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Printing has always been a bit of a chore for me when dealing with OS X and a non USB connected printer (ie: Windows sharing).

My current setup is this: MacBookPro with Leopard. A Canon MP160 all-in-one connected to a 320Gb Maxtor Shared Storage II external drive (this has 2 usb ports which I have a 500g maxtor external drive and the Canon connected to) and an RJ-45 port that is connected to my router.

I came across this post from http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1229551 and it worked, so I’m propagating the solution:

Re: Help printed to windows shared printer
Posted: Nov 17, 2007 2:07 PM in response to: flurbyrock
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Greetings:

I’ll just throw in my 2c.
Forum participant “Camotec” at

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5852413

has also provided a solution to the printing difficulties encountered under Leopard, especially to shared printers connected to another machine (Windows) on a network.

Here is his advice/step by step - worked for me, finally!

“Hey guys,

I have the solution for you.

Prerequisites: 1. your windows PC with the printer on it needs to have an admin account on it with a single word no spaces. (preferred unix) 2. your printer sharename is a single word (ie. Canon iP4300 should be just ip4300).

Now follow the below steps:

1. Open your system preferences > Open Print & Fax
+2. Click + to add a printer.+
3. Right-click on the Toolbar at the top and select “Customise Toolbar…”
4. Drag the “Advanced” icon to the toolbar & select “Done”
5. Click the “Advanced” icon
6. Select “Windows” from the “Type:” drop down menu
7. In the “URL:” textbox type the location of your windows printer in the format below (use the format depending on whether your Windows PC sharing the Printer has a password or not):
smb://username:password@ipaddress/printersharename <- Print Server does have a password
smb://username@ipaddress/printersharename <- Print Server does NOT have a password
(eg. smb://barney@125.254.95.101/ip4300)
8. Enter a Name and Location. (Human Friendly Names with Spaces are allowed)
9. Now select the appropriate driver and then click "Add"
10. Try printing somthing and then it will ask for a username and password of your windows server. Type and username and then the password and then add this to your keychain and click OK.

And there you go. Printing in OSX 10.5

Cheers
Ben Camilleri
Camotec Web Solutions
ben@camotec.com.au
http://www.camotec.com.au

I dropped by my favorite bike shop yesterday, and found myself a stranger in a strange land. The retail/shop space reconfigured and unfamiliar faces behind the shop.

Felt weird. The only guy I recognized was the guy who I gave my money too. I asked him where the hell everyone else had gone, and he gave me the reasons. Times change. Almost 6 years have gone by since I started hanging out there.

It so happens that today’s Tour of California stage is the individual time trial (ITT) (not to be confused with indoor time trial).

The length of this ITT is 14.5 miles, which is roughly the length of my winter commute (in the winter months I drive a couple miles to the trail so it cuts a 17 mile commute to 15 miles).

The winning time for the ITT this year was 29 min, 40 sec. 30 mph average.

Given the weather lately, and I had a round of sickness, and taking some time off at the end of the year since I reached the mileage goal (I know, all of these *excuses*).

Anyway, today was the first time in awhile where I’ve done a round trip bike commute. 30.4 miles.

I arrived at home feeling rather famished, as in the “I could eat a horse” sense. So I proceeded to test that theory.

I started off with a protein shake, which consisted of a scoop of protein powder, some pear-sauce, a spoon of peanut butter, some flaxseeds, and soy milk.

I drank that while I ate the other half of H’s TJ margharita pizza. After that I spied a fresh loaf of “cinnabon” bread. Having never seen this before, I decided it would be good to give a couple of slices a home in my stomach. Butter included.

Feeling almost there, I decided to cap it off with two full sheets of graham crackers, each with a generous helping of nutella on them.

I’ve just finished a big glass of highly watered down OJ (4:1 ratio) with an Advil and am feeling much better.

Weird how hungry you can get off of not all that much exercise.

So this is really cool. Now imagine if they fired up a bunch of EC2 servers to do some sort of SETI@Home type of thing.

Anyway, from TechCrunch

When famous computer scientist Jim Gray went missing a few days ago, the coast guard launched a large scale search that found absolutely nothing. On Thursday, they gave up.

Then Amazon stepped in. They arranged for a satellite sweep of the area and stored the images on their S3 storage service. They then created a task on their Mechanical Turk service to allow volunteers to scan the images to look for the boat. It’s a tough task - the boat would only be about six pixels in size in an image, and there was a lot of cloud cover obscuring large parts of the area scanned. But volunteers are pouring in to help out.

If you’d like to help, go to this task on Mechanical Turk. You’ll be asked to view five satellite images and note any that should be looked at more closely.

So I recently decided to upgrade to Wordpress 2.1 (was running Wordpress 1.5.1.3). I was able to do it rather painlessly, so I figured I’d share just in case others wanted to know.

1. Go grab the Wordpress XML Export . Follow the instructions to put wp-xmlmigrate.php into your wp-content/plugins/ directory

2. Open up wp-xmlmigrate.php and head to line 196 or so to the export_cat_list() method


$cats = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT cat_ID, cat_name, category_nicename, category_description, category_parent, 14 as category_count
FROM $wpdb->categories
WHERE cat_ID > 0
ORDER BY cat_name");


See that bit above ‘14 as category_count’ ? Change that 14 to the number of categories you have in your 1.5.1.3 blog and put that number there.

3. From Manage -> WP Export select the categories you want to export, then click the ‘Download export file’ button.

4. In your 2.1 blog under Manage -> Import , select wordpress then browse for the xml file you created in step 3.

Tada. You’re done.

There was an article in the latest CycleU newsletter that talked about New Years resolutions. To take it out of that context though, I thought it seemed fairly reasonable for multiple things (regarding decision making). Most relevant to me is how this could apply to being more of a bike racer.

Here it is, written by Tammy Metzger:

Understanding the stages of change is a good place to start. There are five stages (1) most people go through in changing unhealthy behaviors and adopting new ones: Precomtemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, and Maintenance. The Precontemplation stage is the stage that occurs before we decide to make a change. Someone could be stuck in this stage due to a lack of knowledge, or the idea that they are at the mercy of unhealthy genes. A lack of belief in oneself could also foster this condition. Next, we move into Contemplation, where we start to think about making a change. Many things can ignite this change of mentality; a book or magazine article, a friend who has inspired us, or advice from a doctor. The key is a person must consider the change on their own before they will move to the next stage; they must want it for themselves. After Contemplation, which may last several months, we move into Preparation. In this stage we investigate what we are about to change, make a plan, and acquire any necessary equipment. This can be a very fun and inspiring stage; we all love to shop, and new gear will inspire Action, which is our next stage. We stay in this stage over the course of several months of adherence to these new habits before moving into what is termed Maintenance. This stage will last up to 5 years, at which point that new habit is considered Adopted. If we don’t make it that long, the new habit is Terminated, and the process starts over again, hopefully. From studying this model, we realize that we cannot just drag ourselves or our loved ones out the door expecting a healthier lifestyle to be adopted. What we can do is plant the seeds that will hopefully grow within them, creating a desire to live a better and healthier life.

I feel very fortunate to have come from a sedentary lifestyle, because it gives me an understanding that many llifelong athletes may lack. Most New Years Resolutions that revolve around fitness are terminated because of a lack of immediate results. Constant focus on the outcome leads to disappointment, and eventually termination. Here’s a short list of ways I’ve come up with to keep yourself motivated:

• Know your ‘Why’ – Credited to Coach Craig, this step is the most important because when it really comes down to it, the motivation must come from within. Why do you want to accomplish this goal? What does it mean to you? Think about it, visualize it, make it reality… remind yourself of your ‘why’ often.
• Make it Social – This is part of focusing on the process vs. the outcome. Everything is more fun with a friend!
• Register for “A” races/events early – Hand over the dough, and now you’re committed! You’d be surprised by how motivating this can be.
• Document your progress – training logs, frequent testing, and pictures are all great ways to document your journey! Or pick a stretch of road to use as a time trial every 4 - 6 weeks. If you’re getting faster, things are moving in the right direction, otherwise it may be time to reassess your training.
• Create Accountability – Create a scenario where you are accountable to someone other than yourself. You can hire a coach, or simply start a blog or online training plan.

In a nutshell, focus on the process, surround yourself with healthy-minded friends, and enjoy what you do… the outcome will take care of itself.

Just got this from a Dad today regarding the GT4 Steering wheel mount.

Hey there Mr. Mallory. I found your writeup on your website about your steering wheel mount.

My 10 year old found one of those really expensive seats/mounts and was gutted when we say how horribly expensive they are.

I am not very good with wood, but I thought I’d try to make something. Your design looks great, especially the way it’s adjustable. Thanks so much for publishing online all the info!

No problem man, hope it goes well (I’ll ignore the Mr. part )

Ironically enough, I haven’t used the one I built for over a year so I ended up trashing it the other weekend.

Something I’ve been doing the past couple of winters are doing the Indoor Time Trials at CycleU. If you know me, this is of course nothing new.

Even more so it shouldn’t be new that I’ve signed up for every other Tuesday now through March.

What *is* new however was the stupid idea on my part to do two of them last night. Generally this wouldn’t be too bad of a thing, but honestly it’s been awhile since I’ve done something even remotely close to all out effort. Let alone for two 17 minute sessions.

As you can gather, it kicked my ass, but I didn’t realize it fully until a few hours after I had gotten home. Totally felt drained. Downed a 32oz nalgene of the OJ/water thing and took two advil, and hit the sack before 10.

Felt good this morning, so that’s good but it was definitely a hard time last night.

I find that on my drives home after these things that I’m torn between really commiting to serious training or just going with the flow. Perhaps it’s just my personality, but it seems like if you were to commit to some higher goal (say to enter a race, triathlon, or whatnot) that that would provide the additional motivation to take it to the next level.

I mean it makes sense, wanting (or needing ) a higher purpose to do the things you do. Not sure if it’s a crutch to need something to take yourself to the next level (either mentally or physically), but if thats what it takes to get to the next level then perhaps its ok ?

Anyway, enough pondering for tonight. Here are the results:

5:30

6:30

Note: I was going through my unpublished posts, and came across this from the time trial I did back in November. I’m not sure why I didn’t publish it then, but given that I’m just about to post another ITT thing, this seems a bit appropriate given that there are similar undertones happening in the newer post.

It’s been 8 months since the last indoor time-trial, and what do I have to show for it?

Well, not all that much. I don’t have the official numbers in, but my time was 16:40 which puts me pretty much even with the numbers from last March. It’s sort of funny. Interesting if you will. I’ve got about 4800 miles this year, which is the most I’ve done in a year. It would make you think that I’d have a massive amount of improvement to show for it but there’s something hidden there. 95% of those miles are easy commuting miles on the flat Burke Gilman Trail. Couple that with no real motivation regarding racing (or rather wanting to race) and you end up in a slump of sorts. Cruising 30 miles a day at 18mph.

So where does this leave me? You can start having questions flow through your mind. Do you start asking why you do the things you do? Do you look into getting serious about it? Do you just keep on keeping on and enjoy what you’ve got? Is it ok to constantly try to improve? Is that sustainable? Should you be happy with the journey and not the destination, blah blah blah.

It will eventually all circle back to you tend to do the things you love to do. However, loving to do something takes you only so far. Or does it? What does it take to achieve happiness?

Here’s what I’m asking really. I’m in the camp that if you’re passionate about something, everything else will follow. The question though is, how far will it take you? What are the mental and physical limits? How different are the actual limits from the perceived limits? Why is it so hard to push past the perceived ones?