Comments on: DHCP+NTP and various OSes: Ubuntu, OS2008, …

By: Sergey Udaltsov

Sergey Udaltsov — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:56:44 +0000

Clark: I will think of it again – but no promises. What I DONT want is creating the path for any sorts of “map X as Y”, for any X and Y vim/emacs/eclipse/… users might find useful…

By: Clark C. Evans

Clark C. Evans — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:52:08 +0000

I’m wondering if you would be so kind as to include in the default xorg install a way to have CapsLock be Escape (and not swapped, just remove CapsLock). Having to spend 2-3h finding the low-level majic to make this happen is quite irritating. Thank you!

- Dedicated VI User

By: Sergey Udaltsov

Sergey Udaltsov — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:57:40 +0000

Randall: I do not want to type anything in. The whole point is to make OS pick my local ntp server from the information provided by DHCP server (which does provide ntp server IP).

By: Randall Wood

Randall Wood — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:05:16 +0000

On Mac OS X:
Open the System Preferences
Open Date & Time
Type in your NTP server in the top of the drop down menu of Apple NTP servers.

By: Stéphane Loeuillet

Stéphane Loeuillet — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:45:28 +0000

To my mind, Windows (2000 and highier) only understands S-NTP (S as Simple)

But as I’m not a Windows expert …