Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx disable hide REBOOT SHUTDOWN STANDBY SUSPEND GNOME SYSTEM MENU SECURE KIOSK MODE

Problem: If you install ubuntu 10.04 Desktop by default every user can shutdown,reboot,hibernate or standby a PC If you want to disable this make: – install gdm2conf from the ppa channel to customize hide System Menu at Login GDM2 Manager – create custom Gnome System Menu Policy against User shutdown,reboot,hibernate or standby. Steps: create new … Read more

Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04: Nautilus hangs freeze Desktop at FTP SFTP mount

System: i386 Lucid Lynx default setup Problem: If you try to mount a local ftp share Nautilus stops working by loading files of a folder like 100 Images Solution: Remove Samba-Common and Nautilus-share with #sudo aptitude remove nautilus-share samba-commone –purge try now ftp mount..this bug is reported and unsolved

Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 Review Workstation: Phenom X6 1090T

Today i got new parts for my workstation: – Phenom X6 1090T – Asus M4N75TD AM3 – 8GB RAM 1333Mhz from Kingston 4x 2GB Kingston HyperX – Graphic Card Nvidia 8400GS Low Noise (fanless) runs well as low noise workstation! tests following… Board works on: – FreeBSD 8.0 (nforce 750) – Debian Lenny 5.0 AMD64 … Read more

Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04: Disable IPv6 (dmesg = no IPv6 routers present)

Problem: on default ubuntu lucid lynx setup ipv6 is enabled, dmesg shows boot.log= wlan0: no IPv6 routers present to speed up on a ipv4 network you should disable it. Solution: – run #sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf add lines: #disable ipv6 net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1 net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1 -quit save and reboot.. -to test system … Read more