Today I'm so fucked up facing Ubuntu having problem while restarting and shutting down. There were times that Ubuntu took more than a minute to halt even in a fast drive like SSD. However, i finally managed to find a solution that solved this f****** problem and the fixes also improve the shutdown time and boot time. The steps are as follows: 1. Open network-manager.conf (located in /etc/init/) and add this line ("kill timeout 1") after "stop on stopping dbus" line. See diagram

Today i stumbled upon a tiny little program that can monitor your computer components such as processor and graphics card and display them so that you'll know if your computer is overheating. The program is psensor. This program can be installed by running this command: sudo apt-get install psensor After installing it, jump over to your dash menu and type in 'psensor' (without the single quote of course) to start it manually. You can play with the preferences and yes, it will be

Installing Google Chrome in Ubuntu 13.04 requires some work around since package 'libudev0' is not available in the Ubuntu 13.04 repositories. This only apply to fresh Ubuntu installation which mean if you're upgrading from Ubuntu 12.10, you'll never see this problem arise. To fix this problem you have to resolve all dependencies especially the package libudev0 by manually downloading and installing it. Get the .deb package here: libudev0 for 32bit libudev0 for 64bit Install libudev0 by using this command (refer image below) and

This is a simple note for myself since I've already forgotten how to change my Ubuntu hostname. And yes, seriously i forgot how to modify it already. Sigh~ So i googled it and poof!! This is how it can be done, in less than a minute. 1. Open up a terminal (note that biborn is my username and linuxbox is my current hostname). 2. Type in sudo nano /etc/hostname (you can use other text editor programs such as vi or gedit, I'll just