Should we do this Sunday or Monday?
Tomorrow works well, I'll be in the area in the morning for a thing, and I'll call you when it's done.
That's the thrill of living in the Hellmouth! There's a veritable cornucopia of fiends and devils and ghouls to engage ... Pardon me for finding the glass half-full.
Giles ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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Sean K - Dec 04, 2004 3:15:47 pm PST #348 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
NoiseDesign - Dec 04, 2004 3:16:25 pm PST #349 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
Sounds like a plan.
Jessica - Dec 04, 2004 3:23:07 pm PST #350 of 10003
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
The easiest solution would be to network the computers and access the printer through the network via the IP address using the Print Center in OSx.
Oh, they're networked. That was the first thing we made sure of -- that OSX would play nice with our previously all-Windows network. (And it does -- we hadn't had it plugged in ten seconds, and it was all, "Oh, you have a network? Let me go online for you!")
I should probably just figure out what the printer's IP address is. It's not something I've had to look for before.
SA, our network's name is Aurelius, so all the computers have vampire names. Mine's Dru, the old laptop is Spike, and the Tivo is Darla.
Theodosia - Dec 04, 2004 3:59:45 pm PST #351 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
You're close to getting the Ultimate Buffista Geek Award of the Month for that.
Connie Neil - Dec 04, 2004 4:13:36 pm PST #352 of 10003
brillig
So the printer needs to be named Penn.
Jessica - Dec 04, 2004 4:23:41 pm PST #353 of 10003
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
So the printer needs to be named Penn.
Ah, perfect! But I still can't get the Mac to see it. I was told at Tekserve that if it were a USB printer, I'd have no problem, but a serial printer might be tricky.
When I look at it on my own computer, it's telling me that the printer is shared. But it doesn't show up on the Mac at all. Grrr.
DCJensen - Dec 04, 2004 6:21:12 pm PST #354 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Jessica - Dec 04, 2004 7:12:37 pm PST #355 of 10003
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Apparently XP SP2 breaks something.
Oh, I'm shocked.
Thanks, I'll check those out.
[edit: Okay, it's now claiming to see the printer, but when I tried to print a test page, it spat out pages and pages of gibberish.* It doesn't look like my printer's officially supported by OSX, so I'll have to install some extra drivers.]
[edit again: *Which, obviously, means that it is seeing the printer, and communicating with it, just not very well.]
Jessica - Dec 04, 2004 7:57:52 pm PST #356 of 10003
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Aaaaaaand, it works!
Poking around those sites, it looks like HP printers are known to be particularly troublesome in mixed-OS networks. But it's printing what I'm asking for now, albeit slowly, so I'm not complaining.
DCJensen - Dec 04, 2004 8:10:16 pm PST #357 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
Yay printing!
Well, now that it works, you have some leisure for us or yourself to come up with a better solution.
Is it a laser printer? Try a generic postscript driver, maybe?