On Wed, 12 May 2010, Juha Heinanen wrote: > this morning i setup ppp connection and run ntpdate-debian at > > 07:34:35 > > now about four hours later when i run ntdate-debian again, it reports > 899 seconds offset: > > r...@rautu:~# ntpdate-debian > 12 May 11:41:37 ntpdate[26601]: step time server 194.100.2.198 offset > 899.850821 sec > > which is quite a lot.
Yes. The clock is drifting a lot. Noticed that shortly after starting using the junk :( > how is is possible that a modern laptop has lost its ability to keep its > time straight? That was a rhetoric question, was it not? Or asked on the wrong mailing list? Asus is making crappy hardware. Don't buy it. IIRC, you own an 1101ha, don't you? Both you and I and many others will have to keep both pieces :( > i don't remember seeing this kind of behavior with my earlier laptops. Well, things change. Sometimes to the worth :( Crappy electronic components are cheeper. That's what Asus is selling nowadays. Cheers, -- Cristian _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
