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switch off/suspend time log

How do I find out when my computer went to sleep the last time? Like I woke up now and don't remember when the party finished and music stopped playing yesterday. Is there a log file for that? Issuing ...
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Does it make sense to install preload on a notebook?

What I understand from preload is that it predicts what programs a user will run frequently, and so it caches those programs in RAM. But if my notebook hibernates, or goes into suspend, or if I ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 not rebooting after hard shutdown. Cannot access BIOS

Ubuntu 12.10 not rebooting after hard shutdown. After I suspended my laptop, I tried to wake it up but it did not, when I pressed any of its keys. So I did a forced shutdown. Now I am not able to ...
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Ubuntu suspends when the lid is closed after pressing shutdown

I am running 12.10. Usually when I am in a hurry I press the shutdown button on the bar and close the lid of my laptop just after that. Often, I observe that instead of shutting down, the system ...
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Hard shutdown after resuming from suspend

My system will shut down as if power was lost shortly after resume (30-60s) from a suspended state. This of course causes disk issues if anything was being written. I saw that this issue was ...
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What happens when suspended?

I have a laptop - Lenovo T60. When I close the lid, I see that the machine goes into suspended mode. The moment I open the lid, the laptop is instantly a live. My concern - Does going into suspended ...
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Can I set the default behaviour of power button to suspend the machine on 12.04? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I modify the power options? Whenever you press the power button on Ubuntu 12.04 a shutdown dialog appears, but I would like it to simply suspend the machine ...
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I can't get suspend, hibernate and shutdown to work in Ubuntu 12.04

I recently built a computer with these specs: Asus Motherboard, Intel i3 3.3 GHz dual processor, 8 GB of RAM. I installed 12.04 on a brand new hard drive. I partitioned the hard drive between root, ...
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Shutdown button not working [closed]

I have 12.04 installed on my laptop. It was working perfectly until yesterday. Since then, no matter whether I choose restart shutdown or suspend option from GUI, my computer suspends. Please give ...
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how to set power management actions in U 12.04?

I need to know, how to set "what to do" if power keys on keyboard are pressed, how to disable some of them, ... I can't find nothing neither in gconf-editor nor in dconf. In keyboard shortcuts is ...
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What is the most “Ubuntu” way of preventing certain users from shutting down, suspending etc?

On a traditional Unix system, non-root users cannot do this. What is it that gives users this ability in modern desktop environments and how would I go about disabling this on a per-user or per-group ...
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Laptop shuts down when put on suspend [closed]

My laptop, a SONY VAIO VGN-NS140E shuts down when I close the lid or manually put it on suspend, even though I set values for both battery and plug to suspend in Power Management. It also shuts down ...
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equivalent of command line 'shutdown -h +60' but for suspend to RAM? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I hibernate/suspend from the command line and do so at a specific time and a relative time? what is the equivalent of a command line like 'shutdown -h +60' but ...
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How can I change the shutdown launcher to suspend instead?

The shutdown option from the gnome-menu or a starter in the panel, that shows the active shutdown-options like Shutdown, Restart, Suspend, ..., has a default timer to shutdown after 60 seconds if no ...