Salim Fadhley's questions

I have a machine with an Nvidia graphics card. Unfortunately the GPU fan is very loud. It's very annoying at times.

We never use this machine for intense 3d work - that GPU is probably not working very hard at all. I'm pretty sure I can run it at a much lower fan-speed without causing any problems.

The nvclock utility can be used to manually adjust the fan-speed of my Nvidia graphics card. I'd like to call this utility automatically when the machine boots up.

Is there some kind of system service which I can use to automatically apply this kind of system-wide configuration? Even better, is there a system monitoring service which can poll the GPU temperature and adjust the various system fan-speeds accordingly?

Thanks!

I need to create a Windows installation USB drive from an ISO file. I used UNetbootin which seems to be the only tool that can write non-Linux images.

The USB disk boots (sort of), but it gets stuck at the very first stage. A UNetbootin splash screen appears that keeps counting down from 10 to 0, and then restarts.

The screen looks like this:

Is there a way to make Windows boot from a USB image created on Linux?

In my home we have a number of PCs, all running Ubuntu (except one which runs Mint).

Is there a way to automatically synchronize the settings and home-directories of the computers. That way any member of my family could login to either box with the exact same set of credentials.