Printing problems

[Severin Crisp]

A couple of weeks ago I presented with a printing problem - in  
essence, though the software apparently installed correctly, a newly  
purchased Epson R2880 would not print.  All seemed well until the  
final hitting of the Print button when it would go away and think for  
a bit, quite normal, then pause.  An associated fault was that access  
to CUPS (localhost:631 in Safari) went to the start page but would go  
no further.


A Tiger installation on my Macbook printed faultlessly, confirming the  
integrity of the printer and its cables.


All the obvious suggestions came back and were tried:-
Make sure it is the right driver
Repair permissions
Run Disk Warrior
Run the combo 10.5.4 update
Reinstall the driver all this to no avail.

I then discovered that after starting up in safe boot mode,  
uninstalling and reinstalling the driver, everything worked, the  
printer was fine and I could access CUPS in full.  Rebooting normally  
resulted in printer pausing again and CUPS no longer accessible.
Through all this, two other printers were 100%, one directly on USB  
and the other in the USB port of Airport Extreme.


Apple could offer no real help and Epson confirmed that they had no  
known issues with 10.5.4 and this printer.


Next step was a clean install of 10.5.1 on second internal SATA disk  
(after considerable reshuffling!).  The bare 10.5.1 (also 10.5.2,  
10.5.3, 10.5.4) was fine in that the printer printed and I could  
access CUPS.  However as soon as I migrated applications, documents  
and the like back, the fault reappeared.
Back to the original system I started removing al the third party  
unnecessary items, including Intego Virus Barrier and Net Barrier,  
more than 20 of these useful but non-essentials, fonts pared back to  
bare minimum, all Widgets removed, all to no effect.
In this I used the excellent utility, AppCleaner which removes,  
hopefully, all the associated files as well as the application.  The  
final stage was to look at all the extensions, styled "Other" in  
AppCleaner.   Many of these are not readily identifiable but last  
night at about 11.00o'clock I hit the jackpot with eMusic.plugin.  I  
used eMusic some time ago under Tiger but no longer use it and had  
thrown away it's smart download software leaving this last bit of  
detritus lurking from at least a year back.  I guess if I had  
reinstalled all the applications from scratch and just brought in my  
Documents I would have got there too.   Fortunately, while all this  
was happening, everything was functional and life was able to go on  
normally, apart from patches of my hair strewn here and there around  
the place!


The moral of this salutory tale, which I will always observe  
rigorously in future, is to completely "Uninstall" unwanted programs.   
I found AppCleaner easy to use and efficient for this task, Version  
Tracker lists several similar utilities.


My thanks to all, especially Robert Howells and Ronni Brown, who  
applied their minds to this long drawn out problem on my behalf.

Severin Crisp

By the way, I love the new printer!


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Re: G5 Problem

[James / Hans Kunz]

sorry the caps are not always bloated, quite often they leak the  
acids out(dry out effect) and instead having the eg: 100uf the value  
is down to 10uf, an electronic guy (like me) has to take the board  
out & remove them to check the values it is similar to cd/dvd player,  
and also a video camera guy confirms that he has to do the same job  
when repairing a camera

cheers James

On 30/07/2008, at 19:46, Paul Kitchener wrote:


Robert Howells wrote:

You should be able to remove a piece of  Ram  at a time  to check   
whether one piece is faulty ! ?


It does sound rammy.

However, if you are game AND you have the iMac that is easy to  
open, a few screws has the back off and a quick look will tell you  
if the capacitors are bloated, they should look cylindrical with a  
flat clean and shiny top surface.
So far I have not seen bloating in the caps that have a 'K' cut in  
the top as opposed to an "X".


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

Not sure if Apple is still happily repairing these iMacs with  
bloated caps.


Good luck
Paul

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Re: www.abehering.com

[Shay Telfer]

Yep. It works for me in firefox but not in Safari. I can't 
understand why though.


Paul


Do you have Java enabled in your Safari Preferences' Security tab?

Have fun,
Shay


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 On 30/07/2008, at 10:49 PM, Paul Doyle wrote:


 Hi,

 A friend in Canada is a recent convert to apple has written to 
me asking for assistance with accessing a real-estate website 
with virtual tours.

 Firefox
 J2SE 5.0
 10.4.11
 www.abehering.com
 It seems to work fine on both my macs with the same browser, 
java and os. She gets a gray screen and no virtual tour. I get 
the same gray screen using Safari.


 Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 Thanks
 PD



 Yes , and it works for me on OS X 10.5.2 in both Safari 3.1.1  and 
Firefox 3.0


 Some of the properties are justStillpictures
 but i found Property ID ..  10231 set up with Virtual Realty

 Put the cursor in the picture and drag it around to get a 
continuous varying view .


 Bob


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Re: www.abehering.com

[Paul Doyle]

Yep. It works for me in firefox but not in Safari. I can't understand  
why though.


Paul

On 31/07/2008, at 1:19 AM, Robert Howells wrote:



On 30/07/2008, at 10:49 PM, Paul Doyle wrote:


Hi,

A friend in Canada is a recent convert to apple has written to me  
asking for assistance with accessing a real-estate website with  
virtual tours.

Firefox
J2SE 5.0
10.4.11
www.abehering.com
It seems to work fine on both my macs with the same browser, java  
and os. She gets a gray screen and no virtual tour. I get the  
same gray screen using Safari.


Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
PD



Yes , and it works for me on OS X 10.5.2 in both Safari 3.1.1  and  
Firefox 3.0


Some of the properties are justStillpictures
but i found Property ID ..  10231 set up with Virtual Realty

Put the cursor in the picture and drag it around to get a  
continuous varying view .


Bob


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Re: www.abehering.com

[Robert Howells]

On 30/07/2008, at 10:49 PM, Paul Doyle wrote:


Hi,

A friend in Canada is a recent convert to apple has written to me  
asking for assistance with accessing a real-estate website with  
virtual tours.

Firefox
J2SE 5.0
10.4.11
www.abehering.com
It seems to work fine on both my macs with the same browser, java  
and os. She gets a gray screen and no virtual tour. I get the same  
gray screen using Safari.


Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
PD



Yes , and it works for me on OS X 10.5.2 in both Safari 3.1.1  and  
Firefox 3.0


Some of the properties are justStillpictures
but i found Property ID ..  10231 set up with Virtual Realty

Put the cursor in the picture and drag it around to get a continuous  
varying view .


Bob


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www.abehering.com

[Paul Doyle]

Hi,

A friend in Canada is a recent convert to apple has written to me  
asking for assistance with accessing a real-estate website with  
virtual tours.

Firefox
J2SE 5.0
10.4.11
www.abehering.com
It seems to work fine on both my macs with the same browser, java  
and os. She gets a gray screen and no virtual tour. I get the same  
gray screen using Safari.


Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
PD


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Re: G5 Problem

[Mark Secker]

I'm sure by "1 stick" there you mean 1 *pair* :o)




really? ...  opens case... looks inside

...ah yes.. you're right...


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Re: Programs being invisible (Now: emailing links)

[Neil Houghton]

Hi Paul/Clyde

I don't know exactly what you were testing re link formating but, for what
it's worth, in entourage I found:
(Comments after links refer to Paul's message as received - the quoting in
the reply will, no doubt mess up some of these!)


on 30/7/08 7:32 PM, Paul Kitchener at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Clyde McLennan wrote:
> 
> 
>> the link is (and I hope this works)
>> "http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mac_Bugs#.22Invisible_.22Window
>> .22" 
>> 

Worked for me!


> 
> Hi Clyde,
> 
> I cant see why your link did not appear perfectly in my Thunderbird.
> It looks correctly entered to me, however the hyperlink (clickable
> section) only extended as far as
> 
> http://audacityteam.org/wiki/
> 

This is also what I found in Entourage for Clyde's original link


> Now I don't know how the above will appear in your email solution as I
> haven't tested it but I don't hear back from folk that this style
> doesn't work, that is a new line for every link and without any
> enclosing characters. I'd be happy if you could tell me though.
> 
> Examples:
> 
> 
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mac_Bugs#.22Invisible_.22Window.2>
2
> 
> "http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mac_Bugs#.22Invisible_.22Window.
> 22"
> 
>  22>
> 


The above three all worked for me in Entourage



> Having a space in there should test it further:
> 
> http://www.members.westnet.com.au/cmclenna/picture 1.png
> 
> "http://www.members.westnet.com.au/cmclenna/picture 1.png"
> 
> 


For the above three, in Entourage,  the link only extended as far as

http://www.members.westnet.com.au/cmclenna/picture



> 
> Normally I would have that as it comes from the browser's address bar:
> 
> http://www.members.westnet.com.au/cmclenna/picture%201.png
> 
> "http://www.members.westnet.com.au/cmclenna/picture%201.png";
> 
> 
> 

The above three all worked for me in Entourage


> Somehow Fiirefox/Thunderbird insert the %20 space code.
> I like the sound of that; "Space Code!" ;-)
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Paul
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Re: G5 Problem

[Daniel Kerr]

I'm sure by "1 stick" there you mean 1 *pair* :o)
As the G5 uses paired memory and it has to go in like that. Putting one
stick in only will cause the machine problems straight away. :o)

So you'd have to put it in, in pairs.
If you do locate it to one pair, then you can return the pair, as of course
it was sold as that it. And depending on the warranty you should get it
swapped for a new pair.
(Hopefully it was from one of the places that offers lifetime warranty on
their RAM) :o)

Hope that helps.

Kind Regards
Daniel


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> the G5 PowerMacs's ram is nice and easy to extract. take out all your
> RAM chips and put one back in and see if it boots and stays stable
> for an extended period of time, then take that one out and replace it
> with another stick repeat until you've had each stick in there by its
> self.

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Re: G5 Problem

[Mark Secker]

as a dual 2Ghz G5 I doubt we're talking an iMac...

but yes sounds like either faulty ram or logic board.

the G5 PowerMacs's ram is nice and easy to extract. take out all your 
RAM chips and put one back in and see if it boots and stays stable 
for an extended period of time, then take that one out and replace it 
with another stick repeat until you've had each stick in there by its 
self.


One of them _should_ cause the problem if it's faulty, if not it 
could be the logic board.





Robert Howells wrote:

You should be able to remove a piece of  Ram  at a time  to check 
whether one piece is faulty ! ?


It does sound rammy.

However, if you are game AND you have the iMac that is easy to open, 
a few screws has the back off and a quick look will tell you if the 
capacitors are bloated, they should look cylindrical with a flat 
clean and shiny top surface.
So far I have not seen bloating in the caps that have a 'K' cut in 
the top as opposed to an "X".


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

Not sure if Apple is still happily repairing these iMacs with bloated caps.

Good luck
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Re: G5 Problem

[Paul Kitchener]

Robert Howells wrote:

You should be able to remove a piece of  Ram  at a time  to check  
whether one piece is faulty ! ?


It does sound rammy.

However, if you are game AND you have the iMac that is easy to open, a 
few screws has the back off and a quick look will tell you if the 
capacitors are bloated, they should look cylindrical with a flat clean 
and shiny top surface.
So far I have not seen bloating in the caps that have a 'K' cut in the 
top as opposed to an "X".


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

Not sure if Apple is still happily repairing these iMacs with bloated caps.

Good luck
Paul

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Re: Programs being invisible (Now: emailing links)

[Paul Kitchener]

Clyde McLennan wrote:


the link is (and I hope this works) 
"http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mac_Bugs#.22Invisible_.22Window.22"; 



Hi Clyde,

I cant see why your link did not appear perfectly in my Thunderbird.
It looks correctly entered to me, however the hyperlink (clickable 
section) only extended as far as


http://audacityteam.org/wiki/

Now I don't know how the above will appear in your email solution as I 
haven't tested it but I don't hear back from folk that this style 
doesn't work, that is a new line for every link and without any 
enclosing characters. I'd be happy if you could tell me though.


Examples:

http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mac_Bugs#.22Invisible_.22Window.22

"http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mac_Bugs#.22Invisible_.22Window.22";



Having a space in there should test it further:

http://www.members.westnet.com.au/cmclenna/picture 1.png

"http://www.members.westnet.com.au/cmclenna/picture 1.png"



Normally I would have that as it comes from the browser's address bar:

http://www.members.westnet.com.au/cmclenna/picture%201.png

"http://www.members.westnet.com.au/cmclenna/picture%201.png";



Somehow Fiirefox/Thunderbird insert the %20 space code.
I like the sound of that; "Space Code!" ;-)


Cheers
Paul

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Re: Programs being invisible

[Clyde McLennan]

Hi All,
Thanks for making many suggestions - eventually on the advice of  
some, I downloaded the latest version (Beta version) 1.3.5.D


That seems to have solved the problem of the 'invisible' program.

again, many thanks  ... Clyde


On 30/07/2008, at 3:45 PM, Clyde McLennan wrote:


Hi Ronnie & others

   I did a Google search on the issue, as there didn't seem to be  
any obvious answer and found that Audacity is the problem.


   There is a webpage at audacityteam.org that has a list of the  
current Audacity/Mac problems, and one of them is this closing down  
issue.


the link is (and I hope this works) "http://audacityteam.org/wiki/ 
index.php?title=Mac_Bugs#.22Invisible_.22Window.22"


   Sorry for raising the problem, which ended up being an  
application issue 


   Clyde


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Re: Programs being invisible

[Robert Howells]

On 30/07/2008, at 3:45 PM, Clyde McLennan wrote:


Hi Ronnie & others

  I did a Google search on the issue, as there didn't seem to be any  
obvious answer and found that Audacity is the problem.


  There is a webpage at audacityteam.org that has a list of the  
current Audacity/Mac problems, and one of them is this closing down  
issue.


the link is (and I hope this works) "http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mac_Bugs#.22Invisible_.22Window.22 
"


  Sorry for raising the problem, which ended up being an application  
issue 


  Clyde


Sory !

That does not explain it at all !

It is normal for Mac applications to stay connected when a window is  
closed .


What has not been seen is that " Invisibile " statement in the icon  
sub menu !


It does not show in mine on Audacity  1.3.5

but it does show on Audacity 1.2.6 now that I have fired  that up .

I suggest you just update to 1.3.5 Clyde and it will not worry you again

Bob


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Programs being invisible

[Clyde McLennan]

Hi Ronnie & others

   I did a Google search on the issue, as there didn't seem to be  
any obvious answer and found that Audacity is the problem.


   There is a webpage at audacityteam.org that has a list of the  
current Audacity/Mac problems, and one of them is this closing down  
issue.


the link is (and I hope this works) "http://audacityteam.org/wiki/ 
index.php?title=Mac_Bugs#.22Invisible_.22Window.22"


   Sorry for raising the problem, which ended up being an  
application issue 


   Clyde


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Re: Programs being Invisible

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On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Ronda Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Clyde,
>
> I'll try to explain why you are seeing the picture you posted here
> ""
>
> 1. If you Quit the Audacity application by going to the Menu bar - Audacity
>> Quit Audacity
>Then open Audacity again and click it's icon in the dock, you will see
> the Invisible is NOT ticked, but Audacity IS ticked.
>
> 2. If you just close the Audacity application by clicking the RED button,
> then click on the icon in the Dock you will get your picture that only shows
> Invisible (which is ticked).
>
> When you only close the application it becomes invisible (icon stays in the
> dock) until you open it again.
> By actually Quitting the application it completely Quits  (icon stays in the
> dock).
>
> Just closing the application makes it invisible.
>
> Hope that clears it up for you.
>
> Cheers,
> Ronni

An example of where this is useful is with instant messaging
applications. You may not want the contact list to be visible in the
dock, but you do still want to remain connected to the service and
receive messages, in this case you would click on the red button, the
contact list will disappear and the IM program will run in the
background. When you want to quit the application you select quit from
the menu, when you want to minimize the contact list you click the
orange button.

Make sense?

Adam.

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Re: Programs being Invisible

[Ronda Brown]

Hi Clyde,

I'll try to explain why you are seeing the picture you posted here ""


1. If you Quit the Audacity application by going to the Menu bar -  
Audacity > Quit Audacity
Then open Audacity again and click it's icon in the dock, you  
will see the Invisible is NOT ticked, but Audacity IS ticked.


2. If you just close the Audacity application by clicking the RED  
button, then click on the icon in the Dock you will get your picture  
that only shows Invisible (which is ticked).


When you only close the application it becomes invisible (icon stays  
in the dock) until you open it again.
By actually Quitting the application it completely Quits  (icon stays  
in the dock).


Just closing the application makes it invisible.

Hope that clears it up for you.

Cheers,
Ronni



On 30/07/2008, at 2:40 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:


Hi Clyde,

The little black arrow in your picture indicates that the Audacity  
icon in the dock is an alias.
Remove it from the dock and drag & drop the Audacity application  
icon from your Applications folder onto your dock.


Cheers,
Ronni

On 30/07/2008, at 2:09 PM, Clyde McLennan wrote:


Hi Bob,
 You appear to be getting the same effect as I do.  I have the  
Audacity Icon permanently in my dock, so when you click the red  
button it stays there, but shows invisible.


 I have placed a picture on my hostsite web page that shows what is  
happening in the dock.  It is at:

"http://www.members.westnet.com.au/cmclenna/picture%201.png";

 This is not a show stopper, but more trying to understand what is  
going on.


 with thanks  ... Clyde

On 30/07/2008, at 1:55 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:


Hi Clyde,

I'm sorry but I'm not sure what you are wanting answered here ...  
are you referring to 'Invisible' as in Unix-style invisible files  
such as ".DS_Store" & ".localized" files ...   or are you  
concerned about the buttons Red, Yellow & Green (close, minimise,  
zoom buttons)?


Cheers,
Ronni

On 30/07/2008, at 1:30 PM, Clyde McLennan wrote:


Hi Ronnie,
I understand what you are saying, and effectively that is what I  
do.  But what is the 'invisible' stuff all about, and why do  
these programs utilize this feature etc?


 with thanks  ... Clyde

On 30/07/2008, at 1:15 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:



On 30/07/2008, at 8:58 AM, Clyde McLennan wrote:


Hi,
I am puzzled why some programs (like Audacity & Filezilla),  
when you close them down using the little red button on the top  
left, they go to 'Invisible' in the program dock menu for that  
program.  (I hope that is clear).


I'm wondering several things:
	(a) What does 'invisible' mean (not to be confused with  
invisible files which start with a fullstop)
	(b) How do you make the program un-invisible (i find I have to  
'force quit it in the dock, and then restart it).
	(c) Is there some way I can stop programs from going  
'invisible', when I really want to stop (ie, disappear  
altogether).


Hello Clyde,

Don't just 'close' the application's window by clicking the red  
button  Quit the actual application.
Either by going to Menu bar at top of your screen click on the  
application's name then scroll to Quit (Application's name).

Or click & hold on it's icon in the dock & go to Quit.

Then the Application quits & it will disappear completely.

Cheers,
Ronni



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