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I had a problem re-configuring an HP PSC 2510 photosmart all-in-one printer. I wanted to change the router that the printer was connected to.

The stupid blue light on top of the printer wouldn’t come on, indicating that it was connected to the router via ethernet.

The key turned out to be: unplug the printer for 2 full minutes. After that, when I turned it on, I got a network connection and could continue installation.

Full instructions for configuring the printer on a wireless network:

1. Unplug printer for 2 minutes
2. Plug printer into router via ethernet
3. Turn on printer and wait for blue light
4. Install HP software. Note that it takes 30 minutes
5. The printer will eventually be assigned an IP address. It might take 2 full minutes longer than you think it should. Go to the Network setting on the printer and print out the network configuration
6. On the computer, go to http://nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn to set the SSID, WEP, etc.
7. Disconnect the printer from the router.
8. The printer’s blue light will turn off. It might take another 2 minutes for the light to come back on. If it doesn’t, check the network settings on the printer to make sure that the radio is on.
9. Revel in the wirelessness of it all.

Works like a charm. :-)

Author: LaughingLizard (dinki@mac.com)
http://weblogtoolscollection.com/
http://mindfulmusings.net/weblog/

Thanks LaughingLizard!

This hack was originally made for WP version 1.2. It works with 1.5 though the line numbers mentioned are a little different.

This is a derivative of the Alternating Colors for Comments change

In Index.php, add what’s in red in line 34 like so:
<?php if ($posts) :$i=0; foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>

Replace line 40:
<div class="post">
with the following:
<?php if($i%2) {echo "<div class="post-even">";} else {echo "<div class="post">";} $i++ ?>
To finish it off, add a class in wp-layout.css like so:
.post-even { background-color: #EEEEEE;}

And gosh darn it, I can’t figure out how to do proper code quoting. The entries
above do NOT display correctly. The double quotes inside the echos need to be
escaped with a slash just before them. Sorry I can’t display them properly in
Wordpress!
 

I’ve been using Plaxo.com’s free address updating software for over a month now and I’m very happy I got it. It works peachy.

Yesterday, however, I got a Plaxo update that…. well it wasn’t a Plaxo update. My cousin Deann sent me a letter that had been forwarded a few times and… I don’t know, there must have been some errant headers in it because Plaxo on my computer thought that it was a real update. It wanted to update Deann’s address to some crazy values that the program had sniffed from the email. The important part here being that if I had set Plaxo to automatically update my addresses, her old / real address would have been overwritten!

Plaxo’s pretty darn good but it isn’t perfect. The moral of the story is that you should leave "Accept Changes to Contact Information Automatically" in the Advanced Options group off.

I knew it wouldn’t be long…. After the cut is an email from Spam Karma telling me about how it nixed 10 comment spams. I’m glad it succeeded but I’m still quite worried about this issue. I’ve found several comment spam stoppers, including the one I was most looking for, where only people with accounts on the system can post comments. We’ll see how this goes first though…

Continue reading ‘Spam Karma stopped my first comment spam(s)’ »

I installed Spam Karma and tested it a bit. Let’s hope it keeps the wolves at bay.

2-7-05 update. It works really well. So far 80 spams automatically blocked and 16 comments automatically let through. Batting 1000 so far.

2-12-05 update. You can find really good Spam Karma documentation

Notably:

Realtime Blacklist URL

All Spam Karma-enabled blogs publish their realtime blacklist by default at:
[http://yourdomain.com/path/to/wordpress/]wp-content/spam-karma/export-blacklist.php
You can use this URL to refresh your blacklist if you trust that whomever you are hitting for updates also keeps up to date and doesn’t let their list be polluted by bad entries.
Mine should be available.

I snagged this nice idea from gfmorris about how to make comments in WordPress stand out from one another. I changed the code a little because his quotes didn’t work for me.

Starting at about line 37, add the items in red to wp-comments.php:

<?php $j=0; foreach ($comments as $comment) { ?>
<li id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>" <?php if($j%2) {echo "<div class="comment-even">";} else {echo "<div class="comment-odd">";} $j++; ?>

Finally, put these in your wp-layout.css

.comment-even {background: #CECECE;}
.comment-odd {background: #F0F0F0;}

An example of what you might get out of this is in the neighboring image.

I was installing Verizon DSL for a customer and ran into a big problem. The CD installation hangs. I called customer support and they said that was a known problem (!!!). Here’s what to do:

1. Call Verizon at xxx-xxx-xxxx. Get a username and password from them.
2. Go to the home page of the Westell Versalink 327W wireless DSL modem at 192.168.1.1.
3. Click on “Profile Editor”.
4. “Edit” the connection. If it says something like user= NewDSLCustomer”, you know the install crapped out. Replace the username and password with the client’s.

Until you’ve done this, you’ll be able to use PPPoE directly by “Connecting” to Verizon Online. But that is a bad stopgap.

Now that my blog lives on my website, I can blog whenever and wherever I want as long as I have an internet connection. Like right now, I’m at a customer site waiting for a program to install. It’s a pretty weird feeling. It’s a lot like the giddy cutting-edge-ish feeling I had when I first got a cell phone. “I can now talk to anyone, at any moment! I am the master of my technology! Mu ha ha!” Of course, that feeling didn’t last too long. We’ll see how long this feeling lasts.

Now, everyone can follow along all of the things that I do during my day.
Installing an HP printer…. 1%…. … … … ….. 2%.. … Are you all following along at home?

Hmm, polished edges can sometimes rust pretty quick.

After way too much deliberation, I’ve decided to go with WordPress.

WordPress, don’t fail me now.

I’ll see what I can do about importing my old journal into this system as soon as I can figure out how to do it. It might take a while.

For the time being, my previous journal pages will continue to be available on my old journal pages.