Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i've been meaning to ask you about you suggested power-supply quietening
> technique. you said you moved the power supply outside the case, in order to
> allievate the heat buildup inside the p/s case.
>
> yet on at least my machines, the powersupply has venti
> I can't help wondering if you could do away with the hdd altogether,
> e.g. booting the thing once and for all from floppies. The P/S fan
> solution I've posted before -- if it's an old and wimpy machine and
> you're daring you could maybe try even more extreme things like nuking
> the f
> I occasionally use a 64MB ramdisk, for recording music (actually for
> testing whether the HDD is a bottleneck in music recording). To use
> the ramdisk, I say:
>
> mkfs.minix /dev/ram 65536
> mount /ram
>
> Can't remember why I used the minix filesystem, you can probably use
> anything
There are those who would have you believe that Krzys Majewski wrote:
> Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > i've been working on a stand alone music player for the last couple of
> > months.
> > it's currently a bit loud (being based around an old p166 with a very noisy
> > hdd & powersupply
Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i've been working on a stand alone music player for the last couple of months.
> it's currently a bit loud (being based around an old p166 with a very noisy
> hdd & powersupply fan.
I can't help wondering if you could do away with the hdd altogether,
e.g. bo
Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Under DOS there was the possibility of treating some of your RAM like a
> > disk (hence the name ramdisk). Not sure if Linux can do this, but if
> > so, then just copy the binary to a ramdisk and run it from there.
Yes it can be done. You will need to enab
>
> Under DOS there was the possibility of treating some of your RAM like a
> disk (hence the name ramdisk). Not sure if Linux can do this, but if
> so, then just copy the binary to a ramdisk and run it from there.
>
thanks for the tip. that looks like the best plan of action.
cheers.
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Da
On Sun, 5 Nov 2000, Damien wrote:
> i've been working on a stand alone music player for the last couple
> of months. it's currently a bit loud (being based around an old p166
> with a very noisy hdd & powersupply fan.
>
> after reading another posting by someone else on how to quieten down
> a co
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 06:11:36PM +1100, Damien wrote:
> i remember reading somewhere that the sticky bit could be used to instruct
> certain unixs to permanently cache a program. is this the case with linux? if
> not, can anyone offer any alternative solutions?
No, nor has it been supported in a
hello fellow debian users;
i've been working on a stand alone music player for the last couple of months.
it's currently a bit loud (being based around an old p166 with a very noisy
hdd & powersupply fan.
after reading another posting by someone else on how to quieten down a
computer, i finally g
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