Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] live music with linux
From: Chris Pickett (chris.pickett_AT_mail.mcgill.ca)
Date: Wed Jul 28 2004 - 22:28:52 EEST
Matthew Allen wrote:
> Sorry I am just getting back from vacation and going through mails.
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: linux-audio-user-bounces_AT_music.columbia.edu [mailto:linux-audio-
>>user-bounces_AT_music.columbia.edu] On Behalf Of Atte André Jensen
>>Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 12:20 AM
>>Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] live music with linux
>>
>>Florin Andrei wrote:
>>
>>
>>>slocate is always among the first packages i remove after installing a
>>>system. Have no use for it, and it is very annoying.
>>
>>(S)locate is extremely handy. Let's you search your entire system in
>>notime. Maybe you should just disable the cronjob that is set up by the
>>installer.
>
>
> I would second this. Of course get rid of it running automatically (I think fedora core 1 has it set up to run at least once a day). I run it everynow and then by hand (updatedb). When you have 100's of gigs of harddrive filled with stuff locate is way more speedy than find. (if its up to date)
Yes, and typically the things I want to find with locate are older
anyway, since I've forgotten where they are.
I need an "i'm-going-away-from-my-computer-so-do-annoying-things"
script, or some kind of scheduler based on cpu usage.
Chris
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