Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 07:30:02 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Check the date and time at boot Message-ID: <199506230530.HAA27953@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199506230451.VAA09559@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jun 22, 95 09:51:26 pm
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As Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > The flaw here is that not everybody is connected to the internet to run a > > clock-checker program... > > And these are the same types of people who are likely to turn there > machines off for more than a few hours, causing this little utility to > falsely trigger ever time they boot. Objection, Rod. There's that small part of the world outside Big US with its Great Internet. European telecommunication used to be WAY expensive compared to the US world. My current income wouldn't suffice if i'd like to connect my machine to the Internet via the phone at startup. (My monthly phone bill is already around DM 150 through 200 now, makes for US$ 100 .. 150, to give you a comparision, and i'm lucky enough to have a small non-commercial ISP that doesn't cost me very much.) Of course, the above feature *must* be selectable, so everybody who isn't used to run his machine all the time won't suffer from it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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