How to get "touchpad switch off" button working under Ubuntu?

Edit your /etc/xorg.conf and add to your touchpad section the "SHMConfig" "on" directive.

How to kill a TCP connection?

There are two small applications to do that. tcpkill from the dsniff toolkit and cutter.

They can be handy tools when building changing firewalls.

Transmission and hibernation

After upgrading to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex I realized, that I can't hibernate when Transmission is running, it popped up a bubble saying so.

The workaround is to edit the file ~/.config/transmission/settings.json, and setting the variable allow-hibernation-even-when-torrents-are-active to 1.

Ubuntu 8.10

I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 today. The upgrade went flawlessly despite hitting a bug with NetworkManager, but after 5 minutes of goggling I came thought it.

Everything works fine.:) The Ubuntu team done a good job again!