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Boost your Windows boot times with Linux!
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:05:19 GMT, "Yousuf Khan"
wrote: http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/32674.html Wow.. I think this is quite possibly the most useless thing I've seen so far in 2004! Kudos to InverVideo on this... umm.. accomplishment! In case anyone missed it, this product does dick-all to reduce Windows boot times. In fact, it will INCREASE the boot times. What it does is install a mini-Linux distribution that boots up first. Then, if actually wants to use Windows (instead of the apps included in the mini-linux distro) they still have to boot up Windows. To be fair, I might have given these people a bit more slack if they had tried to advertise this for just what it is, ie a mini-linux distro for home entertainment purposes. However, marketing it as a method to boot Windows faster?! Now that's just plain wrong! Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:58:20 +0000, Some Hoser wrote:
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:05:19 GMT, "Yousuf Khan" wrote: http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/32674.html Wow.. I think this is quite possibly the most useless thing I've seen so far in 2004! Kudos to InverVideo on this... umm.. accomplishment! In case anyone missed it, this product does dick-all to reduce Windows boot times. In fact, it will INCREASE the boot times. What it does is install a mini-Linux distribution that boots up first. Then, if actually wants to use Windows (instead of the apps included in the mini-linux distro) they still have to boot up Windows. To be fair, I might have given these people a bit more slack if they had tried to advertise this for just what it is, ie a mini-linux distro for home entertainment purposes. However, marketing it as a method to boot Windows faster?! Now that's just plain wrong! Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca You got to admit its kind of funny, they use linux to claim to boot windows faster? For the average Joe who knows nothing, this will give the impression that Linux boots faster in general. I see this as a win win for OSS, even as you point out it might be a little misleading. Personally I have a PVR which is never turned off, How many people turn off their cable boxes, or satellite receivers? So does it really make a difference how long it takes to boot. Then again I also use my PVR to crunch for RC5-72, when its not recording shows. So maybe I am a little different user than most. Its also nice to watch the latest movie trailers on the big TV screen. Anyway I did get a kick out of it, brings some irony and a little humor to everything. Gnu_Raiz |
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Some Hoser wrote:
snip : distro for home entertainment purposes. However, marketing it as a : method to boot Windows faster?! Now that's just plain wrong! : : Tony Hill : hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca Heh heh, new alias Tony? LOL! J. -- -------- The end to "Personal Computing" as we know it is just around the corner. TCPA will take away ALL rights from you, the consumer. Learn more about it he http://www.againsttcpa.com/what-is-tcpa.html and he http://www.againsttcpa.com/tcpa-faq-en.html |
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:18:37 +0100, "jack" wrote:
Some Hoser wrote: snip : distro for home entertainment purposes. However, marketing it as a : method to boot Windows faster?! Now that's just plain wrong! : : Tony Hill : hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca Heh heh, new alias Tony? LOL! Yup, my semi-anonymous alias, that's not supposed to happen! (mainly just semi-anonymous in that the e-mail address is totally non-existant). I normally only use that alias to flame people : Actually my main news server was down for most of the weekend, so I was posting that through my ISPs news server. Unfortunately due to the way that Agent handles multiple news servers (ie rather kludged) I often end up with some half-baked settings when I do this. Ohh well, main news server is back to life again. ------------- Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
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"Some Hoser" wrote in message
... To be fair, I might have given these people a bit more slack if they had tried to advertise this for just what it is, ie a mini-linux distro for home entertainment purposes. However, marketing it as a method to boot Windows faster?! Now that's just plain wrong! Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca Tony, what happened to your name? :-) I find this interesting in that it is a clever backdoor method to get Linux acceptance at home. Instead of calling Linux a competing OS, call it a boot loader for Windows. So people get used to using the boot loader, eventually they may not need the original OS it was supposed to load. Yousuf Khan |
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 23:10:54 GMT, "Yousuf Khan"
wrote: "Some Hoser" wrote in message .. . To be fair, I might have given these people a bit more slack if they had tried to advertise this for just what it is, ie a mini-linux distro for home entertainment purposes. However, marketing it as a method to boot Windows faster?! Now that's just plain wrong! Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca Tony, what happened to your name? :-) Hehe, as I mentioned in my reply to Jack, that's my semi-anonymous alias that I usually only use for flaming people : Of course, the fact that my regular signature was included with the anonymous alias makes it somewhat less anonymous than it might be : Should be fixed now, though my commercial news server is on the fritz again, I think it's getting high-time for me to dump 1Usenet.com, their server has been very spotty in the past month or two. I find this interesting in that it is a clever backdoor method to get Linux acceptance at home. Instead of calling Linux a competing OS, call it a boot loader for Windows. So people get used to using the boot loader, eventually they may not need the original OS it was supposed to load. Still sounds like a load of marketing BS to me, and I don't know that it's necessarily a good thing for Linux. It seems to me that it gives the impression of Linux being a very limited-function system that you can only use for very basic tasks, but if you want to use any new or advanced features you need to load up Windows. Bleah! Someone shoot the marketdroid that came up with this for me please! Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
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"Tony Hill" wrote in message
... Still sounds like a load of marketing BS to me, and I don't know that it's necessarily a good thing for Linux. It seems to me that it gives the impression of Linux being a very limited-function system that you can only use for very basic tasks, but if you want to use any new or advanced features you need to load up Windows. Bleah! Someone shoot the marketdroid that came up with this for me please! I got the feeling that it was a very clever ploy to get people used to Linux, and get them prepared for a possible introduction of a Linux based Media Centre PC in the future. You buy a WinXP based Media Centre PC certified and all by Microsoft, and they sneak in a Linux OS underneath Microsoft's nose. Of course, I also get the feeling that if they did something like this, Microsoft would instantly remove all Media Centre certifications quicker than a wisp. Yousuf Khan |
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"Yousuf Khan" wrote in message . cable.rogers.com... "Tony Hill" wrote in message ... Still sounds like a load of marketing BS to me, and I don't know that _________________snip____________ Who gives a ****? |
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