The NTP Pool Needs More Servers — Yours, If Available

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The NTP Pool Needs More Servers — Yours, If Available

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 21, 2012 @06:45AM from the otherwise-you'll-start-waking-up-last-week dept.

Do you have a static IP or two? If so, you might be able to spread some Internet infrastructure well-being with very little effort. An anonymous reader writes "The NTP Pool project is turning 10 soon, and needs more servers to continue serving reasonably accurate time to anyone in the world."

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I would but I just don't have the time... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-21 06:48 · Score: 5, Funny

//puts on sunglasses//
1. Re:I would but I just don't have the time... by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-06-21 07:08 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Obligatory: This is no time to argue about time. We don't have the time.
  
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2. Re:I would but I just don't have the time... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-21 07:08 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  That joke feels a little out of date.
Re:What is NTP? by SJHillman · 2012-06-21 07:07 · Score: 4, Funny

What Wikipedia doesn't tell you is that Skynet had humble beginnings as a network clock...
Re:$25 Raspberry Pi + $27 GPS reciever? by MyFirstNameIsPaul · 2012-06-21 07:22 · Score: 3, Funny

Perhaps you could also point out a source for a Raspberry Pi.

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Re:What is NTP? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-21 07:27 · Score: 3, Funny

"The NTP pool is a dynamic collection of networked computers that volunteer to provide highly accurate time via the Network Time Protocol to clients worldwide." "Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a networking protocol for synchronizing the clocks of computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks. In operation since before 1985, NTP is one of the oldest Internet protocols in use." - wikipedia.
Thanks for that informative post.
Also, anyone reading Slashdot who needed such a post, your geek card has been downgraded to "minion" level. Minion level cards do not get access to the second-floor gym or the breakroom, but can still use the reference library. Take advantage of it!
Woo-hoo! First post! by PPH · 2012-06-21 07:29 · Score: 4, Funny

They can use my system if they don't mind pretty crappy latency.

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Re:What is NTP? by 0racle · 2012-06-21 07:36 · Score: 2, Funny

News for Nerds. Are you so pitiful you don't know how to use a web search engine?

Oh, excuse me,

A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. - wikipedia
Oh damn

The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW or W3,[2] commonly known as the Web, or the "Information Superhighway"), is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. - wikipedia
OH GOD DAMNIT

An information system (IS)[1] - is any combination of information technology and people's activities that support operations, management and decision making. -wikipedia
You know what, look it up your damn self.

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Okay, NOW I'm confused by RulerOf · 2012-06-21 07:56 · Score: 3, Funny

"no to pizza"
Why would you make up an acronym for a concept that doesn't exist for words that cannot be spoken?

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