I am considering upgrading from 10.04LTS to 12.04LTS, but have been reading about issues with VPN and others. Have these issues been resolved?

I have a boxee box and absolutely love it. It will play just about anything you can throw at it. I had been trying to use an LG Bluray player, but it had trouble with about every file format out there. However when I add another one, I think I will be looking at one of the small media PCs. They are ...

Hi Larry, Rather than change the hdparm.conf file try issuing the "hdparm -S 4 /dev/sdb" command in a Putty session. It's possible the process is not being run at boot. Does it make a difference? Ian. Yeah, that did make a difference. I now shows standby. Must be the process. I will check...

Andy, As it turns out I sprung for a Boxee Box about a month or 2 ago. I really like it, I can stream just about anything I throw at it. Plus it has just about every internet app you could ask for (with a few exceptions). It has the ones I am most interested in anyway (Netflix, VUDU, MLB).I believe ...

Does the drive spin down but then spin back up again or does it never spin down? sorry I have not been working on this lately, but I have been very busy and have not had the time. I changed the hdparm.conf to say hdparm -S 4 /dev/sdb Which I believe should cause the drive to spin down after 20 seco...

have you tried accessing the server via the IP address rather than the host name?

Here is what that command produced: What could it be? UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1 0 0 Aug07 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/init root 2 0 0 Aug07 ? 00:00:00 [kthreadd] root 3 2 0 Aug07 ? 00:00:00 [migration/0] root 4 2 0 Aug07 ? 00:00:00 [ksoftirqd/0] root 5 2 0 Aug07 ? 00:00:00 [watchdog/0] root 6 2 ...

I am not running anything that would keep it spinning that I know of. I was running serviio, but gave up on it and removed it. I am using the hdparm command described in your guide. And yes, I did reboot after adding the command to hdparm.conf. I guess I will need to review what is actually running....

Thanks for the info.
Well, I guess either the command did not work, or there is something running that keeps it active. How do I go about figuring this out?

I implemented the drive spin down procedure the other day. But am suspicious that it is not working. I don't notice a delay when accessing that drive from windows explorer. Is there some way of verifying that the drive has actually spun down?