Disable Login Screen in Ubuntu
Disable the login screen. Click “System”, “Administration” and click “Login Window”. This window opens… Click the “Security” tab and your window will look like this… Click the check box that says “Enable Automatic Login” and you will now be able to use the drop-down box that’s under “Enable Automatic Login”. In this drop-down box you [...]
Disable Auto-Play – Ubuntu
This guide will show you how to stop CD/DVD media from automatically playing when you put them into your CD/DVD drive. In your Ubuntu menu, click “System”, “Preferences” and “Removable Drives and Media”. This window will open… Click the tab called “Multimedia” and your window will look like this… If you would like to stop [...]
Speed Up Ubuntu Menus
Do menus display slowly for you in Ubuntu? Here is a tweak that will speed up your menus greatly. Click “Places”, “Home Folder” and a window that looks like this will open… Now, we need to create a file called .gtkrc-2.0. To do this we right-click on any white space and move our mouse over [...]
Enable Dual-Core Processors – Ubuntu
By default, Ubuntu does not take advantage of this kind of hardware. This guide will show you how to make Ubuntu take advantage of your dual-core processor etc. hardware. First we need to open Ubuntu’s terminal. Click “Applications”, “Accessories” and click “Terminal”. You should now see a window like this… Copy & paste this text [...]
Disable Swapping – Ubuntu
If your PC has more than 1 gb of memory you could disable something called swapping for an overall speed boost in Ubuntu. What is this swapping? Swappiness takes a value between 0 and 100 to change the balance between swapping applications and freeing cache. At 100, the kernel will always prefer to find inactive [...]
Disable IPv6 – Ubuntu
IPv6 is an internet protocol. The problem is most of your software uses the IPv4 protocol. This can cause conflicts and the end result could mean your web browsing etc. could slow way down. In this guide you will find out how to disable the IPv6 protocol. First we need to open Ubuntu’s terminal. Click [...]
More Cardboard Computer Pictures
More Cardboard, sadly this motherboard was too tall for every case I had laying around.