I had problems printing and scanning from my MacOS laptop to a HP Officejet Pro 8620. I ended up fixing it by turning off IPv6 on the printer and the MacBook. But it appears that you can have IPv6 turned on and it still work. Please see below...
MacOS Mojave Application Upgrade Tweaks
Docker Community Edition Docker Community Edition runs and you can start a container from the command line, so the native virtualization layer seems to be functioning, but the Kitematic application complains of missing a 'native setup'. But after several reboots this...
Example Curl POST request for XML document from CakePHP
This is an example of using the curl command to request a CakePHP URL and post form data to it. It uses xmllint to format the output and highlight (under MacOS) to colorize the output #!/bin/sh # save as curlIt.sh curl -s \ -d...
Brew Wine on MacOS Ugly Fonts
Wine 3.0.1 MacOS 10.13.5 If you have recently done a brew install wine and found that suddenly your fonts are ugly. A work-a-round is: to remove the current version of XQuartz (2.7.11) and downgrade to XQuartz-2.7.9.dmg install the wine stable version...
Installing Mod Perl on the macOS Sierra Homebrew Version of Apache 2.4.xx
Do this svn checkout https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/perl/modperl/trunk/ mod_perl-2.0 cd mod_perl-2.0 perl Makefile.PL MP_APXS=/usr/local/Cellar/httpd24/2.4.25/bin/apxs # this doesn't do anything but it tells you where # apxs will put mod_perl.so...
MacOS doesn’t need Cups-PDF because of this
I recently tried to install Cups-PDF on macOS Sierra but it failed. However because macOS pretty much prints PDF native you just have to go fishing in /private/var/spool/cups and fish out the PDF data files and rename them and you have a copy of the file you want....
[SOLVED] MacOS Sierra Scanning Fail
Fixed It! Update: So I just made a change to the printer configuration NOT the Mac Sierra software and the scanner is now working. Log into the OfficeJet Pro 8620 Printer using the web interface and do the following change to the General Network Protocol Settings...
VMWare Fusion conflicts with encfs on MacOS Sierra
I had a work-a-round for osxfuse not working https://toggen.com.au/it-tips/mac-osxfuseencfs-conflicts-with-vmware-fusion-7-1-2-so-try-safe-1-4 but http://www.getsafe.org no longer works since the update to MacOS Sierra EncFS Password: the OSXFUSE file system is not...