Jaunty Jackalope Boot Time

Ten seconds and that was with the Alpha.

Alias

"Charlie" <> wrote in news:3xEGl.2065$Hl4.1087@en-nntp-
01.dc1.easynews.com:

>
> "Alias" <> wrote in message
> news:gsev4e$r0$...
>> Ten seconds and that was with the Alpha.
>>
>> Alias
>
> Can I use Ubuntu in - any way- to duplicate the Windows Media
> Center I have in Vista Home Premium.
> Also we use our Xbox 360 a lot as a Windows Media Center Extender
> device for all of our PC - based home media
> viewable on our big screen LCD in the living room. If I could
> maintain that feature I might tale a closer look at Linux.
>

I've heard of support for uPnP media streaming in MythTV.

Check it out - http://www.mythbuntu.org/

Charlie wrote:
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> "Alias" <> wrote in message
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>> Ten seconds and that was with the Alpha.
>>
>> Alias
>
> Can I use Ubuntu in - any way- to duplicate the Windows Media
> Center I have in Vista Home Premium.
> Also we use our Xbox 360 a lot as a Windows Media Center Extender
> device for all of our PC - based home media
> viewable on our big screen LCD in the living room. If I could
> maintain that feature I might tale a closer look at Linux.

Yes, and it will boot in ten seconds.

Alias

In article <gsev4e$r0$>,
Alias <> wrote:

> Ten seconds and that was with the Alpha.

Does anyone really care about boot times anymore? Are there really still
people who shut their machines down regularly rather than just sleeping
them? This stopped making sense as a regular practice when
suspend-to-RAM was invented, and makes even less sense in a world where
suspend-to-disk exists.

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must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll." -- John Maynard Keynes

ZnU wrote:

> In article <gsev4e$r0$>,
> Alias <> wrote:
>
>> Ten seconds and that was with the Alpha.
>
> Does anyone really care about boot times anymore? Are there really still
> people who shut their machines down regularly rather than just sleeping
> them?

Yes.

> This stopped making sense as a regular practice when
> suspend-to-RAM was invented, and makes even less sense in a world where
> suspend-to-disk exists.
>

It's only a temporary way of saving state.


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"Alias" <> wrote in message
news:gsfefs$aur$...
> Charlie wrote:
>>
>> "Alias" <> wrote in message
>> news:gsev4e$r0$...
>>> Ten seconds and that was with the Alpha.
>>>
>>> Alias
>>
>> Can I use Ubuntu in - any way- to duplicate the Windows Media
>> Center I have in Vista Home Premium.
>> Also we use our Xbox 360 a lot as a Windows Media Center Extender
>> device for all of our PC - based home media
>> viewable on our big screen LCD in the living room. If I could
>> maintain that feature I might tale a closer look at Linux.
>
> Yes, and it will boot in ten seconds.
>
> Alias

So that is your claim to fame? Jackie Jackalope will boot in 10 seconds?
BFD. Once you boot, your computer will just sit there because you can't do
anything useful with it!


HA HA HA HA HA

"Jerry McBride" <> wrote in message
news:...
> ZnU wrote:
>
>> In article <gsev4e$r0$>,
>> Alias <> wrote:
>>
>>> Ten seconds and that was with the Alpha.
>>
>> Does anyone really care about boot times anymore? Are there really still
>> people who shut their machines down regularly rather than just sleeping
>> them?
>
> Yes.

then you have too much time on your hands. Better go find a job to keep
yourself busy.

ZnU wrote:
> Alias wrote:
>> Ten seconds and that was with the Alpha.
>
> Does anyone really care about boot times anymore?

Yes, but not particularly important.

> Are there really still people who shut their machines down regularly
> rather than just sleeping them?

Yes, I shutdown all my machines, except my server.

> This stopped making sense as a regular practice when suspend-to-RAM was
> invented, and makes even less sense in a world where suspend-to-disk
> exists.

Suspend-to-whatever weakens or completely defeats the security provided by
disk encryption and what makes no sense is laptops with unencrypted disks.

Even personal laptops have important personal information that could do
social or economic damage to the person. Laptops get lost, stolen, left
unintentionally in *curious* hand. Laptops break, are sent for repair and
techniques take a look at the files (just to check if it works, of course).

Once in a while I hear news about some laptop with important confidential
and unencrypted data that vanishes. One recent example, is a break into a
judge's house where a laptop with several criminal case records was stolen.
Another case was a police investigator that had is laptop vanish and he
does not even know if it was stolen or just lost. Cases of business laptops
that "evaporate" are even more frequent.

With today's hardware and easy to install and use disk encryption software,
laptops with unencrypted disks are unacceptable negligence!

Regards.

measekite Da Monkey wrote:
> "Alias" <> wrote in message
> news:gsfefs$aur$...
>> Charlie wrote:
>>> "Alias" <> wrote in message
>>> news:gsev4e$r0$...
>>>> Ten seconds and that was with the Alpha.
>>>>
>>>> Alias
>>> Can I use Ubuntu in - any way- to duplicate the Windows Media
>>> Center I have in Vista Home Premium.
>>> Also we use our Xbox 360 a lot as a Windows Media Center Extender
>>> device for all of our PC - based home media
>>> viewable on our big screen LCD in the living room. If I could
>>> maintain that feature I might tale a closer look at Linux.
>> Yes, and it will boot in ten seconds.
>>
>> Alias
>
> So that is your claim to fame? Jackie Jackalope will boot in 10 seconds?

No, just one of the good improvements.

> BFD. Once you boot, your computer will just sit there because you can't do
> anything useful with it!

No, YOU can't do anything with it or Windows.

>
>
> HA HA HA HA HA

Laughing at your own stupid humor isn't very convincing, especially when
the joke's on you.

Alias
>
>
>

ZnU wrote:
> In article <gsev4e$r0$>,
> Alias <> wrote:
>
>> Ten seconds and that was with the Alpha.
>
> Does anyone really care about boot times anymore? Are there really still
> people who shut their machines down regularly rather than just sleeping
> them?

Yes, I shut down my machines every night. It saves on electricity and
leaves a smaller CO2 footprint.

Alias