It never occurred to me that after upgrading the Mac from Leopard to Snow Leopard, my printer (HP Laserjet 1020) might no longer work. I had to download a special driver to get it to work with Leopard, and I guess I assumed that driver would still work. Sigh. If I'd actually thought about it, I would have done some research before taking the OS ( Read more... )

( fish-fest, Mac software, marketing, assorted links )

This session was actually a few weeks ago (things have been hectic).
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It's a lovely machine in many ways, but if I can't figure out how to print from it, it's going to be rather limited.

I have an HP LaserJet 1020, which apparently does not work natively with the Mac. I first tried to just share it from my PC, but that doesn't work -- at best I can get jobs to appear to queue from the Mac but go nowhere. These ( Read more... )

My Mac Mini arrived Friday, faster than I expected. In an act of will I did not punt my congregation's Friday-evening services, attendance at which required starting Shabbat two hours early, to play with it (and go somewhere else later). I did verify that a VNC server is running on my PC and reachable from my laptop, so I can skip the dual- ( Read more... )

( thoughts on new computers )

A few days ago (after a long time powered down followed by a recharge), my iBook started complaining that the date was wrong. I didn't do anything immediat4ely (other things to worry about). During this time, everything behaved fine ( Read more... )

A couple weeks ago I asked for advice (in an entry that was then locked but is now public) on Mac-compatable numeric keypads. The gift has now been given and tested, so here are the results.

This turns out to be hard. Numeric (wireless or USB-tethered) keypads that work with Windows are easy to find, but not so the Mac. The Apple store couldn't ( Read more... )

(Initially locked because this is for a gift. Unlocked May 5.)

I am looking for a wireless numeric keypad that works with Macs. I wouldn't have thought this any more difficult than wireless mice, but so far, all I'm turning up is stuff that either says "Windows only" up front or has reviews saying "didn't work with my Mac". Any ideas or ( Read more... )

First, thanks to "Mr. Fixer", as he is known on LJ, for calling and
talking me through my emacs issues (on the Mac). It turns out that
there are three ways to launch emacs (different emacses ( Read more... )