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Joey Chestnut Beats Kobayashi Again in Hot-Dog Eating Contest
Erick Schonfeld Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:20:09 -0000
It’s not the 4th of July without the Coney Island Hot-Dog Eating Contest (that’s how we celebrate in Brooklyn, by stuffing our faces with as many hot dogs we can fit). This year’s winner is defending champion Joey “Jaws” Chestunt, who won in overtime from six-time champion Takeru Kobayashi. Both ate 59 hot [...]
The Problem With Identi.ca Is That It Is Not Twitter
Erick Schonfeld Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:57:51 -0000
The launch of Twitter clone Identi.ca earlier this week caused a bit of a blogstorm because it appears to have a solution to Twitter’s all-too-regular downtime. (That problem has reached comical proportions, with the familiar Twitter Fail Whale now appearing on T-shirts and kitschy art). Identi.ca’s answer to Twitter’s scaling issues is by [...]
Follow Animal Migrations On Google Earth
Erick Schonfeld Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:50:56 -0000
Google Earth is turning out to be a great resource for scientists to visualize and communicate the phenomena they study. You can see the migration patterns of endangered and other threatened animals, based on data collected by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. (The image above shows the range of both the Northern spotted [...]
Independence Day
Steve Gillmor Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:44:53 -0000
Tomorrow we celebrate July 4th, and a week later our long National Nightmare is over. On the 11th we deposit our 2G iPhones in the FriendFeed donation bins and officially hook ourselves up to the Enterprise iPhone. The ePhone will change how we work and play, and in the process free us from the tyranny [...]
Regator Wants To Be A Blog Reader For The Masses
Jason Kincaid Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:40:00 -0000
Regator, a new blog aggregator that hopes to reduce the blogosphere down to consumable chunks for the average user, has launched today in private beta. The site acts like a combination between Digg and a standard RSS reader, allowing users to vote on the most popular stories drawn from 3,000 blogs that have been [...]
Google, You Can Eat My Cookies Anytime
Jason Kincaid Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:45:41 -0000
Google has just released a lengthy blog post to announce that it has finally put its privacy policy on its homepage. The search giant has been repeatedly questioned over the last few months over its lack of a readily available privacy policy, which until now has been buried in the “About Google” section of [...]

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Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server - Report by Dave Plonka on the massive problems caused on the University of Wisconsin network and time servers, due to misconfiguration of NetGear equipment

404 Geodsoft How-To: NTP Time Synchronization - A tutorial on installing NTP servers on UNIX (OpenBSD and Linux) and Windows to accurately synchronize computer times.
Meta Description: [ GeodSoft: web site design and development. A beginners guide to finding and installing computer time synchronization, Network Time Protocol (NTP), software. ]

Home of the Network Time Protocol - NTP official reference implementation (for Unix and Unix-like OSes, with ports to Microsoft Windows NT, VMS, real-time OSes like VxWorks and QNX). Also jumping-off point to the official NTP documentation and FAQ, community documentation tools (twiki), pool.ntp.org, and related projects.
Meta Description: [ The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. ]

LinuxDevCenter.com: Synchronizing Networks with NTP - Accurate timekeeping is vital to accurate records, and accurate logs are the mainstay of good system administration. Glenn Graham explains NTP (the Network Time Protocol) and how to put it to work on your network.
Meta Description: [ Glenn Graham explains the Network Time Protocol and how to configure it on your network. ]

Network Time Protocol at the University of Michigan - A discussion of why and how to set up NTP software. Some information is specific to the University, some is more general.

500 Network Time Protocol Version 3 - Aimed primarily at helping internal BNL.gov users with NTP, this page provides useful setup information for various flavors of Unix.

Network Time Synchronization Project - NTP Project page for Dr. Mills, primary NTP researcher for over twenty years. He and his students are working on NTP version 4 to improve robustness and security.

404 NTP Reference Implementation Mailing Lists - Variety of mailing lists used to support ntp.org, including the announce list, CVS logs, bugs, and questions (which is gatewayed to the USENET newsgroup comp.protocols.time.ntp).

NTP Servers Web - Community maintained list of public Stratum 1 and Stratum 2 NTP time servers, including policies and requirements for use, contact information. Maintained via the NTP TWiki, by the admins of the respective sites themselves.

NTP Statistics Gathering and Reporting with MRTG - David Taylor's short description of how he uses MRTG (and SNMP) to gather and report statistics for NTP for his servers, including Perl scripts, shell scripts, and mrtg.conf examples

500 NTP Support Web - Not the official NTP documentation or the official NTP FAQ. Intended to be the collection point for cookbook configurations, tips, hints, tricks, and other comments from directly from various members of the NTP community that might be beneficial to others within the community. Anyone who is interested in helping to develop or improve documentation for NTP is encouraged to join and contribute.

O'Reilly Cisco Cookbook - This book gathers hundreds of example router configurations all in one place. In chapter 14, the authors provide information on configuring, running, and debugging NTP on your Cisco router. This link via O'Reilly's Safari network for online publications.
Meta Description: [ 0596003676 - Cisco Cookbook - Everybody who has worked with Cisco routers for any length of time has had to ask their friends and co-workers for example router configuration files that show how to solve a common problem. A good working configuration example can often save huge amounts of time and... ]

O'Reilly Hardening Cisco Routers - Sample chapter from the book, showing the cisco-specific methods of configuring your routers to support using NTP time synchronization.

pool.ntp.org: The Internet Time Network - Information on a collection of public NTP servers provided by users and ISP's placed in a DNS round-robin under pool.ntp.org.

RFC1305 - Network Time Protocol (Version 3) - The current NTP standard. Available here in HTML, PDF, and Postscript formats.
Meta Description: [ RFC 1305 - Network Time Protocol (Version 3) Specification, Implementation ]

RFC2030 - Simple Network Time Protocol Version 4 - The current standard for SNTP, a version of the protocol for implementations which do not need all of the features of NTP. Available here in HTML, PDF, and Postscript formats.
Meta Description: [ RFC 2030 - Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Version 4 for IPv4, IPv6 and OSI ]

The NTP FAQ and HOWTO - Understanding and using the Network Time Protocol (A first try on a non-technical Mini-HOWTO and FAQ on NTP)

Vendor: endruntechnologies.com: Introduction to NTP - Four page document that gives a very simple high-level overview of how NTP works and some of the issues to be considered when looking to set up NTP time servers. This company is a vendor of NTP time servers and related hardware.

Vendor: sco.com: Configuring Network Time Protocol (NTP) service - A detailed information page about the guidelines for implementing NTP on Caldera (SCO) Linux

Vendor: Sun Blueprints Online: Using NTP on the Sun Fire 15K/12K Server - This article addresses the time skew issues for the Sun Fire 12K/F15K server and explains how the system controllers and domains can be configured as NTP clients to external servers. A sample configuration is also provided. This article is targeted to the intermediate level of expertise.

Vendor: Sun Blueprints Online: Using NTP to Control and Synchronize System Clocks - Part I: Introduction to NTP - This article is the first of a series on the Network Time Protocol (NTP). NTP allows synchronizing clocks on different network nodes, which is critical in today's networked world. This first article provides an overview of why time synchronization is important and introduces basic NTP concepts.

Vendor: Sun Blueprints Online: Using NTP to Control and Synchronize System Clocks - Part II: Basic NTP Administration and Architecture - This is Part 2 of a three-article series that discusses how to use Network Time Protocol (NTP) to synchronize system clocks. This article explains the basics of client and server administration, covering various client/server configurations, as well as authentication and access control mechanisms. This article also provides a number of suggestions for an effective NTP architecture.

Vendor: Sun Blueprints Online: Using NTP to Control and Synchronize System Clocks - Part III: NTP Monitoring and Troubleshooting - This article is the third in a series of three articles that discuss using Network Time Protocol (NTP) to synchronize system clocks. The goal of this article is to provide an effective understanding of NTP troubleshooting and monitoring.

Vendor: suse.com: Time Synchronization Through the Network - This page helps with configuration of NTP software in the S.u.S.E. Linux distribution.