This is the third and final part of my odyssey in getting two HP LaserJet printers -- one old, and one very old -- to print from a modern Mac over the network. In the first part, a ten-year old printer, belonging to "Bill," had a bizarre "Encryption credentials expired" message when trying to ...
Getting a 26-year old HP printer to behave on the network
In part 1 of my printer odyssey -- Fixing an HP printer that had "Encryption credentials expired" -- I got my one of my client's two printers printing from his Mac again via an arcane technical fix. But that was nothing. Bill's wife -- let's call her Diane -- also had a printer, and it was the ...
Fixing an HP printer that had “Encryption credentials expired”
Sometimes my work involves everyday things, and that's fine. Sometimes my work involves esoteric things where I really gotta reach into my bag of tricks. This was one of those. I got a call from a client -- let's call him Bill. He'd been able to print to both of the printers in his home, and now ...
Microsoft Outlook for Mac, as we know it, is on the chopping block
Microsoft Outlook, the stalwart all-in-one Mail/Calendar/Contacts app for Mac (and Windows), designed foremost (but not exclusively) to work with Microsoft Exchange servers, has been around approximately forever. Many still use it, and even though I no longer do, I'll be the first to recognize it ...
After all these years, FileMaker Pro is still pretty cool and useful
Way back in yonder day, in freaking 1990, Claris, a subsidiary of Apple, released FileMaker Pro for both Mac and Windows (though it had existed in previous forms with different names even earlier than that). It was a database app that allowed you to keep track of, well, whatever you really wanted ...
Increasing email deliverability with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC
This is why we can't have nice things. Spammers exist, and so we have to do stuff to make sure that our email is trusted by receiving systems. Technologists being who they are, none of this is easy, or comprehensibly named, but here we go. If you've got an email address from a big provider, like ...