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Re: FW by tarass.houba@laposte.net : debian c'est plus fort que toi



On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 01:42:47PM +0200, Jesús Roncero wrote:
> On Thursday, 26 de May de 2005 11:02, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > It's more likely that the system's firmware battery was drained or so,
> > so that the date was set to something way off base.
> 
> Yeah, that happens to me every once in a while on my ibook. The date
> points to 1900 

ITYM 1904

> and when ntpdate sets it back, it fscks the hard disk printing the
> same message. 

Yeah. Now, call yourself lucky that you're talking about an iBook here,
and not about a Centris 650 with an 18G hard disk, because then you're
in for an fsck run which will take 90 minutes. As has happened to me a
few times :-)

-- 
The amount of time between slipping on the peel and landing on the
pavement is precisely one bananosecond



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