Restore Networking on Ubuntu 14.04

Restore Networking

 

Restores networking service in Ubuntu 14.04 with that of Ubuntu 13.10

Networking was changed in Ubuntu 14.04 without any clear reason why - further detail submitted by a user found here: http://askubuntu.com/a/449916

I've gone ahead and taken his suggestion of reverting the networking scripts back to that of 13.10 to allow for the familiar, working service networking restart command to function as expected.

apt-get update fails in Ubuntu Server

Normal Ubuntu releases are supported for 9 months, whereas LTS (Long Term Support) releases are supported for 5 years.  Once support is up for the version of Ubuntu you are using the repository is moved to another server and will no longer be available on the standard 

apt-get update error - W: Failed to fetch mirrors / Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead