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Stop, Linux Time
March 06, 2007 ( Open Source )
With Micro$oft asking $4k/business for updates to Win2k and earlier operating systems for the change in DST, you've got to wonder what byzantine implementation they have for time. My Linux boxes are happily purring along with their DST zone updates (which, had I left the automatic update manager running, would've been done without my interference). If something horrific had gone wrong, I could've followed any of the many paths offered in this LinuxWatch article, all they way down to editing the time zone file myself.
There's an unofficial patch to get around this silliness.
While I'm on a short rant; I was playing with Vista at a store the other day. I don't get it. It's like XP with a bigger Start button and a different alt-tab interface. Woo. Why do I need to have 1-2 gigs of RAM and a top-of-the-line video card for that again?
Posted by griffjon at March 6, 2007 09:31 AM
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