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Canon Pro9000 printing on an Time Capsule

September 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Just a reminder on how to print to a Canon Pro9000 via an Airport Extreme or a Time Capsule. This is actually tricky. You have to download the generic Canon IJ Printer (http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=182&modelid=12892#DownloadDetailAct)

This has pretty tight requirements:

  • Mac OS X v10.5.3
  • Latest version of Airport firmware
  • Pro9000osxcp10120ej7.dmg which is the 10.1.2.0 version driver.
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What the heck is happening with my wifi network?

July 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

What the heck is going on with networks. It is complicated as heck. Try Airgrab and iStumbler to try to figure out what it out there. Still haven’t figured a simple way to find out what is the channel and actual speed of the network a Mac client is running. I can see how to [...]

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Time Capsule is “preparing” forever, diagnostics and also hangs

July 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Time Capsule

I have two different problems now. First, the Time Capsule at work is preparing forever. No one really has a resolution to this. I’ve run it for 24 hours and it never stops preparing. I really don’t want to lose my backups, but not sure what to do. Maybe take it home over the weekend [...]

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Slideshows on the Mac

July 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Slideshows on the Mac are confusing because iPhoto, iDVD and iMovie can all make them, so what should use when. Here’s a guide:
iPhoto ‘08 for quick and dirty on the screen slideshows
First this is confusingly actually iPhoto ‘08 , version 7.0 (why couldn’t they just bump the version to match the date?). This is the [...]

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Time Capsule running hot

July 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

I’ve noticed that Time Capsules can really run hot. I haven’t figured it out, but it looks like something keeps accessing them. Speculation is that if you have the Time Capsule drives mounted on a Mac, then the hard disk stays spinning.
I’ve had mine stacked and that seems to be bad too. You want them [...]

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