Productivity apps

  1. Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses, rest breaks and restricts you to your daily limit.

  2. RescueTime gives you an accurate picture of how you spend your time to help you become more productive every day.

 

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Daily commands #2: Debug startup problems

I know some of these words ↓

dmesg (Display message or driver message) is a command which will show Kernel ring buffers. These messages contain valuable information about device drivers loaded into the kernel at the time of booting as well as when we connect a hardware to the system on the fly. In other words dmesg will give us details about hardware drivers connected to, disconnected from a machine and any errors when hardware driver is loaded into the kernel. These messages are helpful in diagnosing or debugging hardware and device driver issues. Already covered command in the series is

sudo dmesg
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Slow startup on Ubuntu 15.04

It takes 20 seconds until the Ubuntu logo appears and another 25 until the login dialog.

What I’ve tried:

sudo vi /etc/default/grub
-- GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
++ GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=""
sudo update-grub
sudo vi /etc/default/grub
-- GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
++ GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi=off"
sudo update-grub
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Roadblocks

Burn Ubuntu 15.04 ISO with Universal USB Installer. Formatting the drive using the app triggers an error on Windows 8.1

An error(1) occurred while executing syslinux. Your USB drive won’t be bootable…
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