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  1. LinuxBIOS on Fast-Booting OS for Usually-Off Appliance PCs? · · Score: 1

    LinuxBIOS is going to be _the_ fastest solution, but may not be the most workable: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/fornix/linuxbios.ogg

  2. Re:Medical equipment on The Very Worst Uses of Windows · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I can confirm this as well. I was in the Massachusetts General Hospital laying in an fMRI tube because I was participating in a psychology study (and getting compensated financially). After a few minutes of inactivity I wondered when things would start happening - they soon extricated me from the tube. Turns out the cause of the problem was that the Siemens machine running Embedded Windows (as proven by a prominently-affixed license sticker) had locked up while I was entubed, and they had to reboot. After that it worked fine, and the fMRI went off without a hitch.

  3. Re:We also have a copy of the MD5SUMS if you need on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 1

    This is very sound advice - our storage of the MD5SUMS is mostly for our own internal purposes when we start burning the images to disk. No need to trust us!

  4. Re:Torrent-only mirror on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 1

    Thanks very much for this - speeds are as advertised!

  5. Re:Torrent-only mirror on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the heads up. At least we tried!

  6. Re:Torrent-only mirror on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 1

    Let's see how Apache can handle it: http://lug.bu.edu/ubuntu/ Same files.

  7. Torrent-only mirror on Ubuntu 8.04 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Boston University Linux Users Group is providing a .torrent-only mirror that should be able to be easily reached regardless of traffic. It's often difficult to fight through the hordes around the other servers just to get a torrent file, so we felt this would be convenient. We also have a copy of the MD5SUMS if you need it.

    ftp://lug.bu.edu/pub/distro/ubuntu/

    Contains the alternate, desktop, and server torrents for both i386 and amd64.

    Hope this helps.

  8. Schneier's oft-quoted argument: on Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ? · · Score: 1