[ale] Tendency up which to avoid looking things

[Jeff Hubbs]

Rafos701 at aol.com wrote:

> I've subscribed to ask some questions, since scheduling had prevented my 
> attending recent meetings. =


I'll take a whack...

> (0) Is there a way around mangling long filenames when copying [long 
> filenamed files]  to fat16 partitions?


Gotta pass on this one, but I'd intuit that there is if only because 
Win95 on FAT16 seems to be able to do it.  Maybe a mount parameter?


> (1) While I have run with and without reiserfs, and with swap part'ns 
> half and the same size as RAM, sometimes there is a nearly constant 
> activity in noise coming from my hdd. Does anyone know what this is, 
> should I be as worried about it as I am, (since I'm using expensive 
> laptop drives?) I am going to check out some Dr Dobb's Article on a type 
> of thrashing which might explain this, but it seems inconsistent that a 
> product of cutting-edge SWE's like Linux wouldn't suffer from any such 
> flaws. (I will be psyched, hearing about pre-emption somewhere, if 
> devices can no longer hang up the prompt.)


If this happens soon after bootup, goes on for a few minutes, and stops, 
I'd assume it's the cron job that runs locate -u in order to build the 
slocate database. It ordinarily fires off nightly (4AM in many distros). 
  This may be worth doing away with completely on a laptop because 
laptop drives are slow and right when you're firing up your laptop is 
generally right when you're trying to do something like launch 
StarOffice (also disk-intensive).


> (3) Does anyone have a line on someplace where the author of the above 
> questions  can get a job? I have no experience, a '98 A+ certificate, 
> and used to know enough to get a B.S. Any tips will be appreciated, 
> thank you.

How is it that you got an A+ certif ~4 years ago yet have no experience?

- Jeff


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