To find out more about your system’s temperature, install acpi. Then do a simple acpi -V to get a listing similar to this one: Battery 0: Full, 100%Battery 0: design capacity 7800 mAh, last full capacity 4988 mAh = 63%Adapter 0: on-lineThermal 0: ok, 63.5 degrees CThermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical… Read More »
By default, the Ubuntu System menu icons are rendered invisible. You can toggle them on with this simple command: gconftool-2 –type Boolean –set /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons True
So you want to wipe your hard drive clean and reinstall a fresh Ubuntu copy. Before you do that, it might be wise to make a list of currently installed packages and reinstall them in a jiffy afterwards on the new OS: sudo dpkg –get-selections > package_list.txt Save the text file on a thumb drive,… Read More »
If you for whatever reason dislike OpenOffice.org’s logo or want to gain an extra few seconds of speed while the application loads, you can disable OO.o’s logo by editing the /etc/openoffice/sofficerc file and modifying the Logo=1 value into Logo=0