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Brother HL-2070N issues with OS X

yuval — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:01:57 +0000

I love my laser printer, a Brother HL-2070N. It is fast, has a network interface and on my Mac it installed itself automagically. Sadly, on my wife’s Mac it installed alright but all print jobs failed. Even tinkering with CUPS did not work. Luckily I found the solution on this Apple support page.

The solution is essentially to install a new version of the open source driver set called Gutenprint. The problem I faced was that the version I tried to install, 5.2.4, did not install fully. I tried the Gutenprint uninstaller that comes in the same dmg file but it failed to work. Downloading the previous version, 5.2.3, and installing it worked just fine. All that was left to do was add the printer as usual (using JetDirect/Socket) and instead of using the default Brother HL-2070N drivers, to use the “Brother HL1270N – CUPS + Gutenprint 5.2.3″ driver.

Hope this helps and thanks to the folks from the Apple forums. This was a doozy to solve.

Broken WordPress theme can hurt: This is how to recover.

yuval — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:09:03 +0000

If you ever install a WordPress theme that causes you to see blank screens for both the admin (!) and the blog itself, do this:

Go to your Worpdress installation directory, and rename the offensive theme’s directory to something else. WordPress will detect the problem and revert to the original theme. You can then access the blog’s administrative area again.

Thanks to this post.

Fix WordPress ‘Press This’ 404 error

yuval — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:27:19 +0000

Apparently WordPress has a newfangled bookmarklet (newfangled to me) that allows you to quickly post about stuff you love. Bookmarklets are awesome, btw. But it did not work, most likely because I use the search-friendly, meaningful URLs. The post I Googled gives you an idea into how to fix it but it did not work for me. Try this code instead of the one he mentions, and follow his instructions:

javascript:var d=document,w=window,e=w.getSelection,k=d.getSelection,x=d.selection,s=(e?e():(k)?k():(x?x.createRange().text:0)),f='http://www.YOURDOMAINHERE.com/wp-admin/press-this.php',l=d.location,yz=l.href.replace(///g,'\/'),e=encodeURIComponent,g=f+'?u='+e(yz)+'&t='+e(d.title)+'&s='+e(s)+'&v=2';function a(){if(!w.open(g,'t','toolbar=0,resizable=0,scrollbars=1,status=1,width=720,height=570')){l.href=g;}}setTimeout(a,0);void(0);

Enjoy.