Re: [time-nuts] beaglebone black, debian, NTP client

2015-12-31 Thread Bob Darlington
Me. It's pretty straight forward. "apt-get install ntp" -Bob On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 6:27 PM, jimlux wrote: > Has anyone fooled with using NTP on a beaglebone black running Debian (the > beagleboard.org image)? > > > I assume it's just a matter of turning on ntpd (which I'm not sure is even >

Re: [time-nuts] beaglebone black, debian, NTP client

2015-12-31 Thread Graham / KE9H
The Debian 8.x (jessie) releases for the BeagleBone run systemd-timesyncd, which is installed and on by default. As long as the Beaglebone is hooked to the internet, it has correct time to +/- 10 milliseconds or so. Probably good enough for a time-nut lawn sprinkler. systemd-timesyncd is a simplif

Re: [time-nuts] Loran-C Norway/France/Germany shutdown

2015-12-31 Thread paul swed
Here is a comment I had made on one thread. Yes indeed interesting that Anthorn's going at 0300 UTC. Our friends in the UK celebrating perhaps? Or something else cooking? You only need one station for frequency with the ole austrons. By the way when I could get lock it was the Lessay station 6371 I

Re: [time-nuts] Loran-C Norway/France/Germany shutdown

2015-12-31 Thread Thomas S. Knutsen
FWIW, Loran-C at Jan-Mayen was shut down at 1200NT (1100UTC). Info from: http://jan.mayen.no/nyheter/en-aera-er-forbi/ I will check with a friend at Bø station on monday regarding the rest of the norwegian stations. BR. Thomas. 2016-01-01 3:16 GMT+01:00 GandalfG8--- via time-nuts : > > Looks li

Re: [time-nuts] beaglebone black, debian, NTP client

2015-12-31 Thread Paul
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 8:27 PM, jimlux wrote: > Has anyone fooled with using NTP > You can apt-get (in alphabetic order) chrony, ntp (sntp) or openntpd. You can also build ntimed-client. As I recall the obvious installation assumes a RTC. ___ time-nut

Re: [time-nuts] Loran-C Norway/France/Germany shutdown

2015-12-31 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message , John Seamons writes: >Looks like Sylt went off-air in addition to the Norway and France >stations. Perhaps it is not a permanent decommissioning. Yup, I have all NELS LORSTAs off the air here. But interestingly Anthorn, 6731Y, is still up. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNI

Re: [time-nuts] Loran-C Europe

2015-12-31 Thread paul swed
Yes indeed interesting that Anthorn's going at 0300 UTC. Our friends in the UK celebrating perhaps? Or something else cooking? You only need one station for frequency with the ole austrons. By the way when I could get lock it was the Lessay station 6371 I think. Only ever did that in the winter and

Re: [time-nuts] beaglebone black, debian, NTP client

2015-12-31 Thread Hal Murray
jim...@earthlink.net said: > Has anyone fooled with using NTP on a beaglebone black running Debian (the > beagleboard.org image)? Works fine for me. I'm building from source to help test the latest bits rather than running the binary packages they provide. I don't remember anything interesti

Re: [time-nuts] Loran-C Norway/France/Germany shutdown

2015-12-31 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
Looks like Sylt went off-air in addition to the Norway and France stations. Perhaps it is not a permanent decommissioning. It might just be coincidence, but at around 0145 on Jan 1st the Sylt web site link on the Loran-C Europe web site was reporting a 404 not found

[time-nuts] Loran-C Europe

2015-12-31 Thread GandalfG8--- via time-nuts
As far as I can tell, in the 6731 chain there is just one station still operating, this at 0200 on 1st January 2016. My FS700s are reporting no master found so Lessay has gone, and I suspect Soustons also. Without the master I'm not seeing any identification of the one station I'm now recei

[time-nuts] beaglebone black, debian, NTP client

2015-12-31 Thread jimlux
Has anyone fooled with using NTP on a beaglebone black running Debian (the beagleboard.org image)? I assume it's just a matter of turning on ntpd (which I'm not sure is even installed) and/or running ntpdate (I'm not looking for super accuracy.. it's for a sprinkler timer)

Re: [time-nuts] End of Loran-C in Europe confirmed.

2015-12-31 Thread Mike Garvey
US DoD is looking for sources for 50K eLoran receivers. http://www.insidegnss.com/node/4372 What goes around, comes around (maybe)... Mike -Original Message- From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of paul swed Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2015 1:17 PM To: Discussion

Re: [time-nuts] Springer textbooks >10 years old now available for download as PDF at no cost

2015-12-31 Thread Morris Odell
Dunno about a court case, but my many years of experience of academic publishers is that they are very tight about releasing any freebies at all, even old ones. I was quite surprised to see that free pdfs were available and thought at the time that someone at Springer probably goofed. Springer

[time-nuts] Loran-C Norway/France/Germany shutdown

2015-12-31 Thread John Seamons
Looks like Sylt went off-air in addition to the Norway and France stations. Perhaps it is not a permanent decommissioning. http://www.jks.com/signals/loran/LV.shutdown1.jpg The above capture from the Loran-C Live Grabber site of Markus Vester, DF6NM: http://www.df6nm.bplaced.net/LoranView/LoranGr

[time-nuts] eLORAN will be on the air

2015-12-31 Thread paul swed
The Wildwood, NJ eLoran transmitter will be continuously broadcasting from 0900 (EST) on 05 January 2015 through 1500 (EST) on 15 January 2015. Wildwood will be broadcasting as 8970 Master and Secondary most of the time but occasionally may operate at other rates. Happy New Year everyone. Regards

[time-nuts] Springer Graduate Texts in Mathematics >10 years old now available fordownload as PDF at no cost

2015-12-31 Thread Electronics and Books via time-nuts
Anyone interested to get the bundle of 200 books as pdf books (1 file per book) can send me an email. It is in 6 pieces of 1 GB .exe file containing 7z zip. Each file can be run seperated or you can use 7z. 30-12-2015 20:3435.010.369 A Classical Introduction to Modern Number Theory, Ke

Re: [time-nuts] T.J.v.V. Amazing

2015-12-31 Thread Jeff Kruth via time-nuts
WOW, simply fantastic craftsmanship. And restoring the radar system, just amazing. This person is, in more ways than one, obviously one of a kind. Very creative, no doubt genius level IQ. One question, not that it makes any difference, and I am not judgmental at all, merely curious, man ->wom

[time-nuts] Tatjana van Vark

2015-12-31 Thread Adrian
Here is a little video introducing some very fine scientific apparatuses built by T.J.v.V. http://www.tatjavanvark.nl/Youtube.html and take a look at the rest of her website as well. There is a miniature version of the Shortt-Synchronome time standard and more. Enjoy. Adrian _