It's been quite a while since I was an admin in a Debian shop, but I'm pretty sure that's how it is in Debian. Which makes sense, since Ubuntu is based on Debian, right? I guess I'm sayin' it's not hard to say "the standard way" and mean "the way I'm used to doing things." I prefer Fedora since I use CentOS/RedHat on all my servers, but I don't know if their way is "the standard way" or if that's just how they do things.

I may be wrong, but I think the version they are playing in the video may be this version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros.:_The_Lost_Levels

I agreed with you, right up until that last comment.

Another network speed test that is cool, although not included with a distro, is netio. It's cross-platform, with versions for Linux and for Windows in the archive. I just wish I could find a version for my MacBook (or, knew enough to get it to compile under fink).