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The phone comes fully-themed to Pure Land, with ring tones of the appropriate chants, and a boot-up video of Amida Buddha appearing from a lotus flower.

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We also discovered the history of the Mac boot-up beep and the surprising fact that Darth Vader likes to drag race.

Boing Boing

I managed to remove most of the Telstra branded stuff, but the boot-up splash screen is proving difficult to be rid of … Any suggestions?

HTC Desire Has A GPS Bug | Lifehacker Australia

When the Nook is locked, it takes a bit more time to boot-up than I'd prefer, about 30 seconds.

Robert J. Elisberg: The Writers Workbench: More Adventures with e-Reading

When the Nook is locked, it takes a bit more time to boot-up than I'd prefer, about 30 seconds.

Robert J. Elisberg: The Writers Workbench: More Adventures with e-Reading

Worst comes to worst, boot-up Ubuntu, rescue all the files I can get, and try to reinstall, while I continue to weep.

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Elsewhere we marveled at the intricate rusted ironworks designs in the latest video of Amanita's upcoming adventure game Machinarium, saw Minotaur China Shop (and Jetpack Brontosaurus, coincidentally) creators Flashbang poke gentle fun at Braid creator Jon Blow, and found a wonderful series of T-shirts based on the glitched-out boot-up sequences of arcade games.

Boing Boing

When the Nook is locked, it takes a bit more time to boot-up than I'd prefer, about 30 seconds.

Robert J. Elisberg: The Writers Workbench: More Adventures with e-Reading

I managed to remove most of the Telstra branded stuff, but the boot-up splash screen is proving difficult to be rid of… Any suggestions?

HTC Desire Has A GPS Bug | Lifehacker Australia

Firefox 3.6 was surprisingly just a tad slower than 3.5 in starting up, at least from first boot-up, and Safari remains a fairly slow starter.

Browser Speed Tests: Firefox 3.6, Chrome 4, Opera 10.5 | Lifehacker Australia