This one bugged me for ages, and it’s still not something you can completely remove, but if you are using Ubuntu or a Gnome desktop as, say, a media centre, you may not want to have the Gome panel/bar appearing at all.
The current best solution is to use gconf-editor to set the auto_hide_size of the panel you want to change (under /apps/panel/toplevels/[panel name]) to 1. Then make sure the “auto hide” option is checked and voila – pretty much gone.
So, there’s this very well documented bug with all versions of Ubuntu where the network connection is dropped before any set Samba shares are unmounted. This results in annoying “CIFS error 50″ type timeout issues.
It’s unbelievable that this still isn’t fixed in Jaunty, and I’ve never really got the workarounds working. But the most common is to move the unmounting command up the stack of priorities when shutting down or suspending. To do this, as The World shows:
ln -s /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh /etc/rc0.d/K15umountnfs.sh
ln -s /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh /etc/rc6.d/K15umountnfs.sh
