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The Prius's features: "As a driver, I look like a pretentious dick!" "It's so quiet that I kill children who run out in front of me unexpectedly!" "It only has 2 engines, and creating one of them is less environmentally friendly than using the other!"
 
I've built a new PC recently and, rather surprisingly, I put Ubuntu on it. I have to say, it's quick - it will reboot (a full reboot, that is - i.e. from "sudo reboot" until it's back up) in 20 seconds. Some PC's take longer to load the bios!
 
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It's a dual-core 64bit pentium (3.06 GHz). Nothing overly fancy but it's good for what I need it for. I did some video converting on it the other day, and it coped admirably and did it in good time. What I also got is 8gb of RAM but it does seem interesting when you monitor the RAM usage and it rarely gets over 10%.

The idea behind this PC is to host all our backup files and play media on it as it's plugged directly into my TV.
 
Ubuntu replaced traditional System V init daemon with a new thingie called upstart. It's asynchronous, meaning it can run start-up tasks in parallel, whereas traditional systems such as init or rc have a strict, blocking sequence of running (with some exceptions, like running DHCP client on network interface in background, non-blocking).

So there's your fast boot. However, I don't like that stuff. It's to similar to way Windows handles it. Meaning that some task can still be hooked and still wait for some "event", while the user is presented with his desktop. You know the usual Windows stuff, you get your desktop but the HDD is still chugging like an old truck while tray icons are appearing one by one.

I don't frankly care about the boot time. 20 seconds or 2 minutes is same to me. What I expect is complete idleness once the system presents me with login.

Not saying that Ubuntu will slow down like Windows does over time, just pulling out pros and cons of the subject.
 
Windows is far worse for that than Ubuntu - as we know. When I see my desktop, it's ready. You see the desktop in Windows, you still have to wait.....
 
Songs recorded in 1979/1980 are played much better on Maiden Japan. Songs recorded in 1982 are played much better on Beast Over Hammersmith. Songs recorded in 1988 are played much better on Maiden England.
 
Night Prowler said:
Songs recorded in 1979/1980 sound much better on Maiden Japan. Songs recorded in 1982 sound much better on Beast Over Hammersmith. Songs recorded in 1988 sound much better on Maiden England.
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The Maiden England VHS sounds terrible to me.  :huh: It is partly inherited to the format though. Or are you referring to the limited edition cd?

Don't know about BBC archives though. Only listened to it once years ago.
 
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Songs recorded in 1979/1980 are played much better on Maiden Japan. Songs recorded in 1982 are played much better on Beast Over Hammersmith. Songs recorded in 1988 are played much better on Maiden England.
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