Pity for you. CUPS is the default printer spooler on SuSE. To install it, click on the line describing CUPS (possibly after searching for printing or so) and YaST will install it, automatically including any dependent packages. Click on "Online update" to get any updates published by SuSE.
In SuSE there is YaST and you can do this with a GUI or fullscreen textmode interface.
Sorry, you are far behind on SuSE!
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>I had put it the wrong way
Normally you put in a disk readable-side-down label-side-up. On a doublesided disk, both sides have labels and readable data. But the label on one side usually still refers to the data on the other, just as with single-sided disks.
So the disk should work on a 64 bit system when you put the 64 bit label on top, which means the 64 bit data is down. But it may be tempting to read the label, think "this side must be read" and put that side downward in the reader...
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>acpi is buggy on my laptop
This is probably the cause of most of your trouble. ACPI is used more and more.
The matter is more complicated than you apparently understand. We are using A4 all the time, and I uphold my original posting (that "substitute A4 for letter" is not a good default solution to the problem). Documents a user in an A4 country creates must NOT be formatted to letter size and then be printed on an A4 sheet that the printer uses as an override!
Besides that, the paper size selection algorithm is very complex in Windows. Way to complex. It depends on settings of the printer queue (on a server), on the local settings of the printer, on the printing preferences of the user, on settings of the application (that can be dictated by policy, by local installation settings, and by user preferences) and finally by settings in the document.
We have been fighting with "PC Load Letter" for a long time. Sometimes it is gone for a while, then suddenly a user calls that she gets this at every document she creates. It is often unclear where the letter preference comes from.
But we refuse to give in by setting the printers to ignore the problem and substitute A4 instead. For one, becuase it ruins our company letterhead (printing footer stuff way too high on the page). But also because some reports have tables that do fit on A4 and not on letter, and will be misformatted. The problem must be found and fixed, not worked around by printer setting.
>have a config option to always override this sort of a mis-hap
But that is useless! (or at least unwanted) When you set that, it will print letter-formatted output on A4 sheets. May be tolerable in case you want to print some foreign PDF file, but often you will find that the application (like Word) has somehow found a way to set its papersize to letter, and all output from there is formatted for letter. When you override that to A4, there will be a very large bottom margin on each page. Not good.
There are advantages when considering parts count that are important to a-brand office pc manufacturers. However, the use of main memory as video memory puts a serious load on the main memory bandwidth for the refresh of the video. Don't under-estimate this. To refresh a 1024x768 screen at 85Hz and 24bpp (typical values for office systems) you need to transfer about 190 Mbyte/s. For a 1280x1024 resolution this increases to 318 Mbyte/s. Any bandwidth used for GPU operations adds to this.
Why would that not be an issue in 3 years? Some onboard video solutions that have been on the market for several years use this solution. However, it always incurs a performance penalty.
I don't think that situation will improve because current CPUs are starved by memory bandwidth and clockrates are going up all the time. Memory bandwidth is increasing, but not as quickly as CPU clock.
What I remember about co-processing cards and "intelligent peripheral cards" (like raid controllers or network cards with an onboard processor) is this:
There is a certain overhead because a communications protocol is to be established between the main processor and the co-processor. For simple tasks the main processor often stops and waits for the co-processor to complete the task and retrieves the results. For more complicated tasks, the main processor continues but later an interrupt occurs that the main processor must service.
You must be very careful or the extra overhead of this communication makes the execution of the task slower than without the co-processor. This is certainly going to happen at some time in the future, when you increase central processor power all the time but keep using the same co-processor.
For example, your matrix co-processor needs to be fed the matrix data, start working, and tell it is finished. Your performance would not only be limited by the processor speed, but also by the bus transfer rate, and by the impact those fast bus transfers have on the CPU-memory bandwidth available and the on-CPU cache validity. When you are unlucky, the next CPU you buy is faster in performing the task itself.
Some keys are valid for installation (as they return an OK on the validation algorithm) but are not valid for updates (as they are blacklisted on the server because they are known to be floating around).
This claim is seen again and again. However, Service Packs also sometimes fix things. Probably the overall balance is about zero. There always are open issues with the mix of software used in a company, and it is unlikely that staying behind by 2 or 3 service packs is going to improve the overall situation.
Often it is just "we installed SP3 and application X did not work, we did not investigate further but we threw the SP on the shelf".
>If you install a cracked version of Windows, same edition as the one you had before, are you a pirate?
No, because you will use the CD key that appears on the certificate of authenticity sticker on your PC. This key belongs to the original preloaded version.
The product keys from that time had simple "add all digits together and take modules n" checks similar to what your bank account or credit card number has. They were not intended to be difficult to reverse engineer, the check is there just to prevent entry errors.
In NT server there is a license service that watches the number of users and warns you when you are above the maximum. But the maximum (the number of client licenses) is a field you can enter yourself and is never validated. Plus you can stop the entire license service and everything works just fine.
Those tools are there just to help you monitor the situation, not to enforce anything.
This tells you what to do when you don't have a service contract or when your dealer does not help you. It does not tell you what to do when you don't have a legal version of IOS.
In fact I think Cisco is much worse at support than Microsoft is. They force you to go through a dealer or to have a service contract. Microsoft allows everyone to download fixes and incremental feature updates directly at the source, Cisco does not.
Cisco is even completely unwilling to answer any question to customers of their product who are not satisfied with the service from their dealer but do not have a support contract directly with Cisco. Considering the price of their products, I would expect much better service than that.
I advise you to look at a decent Linux distribution instead of doing a build-it-yourself. Any commercially supported Linux distribution will offer updates that can be installed by your mother just like she can use Windows Update.
For example, look at SuSE Linux, which has Yast Online Update.
You assume that an admin knows everything, and has infinite time on his hands.
In reality, companies have selected Windows after being told that its administration is much easier than for competing systems. Admins only need to know which buttons to click to setup a new system. In-depth knowledge about the underlying principles is often not available, with the excuse that it was supposed to be unneccessary.
In the end, it may be better to install a system that is a bit more difficult to administer, and thus avoid the administration by unqualified personnel.
Not only belt pre-tensioners but also airbags. Lots of airbags. And belt tension limiters.
Rescuers know about these. Worst is when a car has been involved in an accident, but these gadgets did not trigger. Anything can happen when you put your hydraulic scissors into the car body.
Pity that SATA was designed so braindead... They "solved the master/slave problem"... you can attach only 1 disk to 1 controller. I find this extremely disappointing. SATA would have been nice when you could put a stack of drives in an external enclosure and connect it to your system with a single convenient serial interface, at the same time avoiding the 2 or 4 drive limit of EIDE controllers. But no, it was made only for office desktop PCs.
The Man:Women ratio seems to be about typical for Linux installfests. Also note that most women on the pictures are sitting, waiting for their men to join them again. There is only one woman to be seen at a keyboard.
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>This would be quite sad, if this were the opinion of the American public.
Well it may not be the opinion of the American public, but it certainly is the opinion of the American government, isn't it?
In the Netherlands, nearly all magazines are A4.
Books of course tend to be smaller than that (for other reasons) but A4 books also exist.
Pity for you.
CUPS is the default printer spooler on SuSE.
To install it, click on the line describing CUPS (possibly after searching for printing or so) and YaST will install it, automatically including any dependent packages.
Click on "Online update" to get any updates published by SuSE.
In SuSE there is YaST and you can do this with a GUI or fullscreen textmode interface.
Sorry, you are far behind on SuSE!
>I had put it the wrong way
Normally you put in a disk readable-side-down label-side-up.
On a doublesided disk, both sides have labels and readable data. But the label on one side usually still refers to the data on the other, just as with single-sided disks.
So the disk should work on a 64 bit system when you put the 64 bit label on top, which means the 64 bit data is down.
But it may be tempting to read the label, think "this side must be read" and put that side downward in the reader...
>acpi is buggy on my laptop
This is probably the cause of most of your trouble.
ACPI is used more and more.
The matter is more complicated than you apparently understand.
We are using A4 all the time, and I uphold my original posting (that "substitute A4 for letter" is not a good default solution to the problem).
Documents a user in an A4 country creates must NOT be formatted to letter size and then be printed on an A4 sheet that the printer uses as an override!
Besides that, the paper size selection algorithm is very complex in Windows. Way to complex.
It depends on settings of the printer queue (on a server), on the local settings of the printer, on the printing preferences of the user, on settings of the application (that can be dictated by policy, by local installation settings, and by user preferences) and finally by settings in the document.
We have been fighting with "PC Load Letter" for a long time. Sometimes it is gone for a while, then suddenly a user calls that she gets this at every document she creates. It is often unclear where the letter preference comes from.
But we refuse to give in by setting the printers to ignore the problem and substitute A4 instead.
For one, becuase it ruins our company letterhead (printing footer stuff way too high on the page).
But also because some reports have tables that do fit on A4 and not on letter, and will be misformatted.
The problem must be found and fixed, not worked around by printer setting.
>have a config option to always override this sort of a mis-hap
But that is useless! (or at least unwanted)
When you set that, it will print letter-formatted output on A4 sheets. May be tolerable in case you want to print some foreign PDF file, but often you will find that the application (like Word) has somehow found a way to set its papersize to letter, and all output from there is formatted for letter.
When you override that to A4, there will be a very large bottom margin on each page. Not good.
You must be misinformed, 99% of all magazines here are in A4 size.
There are advantages when considering parts count that are important to a-brand office pc manufacturers.
However, the use of main memory as video memory puts a serious load on the main memory bandwidth for the refresh of the video.
Don't under-estimate this. To refresh a 1024x768 screen at 85Hz and 24bpp (typical values for office systems) you need to transfer about 190 Mbyte/s.
For a 1280x1024 resolution this increases to 318 Mbyte/s.
Any bandwidth used for GPU operations adds to this.
Why would that not be an issue in 3 years?
Some onboard video solutions that have been on the market for several years use this solution. However, it always incurs a performance penalty.
I don't think that situation will improve because current CPUs are starved by memory bandwidth and clockrates are going up all the time. Memory bandwidth is increasing, but not as quickly as CPU clock.
What I remember about co-processing cards and "intelligent peripheral cards" (like raid controllers or network cards with an onboard processor) is this:
There is a certain overhead because a communications protocol is to be established between the main processor and the co-processor. For simple tasks the main processor often stops and waits for the co-processor to complete the task and retrieves the results. For more complicated tasks, the main processor continues but later an interrupt occurs that the main processor must service.
You must be very careful or the extra overhead of this communication makes the execution of the task slower than without the co-processor. This is certainly going to happen at some time in the future, when you increase central processor power all the time but keep using the same co-processor.
For example, your matrix co-processor needs to be fed the matrix data, start working, and tell it is finished. Your performance would not only be limited by the processor speed, but also by the bus transfer rate, and by the impact those fast bus transfers have on the CPU-memory bandwidth available and the on-CPU cache validity.
When you are unlucky, the next CPU you buy is faster in performing the task itself.
Some keys are valid for installation (as they return an OK on the validation algorithm) but are not valid for updates (as they are blacklisted on the server because they are known to be floating around).
This claim is seen again and again. However, Service Packs also sometimes fix things. Probably the overall balance is about zero.
There always are open issues with the mix of software used in a company, and it is unlikely that staying behind by 2 or 3 service packs is going to improve the overall situation.
Often it is just "we installed SP3 and application X did not work, we did not investigate further but we threw the SP on the shelf".
>If you install a cracked version of Windows, same edition as the one you had before, are you a pirate?
No, because you will use the CD key that appears on the certificate of authenticity sticker on your PC.
This key belongs to the original preloaded version.
Remember that your country entered the EC on May 1st... probably a "BSA Latvia" will be set up soon.
The first piracy-related sites from eastern europe countries have already been shut down.
The product keys from that time had simple "add all digits together and take modules n" checks similar to what your bank account or credit card number has.
They were not intended to be difficult to reverse engineer, the check is there just to prevent entry errors.
In NT server there is a license service that watches the number of users and warns you when you are above the maximum. But the maximum (the number of client licenses) is a field you can enter yourself and is never validated. Plus you can stop the entire license service and everything works just fine.
Those tools are there just to help you monitor the situation, not to enforce anything.
This tells you what to do when you don't have a service contract or when your dealer does not help you. It does not tell you what to do when you don't have a legal version of IOS.
In fact I think Cisco is much worse at support than Microsoft is. They force you to go through a dealer or to have a service contract. Microsoft allows everyone to download fixes and incremental feature updates directly at the source, Cisco does not.
Cisco is even completely unwilling to answer any question to customers of their product who are not satisfied with the service from their dealer but do not have a support contract directly with Cisco. Considering the price of their products, I would expect much better service than that.
I advise you to look at a decent Linux distribution instead of doing a build-it-yourself.
Any commercially supported Linux distribution will offer updates that can be installed by your mother just like she can use Windows Update.
For example, look at SuSE Linux, which has Yast Online Update.
No, this is only factored in the TCO of a competing product.
To run Linux in your company, you need a system administrator that knows Linux, someone that will cost you money.
To run Windows, you don't need a tech savvy administrator, and he will be much, much cheaper. At least that is what they told you 2 years ago.
Of course those who actually believed that are now paying the price.
You need Windows 2000 server for that.
Not everybody has that running.
You assume that an admin knows everything, and has infinite time on his hands.
In reality, companies have selected Windows after being told that its administration is much easier than for competing systems. Admins only need to know which buttons to click to setup a new system. In-depth knowledge about the underlying principles is often not available, with the excuse that it was supposed to be unneccessary.
In the end, it may be better to install a system that is a bit more difficult to administer, and thus avoid the administration by unqualified personnel.
Not only belt pre-tensioners but also airbags. Lots of airbags.
And belt tension limiters.
Rescuers know about these. Worst is when a car has been involved in an accident, but these gadgets did not trigger. Anything can happen when you put your hydraulic scissors into the car body.
Pity that SATA was designed so braindead...
They "solved the master/slave problem"... you can attach only 1 disk to 1 controller.
I find this extremely disappointing. SATA would have been nice when you could put a stack of drives in an external enclosure and connect it to your system with a single convenient serial interface, at the same time avoiding the 2 or 4 drive limit of EIDE controllers. But no, it was made only for office desktop PCs.
The Man:Women ratio seems to be about typical for Linux installfests.
:-)
Also note that most women on the pictures are sitting, waiting for their men to join them again. There is only one woman to be seen at a keyboard.
It is the same all over the world