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Using Suse Linux 9.1 and 9.2, I had for a long time problems with installing additional printers using Yast2. Since I had free installation support for 9.1 I contacted Suse, but to no avail. Printer installation is not covered by the free installation support. The advice they gave me was trivial and did not work (uninstall CUPS and reinstall it again). Additionally most of the installed printers were stopped (a red cross over the printer icons under Start Menu > Utilities > Printing > Printing Manager) and could not be started again.

I recorded a documentary from TV as mpeg2. To be able to distribute it via the internet I need to shrink its size and I am using the DivX codec. But first I wanted to trim the beginning and the end. I used mpgtx, a very handy command line tool. There are Suse RPMs from Packman. The command was mpgtx -s tutkittu_juttu.mpg [00:22.50-26:55.00] -o cut.mpg

Old Windows (i.e. fat partitions) are no problem for Linux. advanced installers like Yast automatically recognize them and make them available under Linux. However, sometimes the accession privileges are not as you need them. In order to make a fat partition (un)mountable to all users and make every file/directory +rwx for everybody, the fstab needs to look like this: /dev/hda2 /media/windows/E vfat defaults,users,uid=500,gid=100,umask=000 0 0 Additionally Linux owner 500 and group 100 mapped as an for all files.