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Martin Hope
Lasher
Asked: 2012-05-13 10:39:38 +0800 CST
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I am setting up a dual boot install for my wife's computer. I would like to disable the timeout for selecting OS that defaults to Ubuntu so the computer wont boot without making a selection. (IE. GRUB_TIMEOUT=INFINITE) Is it just a simple case of leaving it blank or #out the line in /etc/default/grub ? I want it so my wife can choose OS easily on her newly Dual booting PC.

I would also like to know if updating Burg after this would keep the change - as the big graphics of the OS's are a little more noob friendly.

grub2 burg timeout 12.04
Martin Hope
Lasher
Asked: 2012-05-12 19:27:05 +0800 CST
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I have come across many, many questions regarding syncing contacts with Ubuntu One. Unfortunately this is not possible in 12.04. I even asked ubuntuone-support and recieved this:

HI, We are completely redoing contact sync. Contact sync, I'm afraid, will not be available in Ubuntu 12.04. We are optimistically hoping for contact sync to be back in 12.10. The new service plans to be a great improvement. We do sincerely apologize about any inconvenience. Thanks, ([email protected])

However, I was wondering if anyone knew if older distro versions were still able to sync - as it might be a good work around to install Ubuntu One on a 10.04 Live CD and then export the contacts as a .vcf after sync.

10.04 sync ubuntu-one thunderbird 12.04
Martin Hope
Lasher
Asked: 2012-05-12 19:18:18 +0800 CST
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The computer is a MSI Wind U100+ Netbook with Ralink RT2700E. There was a similar issue I was able to correct in 10.04 by adding some blacklist drivers in /etc/modprob.d but the issue then only meant I could not connect to internet after waking. Now it causes everything to slow to unusable as it tries to connect even if I turn off wifi and I am forced to hard reboot the machine. As I am running Conky I can see the process eating up the CPU - it is something like kirqsofd or some such thing. I apologize I do not remember the exact name of the process but I'm sure that is close.

I do not believe installing WICD is a solution as that also did not completely work in 10.04. It is something to do with the drivers I am certain.

In 10.04 This is to fix wifi on the MSI Wind with the Ralink RT2700E.

blacklist rt2800pci blacklist rt2800lib blacklist rt2x00pci blacklist rt2x00lib

saved as /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-rt2800.conf

But adding this in 12.04 means no wireless at all. :(

ubuntu-netbook ralink 12.04 msi sleep