[20:36] <fisch246> i just got canceled on because of the weather...
[20:37] <fisch246> time to sit at home and watch Stargate i guess v.v
[21:20] <Takyoji> I take it that others would agree that it would be pathetic for it to take over 20 minutes for an Ubuntu installation (on a system with a 1.7GHz processor, 768MB RAM, 100GB storage, etc) to load the shutdown dialog when there are no user-level processes running?
[21:21] <Takyoji> userspace* or whatever term best fits
[21:21] <Takyoji> with very heavy harddrive activity
[21:24] <Takyoji> I have a feeling the harddrive must be failing then; just tried opening palimpsest (Disk Utility) and that couldn't even open.