Yup, you're right. Turns out Donation Coder is in fact an average sized forum, my "humble opinion" was wrong  :P
Since I don't usually participate in or even visit such huge forums, I wasn't aware of the gigantic size some of them have acquired.
After I realized it, it wasn't long before I thought "Hmmm, I wonder which is *the largest* forum in the WWW", which led me to this page: Big Boards Ranking

 :o
What can I say? I can't believe there's actually a forum with over a billion posts and over 15 million members, but the info is there ...  :huh:

Not to fear, cityzen! English IS my first language, and you write better than me...

-Darwin (November 24, 2008, 11:04 AM)

Thank you, Darwin.
I'm sure it's not true (you're a very good writer) but it was very kind of you  :)

You should really use your car in the same way as your computer.
It is very good for the state of the engine that when you start it up you immediately go full throttle for 30 seconds till a minute (the boot-time of your computer)...I can assure you two things, your car repair shop will love the business that you generate and you will have their phone number on speed dial.  :)

-Shades (November 23, 2008, 10:20 PM)

Hmmm  :-\, I don't remember writing anything about "full throttle" or about the way I use my PC, what exactly do you mean, Shades?  :)
I'm afraid you may have not got the analogy right, it's not about straining your PC, it's about having it available for use without an unneeded delay.
I'm guessing (please correct me if I'm wrong) that maybe you mean that having a faster boot up time strains your PC hardware during that (brief) moment a lot more than having a "slow" boot up time. If that is actually your statement, I think it's debatable. By watching the output file and charts generated by Bootvis, I can clearly see that neither my CPU nor my HDDs are strained during boot time.

Although harddisks are fast to spin up and register themselves with the BIOS, they are definitely not created equally.

-Shades (November 23, 2008, 02:06 PM)

If your motherboard takes more than a few seconds to detect your HDDs, then it's probably a problem of the motherboard, not of having a boot time that's too fast

Sometimes a power supply has also problems to keep up with supplying the juice for all components at boot-time.

-Shades (November 23, 2008, 02:06 PM)

That's right in some cases, but fortunately not in mine. I may have a "sucky" DHCP server (f0dder dixit  :P), but I have a good power supply, indeed one of the most underrated and vital components of a PC