OT: Alternative clock display

[Joerg]

Hello Guy,

I thought that too, but such delays really can't explain why
[ http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/anim ] would be two seconds
off. If you look at the traffic, once the page is loaded it
sends a handful of bytes once per second, regular as clockwork.
It's hard to come to any conclusion other than tycho.usno.navy.mil
sending late or whatever Joerg is using to detect WWVB being early.
(The latter is remotely plausable if he is using one of those low-
cost "atomic clocks", impossible if he is listening to it.)

Well, both. The atomic clock was low cost, about $20. But it perfectly
corroborates the WWV time signal on 15MHz. The signal via the web was
again about two seconds late this morning, right now it is a little over
one second late.

We do use a HW firewall, maybe that has indeed something to do with it.
Also, I did not use any SW that performs latency averaging.

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com

 

[Guy Macon]

Richard H. wrote:

Joerg wrote:

One minute is plenty of time access your PC and compromise it.

The last time I tried to install Windows 2000 with an open connection,
I got hacked before I even had time to run "windows update" - i.e.,
it seemed like a matter of seconds. I think the hackers have bots
going 24/7 - you can poll an awful lot of IPs in a minute!

And crooks can install an awful lot of spyware in that time.

A couple years back, someone did a study of the probe traffic and
estimated the average time to live for an new / unpatched / unprotected
Windows system on the Internet was 7 minutes.

Combine the above with these facts:

MicroSith refuses to sell any version of Windows 2000 other than
the original one with all the bugs and security holes.

MicroSith insists that you connect to the internet in order to
access windowsupdate.microsoft.com to get the bug fixes and security
patches that make it (somewhat) safe to connect to the internet.

As of last week there were 63 separate updates for Windows 2000,
requiring over a gigabyte of downloading and dozens of reboots.
(Many of these combine a bunch of previous updates, so the total
number of bugs and security holes is far higher.)

I look forward to the day when I find a Linux substitute for those
last few Windows apps and am able to stop dual-booting.

 

[Joerg]

Hello Richard,

For sites that are really concerned about accurate time sources, the
better approach is multiple GPS receivers with NTP or ACTS (dial-up) as
backup. http://www.truetime.com makes some good units - I like the
NTS-200. Curiously, they only provide for the lightning rod^D^D^D GPS
antenna to be connected via coax; no fiber extenders available.

Or just use WWV. I can receive them one various frequencies any time I
want to.

Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com

 

[Carl D. Smith]

On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 12:35:22 +0000, Guy Macon
<_see.web.page_@_www.guymacon.com_> wrote:

MicroSith refuses to sell any version of Windows 2000 other than
the original one with all the bugs and security holes.

MicroSith insists that you connect to the internet in order to
access windowsupdate.microsoft.com to get the bug fixes and security
patches that make it (somewhat) safe to connect to the internet.

If you're installing Windows 2000 quite often, it might be worth
your time to google "Slipstream Windows 2000."

"Slipstreaming" is a term someone made up for the process of
putting all the updates into a copy of the Windows install CD so
that when you install Windows you get all the updates installed
during the Windows install.

I've never done it myself, but it sounds convenient for people
who regularly reinstall Windows.

Carl Smith