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This is just a quick howto on how to use a HP Deskjet D2360 (and probably 25 or so other Deskjet printermodels) on a Windows Server 2003.
I searched the net and couldnt find anything useful so here´s my contribution!

If you look at HPs homepage they will tell you that Windows Server 2003 isn´t supported for the D2360, and if you download the installer and try to run that it will also tell you that it isnt supported. So what you need to do is to download the “Basic driver”, unpack that file (dont run it) to a diectory on the server and install the printer manually through Device manager (or whatever method you prefer) on the server.

When adding the printer it shows 2 drivers (atleast for D2360 model), I choose the one which was digitally signed.
During the printerdriver installation the HP installation program will start, just cancel that, the printerdriver get installed anyway.

I used: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=dj-41958-2&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=de&lang=&os=228&product=1100995
And http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/sevenzip/7z465.exe for the extraction part.

In my network it works perfectly to print from the server itself 2003 32Bit, a Vista 32bit and a Windows 7 64Bit computer.

Happy printing!
(send a comment if this howto is too short )

Just a small post to promote a great plugin for your browser, Cooliris!
It gives you are very flashy interface when watching different kind of media.
For example, if you have your pictures in Gallery2(unfortunately not when embedded in WP), Cooliris will autodetect this and show a little icon to start the app.

Youtube, Facebook, Google and many others site have Cooliris enabled their website, so you can browse images and videos on respective site like this aswell.

Cooliris webpage: http://www.cooliris.com
To see my own Gallery in Cooliris, http://www.crille.nu/gallery2 (you of course need the app and start it when inside an album).

After a while online with wordpress, the spambots finds you

Therefore i installed a plugin named “jsspamblock” which queries your browser with a little javascript before allowing comments to be posted.
With javascript activated in your browser this wont be noticed, if you run without javascript you will have to copy a number into a textbox.

Link to the plugin.

Hopefully some of the spambots aren´t cleaver enough to go round it

Here is a step by step instruction on how to stream MP3s to a Nintendo Wii:
ver 0.1a, 20070301
By crille@swipnet.se

To begin with, not one line of code is produced by me, what I have done is packaged it together, made some minor adaptions for the Wii and written this instruction. If you have use for this, all I ask for is that you leave a comment to this post
Also, im pretty sure that the maker of the Flash Player (Jeroen Wijering), and the script (Pierre Pataki) would be glad with comments on their respective works.

What you need:
Hardware:
1. Nintendo Wii
2. A computer which will host the webserver, in this example a WinXP Mediacenter.
3. A home network, the Wii must be able to “reach” your computer.

Software:
1. Xampp lite from http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#646, this i a bundle of apache, php, mysql and more, we will actually only use the apache and php. Here you can use your apache+php server of choice, but this is what i use
2. 7-zip http://www.7-zip.com to be able to unpack the MyMP3Player gz file.
3. Pierre Patakis MyMP3Player script from http://wiki.deus-rulez.com/index.php/MyMP3Player. This is the script which does all the Magic. I used mymp3player_1.2.tar.gz.
4. The Internet Channel on your Wii(it says beta now), which in fact is an Opera browser.
5. My modified index.php which just is a customized version of Pierres adapted to Wii. I removed some upload features which doesnt work on Wii, and raised the font-size a bit. Here is the file:index_php.zip THIS FILE IS LOST , ill try to find it…

What to do:
1. Begin with installing xampp, I downloaded the exe version from the above url. Install it to some directory, i choosed c:\. It will automatically add the directory “xampplite” to the location you choose. Go into the directory and run “setup_xampp.bat”. This will configure all the paths for xampp. After that start xampp control panel with “xampp-control.exe”, from this application you can start and stop the individual services. We only need to start apache, the rest isnt needed for this project. If you get warnings from your firewall, be sure to allow apache.
2. Unpack the MyMP3Player script (mymp3player_1.2.tar.gz), using 7-zip, into xampp-dir\htdocs\myMP3Player, in my case c:\xampplite\htdocs\myMP3Player.
3. Replace the original index.php with my customized. This is optional, but recomended for better viewing on the Wii.
4. Add MP3s to xampp-dir\htdocs\myMP3Player\albums. The MP3s should be in their own direcotyrs, but not in subdirs beneath that (ex. no CD1 and CD2 dirs). Check the example catalogs and you see how it should be done. The MP3s CANNOT be coded with VBR, the flashplayer cant play them correctly.

How to use it:
1. On your computer, find out your ip-adress. I use “cmd /k ipconfig” in start->run.
2. Start your internet browser on your computer and type http://your.ip/myMP3Player. Your newly configured website should be visible.
3. Final step, go to your Wii, start Internet channel and type in http://your.ip/myMP3Player, there you go, your Wii is a MP3 streaming machine

What could be wrong:
1. Make sure both your Wii and computer are on the same network, i asume you have your own broadband router with wireless support. Log on to the router and check your DHCP list mac-address list for “00:17:ab”, all Wii start with those numbers..
2. If it works on your computer but not on your Wii. check your computers software firewalls, try to disable them completely for a short while and check if it works, if it does, enable it and search for how to exclude apache from it.

Hello, heres a little story about my thoughts on how to usee Nintendo Wii like a MP3 streaming machine:

I bought my Nintendo Wii earlier today 2007-02-28 and had tons of fun with it.
After a while I downloaded the Opera browser and surfed some webpages, it kinda sucked becouse of the low grahphics, but it worked anyway…
Tried some popular sites like www.idg.se, www.youtube.com and so on.

Some hours pass

I have always wanted to have one of those SlimDevices or Roko Soundbridge beside my TV/Stereo.
And then it strike me, maybe the Wii could solve that!?

I tried to stream some MP3 directly over http but that didnt work, but then i remembered that youtube worked…

If only I could find a good flashplugin with support for MP3…

http://www.google.com/search?q=flash+mp3+player&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8

Baam, first hit looked nice

Downloaded it and tried it out, but i realized it would be a pain in the as to configure it for all my MP3s…

I checked back at the site http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_MP3_Player and after some reading i found a third party forum.
Started reading away among all the threads and found something that looked really nice, http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=the+MyMP3Player+PHP+Script.
To bad all the links in the thread was brokan, bwaaaa, what to do? answer.. google it…

http://www.google.com/search?q=Pierre+Pataki&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8

Third hit lead me to his new website: http://deus-rulez.com/
After some clikcing around i finally found thee script, packed in a .gz file.
As some of you know, winzip doesnt handle those files, so off to 7-zip and download that…i like opensource, freeware…..
Unpacked the file and found a really nice php-script.
Then i realized i have to have an webserver with php support, i had earlier laborated with xampp, so i thought it would do the job fine now aswell.
I downloaded the lite version for my test, and unpacked it, placed the files from the deus-rulez in an own catalog called mymp3, and fired IE7.. wow it worked like charm…
Moved all my MP3s into the albums catalog, and i could listen to all my music from IE7.

Now the big test… would it work on Wii and Opera… and it did
End of story, have a good night sleep, ill describe how i did in more technical terms tomorrow, and corrrect some spelling aswell

A little tribute to a great song, and a great video

Allt som oftast behöver man veta vilken IP adress man surfar ifrån, så jag har lagt till en sida som visar detta.

Har knackat lite mer och valt ett nytt ganska rent tema.
Gallery är nu integrerat med WordPress, gick relativt smidigt.

Men nu ska kolla vidare på en Discovery dokumentär, simma lungt!

Sisådärr, WordPress var ju enkelt att installera!

Tänkte äntligen ta steget ifrån min uråldiga statiska hemsida till en modern “blogg”.
(En blogg ger mig dock associationer till frekventa uppdateringar, och det tror jag inte ni kommer få se här…)
Den som fick mig att inse att jag borde uppdatera min hemsida var min flickvän Jenny, eloge till dig, och en stor kruss förstås

Vad ska hemsidan då innehålla undrar ni, jo jag hade dels tänkt samla på mig lite bilder ifrån mitt liv och leverne, inte så många innan jag köper en digitalkamera, men iaf…

Eftersom jag jobbar med IT så blir det förstås lite sånt med.
Det finns många bra grejer man kommer i kontakt med i arbetsliv och privat, och nånstans ska man väl samla dom

Och sen får tiden utvisa vad mer som dyker upp

Hare gott /Crille