Click this image to see how fast I am downloading the ISO

Ubuntu 9.04 was released yesterday and since I am just now getting an Internet connection I’m slowly downloading it via the repositories.  If you want to download the ISO from a torrent you can do so at amazing speeds.  I am getting 1.4 MB down right now for the ISO file which I always download for each release to keep as a backup.  To access the torrent site click here.

I was having a problem with drives not mounting in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope).  I would double click on some drives and would get the error of “Internal Error: No Mount Object for Selected Volume”.  I learned thanks to the Ubuntu Forums that you can run NTFS-Config to automatically mount all of your drives upon boot.  Below are the commands you can run in terminal to do so.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ntfs-config
gksudo ntfs-config

I just learned that any flash video you play using Ubuntu is stored in the /tmp directory so you don’t have to install any programs or Firefox add-ons to store the video on your computer.  The way it works is you let the video completely cache/download and then go to the /tmp directory to grab the video.  If the video doesn’t play for you put a .flv extension on the end of it and you are good to go.  Go Ubuntu!

If anyone knows the source of the article below let me know and I’ll link over to it.  I emailed myself only the part of the verbiage I needed.

“Whenever Ubuntu boots, it runs several scripts that start necessary background services. By default, these are set to run one by one, but if you have a processor with more than one core, such as Intel’s CoreDuo series or AMD’s Athlon X2, you can configure Ubuntu to run the scripts in parallel. This way, all the cores are utilized, and you can save quite a bit of time at each boot.

To make the change, type the following to open the necessary configuration file in Gedit:

gksu gedit /etc/init.d/rc

Look for the line that reads CONCURRENCY=none, and change it so it reads CONCURRENCY=shell. Then save the file and reboot your computer.

Using this method I managed to shave a massive twenty seconds off my desktop PC’s usual startup time of just less than a minute.”