Here’s a way to add a dgp http printer to mac os (and configure it to deal with the abort-job policy problem):
lpadmin -p ‘MomonWood’ -E -o name=’MomonWood’ -v ‘http://wood.dgp.toronto.edu/printers/Mom_on_Wood/.printer’ -P ‘/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/HP LaserJet 2430.gz’ -o printer-error-policy=”abort-job”
I recently received a macbook which I didn’t have an account on, so I found the following instructions for resetting the password (from
http://www.macyourself.com/2009/08/03/how-to-reset-your-mac-os-x-password-without-an-installer-disc/ )
Microsoft maintains a website with a catalog of all the device drivers, software update and hotfixes you get through windows update or the add/remove device wizard on windows. It’s intended for corporate deployments of these packages. The website is here:
http://catalog.update.microsoft.com
A student showed up today with a drive formatted using exFat, which isn’t included on windows xp by default (Vista and Win 7 have support for it). Microsoft provides an update that can be downloaded. Here is the command line to allow you to do a silent install from a central location using psexec (Sysinternals):
psexec -c \\MachineName WindowsXP-KB955704-x86-ENU.exe /passive /norestart /quiet
It looks like it will require a restart to work, but can be installed without restarting right away.
I’ve built a .cmd script modeled on the sample provided by Microsoft for installing Office 2010 silently. It uses a MAK volume key and also does the activation after the install. There is a vbs script provided in the office installation for managing activation. I activate it by adding the following to my script:
IF NOT “%ProgramFiles(x86)%”==”” (goto ACT64) else (goto ACT86)
REM Attempt to activate the product
:ACT64
cscript “%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office 14\OSPP.VBS” /act
goto End
:ACT86
cscript “%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office 14\OSPP.VBS” /act
I also found that there is a tool for computers to do remote activation on – the Volume Activation Management Tool. It only works with machines that allow remote wmi access, so it’s most useful in situations where you have already enabled this access via group policy to a number of machines.
Every year I like to move my previous year email messages into a different folder, which often results in running into my quota limit. This year, I managed to get the imap move command to keep trying and failing after running out of disk space. To resolve it, I had to do the following:
The move command stopped and I was able to receive mail again.
This week is a software update week, and autodesk has updated their registration tool so our network licence file has been received.
A student has found some info on the net indicating that the bonjour service (installed with Adobe CS3, in this case) is interfering with windows 7 network. It has been disabled for testing. The student has now be running it for a few weeks without issue (since June 11).
I disabled bonjour in the services control panel.
I’ve now gone through the process required to get an ipad/iphone device ready to be used for development. It was mostly easy to do by following the instructions on the developer site, but I kept getting an error message:
profile doesn’t match application identifier com.yourcompany.
The solution is to find and edit the .plist file in your app to give it the correct bundle identifier (for me it was edu.toronto.dgp)
Here is a link to how to change the template so it starts with the correct info.plist information:
http://www.johntwang.com/blog/2009/03/10/how-to-change-comyourcompany-in-xcode-for-iphone-applications/
You navigate to /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/Library/Xcode/Project Templates/Application and edit the Info.plist file in each of the template directories. (edit the
In addition to G20 summit preparations, I’ll also be doing windows update tests and hopefully rolling them out next week.