A very frustrating thing that happens at times to people who have facebook pages is that they want to comment as themselves instead of as their business. Perhaps they have an opinion that would have a different context if it came from the individual instead of the page. Maybe you have multiple admin’s and you don’t want someone to read the post as coming from one of the other admin’s. Regardless of the reasoning, I get asked about this a lot and thanks to some new updates from facebook there is now an easy straightforward way to get this done.
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Being the typical nerd that I am, I tend to have several different Thumb drives and some of them have confidential data on them. I try to never loose them but let’s face it, sometimes those little critters just get lost. The question is do you really want the data you keep on those drives out in the hands of the general public? I have a few different drives. A few I just use to throw junk on and transfer between computers, but I do have drives that I keep confidential data on that I use as a backup from my computer. So I faced the issue of if that drive came up missing not freaking out that my data is in the hands of someone who might use it maliciously.
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Several requests about getting the scanner working on their OSX Lion install with the Dell 3115cn have made me write this post. Some have had trouble getting it to work through SMB. So here goes instructions on how to get your scanner working with OSX Lion via FTP. Please note that this doesn’t actually work the way one might first expect. When most people think of connecting a scanner to a computer they think of the computer doing the work by prompting the scanner to do the scanning. This isn’t actually the case with the 3115cn. It has the ability to do a scan server which is how we will set this up.
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Many people have contacted me about a 3115cn printer driver for OS X Lion. Unfortunately Dell hasn’t released a driver for it, and the old installer packet required Rosetta even in Snow Leopard. On a developer box I installed the driver and then created an install for the 3115cn to work on OSX Lion. I hope I have everything included, but please let me know if you are having trouble with the installer package.
**UPDATE – Youtube Video showing install of printer ***
**UPDATE – this is a new driver and now works with Lion Fresh install verses upgrade! (should work with either now)
OS X 10.7 Lion is finally here and works quit well with few exceptions. I don’t like the natural scrolling but that might before another post. With the discontinued support of Rosetta my Dell 5100cn OSX driver fails to load. This was always an issue in Snow Leopard as well because I really hated installing Rosetta just for a printer to be installed. Lion doesn’t even give that option and I hate thinking I’d have to get rid of a printer just because of a hardware release.
Update:
Use the following packaged by Jeff (Thanks Jeff)
5100 Installer
I looked all over the internet and found several articles and posts about how Devonthink wasn’t supported with snow leopard. This is frustrating to me because for the most part it should work just fine. So I started investigating how to get it to work and I’ve got about 80% functionality now. Here is what I did:
Install DevonThink Pro Office from download on the website. After downloaded drag to the applications folder as normal. Then open Devon Think. Upon the first open it will ask you if you would like to install Devon Think’s Add-on’s and Extras. Uncheck all of these and then devonthink will open. Go ahead and enter your license in and test to make sure you can open a few different databases if you have them. This was all working great so I decided to see if I could take it step further.
For the most part, I use Devonthink to take scans of papers on my desk and place them into searchable groups. Its a giant filing cabinet on the computer for me. I like this process to be fast so I turn off the OCR part and then manually OCR and organize from the inbox at the end of the day. But without Abbyy FineReader installed I have no way of doing the conversions to OCR nor are the options even there on the context menus. So the next thing I tried is to install the PDF Services Scripts. This worked without a hitch. I then restarted DevonThink and installed ABBYY as the only option in the Install Add-ons (Under Help Install Add-ons). I don’t really use the sorter and turn it off anyway so I didn’t need to install it, and I also don’t use the Mail built into OSX so I didn’t install that plug-in either. After this I went back and installed Application Scripts and DevonThink Pro Scripts. Both worked but the program does hang when trying to print a pdf directly to devonthink from Safari. I can live with this.
I haven’t tried scanning from my s1500m yet but this is next on my list. I hope this helps someone get to your files at least for reference purposes.
7lbs 12oz born at 6:20am on June 6, 2009
Mom and Baby are both doing well!
Yesterday (On my 8th anniversary) we took a 4d Ultrasound of the new baby. We got some really good pictures and really great video.
Enjoy.
Video of the New Baby Jensen!
My son decided to be on the basketball team this year. At first I thought this was a terrible idea but as time has went I have found myself really enjoying it with him. He is quite good at getting rebounds and several people have commented on that. He hasn’t gotten the shooting down so good yet so we decided to buy him a basketball goal. Instead of us buying it for him he decided that he wanted to save his own money and buy it. After selling a few of his farm animals to earn the cash he bought a new basketball goal for our house. We went out an played on it the other day for about an hour and had a lot of fun. After dinner Josh W. came over and we decided to go at it again. Here are some pictures from us having a little fun on the new goal.
Cisco Routers can be one of the most frightening things to a technician who has never had dealings with them (and those who have). Once familiar with the basic commands of the cisco router simple changes to network routing and basics should be pretty simple.
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