Niels Lueddecke <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't do it, it may drag you deep into nut territory... > > All i wanted was a clock based on a cheap LPro rubidium. > Next thing i knew were strange things piling up on my desk. > Now theres a custom power supply, 7 AVRs on a couple of boards, > an FPGA running a 1GHz counter, a lump of metal and some rather > nice blinkenlights.
A bit OT, but from my experience it isn't just the time nut bug that bites in this manner, it's pretty much the same with all forms of nuttiness. My personal story of becoming a DSL nut also started as a "all I wanted was..." In my case back in 2004/2005 "all I wanted" was a V.35 hand-off instead of Ethernet for the new SDSL service I was getting at the time. Now 5.5 y later I have 2 different test DSLAMs in my lab and one more possibly coming, a -48 VDC power supply to feed them, a bunch of Cisco routers to create various test network configurations, at least one of each type of pre-existing SDSL CPE ever made, etc. I have built my own SDSL CPE device, learned a heck of a lot about copper loops, DSL techniques and politics of the telco world in the process, and made technical acquaintances at all major DSL service providers at least in my part of the world. (I suspect that the senior network engineers at the major ISPs think of me the way NIST etc engineers think of TVB.) The DSL nut bug has bit me hard. I assume that my experience of getting into DSL is probably quite similar to how a lot of folks here have got into T&F. MS _______________________________________________ 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.
