Posts by eggmatters

Load on startup means: Power on to: Desktop displayed, Icons loaded, system in idle process, all daemons / devices running, connected to LAN / Internet.

Time it takes my Linux box to load on startup:
~45 seconds to one minute (and it has issues)
Time it taks my gf's Macbook to load on startup:
30 seconds.
Time it takes my IBM thinkpad T61 windows XP sp2 to load on startup:
7 - 15 minutes.

c'mon, is windows 7 going to be any faster? Are their crappy applications (Office?) going to run any smoother or glitch free? Have they been compiling all of their "error reports" from crashed applications and really trying to work on a more stable system? Maybe if they knew what they were doing. The most stable product Microsoft ever released was win2K and I'm only a fan of it since it was the least error prone product they've put out. It's not better than Unix, it's not better than OSx or leopard or snow leopard - whatever mac runs now. I mean, fool me once, shame on you, fool me like, eleven times . . . .?!

however, if one was to search for a phrase "google better than limewire youtube" that may be interesting. I personally have found a middle of the road option, mp3Panda which i pay about a nickel per song and a quarter for albums I download. i loaded $20 in February and have like 15 left. I think it's fair compromise. BTW, whenever you DL illegal music via file sharing or bit torrents, you are just asking - begging for malware. I don't think it's worth it, although I believe that the record industry is wrong for charging for downloads. My rationale is, CD's are price-fixed because they are greedy bung lords who give anywhere from .5 to 3 cents on the dollar to the artists who feed their BS business ethics. I would happily pay for music if went directly to the artist.

I am supposed to submit my final year project title within 3days. I think i am finished cause till now,i have totally no clue about it.
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What class is it for? Is it a CS class? Are you an undergrad? Graduate? In Computer Science, there are 3 real suitable categories to explore, Concurrency, Synchronization, and Distributed processing. If it were me, I would explore distributed processing, but I already did a Senior project on Distributed Processing.