Vincent Danen wrote:
>
> Instead of writing a few messages, I figured I'd ask all my questions in
> this one, so please bear with me.
>
> I have a genuine SoundBlaster PRO ISA soundcard and for the life of me I
> can't get the bloody thing to work under Mandrake (or RedHat) with
> soundconfig... even lothar didn't set it up right. The only time I got it
> working was using OSS under SuSE... should I install OSS under Mandrake
> and use it instead of sndconfig? How is this going to affect the sound
> daemon, enlightenment's sound, etc if I do?
>
> Time configs. People are using atomic clocks and other time servers to
> update their own clocks. How do I do this? Do I need a time server in my
> own timezone? I tried doing this with some tips in Linux Journal (Sept 99
> issue) and the NTP servers, but I could never find one in my own timezone
> (MST7MDT). Is there a way to offset the reported time? Ie. if I pick an
> NTP server that is GMT0 is there a way I can have a perl script (I'm
> assuming there is a program to do this also, but I don't know what it
> is... enlightenment there would help) report it back as my local timezone
> or give an offset (ie. -7)?
>
> Dang... there was another question, but now I can't remember it... =(
>
> Vincent Danen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) . ICQ: 16978834
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Vincent....to set your system clock from pretty much anywhere just type:
rdate -sp time.nist.gov
Just one more thing, do it when you're connected to your ISP (-:
Alan
