Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

[Mike Moore]

Peter I tried what you suggested and it does ping successfully.

What is really weird about all of this is when I first connected the printer I 
was able to see the printer fine.  The first page I sent to print was an image 
and 80% of the way through the printer spat the dummy and aborted with a 
postscript error.  Ever since then I have been unable to get the printer to 
work.  Each time I try to print it reverts to the pause state.

I've tried the following:
- Turning it off and then back on again.
- A cold reset, 
- Connecting it direct to the computer and nothing changes.  
- Removing the printer and then adding it back in again.

It has me stumped.


On 03/02/2010, at 8:55 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:

> 
> 
> On 02/02/2010, at 10:14 PM, Mike Moore wrote:
> 
>>> 
>>> If it's running bonjour you can use the little freeware util, "Bonjour 
>>> Browser to" find it.
>> Thanks Rob - Bonjour Browser has given me the IP address.  Unfortunately 
>> though the printer still won't print.  No matter what I do at the computer 
>> and printer end it remains in 'pause mode'.
> 
> Use Network Utility or Terminal to "ping" the printer's IP address (in 
> Terminal just type 'ping ' followed by the ip address. Don't leave out the 
> space after "ping". In Network Utility just go to the Ping tab and type in 
> the IP address).
> 
> If you computer can see the printer on the network you should see a repeating 
> response similar to 
> 
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.069 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.069 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.069 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.069 ms
> 
> (substituting the printer's IP address, of course).
> 
> If you don't see this, you have a networking problem, not necessarily a 
> printer problem.
> 
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Re: Video stream and podcasts of Feb WAMUG meeting online

[Severin Crisp]

Great stuff, many thanks for your efforts Martin.   Much appreciated  
by enforced absentees like myself here in Albany!

Severin

On 03/02/2010, at 11:33 AM, Martin Hill wrote:



Well, after an 18 month hiatus I've now got the dual-video camera  
and screen recordings of the WAMUG monthly meetings back on track  
and available this year.


You can see last night's recording along with recordings going back  
to mid-2005 at the usual place:


http://dbs.ilectures.curtin.edu.au/lectopia/lectopia.lasso?ut=692

You can also subscribe to the podcasts of each meeting by clicking  
on the "subscribe to this podcast" link at the top of the web page.


(perhaps the committee can put the links on the WAMUG website now)

With all-new audio and network video camera gear in the venue since  
last year's major re-furbishment and a much improved automated sound  
system, presenters don't even have to worry about turning on  
microphones.  ;-)


Have fun!

-Mart


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Video stream and podcasts of Feb WAMUG meeting online

[Martin Hill]

Well, after an 18 month hiatus I've now got the dual-video camera and  
screen recordings of the WAMUG monthly meetings back on track and  
available this year.


You can see last night's recording along with recordings going back to  
mid-2005 at the usual place:


http://dbs.ilectures.curtin.edu.au/lectopia/lectopia.lasso?ut=692

You can also subscribe to the podcasts of each meeting by clicking on  
the "subscribe to this podcast" link at the top of the web page.


(perhaps the committee can put the links on the WAMUG website now)

With all-new audio and network video camera gear in the venue since  
last year's major re-furbishment and a much improved automated sound  
system, presenters don't even have to worry about turning on  
microphones.  ;-)


Have fun!

-Mart


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Re: Continuous Ink Supply Systems (CISS)

[Mike Fuller]

I wasn't at the meeting yesterday but the mention of the CISS from  
RIHAC prompted me to mention my experiences.


I have had a CISS from RIHAC for my Epson Photo R230 for over a year  
now and it has served me wonderfully. The quality of the ink is on a  
par with the Epson inks but the main benefit is the financial saving.  
From factoring the ink as the major cost in a print run I now don't  
consider it at all.


The service I've had from RIHAC is the best I've ever experienced  
from any computer-related company. With any technical issues they  
have replied promptly, personally and in detail (reminds me a bit of  
Ronni in their approach).


I will be buying a CISS for my Epson Photo R2400 soon and save a heap  
more. Considering a set of 8 Epson Cartridges is about $170, and the  
RIHAC CISS filled with ink is $140 plus postage, it wasn't a hard  
decision.


I have no affiliation with RIHAC, apart from being a very satisfied  
customer.


Cheers

Mike Fuller


On 02/02/2010, at 11:21 PM, John Feltham wrote:



G'day folks,

Google fixed up my memory! :-)

Here is the URL mentioned at the meeting.

http://www.rihac.com.au


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Re: Continuous Ink Supply Systems (CISS)

[Lloyd White]

I get mine from Cartridge World 596 Stirling Hwy Mosman Pk. 9385 2285.

Toner for Brother HL 2040 is $68. I just checked with them and that is the
current price.

Lloyd 




> 
> The ink site looks pretty good.  Meanwhile does anyone know where to get
> genuine Brother laser toner cartridges for an HL2040 at a reasonable price.
> It's currently cheaper to buy a new printer ($88).
> 
> Paul.
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Re: Continuous Ink Supply Systems (CISS)

[Paul Weaver]

The ink site looks pretty good.  Meanwhile does anyone know where to get 
genuine Brother laser toner cartridges for an HL2040 at a reasonable price. 
It's currently cheaper to buy a new printer ($88).

Paul.


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On 02/02/2010, at 11:21 PM, John Feltham wrote:

> 
> G'day folks,
> 
> Google fixed up my memory! :-)
> 
> Here is the URL mentioned at the meeting.
> 
> http://www.rihac.com.au
> 


Thanks very much for that URL, John. It looks like a great site once you learn 
how trick their navigation system. It's just a little too clever   :-)



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Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 02/02/2010, at 10:14 PM, Mike Moore wrote:

>> 
>> If it's running bonjour you can use the little freeware util, "Bonjour 
>> Browser to" find it.
> Thanks Rob - Bonjour Browser has given me the IP address.  Unfortunately 
> though the printer still won't print.  No matter what I do at the computer 
> and printer end it remains in 'pause mode'.

Use Network Utility or Terminal to "ping" the printer's IP address (in Terminal 
just type 'ping ' followed by the ip address. Don't leave out the space after 
"ping". In Network Utility just go to the Ping tab and type in the IP address).

If you computer can see the printer on the network you should see a repeating 
response similar to 

64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.069 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.069 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.069 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=1.069 ms

(substituting the printer's IP address, of course).

If you don't see this, you have a networking problem, not necessarily a printer 
problem.


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Re: Continuous Ink Supply Systems (CISS)

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 02/02/2010, at 11:21 PM, John Feltham wrote:

> 
> G'day folks,
> 
> Google fixed up my memory! :-)
> 
> Here is the URL mentioned at the meeting.
> 
> http://www.rihac.com.au
> 


Thanks very much for that URL, John. It looks like a great site once you learn 
how trick their navigation system. It's just a little too clever   :-)



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Re: Entourage bug

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 02/02/2010, at 11:18 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote:

> I wondered how long it would take for someone to suggest this “solution” – 
> thanks John for raising this one. Having come from a Windows background, I 
> find it hard to move to a program (Mail) that doesn’t have Contacts and 
> Calendar functions integrated into the one app. Mail is just one part of 
> daily activity and within Entourage (like MS Outlook) it is a nice integrated 
> look and feel, not to mention logical, to have Mail/Calendar/Contacts 
> integrated into one app.
>  
> Can Mail/iCal/Contacts be managed in the same way?
>  
> I am not 100% settled on Entourage and prepared to consider 
> Mail/iCal/Contacts but it seems retrograde to use 3 apps for what one app can 
> manage albeit with this bug. Maybe Microsoft will arrange a fix for this or 
> maybe I’ll use the noted work-around (a la Time Machine Scheduler) for the 
> temporary “solution” to my problem.
>  

It really makes no difference to the user experience whether Mail, Calendar and 
Contacts are all in the one  entity or three separate applications. The Mail 
experience certainly proves this with its use the Data Detector. Mail interacts 
with Address Book directly, and Data Detectors allow you to add dates and 
events directly to your iCal calendars, and even interact with Google Maps. It 
all happens seamlessly. 

What does matter is that Address Book and iCal data are system-wide, and 
therefore available to other software if the author chooses (Bento being one 
obvious example). This is difficult if not impossible with closed systems like 
Entourage. You'll have to duplicate your contacts in Address Book anyway to get 
access to this system-wide functionality. Microsoft software still retains it's 
own little ecosystem within Mac OS X (even down to the clipboard), and does not 
really sit well with modern Mac software.   

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Re: HP Printer

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 02/02/2010, at 12:58 PM, Neil Houghton wrote:

> Yes, if you remember when we talked I said there were basically three ways
> you could set up your printer, the Parallels manual probably explains this
> better than I did:
> 
>> There are three basic ways to set up printing in a virtual machine. You can:
> 
>> • Share any of the printers connected to your Mac computer via a printer port
>> of your virtual machine.
> 
>> • Set up a printer via Apple's Bonjour Printer wizard.
>> Note: Apple's Bonjour printer is available in Windows guest OSs only.
> 
>> • Use a network printer.
> 
>> You can also connect a USB printer directly to your virtual machine. In this
>> case, the printer will not be available to Mac OS X. For detailed information
>> see Connecting USB Devices to a Virtual Machine (p. 141).
> 
> Which is actually four ways when you include the direct USB connection - I
> didn't include the third "Use a network printer" as it wasn't relevant in
> your case. (Although, as a confusing aside, a printer set-up using Bonjour
> is actually set-up as a network printer).
> 
> 
> Approach 1) is the traditional Parallels way of sharing the connected Mac
> printer with the VM, as the manual describes it:
> 
>> Sharing a Mac Printer
>> You can share any printer connected to you Mac with your Windows or Linux
>> virtual machine. The printer will be available through the virtual machine's
>> printer port.
>> To share your Mac's printer:
> (They then give detailed instructions on setup)
> 
> 
> This is generally relatively easy to set up and works well and is how I
> originally had my printer setup - however, as I mentioned in my original
> post, at some point (in the dim & distant past) it stopped working


In the case of the first option, you tell Windows that you are installing a 
directly-connected printer, and then you specify either the printer model you 
actually have or Parallels' special Laserwriter emulator (which used to be the 
old SoftWindows approach). The documentation sternly warns you against using 
any form of Windows Driver installation.

This method does allow you to share the printer between Mac and Windows, but 
you don't necessarily have access to all the features you might have in the Mac 
setup, and as you say, it can problematic.

Given that the running of Windows on a Mac is simply a means to an end anyway, 
most people probably run their Windows solution, do what they have to do, then 
quit their VM instead of leaving it running, so sharing is not generally a 
problem anyway.
  
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Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

[Rob Findlay]

You don't need to if you already found the IP address via bonjour browser. It's 
simply another way to find out information you already have.
Assuming that you have now configured the printer as an IP printer your problem 
is now probably that you either have the wrong driver or that the driver is 
incompatible with Snow leopard. You could try changing it to a generic 
postscript driver and see if that works or look for an updated driver from HP.

On 02/02/2010, at 11:27 PM, Mike Moore wrote:

> 
> Neil thanks for the advice but  I'm not sure how you go about logging into 
> the router.
> 
> 
> On 02/02/2010, at 6:52 PM, Neil Houghton wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Hi Mike,
>> 
>> If you log-in to your router configuration using your web-browser can't you
>> see a list of the IP addresses allocated to connected devices?
>> 
>> I'm going on old memories here - so its just a guess ;)
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Neil
>> -- 
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>> Albany, Western Australia
>> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
>> Email: n...@possumology.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> on 2/2/10 6:11 PM, Mike Moore at mikem...@iinet.net.au wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> I have an HP 8550N Laserjet printer with Jetdirect card connected to my
>>> computers via the router.
>>> 
>>> With Snow Leopard I can't connect to the printer.  I have tried printing out
>>> the configuration page to get its IP address (as suggested in the HP help
>>> forums) but it doesn't show on that.
>>> 
>>> I'd be most grateful if someone can point me in the right direction as to 
>>> what
>>> to do.
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Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

[Mike Moore]

Neil thanks for the advice but  I'm not sure how you go about logging into the 
router.


On 02/02/2010, at 6:52 PM, Neil Houghton wrote:

> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> If you log-in to your router configuration using your web-browser can't you
> see a list of the IP addresses allocated to connected devices?
> 
> I'm going on old memories here - so its just a guess ;)
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> 
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> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
> Email: n...@possumology.com
> 
> 
> 
> on 2/2/10 6:11 PM, Mike Moore at mikem...@iinet.net.au wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I have an HP 8550N Laserjet printer with Jetdirect card connected to my
>> computers via the router.
>> 
>> With Snow Leopard I can't connect to the printer.  I have tried printing out
>> the configuration page to get its IP address (as suggested in the HP help
>> forums) but it doesn't show on that.
>> 
>> I'd be most grateful if someone can point me in the right direction as to 
>> what
>> to do.
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Continuous Ink Supply Systems (CISS)

[John Feltham]

G'day folks,

Google fixed up my memory! :-)

Here is the URL mentioned at the meeting.

http://www.rihac.com.au


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G'day folks,

Many thanks for the hospitality extended to me this evening.



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Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

[Mike Moore]

On 02/02/2010, at 6:31 PM, Rob Findlay wrote:

> 
> If it's running bonjour you can use the little freeware util, "Bonjour 
> Browser to" find it.
Thanks Rob - Bonjour Browser has given me the IP address.  Unfortunately though 
the printer still won't print.  No matter what I do at the computer and printer 
end it remains in 'pause mode'.

> Else if it has an IP lease from the router you can log in to the router and 
> look at DHCP clients or attached devices. If you only have a few devices it 
> should be pretty easy to spot.
Unfortunately I have no idea how to log into the router.
> 
> 
> On 02/02/2010, at 6:11 PM, Mike Moore wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I have an HP 8550N Laserjet printer with Jetdirect card connected to my 
>> computers via the router.
>> 
>> With Snow Leopard I can't connect to the printer.  I have tried printing out 
>> the configuration page to get its IP address (as suggested in the HP help 
>> forums) but it doesn't show on that.  
>> 
>> I'd be most grateful if someone can point me in the right direction as to 
>> what to do.
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Ripple - an interesting idea

[Neil Houghton]

Hi all,

I hope you will forgive me a slightly off-topic post, but I thought fellow
WAMUG list readers might find this use of internet advertising interesting,
I certainly did.

Ripple  came up with the idea of using internet
advertising as a means of easily raising money for charity.

They say that ALL the money they generate goes to the charities concerned -
they do not (at present) deduct any overheads or charges.

They explain just how it works here 

Personally, I don't really use a home page but I do use Google quite a lot
so I've just used the Ripple searchbar feature

To add ripple to Firefox as my default search engine (it is just added as an
additional search engine to the others I have installed) and now everytime I
do a google search (as a ripple search) a small advertiser payment goes to
charity.

Anyway, I thought it was a great idea and some worthwhile causes - so I hope
you will not consider this post spam as I genuinely felt that many of you
would find it interesting (and computer related).



Cheers




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Re: Printer Error

[Neil Houghton]

Hi Maureen,


The fact that it started working again and then stopped again tends to
suggest an intermittent hardware fault to me.

The first possible culprits to pop into my head are:

1) Faulty USB cable
2) Faulty USB port on the printer
3) Other fault with the printer
4) Faulty USB port on the computer

1) is easily checked by trying a different USB cable

Swapping the cable to a different USB port, as you have already done, would
tend to rule out 4) (unless both ports have problems)

If you open the System Profile application while the printer is connected,
look under "hardware" and select "USB" you can see all the USB devices
connected to your computer. If you cannot see the connected printer and you
have checked that the computer USB post and the USB cable are OK, then it
would point to a fault in the printer.

Try that first and see how you go.

Cheers


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on 2/2/10 6:36 PM, Maureen at mau...@iinet.net.au wrote:

> 
> Hi
> At school I have a canon pixma printer connected to my MacbookPro, 10.5.8,
> 2.16GHz via USB
> 
> This printer has run beautifully until just recently.
> Now I keep getting this message:
> 
> Error Number : 300 The printer does not respond. Make sure that the printer
> is plugged in, powered-on, and properly connected to your computer.
> 
> Which it all is and I have even swapped the cable to the other USB port.
> Turned the printer on and off a few times and turned it on and off at the
> wall. Then all of a sudden today it worked for about 20 minutes and then
> stopped and gave me the same message again. I've removed the printer from
> the list and added it again.
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated.
> 
> 
> Take Care
> 
> Maureen
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Entourage bug

[Neil Houghton]

Hi Ronni,

No, I exclude Entourage from my Time Machine back-ups and rely on my
SuperDuper clone as my back-up. I accept the risk of losing the emails
between my SuperDuper clones. I do however close ALL open applications
before cloning.

Whilst I haven¹t regularly checked the entourage database on the clone, when
I recently migrated my main user account over to my new iMac, I migrated
from its clone rather than from the original computer and the transferred
microsoft user identity worked just fine on the new machine.

It also seems to me that there would be a similar risk in relying on Time
machine to back-up a Windows VM while the machine was running ­ not that I
have seen any specific reports relating to this ­ it just doesn¹t seem
³right² to back up a running VM! - So I also exclude my Parallels VMs from
the time machine back-ups and use a 2-pronged strategy in that I rely on a
VM clone to protect me if I ³stuff-up² the VM ­ and my SuperDuper clone
provides a back-up of both the VM and its clone.

At this stage, I haven¹t looked at Windows ³snapshots² to provide different
roll-back points (is anyone else using this on VMs?)


> Maybe with Office 2010 Microsoft will break up that monolithic database into
> something TM can back up ... yeah, and Cows might Fly ;-)

Hehe, yes it would be nice if MS (and Parallels) started utilising sparse
bundles to enable something like this ­ but I¹m not holding my breath!


Cheers



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on 2/2/10 2:39 PM, Ronda Brown at ro...@mac.com wrote:

> Hi Peter and others using Entourage,
> 
> Is anyone who uses Entourage,  backing up Entourage using Time Machine?
> If so have they been checking their Entourage backups to see if there is any
> corruption?
> 
> Why I ask is I have always understood the main issue with Time Machine and the
> Entourage database isn't just because it is backed up every hour filling up
> hard drives, but because the database daemon is running at all times and could
> do some garbage collection during a copy and end up corrupting your copy.
> 
> Microsoft has confirmed that the Office 2008 database gets corrupted by Time
> Machine backups. 
> See the Microsoft KB article here: .
> 
> Note the line in the "More Information" paragraph that says, I quote, "If Time
> Machine starts an automatic backup while Entourage 2008 is modifying the user
> database, the backup process may damage the backup copy of the user database."
> 
> The only option is to exclude the Entourage database from the Time Machine
> backups, and back up your database via other means (when Entourage is not
> running).
> 
> Maybe with Office 2010 Microsoft will break up that monolithic database into
> something TM can back up ... yeah, and Cows might Fly ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni 
> PS. I'm so relieved that I have my 17" MacBook Pro back with a new Logic Board
> installed. 
> Huge thankyou to Daniel (for organising, delivery & pickup) & Nick at
> Joondalup (for the repair).
> 
> On 02/02/2010, at 1:50 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
> 
>> Hi Peter,
>> 
>> I use Apple Mail and it suits my needs well, but it you do make the decision
>> to stick with Entourage, you can Exclude your Entourage database from Time
>> Machine backups.
>> 
>> If you use Microsoft Entourage, you have a file called Database, which stores
>> all your email messages, calendar items, and to-do tasks. (By default, it¹s
>> stored in ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Office 2008 Identities/Main
>> Identity; substitute Office 2004 or Office X for Office 2008 if you are using
>> an older version.)
>> 
>> As Rob has already explained, this file can grow to several gigabytes in size
>> or larger, and it changes every time you receive or file an email message‹or
>> do just about anything else in Entourage.
>> As a result, Time Machine must recopy that entire file every time it runs.
>> Not only will that make your hourly backups take a long time, it¹ll rapidly
>> fill up your backup disk.
>>  
>> However, since this is an important file, if you exclude it from Time
>> Machine, I recommend backing it up in some other way ... "Every Day"!
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Ronni
>> 
>> 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo
>> 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB
>> OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard
>> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 02/02/2010, at 1:32 PM, Crisp, Peter wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks Rob that is a very logical reason to move to Mail. I will have some
>>> off-line discussion with my father Severin (he is a devout Mail user) and
>>> discuss further with him.
>>>  
>>> At the risk of beating a well beaten drum though, a solution to the
>>> Monolithic file issue you point out, is to exclude the ³monolithic file²
>>> from the Time Machine back up register, and institute my own separate back
>>> up process for that file far less frequently than hourly ­ say monthly. I¹m
>>> sure most will groan and say ³get ov

Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

[Neil Houghton]

Hi Mike,

If you log-in to your router configuration using your web-browser can't you
see a list of the IP addresses allocated to connected devices?

I'm going on old memories here - so its just a guess ;)


Cheers



Neil
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Albany, Western Australia
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on 2/2/10 6:11 PM, Mike Moore at mikem...@iinet.net.au wrote:

> 
> I have an HP 8550N Laserjet printer with Jetdirect card connected to my
> computers via the router.
> 
> With Snow Leopard I can't connect to the printer.  I have tried printing out
> the configuration page to get its IP address (as suggested in the HP help
> forums) but it doesn't show on that.
> 
> I'd be most grateful if someone can point me in the right direction as to what
> to do.
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Printer Error

[Maureen]

Hi
At school I have a canon pixma printer connected to my MacbookPro, 10.5.8,
2.16GHz via USB

This printer has run beautifully until just recently.
Now I keep getting this message:

Error Number : 300 The printer does not respond. Make sure that the printer
is plugged in, powered-on, and properly connected to your computer.

Which it all is and I have even swapped the cable to the other USB port.
Turned the printer on and off a few times and turned it on and off at the
wall. Then all of a sudden today it worked for about 20 minutes and then
stopped and gave me the same message again. I've removed the printer from
the list and added it again.

Any suggestions appreciated.


Take Care

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Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer

[Rob Findlay]

If it's running bonjour you can use the little freeware util, "Bonjour Browser 
to" find it.
Else if it has an IP lease from the router you can log in to the router and 
look at DHCP clients or attached devices. If you only have a few devices it 
should be pretty easy to spot.


On 02/02/2010, at 6:11 PM, Mike Moore wrote:

> 
> I have an HP 8550N Laserjet printer with Jetdirect card connected to my 
> computers via the router.
> 
> With Snow Leopard I can't connect to the printer.  I have tried printing out 
> the configuration page to get its IP address (as suggested in the HP help 
> forums) but it doesn't show on that.  
> 
> I'd be most grateful if someone can point me in the right direction as to 
> what to do.
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[Mike Moore]

I have an HP 8550N Laserjet printer with Jetdirect card connected to my 
computers via the router.

With Snow Leopard I can't connect to the printer.  I have tried printing out 
the configuration page to get its IP address (as suggested in the HP help 
forums) but it doesn't show on that.  

I'd be most grateful if someone can point me in the right direction as to what 
to do.

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The Great Firewall...

[Matthew Healey]

Hi Everyone,

iiNet are currently supporting a web site which allows you to send your 
thoughts to the senator responsible for implementing the Great Firewall of 
Australia. I found it when browsing the iiNet customer portal.

To make it short, the filter is nothing but a waste of time and money for 
anyone not on the receiving end of a lucrative government contract. It will 
probably end up being used to block politically sensitive and embarrassing 
content. As a perfect example, compare these two identical search results.

Google Australia


Google China


I would urge you all, as part of the larger Australian internet community to 
oppose it.

http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaveTheNet&id=892

- Matt Healey



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Re: Mail 'To' line anomaly

[Ronda Brown]

Hi Jennifer,

Delete that "rogue" address in Address Book.
 The wrong TO: Address could only be coming from either your previous  
recipients list or Address Book.

Those are the only two places it could generate from on a Mac.

If then the problem is solved, you should post a new thread to WAMUG  
Regarding you MacBook running slow & experiencing the spinning beach  
ball, including details of your MB & RAM & how much  free space you  
have on the internal drive.


Cheers
Ronni
PS. My MacBook Pro is back with new Logic Board. I've had to use the  
iPhone to send this reply as the MBP is doing a bootable clone backup.  
Then Time Machine backup of my user folder ...You can never be too  
sure :-)


Sent from Ronni's iPhone

On 02/02/2010, at 3:59 PM, Jennifer Lefroy   
wrote:



Thanks Ronnie,

Raw Source was fine.   Have sorted 'previous recipients' and also  
found a "rogue" address in the address book.


Many thanks again,
Jennifer

On 1 February 2010 21:52, Ronda Brown  wrote:
Hello Jennifer,
Did you clear/delete your "previous recipients" list?

Also open the message/messages that show the wrong TO: then go to  
'View > Raw Source. Look for the TO: field and if the name doesn't  
match yours, then the problem is on the sender's end, in which case  
you shoul tell them to correct your name in their email.



Sent from Ronni's iPhone

On 01/02/2010, at 9:30 PM, Jennifer Lefroy  
 wrote:



Hello Ronnie,

I have run Repair Permissions again today and the log appears  
identical to the last one.  My emails are once again showing the  
wrong name in the 'To' line.


My husband's MacBook pro is running 10.5.8

One other thing I notice on the Mac OS X  is that I am seeing the  
spinning multi coloured wheel more often and a slight delay in  
loading whatever I have asked for.


I hope the MacBook is back soon so that your and Cloe's life can  
return to normal.


regards,
Jennifer
































Jennifer



On 31 January 2010 12:42, Ronda Brown  wrote:

On 31/01/2010, at 12:19 PM, Jennifer Lefroy > wrote:


Thank you very much, Ronnie.

You're welcome Jennifer.


That's a relief. No, I haven't been aware of other problems and I  
will be on the alert though I hope the Repair, then Combo, then  
Repair will have fixed everything.  I was wary as the log on my  
husband's Mac Book Pro was pretty minimal, maybe because he  hasn't  
had it long.


Is he running OS X 10.5.8 or 10.6.2?

When you have time, run "Repair Permissions" again on your 10.5.8 &  
see what the result is please.



I hope you get your mac Book Pro back pretty soon.  It must be a  
nuisance, but the "bonkers"isn't showing :-)


It's more than a nuisance, I'm getting so far behind with projects  
that I was working on & had given completion dates. The "bonkers"  
is showing around here, even little Cloe Bichon is giving me a wide  
berth ;-)



Cheers,
Ronni
Sent from Ronni's iPhone


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Re: macintosh generates spam?

[James / Hans Kunz]

hi Alex & Peter
thanks for your reply
i found something interesting:
i found this in my email logs send to me by my netgear router..
Mon, 2010-02-01 11:03:30 - TCP Packet - Source:81.213.166.245,3661  
Destination:124.169.97.248,23 - [DOS]
Mon, 2010-02-01 11:03:30 - TCP Packet - Source:85.110.160.180,4748  
Destination:124.169.97.248,23 - [DOS]
Mon, 2010-02-01 11:03:30 - TCP Packet - Source:88.235.97.223,2988  
Destination:124.169.97.248,23 - [DOS]
Mon, 2010-02-01 11:03:30 - TCP Packet - Source:88.252.183.77,4793  
Destination:124.169.97.248,23 - [DOS]
Mon, 2010-02-01 11:03:30 - TCP Packet - Source:88.242.2.33,2261  
Destination:124.169.97.248,23 - [DOS]
Wed, 2010-01-27 19:46:02 - TCP Packet - Source:207.21.167.62  
Destination:124.169.186.45 - [PORT SCAN]
Sat, 2010-01-23 10:39:20 - TCP Packet - Source:217.195.122.123  
Destination:203.206.103.208 - [PORT SCAN]
Sat, 2010-01-23 10:39:23 - TCP Packet - Source:217.195.122.123  
Destination:203.206.103.208 - [PORT SCAN]
Sat, 2010-01-23 10:39:20 - TCP Packet - Source:217.195.122.123  
Destination:203.206.103.208 - [PORT SCAN]
Thu, 2010-01-21 18:36:00 - TCP Packet - Source:217.195.122.124  
Destination:203.206.103.208 - [PORT SCAN]
Wed, 2010-01-20 23:00:37 - TCP Packet - Source:217.195.122.122  
Destination:203.206.103.208 - [PORT SCAN]
Wed, 2010-01-20 23:00:36 - TCP Packet - Source:217.195.122.122  
Destination:203.206.103.208 - [PORT SCAN]
 i'm wondering if my router is rerouting stuff & puts the stamp of  
iinet to the emails

i actvated the port blocking in entering above adresses

James


On 02/02/2010, at 12:48, aln...@highway1.com.au wrote:


Hi James

I have had a similar problem in that I have not received (random)  
emails from a supplier who has an Ozemail address.  My  
understanding is that Ozemail is owned by iinet and therein lies  
the problem.  There is reference to iinet in the message below.   
iinet have been blacklisted on a service called Barracuda, which is  
used by my ISP, Highway1, and maybe other services which monitor  
spam generators.  iinet has to white list themselves somehow.


My supplier clicks on a link in the bounceback message they get  
that allows them to be white listed and this works for a while and  
then we go through the whole process again.  I can't understand how  
iinet, a relatively large ISP, can get blacklisted and allow  
themselves to remain so.


Cheers,  Alex

Alex Novakovic
Best Computer Accounting
041 990 2440

On Tue 02/02/10 8:15 AM , James / Hans Kunz sad...@iinet.net.au sent:
did anyone came across this problem:


The following message to  was  
undeliverable.

The reason for the problem:
5.1.0 - Unknown address error 553-' DENY_SERVICE_SRC Deny CLASS  
ACTION MAILSPAM\n sad...@iinet.net.au from 203.59.1.104\n The  
address from which your email originated is contained on a  
blacklist as a\n source of email SPAM, and as such ABL has not  
accepted this email from you.\n The most likely cause of this  
problem is your Internet Service Provider\n allowing their  
subscribers to send SPAM.\n If you use a corporate email system,  
please contact your IT department to let\n them know they need to  
take steps to prevent email relaying and apply to have\n the  
blacklisting removed for your company.\n If you need to send  
legitimate email to ABL, please contact our helpdesk on\n +61 8  
8300 0464, so this situation can be rectified.\nThankyou.'

Reporting-MTA: dns; outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au


 answer from iinet:


We appreciate you have sent us the detailed message you have  
received from the server.


Apparently your emails are getting blocked by this protection  
server for the reason that your email address is generating  
unsolicited emails which are called Spam. This could be due to some  
virus in your system which can be rectified if you get a good  
system scan with an anti virus software.


To unblock the access please ring ABL on their WA number  08 8300  
0464.


If you have any further queries please feel free to email us.

---

my question is how common is it that a mac is producing spam (or  
used as a bot)

James

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Video Productions, Electronic repairs
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Re: Mail 'To' line anomaly

[Jennifer Lefroy]

Thanks Ronnie,

Raw Source was fine.   Have sorted 'previous recipients' and also found a
"rogue" address in the address book.

Many thanks again,
Jennifer

On 1 February 2010 21:52, Ronda Brown  wrote:

> Hello Jennifer,
> Did you clear/delete your "previous recipients" list?
>
> Also open the message/messages that show the wrong TO: then go to 'View >
> Raw Source. Look for the TO: field and if the name doesn't match yours, then
> the problem is on the sender's end, in which case you shoul tell them to
> correct your name in their email.
>
>
> Sent from Ronni's iPhone
>
> On 01/02/2010, at 9:30 PM, Jennifer Lefroy 
> wrote:
>
> Hello Ronnie,
>
> I have run Repair Permissions again today and the log appears identical to
> the last one.  My emails are once again showing the wrong name in the 'To'
> line.
>
> My husband's MacBook pro is running 10.5.8
>
> One other thing I notice on the Mac OS X  is that I am seeing the spinning
> multi coloured wheel more often and a slight delay in loading whatever I
> have asked for.
>
> I hope the MacBook is back soon so that your and Cloe's life can return to
> normal.
>
> regards,
> Jennifer
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
>
> Jennifer
>
>
>
> On 31 January 2010 12:42, Ronda Brown < ro...@mac.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> On 31/01/2010, at 12:19 PM, Jennifer Lefroy < 
>> lefroy.jenni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Thank you very much, Ronnie.
>>>
>>
>> You're welcome Jennifer.
>>
>>
>>  That's a relief. No, I haven't been aware of other problems and I will be
>>> on the alert though I hope the Repair, then Combo, then Repair will have
>>> fixed everything.  I was wary as the log on my husband's Mac Book Pro was
>>> pretty minimal, maybe because he  hasn't had it long.
>>>
>>
>> Is he running OS X 10.5.8 or 10.6.2?
>>
>> When you have time, run "Repair Permissions" again on your 10.5.8 & see
>> what the result is please.
>>
>>
>>  I hope you get your mac Book Pro back pretty soon.  It must be a
>>> nuisance, but the "bonkers"isn't showing :-)
>>>
>>
>> It's more than a nuisance, I'm getting so far behind with projects that I
>> was working on & had given completion dates. The "bonkers" is showing around
>> here, even little Cloe Bichon is giving me a wide berth ;-)
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ronni
>> Sent from Ronni's iPhone
>>
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