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I know it's basic, but it's my first attempt...



background yes
double_buffer yes
use_xft yes
border_width 2
cpu_avg_samples 6
default_color white

I love the team I work with, including my supervisor, but I am dissatisfied with the day to day and the company as a whole.

I just had a major meltdown with my 12.04 build.
After blowing away, re-installing, remounting of my old home partition. I finally got everything set up the way that I had it before, minus one...

I use MyUnity to make those changes

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/02/unity-tweaking-tool-gets-new-look-new-features/

you need to specify the package correctly, try the following:

sudo apt-get purge google-chrome-stable

I have no problems like you are seeing. Do these machines have anything in common between all of them (Manufacturer, GPU, CPU, etc...)?
If so, It could be hardware/driver related.

Have you seen...

Here's a how to on remapping mouse buttons.
You may want to start there.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ManyButtonsMouseHowto

It's likely that this is a result of shared RAM. On-board video typically allocates a portion of installed RAM.

You're probably better off getting a USB Wifi NIC like the Linksys AE1200...

nitrogen should help you accomplish this

# sudo apt-get install nitrogen

then point nitrogen at your pictures filed

# nitrogen ~pictures


Additionally, make sure you have pictures large...

was referring to booting from the HDD...
Basically, when you see the screen flicker, press CTRL+ALT+F1 and then run 'unity --reset' at the prompt after logging in with your UN and PW...

Can you switch to a TTY when this happens? If so, try running a 'unity --reset" from tty1 and see if that lets you log in...


(Switching between TTYs is easy: CTRL+ALT+'F1-F6' and I think...

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As the number of bits (32/64) increases there are two main benefits.

Firtsly, More bits means that data can be processed in larger chunks more accurately. Additionally, more bits means your system...

The next time your comp freezes, hit CTRL+ALT+F1 to swith to TTY1. then run the 'top' command. This'll bring up a list of running processes.

Is something pegging the CPU? If so , what?

you could use Active@ KillDisk... it's bootable and wipes HDD's to DoD 5220.22-M standard...

Also, it's free!

What kind of graphics card are you using? I had a similar issue and had to use the fglrx drivers for my ATI card...

Have you gone through the logs to find any errors?

I got my mitts on a decomissioned PowerEdge 850. It's now running Precise with the following

*PLEX for my home media
*Oracle's VirtualBox (headless) with 12.04 running a few different distros as...

There is no real reason for there to be a spare NTFS partition unless you really want it there.

You could mount the NTFS partition in Ubuntu for use to share files between both OS. I'm a...

You may want to pickup a book for python beginners if you don't have any experience. I am also new to Python and and reading Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner(3rd edition). So far, I've...

I only use windows for work. I dual boot my laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 and Win 7. My PC is Ubuntu 12.04 only, as is my server. I made the full switch somewhere around December of last year and I...

Swap space should be set to around 1.5 to 2x the amount of physical RAM in your system
Large swap spaces can negatively impact performance. Unless you are using a lot of resource intense software, i...

robes

couldn't you
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:... ?