I have a dell xps 13 9360 and I installed Ubuntu 17.04. 

Everything works and is fine as best as I can tell, but booting up takes nearly 2 full minutes.

If I run dmesg everything seems to be working well until we get to this point:

[    5.711981] input: HDA Intel PCH HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.3/sound/card0/input20
[    5.715730] random: crng init done
[    6.959842] ath10k_pci 0000:3a:00.0: htt-ver 3.26 wmi-op 4 htt-op 3 cal otp max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
[    7.045799] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x69
[    7.045800] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[    7.045801] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
[    7.045802] ath: Regpair used: 0x69
[    7.051138] ath10k_pci 0000:3a:00.0 wlp58s0: renamed from wlan0
[   94.246142] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   94.246144] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[   94.246148] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized

Please check my posting history.  I have paid for computer or technical help multiple times.  If you fix this, I will definitely pay you.  As you can imagine, having a 2 minute boot time is quite annoying.

I am running ubuntu.  I have a directory with many jpgs in it, they are all the same size.  I want to resize all of them to 500 x 500 pixels.

I want to use GIMP command line functions. 

The files are in  /pics

I am trying:

gimp -i -b '(gimp-image-scale "./pics/*.jpg" 500 500)' -b '(gimp-quit 0)'

The error I get is:

batch command experienced an execution error:
Error: ( : 1) Invalid type for argument 1 to gimp-image-scale

Surely I am doing something stupid and I am willing to pay someone 0.025BTC to help me, I've already wasted too much time on this. 

Check my posting history, I have paid many rewards in the past for help like this.

See screenshot below.  I specify that I want 30 fps, but it actually makes the video at 25fps.   I don't know how else to pass the framerate parameters.  I WILL pay you.  Check my posting history - I have paid off several similar bounties in the past.  Its all I use this forum for.

I have a little c++ hobby project I am working on in which I used the "thread" class that is part of c++11.  Apparently, GCC (G++) doesnt support these new features before version 4.8.1.  On google compute engine the disk image I like to use is the debian-7-weezy, and it uses a 4.7 version of GCC.  I spent and hour or two today trying to compile 4.8.1 from scratch, but to no avail. 

If you can walk me through how to get 4.8.1 compiled and installed on there I will send you 0.02BTC.  If you look at my previous posting history, it is almost exclusively me asking computer questions and then paying people for helping me.  I have paid 3 similar bountys in the past.  I will pay you if you successfully help me.

I am running Ubuntu 10.04.  I have generated a series of images in pbm format and I want to convert them to a movie file.  I dont particularly care which format as long as it is widely used.  I have 100 files in a directory, named 0.pbm to 99.pbm.  I want to create a video, using these images and at 30 fps, and at as high of quality as possible.  As I understand it, this functionality is available  in the netpbm program, but I am not very familiar with using the terminal and I dont understand what I need to type in the terminal to get this to work.  To get the reward, please explain what I need to type and also a little why - I want to learn a little about using the terminal here as well.  You can check my history and see that I have already paid out on two different bounties like this, so I can assure you I will pay up if you help me.  Thanks in advance.

I am trying to teach myself C++ and I am stuck on something.  I am trying to write a program that writes a series of image files (in .pbm format).  I want the files to be named based on the value of an integer variable.  For example, if the variable contains the value 1045 then I want to output data to a file called 1045.pbm.  I will pay you 1/2 of the bounty if you supply code that works and I'll pay the other half for explaining to me, in terms that a complete beginner like myself, what the purpose of the various bits are code are.  Thanks in advance.  

If you don't believe I will actually pay - you can check https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=73989.0 on the beginner board where I have already paid out for help.  Thanks in advance.

Long story short - I am writing a program to create fractals.  I am not having any trouble with that part of it, but I am finding it impossible to find somewhere on the interenet that will explain how to output to a .bmp (bitmap) file.  I dont want to output to screen and screen cap it, or anything like that - I want to be able to create and write directly to a bitmap.  If you think you can help me with this, please contact me and we will negotiate how much I should pay you.  BTC only.