GRUB menu hidden by default?

[drago01]

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 2013-01-04 14:07 (GMT-0700) Chris Murphy composed:
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>> Reindl Harald wrote:
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>>> unbelieveable how many time and code was spent in the last
>>> years to make a shiny boot hide anything from the users
>>> because they could look and learn what their systems does
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>> Right. Crazy that hoods and nacelles were ever invented. Everyone should
>> want to drive something like this to the grocery store.
>> http://tinyurl.com/a3x7p5y
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> Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. That image to me is a lot more
> enticing than the recent crop of SUVs, and than the various means of hiding
> from me the plain text messages that tell me something useful about what is
> actually happening while waiting on init to complete.

Buy a SSD, disable the crap that we still enable by default but you
probably don't need / use anyway ... and you don't have to wait at all
;)