As root edit “/etc/ssh/sshd_config” and add the line “UseDNS no“.

This can also be done by running the following command:

sudo echo "UseDNS no" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Sources:

This issue is documented at OpenSSH.org

Fix and more details available at: http://tech.waltco.biz/2008/02/02/ssh-slow-to-connect-in-ubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbon/

UPDATE:

I recently tried this method on a similar Acer laptop with Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64 with no results. After searching, I used another guide that makes compiling madwifi from source simple. If my method doesn’t work for you, remove the backports modules:

sudo apt-get remove linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic

then reboot, and try out the below guide. Thank you Hyperandy.

Link: http://blog.hyperandy.com/2008/11/01/atheros-ar242x-ubuntu-810-ibex/

Hardware:

• Laptop: Acer Aspire 4520
• Wireless Card: Atheros AR242x Communications Inc. 802.11abg

lspci | grep "Atheros"
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

Resolution:

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic

After above install completes, reboot, then open up the Hardware Drivers manager (jockey-gtk or jockey-kde) and disable “Support for Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards” and make sure that “Support for 5xxx series of Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards” is enabled then reboot. You may need to reboot to see both drivers in the Hardware Drivers manager.

This is at least a temporary fix, you’ll end up with the ath5k drivers- hopefully a stable universal method for Atheros card support will become available soon.

Source:
8.10 Release Notes | Ubuntu

Surprisingly enough there are no documented settings for Recent Documents, not even something in gconf-editor, so people have been going stone age to prevent this functionality. In the past you could change permissions for the file that stores the data in your home directory, but it seems in later versions of Gnome the following is the current method of choice.

METHOD:

Enter the following into a terminal:

rm ~/.recently-used.xbel
mkdir ~/.recently-used.xbel

When you’re done, go check your menu and Recent Documents should be grayed out.

This works because the data concerning your recent documents can’t be written to a directory and the Recent Documents menu item is simply disabled. (I played around with retaining the text file and changing its permissions, but they were eventually always overwritten.)

NOTES:

It has been mentioned that you may receive GTK related warnings in the console after applying this, since we did a sort of end-run that’s kind of expected.

There was another method that involved making the file immutable (sudo chattr +i ~/.recently-used.xbel) but this is only for ext2/ext3 filesystems (I prefer JFS whenever applicable).

There may also be a left over file, ~/.recently_used that you can also remove:

rm ~/.recently-used

SOURCES:

Arch Linux Forums /  Disable Gnome Recent Documents [solved]

Disable recent documents – Ubuntu Forums

I take no responsibility for coming up with this hack, I just wanted to clearly document it. BTW, this has been a problem since 2005 > Bug 30942 – Request to add option to disable ‘Recent Documents’ lists

I downloaded the Live CD .iso and booted it in VMware Server on an XP host, then plugged in a 1GB Corsair Voyager USB drive and enabled it for the VM so the Live CD virtual machine would have access. From there I just followed the guide on the eeeuser.com wiki and ran the USB drive install script, booted off the USB stick on the Eee and BAM! this s**t was fast! I was super impressed, I mean Arch is a KISS fast distro but eeeXubuntu destroyed my Arch install by comparison.

Anyways, after playing on the USB stick live OS for a while I opted to install, one partition at ‘/’ (no swap) and MurderFS... I mean ReiserFS. The current eeeXubuntu Live CD is based on Xubuntu 7.10 while the current version of Xubuntu is Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS but I think there’s a guide on the eeeuser Wiki to run the upgrade manager to get to 8.04.. I’m cool with 7.10 for now though.

Wireless worked with NetworkManager Applet OUT OF THE BOX, thank god. I followed the guide (again on the eeeuser.com Wiki) to install ucview to have some fun w/ the webcam (cheese was giving me some issues I couldn’t resolve).

DUDE, this thing flies! General responsiveness is awesome by my standards, and I’ve run all major operating systems on a huge range of hardware with all sorts of configs (let’s not get into that). I can even freakin’ watch the bigger Flash vids that straight up refused to work on my Arch install. Don’t think I’m bashing Arch, heck no, I like to think I have a darn good understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of Ubuntu based distros vs. Arch Linux and bottom line is I believe that eeeXubuntu is just a super well-put-together distro for the Eee. Color me impressed. But maybe Ubuntu or Debian in general is better suited to the Eee platform?.. I don’t care cause I’m more than happy with eeeXubuntu.

Gripes? out of the box it likes to complain about my battery capacity there’s a bit in the eeeuser.com Wiki about setting up ACPI correctly – I’ll fix it soon / when I get pissed. Whatever, this is sweet.

I had to release my excitement so I spewed this out, comments welcome.
eeeuser.com Wiki eeeXubuntu Home

eeeuser.com Wiki: Customize eeeXubuntu

Scroll down for simplified instructions!

1. Reboot, when the message from GRUB comes up, hit Escape to view the boot menu.
2. Scroll down to the first like with “Recovery Mode” in the title ane hit “e” to edit that boot line.
3. Select the like that starts with “kernel”, hit “e” to edit.
4. At the end of the line, the option “single” should already be there, leave a space after single and add “init=/bin/bash” this makes it so that you immediately are dumped to a root command line.
5. Hit Enter, then “b” to boot. Wait to boot and be left at a root console – it will look like “root@(none):/#“.
6. Remount the OS partition so that it’s writable (in this example “hda1″ – maybe “sda1″ or otherwise) with the command “mount /dev/hda1/ -o remount,rw”
7. From there you can issue the command “passwd <username>” or just “passwd” for the root user password and you can enter the new password for the user and reboot.

Simplified instructions:

1. Hit escape to enter GRUB menu.
2. Hit “e” on the first recovery boot line.
3. Select the line beginning with “kernel” and hit “e”
4. Leave a space after “single” and add “init=/bin/bash”
5. Hit Enter then “b” to boot.
6. Wait to boot and be dumped at a root console.
7. Remount the OS partition “mount /dev/hda1 / -o remount,rw”
8. Use “passwd <username>” to change the user password .
9. Reboot.

I take no credit for this procedure, I definitely wouldn’t be able to figure that all out on my own.

So I got this thing, first impressions were: it’s pretty solid, nice finish (laser engraved keys) , likin’ the USB + PS/2 adapter, full-size Backspace key, and of course, it’s small. When I actually started typing on this thing I realized that the majority of the keys were actually larger than those on a standard full-size keyboard – so I ended up not reaching far enough for the next key and dropping typos like bombs. After a while it really wasn’t that hindering, just surprising, it being a compact keyboard and all.

Final notes: I’m confident that I will get over my fumbling and am not disappointed (especially for $10) . Besides, it looks kinda cool – like it belongs at a terminal or something.
I don’t really miss the 10-key pad, but I often find myself unknowingly reaching for the non-existent second Enter key normally present at the bottom right corner of full-size boards. Although I really don’t care about the functionality of the Hot Keys located at the top, in Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 only the Email key worked for me, launching my default mail client Thunderbird.