Re: [time-nuts] English To German Email Translation for free

2014-05-20 Thread cheater00 .
Hi, On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 1:16 AM, Bob Burchett bob.burch...@eeontheweb.com wrote: I have a friend who speaks fluent German; send me an email of what you want to say BUT you should know that when I need any language of text I use this website:

Re: [time-nuts] The Problem with Time Timezones - Computerphile

2014-05-10 Thread cheater00 .
On 9 May 2014 21:01, Hal Murray hmur...@megapathdsl.net wrote: hol...@hotmail.com said: Ahh, but with Lady Heather you can specify the time zone offset (down to the second) and the when the daylight savings time switchovers occur. And from experience, I can tell you that the code to do

Re: [time-nuts] 5370 processor boards available

2014-02-27 Thread cheater00 .
If having a battery in the device makes some of you queasy, you could always put it outside, on the back. But I seriously believe there are ways to make battery backup which will not leak. D. On 27 Feb 2014 06:52, Chuck Harris cfhar...@erols.com wrote: That fix presumes that the power line

Re: [time-nuts] 5370 processor boards available

2014-02-27 Thread cheater00 .
You can fit linux with a comfortable amount of stuff in 20 MB, but you want more than that for more advanced programs. You should not use the built in ssd for writing. It has limited writes and cannot be replaced. Use a card. You can tailor linux so that it has minimal services but the question

Re: [time-nuts] 5370 processor boards available

2014-02-27 Thread cheater00 .
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: In message CA+9GZUhJLqQ7K-cNXsSzPMgSOH6Oyd774SM_e0=ykljgyd4...@mail.gmail.com , cheater00 . writes: If having a battery in the device makes some of you queasy, you could always put it outside, on the back. But I

Re: [time-nuts] 5370 processor boards available

2014-02-27 Thread cheater00 .
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Scott Newell newell+timen...@n5tnl.com wrote: At 11:03 AM 2/27/2014, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: Seriously: Keeping the computer alive and eating power is silly. We just need to find out how to get the Linux configured correctly. Exactly. We use the

Re: [time-nuts] 5370 processor boards available

2014-02-27 Thread cheater00 .
Hi Brian, it's less about caching pending writes to file handles that are waiting inside the system. That's most likely to work well within a short period of time. The issue is if you're using the system to its full extent. Among others you'd like to write applications for the BBB that enhance

Re: [time-nuts] Thermal Compensation: Digital vs Analog

2014-02-26 Thread cheater00 .
Hi Bob, better use an FIR. Your rolling average didn't smooth out enough because it doesn't have a cutoff low enough. Hysteresis is not going to help here that I know of. Cheers, D. On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Bob Stewart b...@evoria.net wrote: Hi Atilla, The GPSDO is VE2ZAZ's circuit

Re: [time-nuts] 5370 processor boards available

2014-02-24 Thread cheater00 .
Hi, I browsed the page and the GitHub repository for a while, and read the readme and read-more documents, but I still don't know what it actually adds. Perhaps it would be a good idea to document this? Cheers, D. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp p...@phk.freebsd.dk wrote: In

Re: [time-nuts] 5370 processor boards available

2014-02-24 Thread cheater00 .
, cheater00 . cheate...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I browsed the page and the GitHub repository for a while, and read the readme and read-more documents, but I still don't know what it actually adds. Perhaps it would be a good idea to document this? Cheers, D. On Mon, Feb 24

Re: [time-nuts] Measuring 1 PPS with an HP 5335A

2014-02-16 Thread cheater00 .
Maybe it needs more pulse width at low freq? D. On 16 Feb 2014 20:15, Jimmy Burrell jimmydb...@gmail.com wrote: I've recently purchased an HP 5335A and for the most part, we're getting along famously. Then I tried to measure my GPS' 1 PPS pulse. I'm not seeing anything Iike what I'd expect to

Re: [time-nuts] Resistors in VCO

2014-02-15 Thread cheater00 .
You can improve most old VCOs by removing voltage references derived from voltage rails and replacing them with REF0x chips. D. On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Tom Knox act...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, some VC oscillators I have played with keep trimmer resistor in circuit to adjust