Assuming it's not secured and you don't fear for your job if you try this, either:
Point a web browser to the printer's IP address (the browser must identify itself as IE for Windows) and name it there using the built-in admin tools; or,
Go to hp's site and download the Mac drivers for the printer. Included will be the HP LaserJet Utility, a Classic app that you can use to set up HP JetDirect cards. Just use it to select the printer and give it a nice, humane AppleTalk name.
Excellent point. We all see how well automatic context switching works for Microsoft products ("You appear to be writing a letter, would you like help?" "No, when I want help I'll ask for it!").
A Humane Interface is not one that requires you to keep dozens of commands in your head, it is one that allows direct manipulation of everything using controls with intuitively divined operation. If your interface isn't as easy to figure out as a hammer, keep working at it!
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I used to manage the labs at a liberal arts college in New England, and we at one time used a combination of RevRDist and MacPrefect. Unfortunately, RevRDist stopped working for us with OS 9, and Assimilator, which we chose as a replacement, did not work with MacPrefect. So, we dumped MacPrefect, and set Assimilator to run every night using a freeware scheduler named DaemonChron Lite. We put an alias to the Assimilator called "Clean This Mac" in the Apple Menu to provide users with a way of fixing troublesome computers. Despite the lack of security, we had no problems wich machines getting disabled due to vandalism. Email me directly and I can send you a complete how-to that was written for our labs.
The Quartz & Aqua GUI are no more an essential part of the OS than, say, X11 & KDE are. If the GUI freezes up, ssh into the box & restart it. GUI != a bad server OS.
It's been quite a while since I've posted or even had the time to read an article's comments in-depth, and I just have to say that for an article which had the potential of causing a bloody and mindless flamewar, these comments are some of the best thought out and informative that I've seen. It's nice to see self-government working once in a while!
Though I doubt it will happen I'd like to see a rational discussion of what this whole affair means in terms of online journalism. What will actually happen will probably be another mudslide of pro- and anti-Apple vitriol, but what I saw here was a fine example of the Internet's effect on the distribution of information. I think that the morass of conflicting information which made this whole event such a circus was only possible with the Net. Otherwise we wouldn't have had all the "Anonymous Sources" emailing misunderstood or unapproved plans to ZDnet/MacCentral/etc., and Apple would have been able to get their ducks in a row before someone posted an underresearched piece on the situation on a few dozen websites.
In the past it was the job of the media to sort through the conflicting reports and produce a coherent and accurate (as possible) account of events; on the Net it seems that the role of news outlets is to publish every single little snippet of potential news (keeping in mind that the relationship of sensationalism-increases-readership-increases-ad-r evenue is even more intense online than it is in print), and it is the readers' collective responsibility to gather as many reports as possible and try to distill a coherent idea of the situation. Unfortunately few of us have the time to do this, so we see one semi-speculative report and take it as the truth.
Now what does this mean for Slashdot? This particular story is not the only example of several conflicting reports coming in over several days, each one conflicting with the one before. To moderate the news content be requiring confirmation is contrary to the spirit of openness and personal responsibility the Net and Slashdot are built upon, but might it be Slashdot's responsiblity as a major media outlet (which it is) to alert readers if reports are unconfirmed? Lots of questions, not really directly related to Apple or anything, but hopefully relevant to someone somewhere.
So you're a computer company dependent on another company for your chips. Fairly normal. Your chip supplier tells you to expect X number of chips and A, B, and C speeds. You plan your configurations, price points, and advertising around these numbers. Then several weeks after you've announced your spiffy new computers, your chip supplier calls you up and says "Oops, we goofed, we won't be able to give you as many chips as we thought and we won't have any running at A Mhz. Sorry!" What are you, as a computer manufacturer, going to do? If Apple had changed processor speeds and price points, their low-end pro system would cost less than an iMac, and they'd be losing tons of revenue because they wouldn't be selling anything at their highest price point. And the reason that they're only honoring a few orders is that they just don't have enough chips to fill all the preorders.
Apple is between a rock and a hard place: if they adjusted their price points to make their customers happy they'd see their profits and stock price drop and their shareholders would be unhappy. So they maintained their price points and a lot of customers are unhappy. If there's anyone to blame here it's Motorola for not meeting demand for the chips. Call me cynical, but I have a feeling that if this was anyone but Apple people would be acting a lot more reasonably.
The database contains the titles and track listings for thousands of Audio CDs. If you have a cddb-aware audio cd player, you can fire it up, stick a new CD into your drive, and have the player query a cddb server to get the title & track listings, and save them on your own computer. CDs are identified by embedded serial numbers which are read by the CD drive. If your CD isn't in the cddb database you can submit the trakc listing for inclusion.
Yellow Box is not dead, it's still the native development environment for Mac OS X. Carbon is fundamentally a legacy development model, and developers are being told that if they want to start work on a new project for OS X then Yellow Box is the way to go.
A limited form of memory protection is used in Mac OS 8 and up: "guard pages" are placed in memory between the system heap and application space. It's a buffer zone and not bulletproof but I run my Mac )S 8.5.1 system for 12+ hours a day every day (too noisy to keep it on while I sleep, but over the summer it chugged happily along with weeks between reboots) and it/never/ crashes. It's all in how you tune your system.
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Excellent point. We all see how well automatic context switching works for Microsoft products ("You appear to be writing a letter, would you like help?" "No, when I want help I'll ask for it!").
A Humane Interface is not one that requires you to keep dozens of commands in your head, it is one that allows direct manipulation of everything using controls with intuitively divined operation. If your interface isn't as easy to figure out as a hammer, keep working at it!
I used to manage the labs at a liberal arts college in New England, and we at one time used a combination of RevRDist and MacPrefect. Unfortunately, RevRDist stopped working for us with OS 9, and Assimilator, which we chose as a replacement, did not work with MacPrefect. So, we dumped MacPrefect, and set Assimilator to run every night using a freeware scheduler named DaemonChron Lite. We put an alias to the Assimilator called "Clean This Mac" in the Apple Menu to provide users with a way of fixing troublesome computers. Despite the lack of security, we had no problems wich machines getting disabled due to vandalism. Email me directly and I can send you a complete how-to that was written for our labs.
It will always be as small as is possibly can, which sounds like what you want.
The Quartz & Aqua GUI are no more an essential part of the OS than, say, X11 & KDE are. If the GUI freezes up, ssh into the box & restart it. GUI != a bad server OS.
...and they have the 3U/14 bay unit for HW RAID.
Who is attacking Kabul? Anyone in non-US countries with access to different news sources? No news from anyone except CNN here.
It's been quite a while since I've posted or even had the time to read an article's comments in-depth, and I just have to say that for an article which had the potential of causing a bloody and mindless flamewar, these comments are some of the best thought out and informative that I've seen. It's nice to see self-government working once in a while!
Though I doubt it will happen I'd like to see a rational discussion of what this whole affair means in terms of online journalism. What will actually happen will probably be another mudslide of pro- and anti-Apple vitriol, but what I saw here was a fine example of the Internet's effect on the distribution of information. I think that the morass of conflicting information which made this whole event such a circus was only possible with the Net. Otherwise we wouldn't have had all the "Anonymous Sources" emailing misunderstood or unapproved plans to ZDnet/MacCentral/etc., and Apple would have been able to get their ducks in a row before someone posted an underresearched piece on the situation on a few dozen websites.
r evenue is even more intense online than it is in print), and it is the readers' collective responsibility to gather as many reports as possible and try to distill a coherent idea of the situation. Unfortunately few of us have the time to do this, so we see one semi-speculative report and take it as the truth.
In the past it was the job of the media to sort through the conflicting reports and produce a coherent and accurate (as possible) account of events; on the Net it seems that the role of news outlets is to publish every single little snippet of potential news (keeping in mind that the relationship of sensationalism-increases-readership-increases-ad-
Now what does this mean for Slashdot? This particular story is not the only example of several conflicting reports coming in over several days, each one conflicting with the one before. To moderate the news content be requiring confirmation is contrary to the spirit of openness and personal responsibility the Net and Slashdot are built upon, but might it be Slashdot's responsiblity as a major media outlet (which it is) to alert readers if reports are unconfirmed? Lots of questions, not really directly related to Apple or anything, but hopefully relevant to someone somewhere.
So you're a computer company dependent on another company for your chips. Fairly normal. Your chip supplier tells you to expect X number of chips and A, B, and C speeds. You plan your configurations, price points, and advertising around these numbers. Then several weeks after you've announced your spiffy new computers, your chip supplier calls you up and says "Oops, we goofed, we won't be able to give you as many chips as we thought and we won't have any running at A Mhz. Sorry!" What are you, as a computer manufacturer, going to do? If Apple had changed processor speeds and price points, their low-end pro system would cost less than an iMac, and they'd be losing tons of revenue because they wouldn't be selling anything at their highest price point. And the reason that they're only honoring a few orders is that they just don't have enough chips to fill all the preorders.
Apple is between a rock and a hard place: if they adjusted their price points to make their customers happy they'd see their profits and stock price drop and their shareholders would be unhappy. So they maintained their price points and a lot of customers are unhappy. If there's anyone to blame here it's Motorola for not meeting demand for the chips. Call me cynical, but I have a feeling that if this was anyone but Apple people would be acting a lot more reasonably.
Or if you're really a masochist, SimpleText.
The database contains the titles and track listings for thousands of Audio CDs. If you have a cddb-aware audio cd player, you can fire it up, stick a new CD into your drive, and have the player query a cddb server to get the title & track listings, and save them on your own computer. CDs are identified by embedded serial numbers which are read by the CD drive. If your CD isn't in the cddb database you can submit the trakc listing for inclusion.
'Sall I had to say.
Yellow Box is not dead, it's still the native development environment for Mac OS X. Carbon is fundamentally a legacy development model, and developers are being told that if they want to start work on a new project for OS X then Yellow Box is the way to go.
I'll just say that it's one of the best Web Sites With No Real Reason For Existance® that I've ever seen in my life.
A limited form of memory protection is used in Mac OS 8 and up: "guard pages" are placed in memory between the system heap and application space. It's a buffer zone and not bulletproof but I run my Mac )S 8.5.1 system for 12+ hours a day every day (too noisy to keep it on while I sleep, but over the summer it chugged happily along with weeks between reboots) and it /never/ crashes. It's all in how you tune your system.