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Startup Offers Instant-Boot Windows Alternative
Lucas123 writes "A Silicon Valley startup named Device VM has a product that circumvents the boot-up process, according to a story in MIT's Technology Review. Device VM recently released a tiny piece of software that gives users the option to boot either Windows or a faster, less-complex operating system called Splashtop. The company is partnering with PC OEMs and consumer electronics companies to integrate its core technology into desktops, notebooks, ultra-mobile PCs, and other devices."
the 1800's called, they want their nigger back..
and of course, that would be you
Ok, it's done, I'm fed up.
Vigilante style repercussions are not my usual style but the myminicity.com folks have managed to get me irritated once too many. Myminicity.com 'rewards' their users for spamming sites with links that point back to myminicity.com.
I'm a regular visitor to slashdot and since a couple of weeks a bunch of jerks have been placing cloaked links to 'myminicity.com' in just about every story.
Myminicity.com is complicit in this because they actively encourage users to send traffic to those links in order to boost their status in the system.
To give the myminicity.com jackasses a run for their money I've come up with a very simple plan.
Fight fire with fire.
Support the official Slashdot mymincity page:
Slashdotcity!/a
Post this link in your blogs, on slashdot articles, everywhere you can.
Together, people, we can beat them at their own game!
Technically this is probably illegal, but call me reckless. As I said, I'm pissed off.
I'm going to build something similar: a device which will allow you to load a smaller, faster operating system, or a larger, more full-featured one. Except mine will feature removable operating systems, on small devices known as "diskettes," [like "little disks," see?] so that you can swap different diskettes and boot different smaller operating systems! I have a beta of the first version operating system right here: I'm going to call it a "DOS boot disk."
No, seriously, how is this news, or new, or anything other than a dual-boot system just like you'd get installing a tiny version of Linux and Windows XP on the same box, or a Live CD Linux install? Ridiculous.
You're told. It's Over to yet another
Grub
Lilo
Turn off all that shit except for stuff you genuinely need, make sure you have adequate RAM for the OS you're running, and Windows boots plenty fast
Um, no, it doesn't.
Huh, isn't this GRUB?
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?
Oh sure, everyone wins, except the software developers who are forced to learn a new way to do it, rather than the good ole "Wow starts now" theory. Anything can be made better if developers just thought about what they were doing. I mean, imagine, if the Vista developers weren't high on crack, we might've had a nice easy to use operating system.
what are you talking about? suspend/resume was (half-ass) working since nt4.0 and first acpi systems. starting with winxp I had zero problems with it - both on desktop and laptop running winxp.. you're obviously just another troll-like xp and linux fanboy.