Re: OT: time and computer networks

2004-12-05 Thread Matt Price
Thanks to everyone who responded, I appreciate the help! Thx especially to Alex, I feel I understand wha I needed to a little better. m -- .''`. Matt Price : :' : Debian User `. `'`hemi-geek `- -- if you're an evil

RE: OT: time and computer networks

2004-12-02 Thread Croy, Nathan
From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 1:14 AM On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 00:59 -0500, Matt Price wrote: hi folks, only a hemi-geek): why does a network need careful clock synchronization? It's applications humans that need/want clock sync. A

Re: OT: time and computer networks

2004-12-02 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 00:59 -0500, Matt Price wrote: hi folks, ok... this is way OT. but I thought I'd put this question to the most knowledgable group of people I know... I have to give a lecture on the history of timekeeping technologies. I want to end with late c.20/ early c21

Re: OT: time and computer networks

2004-12-02 Thread Michael Marsh
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 08:56:44 -0600, Alex Malinovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Modern timekeeping systems have primarily been put in place for the benefit of the humans using the computers, not so much the computers themselves. The reason that things like NTP are so accurate is not because the

Re: OT: time and computer networks

2004-12-02 Thread Mark Roach
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 00:59 -0500, Matt Price wrote: puttingthe lecture together I realized I don'trelaly understand why it's important for computer networks to have fine-grain synchronization. So I thought I'd ask some geeks (as my sig says, I'm only a hemi-geek): why does a network need

Re: OT: time and computer networks

2004-12-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:59:57AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: hi folks, ok... this is way OT. but I thought I'd put this question to the most knowledgable group of people I know... I have to give a lecture on the history of timekeeping technologies. I want to end with late c.20/ early c21

OT: time and computer networks

2004-12-01 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, ok... this is way OT. but I thought I'd put this question to the most knowledgable group of people I know... I have to give a lecture on the history of timekeeping technologies. I want to end with late c.20/ early c21 technologies of synchronized timekeeping. GPS is one obvious

Re: OT: time and computer networks

2004-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 00:59 -0500, Matt Price wrote: hi folks, ok... this is way OT. but I thought I'd put this question to the most knowledgable group of people I know... I have to give a lecture on the history of timekeeping technologies. I want to end with late c.20/ early c21