Dear students, faculty, and staff,

In the spirit of greeND (see http://green.nd.edu/ and
http://gogreen.nd.edu/), Engineering computer clusters will start
minimizing printing waste by enforcing a print quota.  Starting
March 1, 2009, each user will have a 1000 pages/semester print
quota.  Since this is already half a semester, the current print
quota will be 500 pages until the end of the semester.  Based on
the price of per page printing, each page of color printing will
be equivalent to 5 pages.  When your quota is exceeded, you will
be denied access to the printers until the quota is extended again.

This quota is just to discourage wasteful/abusive printing behavior.
You can get quota extension as much as you need, only it is not
automatic.  You may need to explain to me why your school related
printing need is unusually high.

As with any home made new system, there will be glitches here and
there, so please do not look for a loophole to break this printing
quota system, but help us in the spirit of preventing abusive
printing.  Remember, we are not charging any money for primary
quota or the quota extension, so please help us lower our cost.

Some tips:
1. To check your printing quota, on a Linux machine, type
    print_quota <your_netID>
   On a Windows XP machine, the best way may be to open a remote
   connection to a Linux machine (either with X-Win32 or F-Secure
   SSH) to run the above command.  In any case, you can ask a
   cluster consultant or email me.
2. Print only what you need.  If it is something that you can easily
   access on the Internet, it is probably not worth killing a tree.
   If in doubt, don't print.
3. If you accidentally print something that you don't mean to print,
   go to the printer and press the C (pink) button to cancel the
   print job.  After that, try to cancel your print job on your
   computer.  Please ask a cluster consultant if you need help.
4. Don't use the printer as a photocopy machine.  Print one copy.
   If you want make copies of a few pages, you can use our photo
   copy machine.  If you want to make a lot of copies, go to a
   photocopy shop on your own expense.
5. Use the photocopy machine mainly for scanning and storing the
   scanned documents electronically.
6. Shut off the lights when you are the last one out of a room.
7. Shutdown the Windows XP machines, BUT DO NOT SHUTDOWN THE LINUX
   MACHINES because they are used for remote logins and background
   processes.  We are working to write a script to shutdown the
   Windows XP machines after mid night if nobody is logging in.

For any question, suggestion, problem or abuse report regarding
Engineering computer clusters, please contact a cluster
consultant (the consultants normally wear a yellow shirt) or email
to engtrouble@nd.edu.

Thank you!