From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L5PAc-0008K5-HE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:31:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02257E05CA; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:31:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f20.google.com (mail-qy0-f20.google.com [209.85.221.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C51BDE05CA for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:31:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk13 with SMTP id 13so1375341qyk.10 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:31:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=NuTSB2FUUvcVh/KGtVMfvcLspkYJgaMgSXj8ki7D3CI=; b=mcuN/kn//BaGw6Y89wGW9BViQ/AUuvR9N5HXa3ciFDgo8dbuuf9/rg5ki+cKfDvsae r2hkBXiuLaHkHWXvvy18+tEpaPCjONZYlSNlHCIHK7zEpIVOOIg8CYhgCqrajEggQ63m YNKwqCbccnqa8bOqPRhzH5wOtNT0aNE7QiVO8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=XSNdkSUsZj+FzOvTzoNETbln/sB2BoPucsdvGkwzgo2FnRB28/aLV9UqyVtjcF6i+o ERinvowOo9KW8dGFcdVxgDRzLuJb7NcYf4AlDV37q3mnN8pTFS4a2+bOkSXRCJNJ8QEa a72yCsAfTcfTROop3bTRAqic8fFwRVEx5UbOM= Received: by 10.214.149.13 with SMTP id w13mr5726155qad.123.1227724284474; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:31:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.6? (dsl-243-253-47.telkomadsl.co.za [41.243.253.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 9sm594786yxs.5.2008.11.26.10.31.22 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:31:23 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Update the clock using internet servers: recommendations Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:31:16 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <47a330c50811241201t34497dbeg88b9da5aeae3d02@mail.gmail.com> <200811252311.43483.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20081126165826.4c6dbdab@krikkit> In-Reply-To: <20081126165826.4c6dbdab@krikkit> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811262031.16986.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7141ca69-7a56-4177-916f-e845d0441d2c X-Archives-Hash: ff68bdf5d5644cb962fb3aec3dc658ba On Wednesday 26 November 2008 18:58:26 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:11:43 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > An interesting sidenote on this. I work for a tier 1 carrier in my > > country and right now we are replacing our ntp server. I don't work > > with this stuff every day so I was most surprised to find that the new > > unit is actually a GPS device and will no longer sync to the stratum 1 > > server run by our Scientific Research Council. > > And if someone steals it, it can tell you where it is :) That's clever, very clever :-) What's even more clever is I spent half a minute looking for the content of your post before I realized I wasn't looking at one of your fortunes :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com