How to manually add a Windows printer for OS X
Posted: March 19, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: osx Leave a comment »The printer preferences dialog on a Mac allows you to browse for Windows printer shares and add them by clicking. If the share is not browseable, or the printer is on another IP subnet, then the printer wont show up. On a PC, you can simply enter the server and share name.
On a Mac there’s nowhere to do this. While waiting for Apple tech support to figure it out (they tried to give up on me a couple of times) I stumbled on the salient KB article. Turns out the Advanced tool button you need to do this is turned off by default.
Just Works If You Know How…
The Ides of March — Old School Gospel
Posted: March 15, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: david byrne, music Leave a comment »David Byrne’s playlist this month is a beautiful collection of old gospel songs.
Monarchs Emerge
Posted: March 10, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: wildlife Leave a comment »After the 3 weeks the coccoons became transparent. This seemed to be triggered by a hot day, after a week or so of cooler weather.
The following day the butterflies emerged. They under the empty coccoons for a few hours, waiting for their wings to straighten an harden. Then they were off into the garden. Here’s the full gallery of photos.
Monarch Butterflies
Posted: March 1, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: wildlife Leave a comment »
One of this summer’s science projects was growing Monarch butterflies. A single Swan plant. This yielded a dozen or so caterpillars. The plant grew to a good size, but was no match for the caterpillars’ ferocious appetite. It held up for a while, but 4th instar caterpillars stripped the plant of leaves in a couple of days. At that point we fed them on strips of butternut pumpkin until they pupated.
We now have four pupae. The remainder of the caterpillars wandered off into other plants and couldn’t be found or were predated by wasps.
Pupae are two weeks old – should emerge any day…
