Friday, October 22, 2010

Tongue-twisters

In French

Les chaussettes de l'archi-duchesses sont-elles sèches, arch-sèches?
- Are the archduchess' socks dry, very dry?

Un chasseur sachant chasser sait chasser sans son chien.
- A hunter who knows how to hunt knows how to hunt without his dog.

Whereas this one's, in Finnish

Vesihiisi sihisi hississä.
- A water troll was hissing in the elevator.

Heres, one in Spanish


Porque no nada nada?
Porque no traje traje


-Why aren't you swimming(nada) at all(nada)?
Because I didn't bring(traje) a swim suit(traje)

Ha ha

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

NTP.. another techie note

I hate NTP.

The man pages makes it look so easy.

Here's an excerpt from tldp.org on basic ntp config.

# --- GENERAL CONFIGURATION ---
server aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
server 127.127.1.0
server 127.127.1.0 stratum 10


# Drift file.

driftfile /etc/ntp/drift

Then you can restrict by adding, only add after the earlier config has been fully tested

# Prohibit general access to this service.
restrict default ignore

# Permit systems on this network to synchronize with this time service.
# But no modify our time.
restrict aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd nomodify

# Allow the following unrestricted access to ntpd

restrict aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
restrict 127.0.0.1

stratum 10 mentioned earlier will change or rather adjust your system time gradually. sometimes it doesn't really work, the system time will still remain the same, or maybe I'm not patient enough. Sheesh