A 15 year old technophile adding humor and knowledge to the term "tech support" (:cough: microsoft :cough:). If I helped you go ahead and vote up my answer, it really does have a sense of euphoria that comes along with it :)

As of December 2015, I'm still an active member of AskUbuntu but do not run Ubuntu on my machine (moved on to a different distro) so I can't test much of what I give as advice, and some of it might become fairly antiquated knowing the Linux community :)