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Where does the phrase "on the gripping hand" come from and what does it mean in the context of that work?
I'll add that I just finished reading The Mote in God's Eye and this is not the origin of the phrase, as I had suspected.
Setting time from the Internet is done via NTP. There are two methods:
ntpdate makes one query to retrieve the current time from a server and sets the computer's clock to that time.
An ntp daemon makes regular query to one or more servers and typically maintains the local clock with an accuracy...2
service ntpd stop; ntpdate ntp3.domain.local; service ntpd start
is definitely the wrong solution for this problem. Use the -g option for ntpd:
-g Normally, ntpd exits with a message to the system log if the
offset exceeds the panic threshold, which is 1000 s by default...
I'm managing some VirtualBox developer environments. The time drifts out of sync when the box is suspended, so I want to use NTP to keep it in sync.
NTP doesn't seem to be doing its job, though - the time does not get updated.
It does work if I do this:
$ service ntp stop
$ ntpdate au.pool.ntp...
Farmer Kolcak : So you're saying America is going to use Sarin Gas in the world war 3 ?
Michael Uriel : Yes, because america always feared sarin gas, which means they studied it hard but only to find out it is so perfect that they can not stop it.
Farmer Kolcak : so what you feared ends up beco...
I have Ubuntu and it installs by default grub2, I have multiple windows partitions that I need to boot, I did some digging and find that makeactive was replaced with parttool
all good and nice ... BUT
I have Ubuntu if I fix /boot/grub/grub.cfg manually, then at the next grub/kernel/whatever upd...
The main two possibilities are:
Use su and enter the root password when prompted.
Put sudo in front of the command, and enter your password when prompted.
Running a command as root
sudo
This is the preferred method on most multi-user systems and on Ubuntu. If you don't know a separate roo...
This is a list of notable and commonly used emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's mood or facial expression in the form of icons. The Western use of emoticons is quite different from Eastern usage, and Internet forums, such as 2channel, typically show expressions in their own ways. In recent times, graphic representations, both static and animated, have taken the place of traditional emoticons in the form of icons.
Western
The emoticon in Western style is written most often from left to right as though the head is rotated counter-clockwise 90 degrees. Thus, most commonly, one ...
