Installing the Lexmark P4350 on Mac OS X Leopard June 1, 2008
- Uninstall the printer, if already installed from a previous version of OS X, or from previous attempts to install Lexmark’s drivers
- Open Finder, click on your HD, find Library/Printers/Lexmark, and rename it to Lexmark.bak
- Reboot
- Insert your Leopard DVD, double-click Optional Installs, double-click Optional Installs.mpkg
- When Optional Installs has loaded, open Printer Drivers, and check the box next to Lexmark, then finish the installation process.
- Open System Preferences, and then Printer and Fax
- Click the + sign to add a new printer
- Your P4350 should show up as “4300 Series Printer” in the list. Select it.
- The dialog may spin for a few minutes. When done, it will enable the driver selection list. Select “4300 Series” from the list and click OK.
You should now be able to print. I did this on two different Macs, and it worked for both.
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Knowmore Extension debuts at NetSquared 2008! May 27, 2008
I spent some time last week helping out a group of folks to get a Firefox extension up and running for Knowmore.org. It was a great experience - a testament to the power of distributed volunteer software development as well as how Firefox as a platform can enable such groups to rapidly build and deploy world-changing tools. As officially announced on Knowmore.org today, the extension is live! For screenshots and details, check out the wiki page, and you can install it here (still sandboxed, login is required).
I was first tipped off by Asa Dotzler’s call for extension developers to help out. I didn’t follow up for weeks, as I was busy working on Firefox 3, trying to close up shop for release. Eventually, the smoke started to clear, and I poked Joe Solomon, social media extraordinaire, asking where the project was at. The timing was fortuitous: They were sprinting to get the extension ready for NetSquared 2008. I hopped in, and found that a group of stellar developers already had the building blocks in place. The extension just needed some pieces glued together, and then once the API went live, it was mostly just polish from there on out.
The extension itself acts as a simple lens through which to experience the web, a lens that brings into focus the business and political practices of corporations that you purchase from. How it works is fantastically simple: When you go to a website, Firefox displays a notification bar at the top of the page, for corporations that have business practices that you might be concerned about, as well as a link to read more. The extension also displays visual notifications in search engine results, marking links to corporations of concern.
This visibility gives us, as web consumers, the power to make informed decisions about where we spend our money, ensuring that we don’t inadvertently fund corporations that behave in a way we find unacceptable.
This is just the beginning, as Knowmore.org provides an API for accessing the corporate statistics data. I’d love to see mobile interfaces for the site, integration into web video and TV sites, and support for more search engines.
You can help: Knowmore is a wiki! Start browsing existing corporate data, and you see something missing or incorrect, or you know of another subsidiary, jump in and edit the page.
And if you’re at NetSquared today, it looks like Paul Kim, VP of marketing for Mozilla, and some folks from Miro will be there, so say hi!
Firefox Support Day May 23, 2008
Today, I hosted a workshop on bookmarks, tagging and history for Firefox Support Day! If was pretty fun, and very different from the development grind of late. Some thoughts about the experience:
- I’ve had my head in the Firefox 3 sand for a *long* time. Trying.. to remember.. how to.. talk..
- SUMO is *fantastic*. I had no idea what it was until today… and I am ashamed for that.
- David Tenser is truly a gentleman.
- Live screen-sharing with audio… worldwide… free… on the web, is a PAIN. We did not accomplish this, and resorted to a phone conference for audio.
It’s nice to be out in society again. Who knows, maybe I’ll even blog more.
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Tweez 0.4: Migrating folders to tags April 20, 2008
Prompted by a request in the build forum, I’ve added a feature that allows you to tag all bookmarks with the name of their containing folder. It also provides the option to tag the bookmark with the name of each ancestor folder in the hierarchy. For example, given a folder hierarchy of Folder1/Folder2/Bookmark1, Bookmark1 would be tagged with both “Folder1″ and “Folder2″.
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Tweez: now with tag auto[complete] February 4, 2008
Thanks to Adam Souzis, Tweez now has tag autocomplete. The other change is that ESC now cancels any changes and closes the panel.
Get it. Got it. Good.
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tweez: extension for kui tagging in firefox 3 January 17, 2008
Tweez is a simple keyboard-oriented extension to Firefox 3 that allows you to rapidly tag the page currently visible.
- Requires Firefox 3 Beta 2 or greater.
- Shift+T to tag
- Esc or Enter to leave
Tweez is a hacky low-budget attempt to scratch an itch. Expect bugs, especially focus problems. Maybe someday it’ll be cool like Alex’s vision.
Cooking in Asia this week January 11, 2008
The food. Cookbooks noted, and listed below.
- Sun: udon hot pot with chicken and shitaake (from Japanese Cooking…)
- Mon: soba with prawns and tofu in chili sauce (from Wagamama)
- Tues: udon with prawns, baby bok choy and tofu in tamarind sauce (from Wagamama)
- Weds: tomato soup and veggie chicken nuggets (dinner fail: shiloh forgot to put a lid on the rice)
- Thurs: Fukume-Ni (slow cooked shitaake, from Japanese Cooking…)
- sushi rice - always keeping some in the fridge for meals, and Shiloh has been making onigiri for her school lunches
- dashi - made a pint each of first and second dashi on sunday, using for various recipes, and miso soup at breakfast
The Books:
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Session Restore PSA January 9, 2008
Thanks to efforts of many people in the Mozilla community, combined with tools like DTrace, we seem to be awash in performance data and awareness these days. And in the wonderment of this new visiblity, Rob Sayre and Brendan Gregg noticed that Session Restore was responsible for a significant portion of page-load time! (/me takes an anxious bow, and dodges the tomatoes)
There are a couple of opportunities for improvement, chronicled here. The first approach we’re trying out is to save and restore less back-history for each tab. Easy to implement, but it wasn’t the first choice since it decreased the utility of the feature… or so we thought, until Alex Polvi provided some data indicating that users very rarely go back further than 6 steps.
The change that landed today will reduce saving of back-history to 10 pages, from a default of 50. You can set the browser.sessionstore.max_tab_back_history pref to -1 if you want all tab history restored.
Comment on the bug if you’re one of the <1% who go back beyond 10, and are truly disgruntled about this change. Or better yet, fix my patch to cache tab history :)
Mozilla Time Machine December 7, 2007
I hooked up Bonsai’s XML API to Simile’s Timeline, for a nice interactive timeline of check-ins to the Mozilla trunk. It’s still kinda rough, but you can view the timeline here.
TODO:
- It takes about 5 seconds to load up the data, probably should cache the generated event XML.
- Hook up the tinderbox JSON feed, overlaying performance numbers.
- Integrate the wormhole feed, to project what will be checked-in in the future.
Firefox 3 Conversation November 1, 2007
9:12 argyle: fx3 please
9:13 argyle: fx2 just crashed on me for the 10th time this week
9:13 Dietrich: nightlies are always here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
9:13 argyle: ur lucky session restore is there
9:13 Dietrich: i seriously have hundreds of tabs open, no crashes
9:14 Dietrich: one-click bookmarking, tagging, better mem usage, no crashy
9:14 Dietrich: use it
9:14 Dietrich: love it
9:14 Dietrich: actually the killer feature is this:
9:14 Dietrich: url bar autocomplete searches title and url and tags now
9:15 Dietrich: and uses a “frecency” algorithm to bubble up stuff
9:15 argyle: nice
9:15 argyle: me like that
9:15 Dietrich: also shows bookmarked and tagged icons in the dropdown
9:15 Dietrich: i’m serious: i can’t use fx2
9:15 Dietrich: because of the url bar changes alone
9:16 Dietrich: it’s sooo painful to live without
9:16 Dietrich: that and turning autofill on == dope
9:17 argyle: I shall play with your little fox
9:17 argyle: oh feature request… on camino when I download something it has a “SHOW” button that opens finder to that folder and selects that file
9:17 argyle: u make fix in ff to do
9:18 Dietrich: done
9:18 Dietrich: download manager is completely rewritten
9:19 Dietrich: open dm -> click on the “i” icon next to the download -> it shows the path -> click on the path -> bing, finder opens up to that file
9:19 Dietrich: next please
9:19 argyle: yeaaaaaa
9:19 argyle: u make me feel special
9:20 Dietrich: we did it just 4 u
It got all X-rated after that, I’ll spare you.
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