avoid syncronising clock and how to dial-up

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  hi all

couple of stupid questions I guess.
I just setup my network connection yesterday and my problem now is that 
every time Ubuntu loads up it tries to syncronise the computer clock to 
the one on ubuntu server. Because i have dialup connectionn at home its 
cannot syncronise at all as its not connected by default. So it takes 
several seconds until this is timed out. How could i disable this?

And this is the stupid question: how do i dial up? I was using SuSE 
before and there was some small application to do this but i cannot find 
anything like this in ubuntu.

thanks

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enrike