Tag Archives: Linux

Desktop Woes Again

Posted on March 21, 2009 by Timothy

Well, from the looks of things, something bad has been happening with the desktop. Or, more accurately, Win-XP. But to most folks reading MystBlogs that’s probably not surprising. :-P In my case that’s a bit exasperated by the install method … Continue reading →

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Upgrades, Part 2

Posted on August 25, 2008 by Timothy

Two good pieces of news in the notebook front: -> Pulled out the 40 gig from its little case (the one I’ve been using to make it my Debian Slug disk) and looked up the part number on Toshiba’s site. … Continue reading →

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Well, slugs definately have no time sense…

Posted on April 8, 2008 by Timothy

OK, this little gem was worth the hell getting there: SIDRAT:/etc# /etc/init.d/ntp stop Stopping NTP server: ntpd. SIDRAT:/etc# ntpdate 0.debian.pool.ntp.org 8 Apr 05:41:51 ntpdate[3426]: step time server 64.25.87.54 offset 204327186.111730 sec Note the time offset; I’ve had the server off … Continue reading →

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