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After upgrading to Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5, I found that my printers no longer existed. So I went to http://localhost:631 and tried adding my Gentoo CUPS printer share like I did before, but it refused to show up in the printers list.

After some searching on the net, it seems that Apple has somewhat broken the way that it deals with Linux CUPS shares. Apparently it only searches for printers via Bounjour. In any case, I found a fix that works perfectly. Alessandro Dellavedova posted a fix for the problem over on the Apple support forums. Below is a slightly more detailed version of what he did.

WARNING: You will need administrator privileges to proceed with this fix.

1. Open System Preferences.
2. Open Print & Fax.
3. Right-click in the printer’s pane and select “Reset printing system…”
4. Open Terminal and type the following:

   sudo nano /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

5. Modify the first few lines such that they look similar to the following:

   Browsing On
   BrowseOrder allow,deny
   BrowseAllow all
   BrowseProtocols all
   BrowseRemoteProtocols all
   BrowsePoll <Your CUPS Server domain or IP>:631
   BrowsePort 631

6. Save the file
7. Restart the printing subsystem by typing in the following:

   sudo killall -HUP cupsd

Now you should be able to see and add the printers on your Linux share.

It seems that the developers at Flagship Industries have finally posted a fix to their Ventrilo client for Mac OS X 10.5, Leopard. You know, the bug fix that takes all of 5-minutes to correct. However, they only fixed the problem in the main window and nowhere else.

Here’s what they had to say:

It is intended to solve the user list window being empty after connecting when running OSX 10.5. This is the only change. The same problem also occurred in a few other windows as well.

If you are not running OSX 10.5 then don’t waste your time downloading it as there is no advantage.

This is an interim update until we release the next major upgrade here soon.

FYI,
Flag

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Flagship Industries, Inc.
www.ventrilo.com

Certainly doesn’t sound like he was very happy about making this fix. In any case, if you would like to download their new version, you can find it here.

Otherwise, if you want the fully patched version, you can still access it from my site.

Well, after many years of using Typo as my main blogging engine, I have switched back to WordPress. I had initially started using Typo because it was the only Rails-based blogging engine out there. Unfortunately, the quality of their project seems to have declined over the years.

After Typo decided to explode at me after using a quotation mark in tag for a new post, I decided I would go back to WordPress, my first blogging engine. WordPress has a long and well supported history and I will likely have fewer headaches for a blog that I barely touch in the first place.

Unfortunately, since there are no up-to-date utilities to migrate the database from Typo to WordPress, I ended up having to copy/paste all of the articles that I felt were worth saving. The problem was that I couldn’t copy over any of the comments made to any of my posts.

I apologize to anyone who left helpful/supportive comments over the years, but I couldn’t save you all!

Anyhow, it seems that Ventrilo has decided to bow to the pressure of people from the Mac community, such as myself. I suppose they got tired of deleting all mine and related thread on how to fix this problem in 10 fricking minutes!Ventrilo had this to say:

There is a known issue with the Ventrilo Mac client 2.3.2.Prototype.15 that prevents the main user list window from displaying the channels and connected users.

While we have this fixed in our soon to be released major upgrade we did not perform the changes to the 2.3 series of programs only because we had hoped to release the major upgrade before Apple was able to release 10.5. Sadly this did not happen due to a few problems found during the beta testing.

While the delay would only have been a few weeks this seems to be a problem for some people. *sigh*

I will see about producing an proto.16 that fixes this problem, but not until I have an official copy of 10.5 in my hands to test with. Assuming BestBuy has it on their shelves tonight.

Any and all (or should I say more) hateful and mean spirited posts from the Mac community on this subject will be promptly deleted. If you can’t control your temper then don’t even bother posting.

Now I wonder how many years it’ll take them to get this build out. >:D

UPDATE: It seems that the developer at Ventrilo decided that this post sounded just a tad too bitter and decided to delete it. Luckily I quoted him for posterity!

As I have promised upon the release of Mac OS X 10.5, here is a patched version of Ventrilo for all us Mac users to download and enjoy!

This version actually works and took me all of 10-minutes to fix. I have posted instructions for the Ventrilo developers in the past on how to fix this problem, but instead they prefer to threaten me with legal action.

Download: <Link Removed>

EDIT: You should probably download and install Ventrilo first, as I am unsure as to whether it installs anything to other locations on the drive.

Simply delete the original install and move my patched version over to the applications folder afterwards.

Enjoy!