On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > slocate in /etc/cron.daily is looking for all you files... > > joelja > > On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Carter J. Castor wrote: > > > I have a Dell Inspirion Laptop. The hard drive is very quite all day; > > however, when I leave it idle at night, it starts spinning like crazy. > > I would turn it off; however, I use KAlarm as my alarm clock so it sits > > by my bed on my desk all night. I was wondering what would cause it to > > suddenly make so much noise and how I could fix it. there are cheaper alarm clocks than a dell inspiron. :-) rday