Re: [time-nuts] altinex switches

2013-02-12 Thread Rex
Yes, this switch matrix seems intended for video signals, so 75 ohms is the expected standard. I doubt that would be much of a problem for 50 ohm timing signals. Some of us shall see soon. BNCs may be 75 ohm versions too, but probably not a big issue. On 2/11/2013 6:20 PM, J. L. Trantham

Re: [time-nuts] lightweight webserver for, e.g., NTP widget

2013-02-12 Thread Paul Amaranth
I like to use mongoose http://code.google.com/p/mongoose/ The project page says 50Kb executable, although it balooned up to 63K the last time I built it. On Feb 11, 2013, at 3:01 PM, Jim Lux wrote: I'm intrigued by the possibility of using a lightweight web server to provide a

Re: [time-nuts] lightweight webserver for, e.g., NTP widget

2013-02-12 Thread Jim Lux
On 2/11/13 10:20 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:04 PM, David J Taylor david-tay...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Anything which works on the Raspberry Pi must be fairly lightweight! G I don't think that basic Apache would be too much to manage, and many folk have used it:

Re: [time-nuts] lightweight webserver for, e.g., NTP widget

2013-02-12 Thread Didier Juges
Before you know it, you are going to find that not having php (or Python, or Perl, or whatever your favorite scripting language is) is crippling. I recommend you bite the bullet and get a small ARM SBC big enough to run a full Linux distro. I use a TS-7553 from embeddedarm.com with great

Re: [time-nuts] lightweight webserver for, e.g., NTP widget

2013-02-12 Thread gary
I tend to agree with this notion of not going with the cheapest SBC possible. Unless you are going to incorporate the PI in a number of devices (i.e. will be buying multiple units), it makes more sense to toss in the extra hundred dollars and get a more capable SBC. For one thing, you need the

Re: [time-nuts] Possibly off topic - Jitter on Ethernet over power adapters

2013-02-12 Thread Mike S
On 2/10/2013 6:04 PM, Magnus Danielson wrote: You should read TCP/IP as Internet Protocols (notice plural form here). It points to the stack of protocols, Actually, no. IP is Internet Protocol, singular, and is the L3 (mostly - IP predates the ISO/OSI model layers, so IP suite protocols don't

Re: [time-nuts] lightweight webserver for, e.g., NTP widget

2013-02-12 Thread Didier Juges
If you decide to go with one of the SBCs at embeddedarm.com, I have a Wiki page on my web site documenting how I have set mine up. Didier Www.ko4bb.com Sent from my Droid Razr 4G LTE wireless tracker. -Original Message- From: Jim Lux jim...@earthlink.net To: Discussion of precise

[time-nuts] GPStar Plus: Rubidium, anyone?

2013-02-12 Thread Bruce Lane
Fellow Time Trackers, Does anyone happen to have an Odetics GPStar Plus (their model 565, if I recall) with the rubidium option installed? If so, could I bother you for some detailed photos of the innards, particularly the main PC board jumpers, the additional power supply and

Re: [time-nuts] lightweight webserver for, e.g., NTP widget

2013-02-12 Thread lists
I think those SBCs have insufficient RAM (128M on the biggest board.) . 512M seems to be OK (which is where most community boards are at). The Panda ES is double that. Now those SBC have sata ports, so swap space isn't quite as detrimental as on SBCs that use the SDHC for swap. Still, I

Re: [time-nuts] GPStar Plus: Rubidium, anyone?

2013-02-12 Thread paul swed
Sorry to say have GPStars. But no RB. From my experience with the gpstar a RB is sort of a waste. It did not seemed to be intent on that level of accuracy. It jumps along correcting. Its use case seemed to have been a time source for the likes of radio stations. Very accurate for that purpose. But

[time-nuts] Systematic noise

2013-02-12 Thread Magnus Danielson
Fellow time-nuts, Again I feel that it is good that I do not trust the samples I have been given, but start by measuring them. Again I have found a sample where I have systematic noise from the oven controller. Looking at the frequency plot, I see triangle shaped frequency modulation and the

Re: [time-nuts] Possibly off topic - Jitter on Ethernet over power adapters

2013-02-12 Thread Bill Hawkins
Thanks for the details, Mike. I read TCP/IP as TCP over IP, because TCP can be used with any data link layer that doesn't guarantee delivery. OTOH, the first book I read about the Internet protocols was titled TCP/IP so there is a tendency to lump then together. I've read that the developers of

Re: [time-nuts] lightweight webserver for, e.g., NTP widget

2013-02-12 Thread Didier Juges
Insufficient RAM for what applications? (not argumenting, just curious, since it has been running Apache and a couple of services just fine) I understand 64MB (like the board I use) is a little skimpy by today's standards, but when you don't run a GUI, it goes a long way. Didier Sent from my

[time-nuts] Network jitter with NTP

2013-02-12 Thread Sarah White
David, Thanks for posting that. I'm currently doing some testing over wifi links myself, and found that page very useful. You do a really good job documenting your experiences with GPS-based NTP refclocks, and I appreciate all the hard work. I just wanted to ask though, are you compiling your

Re: [time-nuts] lightweight webserver for, e.g., NTP widget

2013-02-12 Thread Jim Lux
On 2/12/13 10:11 AM, Didier Juges wrote: Before you know it, you are going to find that not having php (or Python, or Perl, or whatever your favorite scripting language is) is crippling. I recommend you bite the bullet and get a small ARM SBC big enough to run a full Linux distro. I use a

Re: [time-nuts] Systematic noise

2013-02-12 Thread Tom Van Baak
Magnus, Two things to check. 1) Is the bump you see at all correlated to the relative frequency between the two oscillators? I have seen this when comparing two ULN, for example. You can make the bump move left or right depending on the beat frequency. 2) Some oscillators have separate oven