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Monthly Archives: August 2009

August 2009 Monsoon Storm Over Thumb Butte

31 Monday Aug 2009

Posted by Dagny Gromer in az monsoon, Prescott_AZ, Thumb Butte, weather

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August 2009 Monsoon Storm Over Thumb Butte

Finally, more than a trace amount of rain!

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Happy 150th Anniversary … Petroleum

27 Thursday Aug 2009

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Petroleum, or more correctly the industrial use thereof, is 150 years old today.

Bicycles on Porch

23 Sunday Aug 2009

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Bicycles on Porch

Bird Photos

23 Sunday Aug 2009

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I took some photos around my bird feeders today. Taken with Nikon D80, most with Nikkor 80-200, some with Nikkor 24-85 lenses.

Two Finches in Flight at Feeder

Two Finches in Flight at Feeder

Finch with Seed in Her Mouth on Feeder

Finch with Seed in Her Mouth on Feeder

Finch with Head in Feeder

Finch with Head in Feeder

Birds Fighting At Feeder (look closely)

Birds Fighting At Feeder (look closely)

New Printer: Samsung ML-2851

22 Saturday Aug 2009

Posted by Dagny Gromer in Computers, mac, osx

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We bought a laser printer, a Samsung ML-2851. It connects to our LAN via an ethernet cable, so it’s available to all our computers. Well, after a major hassle that is. You see, the printer did not ship with the OS X software needed to configure it. I knew I wanted it to have a fixed IP address, I knew what that was by the port on my router. It did ship with a Mac friendly postscript print driver. It has a nice web based set up utility – but we could not get to that until we were able to configure its tcp/ip settings. After quite a bit of frustration it occurred to me to check out the windows programs on the printer CD. We have a windows based netbook, and we found an IP configuration program on it. WHY IS THERE NO OS X IP CONFIGURATION PROGRAM WITH A DEVICE THAT CLAIMS OS X COMPATIBILITY?? The printer test page, generated by holding down the power button for a few seconds, contained the mac address. Once we found this program, the rest was not too bad. Beware that configuring the tcp/ip parameters is not a trivial task, and it required a corresponding change to my router configuration. Not plug and play.

Initial opinion: We like the printer. Print quality is good, it prints duplex (both sides of paper), it’s quiet after an initial warm up. Mac support is seriously deficient.

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