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Wireless printer problem

Kite — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:39:41 +0000

Just bought a HP Photosmart Wireless B109n-z.

When innstalling the printer, at the end of the install this message comes up:

Print communication problems detected. You may experience limited functionality when printing to your printer from your PC.

If you are using firewall software, verify TCP port 9100 is unblocked from your PC to your printer at 192.168.10.100

I’m not able to print wireless, but when I tried to shut down my Norman Firewall, and re-install then it works without a problem.

Running Windows 7, not using the Windows firewall. Brand new HP desktop computer.
Norman Security Suite is the only protective program on the computer.

Read about best wireless printer.
Hi,

kindly uninstall / disable the norman network security added under the network proerties above tcp ip configuration.

and then try you printer will work

Panasonic Underwater Camera

Kite — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:09:41 +0000

Yeah, I mean water resistant because I want to take it with us and not be worried about it….
Probably Pool, Snorkeling and Beach is the lowest depths that it’s going to go…. So it doesn’t have to be that fancy…

I’ve seen photos taken with a Panasonic underwater camera…. they aren’t that expensive… but might be around $300. I’ve never used one before but our son’s girl friend has and as I stated, I’ve seen the photos she took with it. I was pretty impressed, very nice for an relatively inexpensive camera…. just search on your favorite site (Amazon, etc) for underwater cameras… they will all come up.

I use a camera from a company called Sealife. Decent camera (not a G series) and it does underwater video with sound. I have some video of a dive where you can hear the humpbacks when I was in Hawaii. We use ours anytime we are on the beach or near water like on a jetski.

Monasticism as life

Kite — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:49:10 +0000

I was checking out the blogs yesterday and ran across Kevin’s post on monasticism. As many of you know there is something going on in many of us, a new vision of monastic life. What Kevin said (and is already trying to live by the way) reminded me of something I was talking about a while back here. This is not just about imitating the romantic ideas of the monks we’ve grown to love, presently and historically. It’s about a life, and the formation of people in a life, into the Image of Christ. Go take a look at the man’s encouraging post. Here’s a brief quote from what I said this Summer. Read the rest here. I think it’s an epidemic.

It seems Benedict was on a bit of a mission of reform, for people, not just clergy, it wasn’t particularly to create a religious order as an institution, it was just about, “ok, wow, let’s go over here and be Christians in a way that we can – actually BE Christians.” Anyway, he didn’t throw out the whole tub full of babies to do it, and what he did, or started, still reverberates throughout the Christian world today.

I truly believe there are some of us who have been inhabited by a terrible yearning for this context – where we can truly BE Christian and help others to be so as well – where Love can grow and change us.

In Need of a New Addiction

Kite — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:48:44 +0000

One of the blogs I read regularly is going to be scrapped. Makeesha is in a situation where she has decided to stop blogging for the sake of harmony in her church.

She will be blogging here and here.

I don’t know the nature of the situation, but blogs can make life difficult. Things become even more sensitive when people unfamiliar with blogs take them too seriously.

I view my blog as a type of journal or writing notepad. It’s a place for young ideas, half-baked thoughts, and first drafts. Sometimes they come out polished and gleaming, but who has time to do that every single day?

I think blogs are a lousy place to debate sensitive topics, but they’re a great place to share ideas, even if they’re on sensitive topics.

The fact remains that even if someone has to shut down a blog, the ideas still remain. And if one person has some unwanted ideas, the odds of others sharing them are quite high.

That is where wisdom comes in. When is it better to let these ideas have a forum to stew a little and simmer down as opposed to bottling them up and waiting for them to explode? When is it better to just can the blog and let it fizzle out in the bottle?

Theosis – partakers of the divine

Kite — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:48:28 +0000

I’m preparing for a couple of Christmas services and TSK got me thinking about Xmas and Easter with this post. In emerging church circles I’ve come across the Eastern Orthodox Perichoretic nature of the trinity a bit, particuarly in Liquid Church and have recently discovered the Eastern Orthodox theological concept of Theosis.

Theosis means deification and it is the process of human beings becoming holy and being united with God. For Eastern Orthodox people the incarnation is the way in which humanity can become united with God. This statement by St. Athanasius of Alexandria indicates the concept beautifully: “The Son of God became man, that we might become God”.

What would otherwise seem absurd – that fallen, sinful humanity may become holy as God is holy – has been made possible through Jesus Christ, who is God incarnate. Naturally, there is a limit on this as it is not possible for any created being to become God or even another god…But as II Peter 1:4 says we may become ” . . . partakers of divine nature.”

And i think that this is my hope this Christmas, that we may all become partakers in the divine nature of God…Wouldn’t that be just fantastic…but probably a bit scary too!