How To: Manually update OS X time from Command Line
Sometimes OS X’s time and date gets out of sync with the real world, and using the option “Set date and time automatically:” doesn’t always work.
You can use this command in terminal to update it manually:
ntpdate -u
The server address can be any of the Apple Servers such as time.apple.com or the free Time Servers, pool.ntp.org.
This same command should work for most Unix/Linux Operating systems, as long as ntpdate is installed.
How To: Use Google to search Usenet Archives
Usenet’s usability has degraded a lot in recent years. But back in it’s day it was probably the most useful tool to share knowledge around. The grains of knowledge contained in Usenet even now are immeasurable.
So go to: http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?q=&
And you’ll be presented with Google’s Advanced Search. This one has several additional options to help find information. Subject, Author, and even dates are possible. But the hidden feature is the groups section. Instead of just Google Groups, any newsgroup name can be used such as alt.religion.
Enter in your requested search terms, modify the advanced search options, hit OK and be amazed at the power that is Google Search.