Monthly Archives August 2007

Public printing changes

The Computing Services team has made a few changes that we hope will improve the printing services provided at Thayer School:

  • In “room” 201 (the balcony overlooking the great hall), we have added a dedicated transparency printer, 201-color-trans. This means that there are now two dedicated, high speed color printers in 201: 201-color-paper and 201-2-color-paper.
  • We have put a color printer in room M210 named m210-color. Both m210-color and m210 now use a print release station (located next to the printers) to release print jobs as required.

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iSight Camera Obscurities

Here’s an obscure one, about as far from Frequently Asked as you can get, but if it can help but one stumbling interneter then it was worth the typing.

If you’re getting getting an error on your Mac whenever you try to use the built-in iSight camera complaining that “Your camera is in use by another application“..

and you’ve made dag-nabit sure there’s no other iSight hogging app running…

and you’ve rebooted…

and you’ve cmd-opt-P-R-ed…

and you’ve Software Updated…

and you’ve tried every hair-brained tip from every far-flung forum that comes [snip...]