From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
Subject: Re: Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file
Date: 12 Nov 2003 08:25:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85fzguaw0z.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7ek766dd07.fsf@ada2.unipv.it
Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org> writes:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> > Incidentally: does anybody here have experience configuring a Linux
> > desktop machine to behave "a bit like a laptop" and turn off its drive
> > when not used, ...
> > This is not only to save power but to save my ears as well.
> if you have an IDE drive try "hdparam -S 1 /dev/hda".
Be aware that all the starting and stopping can be bad for the drive.
Listen carefully for the whining nose the drive makes when the bearings
starts to wear out, and run, don't walk, to the nearest computer hard-
ware store to buy a replacement.
--
Lars Brinkhoff, Services for Unix, Linux, GCC, HTTP
Brinkhoff Consulting http://www.brinkhoff.se/
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[not found] <mailman.3343.1068146343.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-06 23:45 ` Cool and Useful LISP for the .emacs file Kevin Rodgers
2003-11-07 4:10 ` Bruce Ingalls
2003-11-07 9:08 ` roodwriter
2003-11-07 16:58 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-11-07 18:35 ` roodwriter
2003-11-08 18:01 ` roodwriter
2003-11-11 10:48 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-11-07 11:27 ` Gareth Rees
2003-11-07 14:06 ` Adam Hardy
[not found] ` <mailman.3403.1068214062.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-07 14:28 ` David Kastrup
2003-11-07 16:54 ` Dan Anderson
2003-11-07 17:19 ` Rob Thorpe
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1068227823.2005.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-07 17:45 ` Jody M. Klymak
2003-11-07 18:20 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-11-07 19:37 ` Dan Anderson
2003-11-08 1:28 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] ` <mailman.11.1068237562.2005.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-07 22:17 ` Jody M. Klymak
2003-11-08 1:22 ` Jesper Harder
2003-11-08 3:23 ` Kin Cho
2003-11-08 10:34 ` Artur Hefczyc
2003-11-08 13:20 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-11-08 20:06 ` David Kastrup
2003-11-08 21:45 ` Artur Hefczyc
2003-11-08 22:02 ` Artur Hefczyc
2003-11-09 3:20 ` Kin Cho
2003-11-12 5:15 ` David Masterson
2003-11-12 8:12 ` Matthew Kennedy
2003-11-12 18:21 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2003-11-13 19:54 ` Artur Hefczyc
2003-11-23 8:08 ` Tim X
2003-11-08 23:15 ` Joe Fineman
2003-11-10 15:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-10 20:58 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-11-10 21:00 ` Burton Samograd
2003-11-11 10:34 ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-11-11 14:32 ` Jesper Harder
2003-11-11 17:00 ` Burton Samograd
2003-11-11 17:00 ` Burton Samograd
2003-11-11 20:04 ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-11-08 10:15 ` Oliver Scholz
2003-11-08 12:03 ` Orm Finnendahl
2003-11-08 14:09 ` Ole Laursen
2003-11-23 8:02 ` Tim X
2003-12-07 15:56 ` Kai Grossjohann
2003-11-07 18:09 ` Reiner Steib
2003-11-07 18:37 ` lawrence mitchell
2003-11-08 17:06 ` Reiner Steib
2003-11-07 23:41 ` Edward Dodge
2003-11-10 16:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-10 21:17 ` kgold
2003-11-11 10:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-11-11 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-11 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-11-11 17:35 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2003-11-12 7:25 ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.197.1068625639.2005.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-12 10:22 ` Colin Marquardt
2003-11-12 11:15 ` David Kastrup
2003-11-12 13:47 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] <E1AIRNX-0002YI-H9@monty-python.gnu.org>
2003-11-08 22:01 ` Joe Corneli
[not found] <E1AI57v-00032q-9p@monty-python.gnu.org>
2003-11-07 14:31 ` Joe Corneli
2003-11-06 19:18 Dan Anderson
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