[lug] decent cheap soundcard

[rm at fabula.de]

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:07:39PM -0600, Bear Giles wrote:
> rm at fabula.de wrote:
> >First thing to look at: most distros (idiotically, if i might say) have 
> >the X-server start with a niceness level of -10 (read: ultra-rude). As a 
> >result,
> >any move of the mouse will cause the X-server to grab you CPU ...
> 
> Market forces since most people equate responsiveness with 
> performance.  I've used the same trick to make software on limited 
> hardware (e.g., cable set top boxes) look better than it is.
> 
> But if you want to really have fun set your hard drive to go to 
> sleep after a minute of inactivity....

... which is a _pretty_ hard task on Linux :-) I got it kind-of-working
on my (now deceased) notebook. Pretty tricky to stop all those deamons
from logging etc.

 Cheers RalfD

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