Archive for May, 2005

Netgear PS110 Printer Server and OS X

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

I dont know how many people actually have this setup, but if you do this will prob help you out. Over all this should give you the general knowledge needed to get it all working. This is the method I used on OS X 10.4 with ALL the printer drivers installed.

1. Connect the Printers to the Print Server (this should be a given)

2. Go to http://127.0.0.1:631 to access the built-in CUPS administration tool in OS X. This service shuold already be running so there is no need to start it.

3. Select “Add Printer”

4. You should be able to put in a “Name”, “Location”, “Description” on the “Name” it can’t contain spaces, and all around this information isn’t really important.

5. The PS110 uses LPD, so select LPD printing and enter the URL as “lpd://192.168.1.7/P1″, of course you need to replace the IP address with the IP of your print server. And the part where is says P2, that is actually the port on the print server that the printer is hooked to. eg Printer 1 = P1, Printer 2=P2.

6. After this step you will br prompted for the brand of printer, and then givin a chance to select the correct driver. If you dont have the correct driver you may have to download the driver from the OEM or just pick the one that fits it the best.

7. Print a test page. And see if you got it working right. Also after you have done all this it should be in your System Preferences under “Print & Fax”

I hope this helps some people as it took me a few tries right off the bat to get it working with OS X.

Wordpress Upgrade

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

Well the new version of Wordpress is out, version 1.5.1… I just did the upgrade and all seems fine… So far.

Apple releases iTunes 4.8

Monday, May 9th, 2005

Apple today released iTunes 4.8, an update to its digital music jukebox software and its client for the iTunes Music Store. Version 4.8 includes new Music Store features and support for transferring contacts and calendars from your computer to your iPod (requires Mac OS X version 10.4 on your computer), according to the documentation.

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Digg Widget

Friday, May 6th, 2005

A widget that reads the digg news feed for dashboard in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

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New Server Testing

Friday, May 6th, 2005

This is just a test of the new server setup…. Don’t expect a real post coming from me anytime soon.