Simple pleasures of life...
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moominmolly's old laptop, a box I dearly love. I still haven't configured the hibernation on it but I will some day.
I'm busy turning it into a Gentoo box and some flavor of BSD. To expedite prof of concept, I installed Knoppix on it. This means I can work on setup aspects without needing a CD-ROM and I can also keep a couple chat clients going.
Anyway, I noticed the clock was kinda fast -- about nine minutes. So I tried to type "man ntp" to figure out Knoppix's specific settings. No dice. I couldn't remember what Debian uses for network time protocol. So I did what any lazy admin does: I ran "updatedb". This is the Linux equivalent of refreshing the fast indexing database in Windows. When it came back a minute or so later, I typed "locate ntp" and got some files named "ntpdate".
I pulled up its manual and noticed all it needed for a parameter was the name of an NTP server. I racked my brain a little. NASA has an NTP server but they've gotten picky about using it as a primary. The same was true for the National Institute for Standardized Time. In fact, the only server I could think of with the bandwidth and lack of security was...
# ntpdate time.windows.com
I got a very fast offset response and soon enough I was back to work. I love getting someone else's money's worth from Microsoft.
-my shabbes goy lives in Redmond, Dante
moominmolly's old laptop, a box I dearly love. I still haven't configured the hibernation on it but I will some day.I'm busy turning it into a Gentoo box and some flavor of BSD. To expedite prof of concept, I installed Knoppix on it. This means I can work on setup aspects without needing a CD-ROM and I can also keep a couple chat clients going.
Anyway, I noticed the clock was kinda fast -- about nine minutes. So I tried to type "man ntp" to figure out Knoppix's specific settings. No dice. I couldn't remember what Debian uses for network time protocol. So I did what any lazy admin does: I ran "updatedb". This is the Linux equivalent of refreshing the fast indexing database in Windows. When it came back a minute or so later, I typed "locate ntp" and got some files named "ntpdate".
I pulled up its manual and noticed all it needed for a parameter was the name of an NTP server. I racked my brain a little. NASA has an NTP server but they've gotten picky about using it as a primary. The same was true for the National Institute for Standardized Time. In fact, the only server I could think of with the bandwidth and lack of security was...
# ntpdate time.windows.com
I got a very fast offset response and soon enough I was back to work. I love getting someone else's money's worth from Microsoft.
-my shabbes goy lives in Redmond, Dante
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Date: 2005-06-19 05:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-19 05:25 am (UTC)Nice to see you at the party.
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Date: 2005-06-24 11:48 am (UTC)if you have ntpdate, you almost certainly have ntp. just running ntpdate periodically will do only a very rough job of keeping your clock in sync; try “man ntpd”.
you might also use the tier 2 ntp servers from the US Naval Observatory. you won’t have to worry about being nailed by the BSA for unlicensed ntpd use :p
-steve