Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text
On 01/08/2019 19:13, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, August 01, 2019 01:49:34 PM Felix Miata wrote:
>> I have a bunch of old Dells. When left unconnected to power, some wear down
>> the 2032 coin cell CMOS batteries with unusual haste. Once this happens
>> and the battery is replaced, reconfiguring the BIOS is required, unless
>> 100% use of defaults proves acceptable, which because of the date and time
>> at least, for me is never.
> I know this is off point (because you are not the original poster, who, iirc,
> is blind or partially blind), but, if the only reason to reconfigure the BIOS
> is to set the correct date and time, an alternate would be to boot with the
> wrong time, then use, set the (software) clock to the correct time (possibly
> using the utility that syncs to the atomic clocks in Colorado or wherever, and
> then using that other utility that lets you set the hardware clock from the
> software clock.
>
> I forget the names of those various utilities ;-)
>
I think one is ntp (network time protocol)
Paul
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