn't include a driver.
The built-in Leopard driver supports direct USB printing. I'm guessing my previous setup was using the Linux CUPS driver but I don't know for sure because so much Mac stuff Just Works :-)
Anyway - the easy fix for HP printers is to run the open source HPIJS driver. See this page
Install ghostscript, then foomatic-rip, and then the HPIJS driver package in that order.
Once that is done, make sure you close out and restart System Preferences and then when you go back into System Preferences the driver should auto detect.
Enjoy!
Problem - a bunch of USB printers don't work out of the box with the Airport Express base station.
In my case it was an HP PSC 1200. I just bought an Airport Express and thought this thing would be plug and play particularly since I had it printing via Linux CUPS shared via Avahi (bonjour)
Anyway - it was recognized immediately but it wouldn't auto select the driver and the list of manual driver choices didn't include a driver.
The built-in Leopard driver supports direct USB printing. I'm guessing my previous setup was using the Linux CUPS driver but I don't know for sure because so much Mac stuff Just Works :-)
Anyway - the easy fix for HP printers is to run the open source HPIJS driver. See this page
Install ghostscript, then foomatic-rip, and then the HPIJS driver package in that order.
Once that is done, make sure you close out and restart System Preferences and then when you go back into System Preferences the driver should auto detect.
Enjoy!
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Beach day
We went to the beach yesterday with my daughter and her cousin.
The best part was just hanging out with Emi.
The best part was just hanging out with Emi.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
And now a word from Paul Vixie
I've had these words up on my wall at work for a little while. I thought I'd like to stick 'em here also. It's an interesting comment and I've been thinking about this for some time since I first read it.
This is from the NANOG list on November 2nd, 2008.
the human, as a species in the animal kingdom, is known to be the kind of animal who fouls its own nest and overruns its habitat. the idea of a tipping point, whether it be for CO2 in the atmosphere or polar ice shelves or explosively deaggregated IPv4 routing tables, does not occur in the minds of individual decision makers. instead it's left to us "chicken little" types, and the only way the individual decision makers ever make their decisions on the basis of tipping points is if some kind of "governance" makes them do so.
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Paul Vixie
This is from the NANOG list on November 2nd, 2008.
the human, as a species in the animal kingdom, is known to be the kind of animal who fouls its own nest and overruns its habitat. the idea of a tipping point, whether it be for CO2 in the atmosphere or polar ice shelves or explosively deaggregated IPv4 routing tables, does not occur in the minds of individual decision makers. instead it's left to us "chicken little" types, and the only way the individual decision makers ever make their decisions on the basis of tipping points is if some kind of "governance" makes them do so.
--
Paul Vixie
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