[PD] [OT] slightly: building audio computer with PD

[Peter Plessas]

* Derek Holzer <derek at umatic.nl> [2008-01-02 21:12]:
> The whole idea of read-only is for two reasons:
> 
> 1) To protect the HD in case of unexpected shutdowns (which could happen 
> nightly in a typical museum situation)
> 2) To preserve the CF memory, which has a limited number of write 
> cycles, in the case of a HD-less system

Are you sure on this point? I just switched from a normal 2.5" IDE drive
in my laptop to a compact flash card using an IDE<->CF adaptor. Are you
referring to USB memory sticks (which might inhibit the same technology)
or to CF cards as well? 
Now that i am so happy having a completely silent laptop, i might run
into read/write errors soon....

rgds, PP