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Why Do Computers Take So Long to Boot Up? 975

Posted by Zonk from the tired-hampsters dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Computers take too long to boot up, and it doesn't make sense to me. Mine takes around 30 seconds; it is double or triple that for some of my friends' computers that I have used. Why can't a computer turn on and off in an instant just like a TV? 99% of boots, my computer is doing the exact same thing. Then I get to Windows XP with maybe 50 to 75 megs of stuff in memory. My computer should be smart enough to just load that junk into memory and go with it. You could put this data right at the very start of the hard drive. Whenever you do something with the computer that actually changes what happens during boot, it could go through the real booting process and save the results. Doing this would also give you instant restarts. You just hit your restart button, the computer reloads the memory image, and you can be working again. Or am I wrong? Why haven't companies made it a priority to have 'instant on' desktops and laptops?"
AMD/OSTG

Journal Journal: Ruiz of AMD comments on the company's plans

Journal by OSTG Marketing
AMD's chairman and CEO, Hector Ruiz , commented on the company's plans during his visit to Moscow Monday. Ruiz is expecting a percent microprocessor unit shipments growth year-over-year due to the increase in the die size as the result of introduction of dual-core and quad-core processors which means less microprocessors output from a single wafer. Ruiz also suggested forgetting the nanometer discussion. 'Although nanometers look importan
The Internet

Submission + - Bogus Experts Fight Your Right to Broadband

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Karl Bode of Broadband Reports takes aim at supposed telecom experts and think tankers who profess to love the "free market", but want to ban the country's un-wired towns and cities from offering broadband to their residents. If you didn't know, incumbent providers frequently determine towns and cities unprofitable to serve (fine), but then turn around and lobby for laws that make it illegal to serve themselves (not so fine). They then pay experts to profess their love for a free market and deregulation: unless that regulation helps their bottom line. A simple point: "Strange how such rabid fans of a free-market wouldn't be interested in allowing market darwinism to play out."

Icy-Flo - The solution to this summer's heat 145

Posted by Hemos from the keeping-it-cool-when-the-lights-are-up dept.
Steve Kerrison writes "Desperate times call for desperate measures, but I'd like to think of this as more of an exercise in cunning. It's hot, but I'm not, thanks to an Icy-Box and a Panaflo. This was nearly categorised as hardware hacking, but then the only 'hacking' required was the removal of four thumb-screws."

Lower-Price PS3 Mostly Upgradeable 253

Posted by Zonk from the define-mostly dept.
jchenx writes "One of the biggest questions remaining after the Sony press conference and E3 last week was whether or not the core PS3 package could be upgraded to the premium one. It looks like that question has been answered. GI.biz reports that the core version can upgraded with WiFi and memory card adapters, as well as a higher capacity hard drive. However, HDMI output will be non-upgradeable."

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