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I realized today that I had lost a good chunk of my previous work online due to several iterations of my blog that have been started, then died. So, over the weekend, I’m going to scrape the internet archive and add back those lost blog posts from years (right now I’m looking at ones from 2003) ago. Maybe I’ll even try to grab ones from before that if I can find them. =)

Not sure whether I’ll keep these articles public or not… I really need to read through them. Stay tuned.

UPDATE: I found and copied over a total of 50 entries from my previous blog(s). I’m still trying to figure out if I can easily bring over comments, but for now, there’s a whole year worth of posts that I didn’t have before (mid-2003 to mid-2004). Yay!

UPDATE 2: After reading through the posts I realized that some were a bit less kind than I would be now. So, I’ve made them all private. So, they now are mainly for posterity. I just need to figure out how to migrate the comments.

UPDATE 3: So I ended up removing all the archived posts, then going back through waybackmachine.org and building an mtimport format file (very easy syntax to grok here). I then reimported them, with all their comments, and have now re-enabled the posts. I have, however, removed all those posts from my sitemap, and told them to “noindex”. Hopefully that’ll keep bots from crawling them… maybe I’ll also add them to robots.txt to REALLY block them. Real people can go on and read them, but I’d like to prevent them from showing up in search engines. Tis all.

HP LJ 9050 and the annoying 49.ff08 error

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This is a random note.

For months/years now, our primary student printer here at work has gotten random 49.ff08 errors that require removing the job from the print server, and cycling the power on the printer. We haven’t been able to find a cause, and firmware updates of both the JetDirect and Printer have resulted in no change.

So, last week, I got a 512MB stick of ram for the printer, installed it (replacing the 128MB OEM stick that was in there), and the issue has gone away. We haven’t had the problem in a about a week, which is a record.

Now, I’m not sure if this was due to the OEM stick being faulty, or 128MB not being enough memory for the jobs the printer was receiving, but all and all, I’m happy. After upgrading, I did find a place in the manual that says if you’re printing a lot of duplex jobs, or jobs on 11×17, then more than the stock 128MB is suggested. Wow, go figure, all we print are duplex jobs, and a lot of 11×17.

So, for anyone else that is having this problem, go buy more memory for your 9050 and give that a try.

Here’s the memory we used (from Provantage) : Kingston LJ9050/512

Hackintoshing Dell Mini 10v

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So, after successfully hackintoshing a Dell Mini 9, today I got to do a 10v.

Issue 1: Brand new from Dell, it has A06 bios. This needs to be downgraded to A04. Here’s that info: http://mydellmini.com/forum/dell-mini-10-guides/12408-downgrade-your-mini-10v-bios-a04-requires-windows.html

Issue 2: The process has evolved a lot in a couple months. Now, you can just run a single .app against a thumbdrive that’s been “Restored” with the 10.5.6 dmg, and it will take care of the rest. That app is called NetbootBootMaker.app. Info on that can be found here: http://osx.mechdrew.com/guides/nbi1.shtml

Other than that, it seems pretty cut and dry. The only issue I had was rebooting after installing the 10.5.8 Combo update. It seems to need the thumbdrive attached when that is done.