Montevideo Uruguay

I recently had the pleasure of visiting Montevideo Uruguay for work. To be honest before working at my current employer I had never really heard of the country other than knowing it was in Latin America. After my most recent trip in February to Montevideo I must say if you have never been you should make a point to visit - Read more

Mac OS Yosemite and ZFS raid not mounting

I recently updated my mac pro from Mavericks to Yosemite. Afterwords my ZFS raid 5 stopped working (was not seen by the system). Please read this entire guide and the warnings before trying to fix your issue! Also please backup your data before trying to fix your zfs raid. To fix this I did the following: Next i upgraded my zpool Read more

Just a quick post - but meet Parker, a new member of my family! He is a great little kitten who is playful and really enjoys hanging out with me. When I got this kitten he was .7 lbs, now he's almost 3 lbs he's growing fast! Hes a handful but a blast to have Read more

Installing WebKeePass

I wanted to install WebKeePass, an easy to use password manager which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way via a web interface. Its also totally free and very robust which were major bonus in my oppinion. There are many quides out there but I did not find a single complete, end-to-end, guide that walks you though the Read more

Printing

Printing to Ubuntu Shared Printer

So for months I have been carrying my macbook into my office and printing because i was to cheap to buy a network printer and the printer I have is across the room from my ubuntu computer in the office so not shared.

Today I took a trip to Fry’s and purchased a USB repeater cable so that I could extend my USB cable to 30 feet. From there i routed the cable neatly around the room, having just finished cleaning up a networking rats next i did not want to create another mess.

Setting the printer up on ubutu was more or less plug in play other than under server i needed to enable the “publish shared printers connected to this system” under the server settings.

After several text prints to ensure it was working, I was off to configure my mac. I went to add a printer and selected IP printer, entered the IP of my ubuntu server and added :631 to point it to the ubuntu print server, CUPS. Next i had to set the protocol to IPP and enticer the queue name printers/myprintername.

After about 5 minutes i was printing, simple as that!

Posted on January 18, 2014 by admin in How To's, Technology Leave a comment