-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > On Dec 11, 2007, at 5:54 PM, Michael Zimmermann wrote: > >> And in this way they fail to upgrade their most valuable resource - >> they fail to educate, train and teach their own employees > > Indeed. > > However, if your business isn't related to timekeeping and you need a > dedicated high quality timekeeping device it'd be insane to take away > time from your employees to work with that rather than to work with, > well, your business!
That's the key to this. I work at a small company and we try to use opensource stuff whenever we can, but sometimes it just doesn't work. Good example is active collab. They were open source and free as in beer and then just recently decided to go to a licensing model. We tried the last free version as well as a couple other free alternatives and none of us really got used to using any of them. They all just didn't seem solid. Tried out the paid version of active collab and probably bought it a week later. We've been using it for a couple weeks now and have been pretty spoiled by it already. I'm already forgetting to do stuff that I thought would be a quick fix and not writing it down anywhere. Sure, we could have built our own exactly how we wanted it, but the reason we were looking for one so badly is because we were getting swamped with ideas and didn't want "design project management program" to be another one. I'm also the lucky person that has to try and keep the other developer in check since his opinion is build everything from scratch because he doesn't trust any outside code (I think he wears a tinfoil hat to bed). Bringing in NTP into all this. We have a transaction system that consists of two PostgreSQL servers that is then controlled by a third computer with pgpool. It's crucial that the times in all these are synced. Having ntpd running on them and talking to a few ntp pool servers works fine as we only need second accuracy, not nanosecond. It was a 5 minute thing to install on the servers and too be honest I don't even think about it. We run ntp on all the servers and they're all just randomly picking pool addresses with mine thrown in the top of the list and only server I ever really pay attention to as far as NTP goes is my own. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFHYccEiSebwryQIwwRAuzdAJ9lNTQHDau1a1JFpokb6pQG7icqBgCgmWde 8wUebp3iiFaqjnSuhok4dic= =2S8/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
