I have become quite fond of EnviroInks.com, a company that sells aftermarket printer cartridges in an environmentally friendly way, at less than half the price you would pay for them elsewhere. They reuse the empty cartridges you send them back and they give you recycle credit that you could use on your next purchase. Plus, every shipment includes multiple bags so that you can send them old cartridges and cellphones. I love the company for its overall business model. I have had little interaction with their customer service but I suspect it is pretty awesome. Before I forget, let me put my full endorsement of EnviroInks.
It takes more than 30 seconds for acroread to load on my Opensuse machine the first time and the startup time gets shorter in subsequent attempts. Why? This is not the first time I have come across this problem of slow application startups in OpenSuse. Apparently a lot of people had encountered this problem and they found a simple solution - uninstalling the version of acroread that comes with OpenSuse and installing one from Adobe site yourself. Fortunately, that prescription seems to have solved the problem. My acroread startup time is a few seconds now. Why does a very good Linux distribution like OpenSuse with its wide support and following make so many of these mistakes?!?! Over the years, I have seen Suse/OpenSuse sending buggy distributions that make you wonder if they do much testing before releasing their distro. Here are a few bugs I have come across: The extremely slow startup of Openoffice in OpenSuse 10.0 was one of the reasons I switched to Fedora Core for a while...
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