>Morning from the south of France, this time. Bon Jour.
> >2400 hates the heat, but happy with 1/8th inch damp cloth between it >and stone worktops - cools the thing at incredible speed. Try it. >Warms the stone nicely too. Not enough breeze to just cool by >raising back end as I usually do in cloudy ol' England. Sounds like you need to be "Goolsbee'ed' =) Speaking of which, I've yet to do that to my own 2400c because (gasp) it is comfortably retired now. >Quandary du jour... > >Need help with a problem I've never seen before - multiple >appearances of a printer in the chooser. In the chooser window itself, or in the form of multiplying desktop printers? >Have a friend in US with G3 powerbook. He moved, changed state, but >made no changes to the machine. It's running a pre X OS, 8 or 9, >fwiw. Probably some variant of 9. > >Now has multiple appearances of his "deskjet" in the chooser, with >additional ones appearing each time he wakes it from sleep. That is one hint. It begs the question of "is this DeskJet equipped with an AppleTalk or serial interface?" > >If he instead shuts the machine down, there is only one appearance >in the chooser... until awaking from sleep. > >Along with the multiple appearances, he says printing fails to work >after they start to appear, too. He can stop sleeping it! heh... "doctor, it hurts when I do this" Doctor: "Stop doing that!" =) >Any of you seen this before? Seriously though, it is either: A driver/network issue, for which I will need an answer to my question above. or A software conflict. Somebody on my list today posted a fix to a 'proliferating desktop printer' issue that involved a conflict between Suitcase & ATM: At 18:07 -0400 9/17/02, Michael Van Hine wrote: >The suggestions: >- Dump all desktop printers, printing prefs etc. and reinstall...didn't >work. >- Do another OS upgrade...did both 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 with no luck. > >The winner: >Rename Suitcase 8 Menu Fonts to load before ATM! > >Thanks to Dan Ogle, Jonesey, Steve Cole and Erik Prince. > >My original plea: > >I upgraded a snow 500mhz iMac from 9.0.4 to 9.1 and now desktop printers >keep multiplying without any user interaction, hundreds are created on the >desktop. I know I've seen this before but searching Apples Knowledge Base, >the mac-mgrs archive and Google have turned up nothing. Can someone refresh >my memory on this one? > -- --chuck goolsbee geek wrangler, digital.forest inc, bothell, wa <http://www.forest.net> list mom, mac-mgrs mailing list... <http://www.mac-mgrs.org> ---------- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.shtml> Be sure to visit Mac2400! <http://www.sineware.com/mac2400> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Need help from a real person? Try. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------- Dr. Bott | 10/100 Ethernet for your 2400 is finally here! MPC-100 | <http://www.drbott.com/prod/mpc100.html> RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at <http://roadtools.com> Midwest Mac Parts ][ <http://www.midwestmac.com> After-market parts for Macs. ][ 888-356-1104 ][ MacResQ Specials: LaCie SCSI CDR From $99! PowerBook 3400/200 Only $879! Norton AntiVirus 6 Only $19! We Stock PARTS! <http://www.macresq.com>
