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There's some math involved in, e.g. carbon savings from distances you didn't drive, the carbon from the production of various products, and some official method of calculating carbon footprints which...

Hi all! I know it's not the typical type of question for these forums, but I thought I'd give it a try.

I'd like to keep track of the carbon emissions of my household. There's software for this,...

Hooray! Cautious joy for the assassin!

Discovered today that the wireless works apparently well with kernel 3.2.0-35-generic and the compat-wireless backports from the 3.6 kernel.
With a little...

Nope... I was happy for about an hour, but, though it stopped killing the router, the wifi connection still flatlines every 2-5 minutes. Even with the compat-wireless backports package installed from...

Update: I found a solution here:


#echo "options ath9k nohwcrypt=1" > /etc/modprobe.d/ath9k.conf

So far it seems to be working. We'll see, but I'm hopeful...

Jut as an update on this case (maybe more of a soliloquy):

This computer became known as the "assassin," for its tendency to crash routers and kill people's work, once I started trying to use it...

That command works fine on a debian machine that has no problems, but on the ubuntu machine in question, I get


tail: cannot open `/var/log/daemon.log' for reading: No such file or directory

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I'm sorry to report that this problem is NOT solved. I'm having the same issue with the new router. So the culprit is definitely ubuntu.

Any suggestions?

Thanks again for your help! I quickly found that the improvements I thought I saw with Google public DNS were illusory, so I took a risk and spent a wad of local currency on a new Linksys E3000...

Thank you! I couldn't agree with you more about the router. That Linksys E3000 looks like a pretty smooth operator, and if I can track one down in this country I think I'll surely take your advice!
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Hi all!

I've got an Acer Aspire S3-391-53314G52add ultrabook here, booting in 13 seconds to kubuntu from its 20GB onboard SSD. Sweet linux machine for those interested!

Trouble is, the Atheros...

Sounds like time to file a bug report.. my instinct is to file it against Ubuntu's implementation of kdm, rather than against kdm itself, since for the moment this would be an Ubuntu feature to add...

As it turns out, this does work fine when I switch to gdm - so kdm doesn't seem to be working yet for this at the moment!

I guess we could mark this solved, since the problem has gone away - but...

I'm afraid it doesn't - for some reason it just uses the previously used profile. So if log out from Unity with the Unity ccsm profile loaded, and log into the Classic gnome desktop, it loads the...

For some reason this isn't the case for me - compiz is loading the same profile whichever session I log into. References I have seen to session options at the bottom of the login screen don't apply...

Thank you very much for directing me to that profile settings page. I hadn't seen that.

How can I set it to load a different profile in each session? I have managed to save two different profiles,...

Firstly - I have to say that I don't mind Unity all that much! Certainly not as much as I had expected to, given what I had been reading before the upgrade from Maverick. I'd like to go on playing...

ok, but a word of warning - I just rebooted and had a 40-second delay again, so I think I may have spoken too soon. Apparently I've located the problem, but I haven't yet found whatever it is that's...

OK guys - I got it, at least partially.

I managed to eliminate the 40-second delay, though I am still getting the error messages, which seem to be related to something else.

The culprit for the...

Hi all!
This morning I had the courage to run an apt-get autoremove which took some 275 packages off my hard drive, and now I am experiencing a delay of about 40 seconds at boot, after grub, before...

Hi all!
I use conky to display some system information on the dashboard, you know, as conky.
In gnome I have it set up to appear on the compiz widget layer. In KDE, I would like to have conky...

Update on this, for what it's worth:

I was having some problems with the above setup, including having my system freeze up completely sometimes when the radeon module is removed, forcing a restart...

I'm having this problem too under maverick, after years of using screenlets. Has everyone given up on them? Should I move to google gadgets too, or does anyone know what the issue is here?
I think...

I'm getting a usable desktop, and then the radeon module (and consequently also vgaswitcheroo) are getting shut off about a minute after. In fact, the reason I had to put that delay in is that the...