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DIY redux

Irregular Orbit: Narthex – A Small Story From the Days of Punk [via Boing Boing – Mark’s been active lately and it’s a good thing].

“Here is our amazingly obscure story, because all of these little stories added up to a remarkable era — everyone who participated should be telling their own first-hand stories.”

Amen to that.

Here are a couple of mine: the Tussin Up archive and Modock, both posted quite a while ago. Must reactivate guestbooks!

The Modock website includes Mp3s and video. The Tussin Up site presents browsable scans of every page of every issue of the late Steve Millen‘s amazing ‘zine.

Other archival audio including a live set by the Walking Ruins may be found here. Eric White’s Walking Ruins video archive is here.

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USB Printer sharing in Mac OS X: resolution

A pointer post to yesterday’s USB printing plea, now resolved.

If your USB-shared HP printer is misbehaving under Mac OS X by not providing all options to all clients on the network, make sure the drivers on all the machines are the same version.

1. Download the updated printer drivers from HP.

2. Install the drivers on all the machines in the network, servers and clients, to ensure the same version is deployed. HP notes that differing versions of drivers can cause problems in printing in networked environments.

3. On each machine, delete and re-add the printer in Print Center to be certain that the installation process zapped old prefs and settings.

Kudos to Manuel for prompting me to think this through systematically, leading to my decision to read the readme. D’oh.

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Hey Look!

The Stranger is running a thing on the PNW comics scene by me.

I’ll run my notes here later, probably next week. I spent part of a day on the phone talking to more or less everyone quoted in the article and transcribed a lot of what they had to say, which will be the body of what I run here, about 5,000 words.

The spot illo is by Dave Lasky, the sacred chief of Seattle comics today, if there was a secret society or something.

Hope you like the piece – it was a good old-fashioned rush job, and I tried to make it thoughtful. Let me know what you think!