Hi Rob > I live in Texas, so I have something more than a passing familiarity > with oppressive heat. In essence, every watt imported into my den > has to be forcibly removed 9 months of the year, if not more. Yup - sounds like here, probably just shifted by six months.
> ... I picked up a > Linksys NSLU2 network storage widget and hacked into it. It runs a > minimal Linux system on a very low power ARM processor, and uses USB > attach disk storage. Hmm - interesting. I know of these 'slugs' being used as the heart of 1-Wire (R) weather systems. Think there is a way of fitting a serial port, with a little hardware hacking, but will have to check on that. > ...But I thought you'd fine the > flash disk results interesting. And was my concern, but the atime thing mentioned in other posts may be a way around it. > Beyond this, Dave Mills, the author of NTP has a great paper on high > resolution timekeeping in Unix kernels. It's a bit dated, circa > 1994, but it might be worth a read. I thank you - I'll have a look at this. Cheers M -- Matthew Smith Smiffytech - Technology Consulting & Web Application Development Business: http://www.smiffytech.com/ Personal: http://www.smiffysplace.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
