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 got motivated to do so. but the first problem that struck me was the hdd having to spin up all the time currently my music player plays a series of files off a cd. it also has a screen blanking option which due to the hackish nature of this program, does a system('tput clear') (as i don't want to use the ncurses routines to do this) this call to tput is located on the hard disk and cached. yet after playing a certain amount of music, this binary is swapped out, and if accessed again, the hdd would have to spin down again. 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? thanks in advance. -- Damien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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