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Richard N Williams
Member since 22nd April 2008
Occupation: writer Richard N Williams is a technical author and a specialist in the telecommunications and network time synchronisation industry helping to develop dedicated time server products. Please visit us for more information about a GPS time server or other NTP server products.
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05th September 2008
Atomic clocks are the most accurate timekeeping devices developed by man. Modern atomic clocks are so accurate that even in 100 million years less than a second of time would be lost.
This accuracy makes them ideal references for a NTP server (Network ...
05th September 2008
Time synchronization is vital in modern computer networks. Having one machine running a slower clock than another can cause a myriad of all sorts of problems. From the benign, such as emails arriving before they were sent, to the more serious such as bei...
03rd September 2008
The touch screen monitor has been around almost as long as computers themselves. Invented in 1971 by Dr Samuel Hurst they have found a use in a wide variety of applications.
The main advantage of a touch screen monitor is that it both acts as an input ...
03rd September 2008
Electricity and water do not go well together as I’m sure most people are aware. However, dust is equally as bad for electrical components as water. Dust varies in size from tiny airborne particles to larger particles that fall and stick to anything.
D...
03rd September 2008
Computers, monitors and other electrical equipment are now just as commonplace in industry and manufacturing as they are in the office or home. Unfortunately however the demands on electrical equipment such as computers are completely different in industr...
28th August 2008
Time is concept that has preoccupied the thoughts of humans since the earliest civilisations. It may only have been in the last century that we have begun to understand time, thanks to the work of Albert Einstein, but measuring its passing has been an imp...
28th August 2008
When you set your watch by the speaking clock or the radio beeps have you ever wondered who is responsible for setting that time and how they can be sure it is accurate.
This may seem like a straightforward question but their is no master clock that th...
22nd August 2008
When most people think of the digital age and its computers, satellites and mobile phones, the silicone chip is at the foremost of people's minds. Yet, despite its importance in shaping the world around us, many of the technologies that we take for grante...
29th July 2008
Ensuring a computer is not only displaying the correct time but that it is being maintained accurately is not as straight-forward as it first sounds.
Most Linux systems have two clocks. The hardware clock, also known as the CMOS of Bios clock, is usual...
29th July 2008
It is now nearly 40 years old but one of the most familiar office tools is about to become obsolete, according to analysts.
Invented nearly 40 years ago by Dr Douglas Engelbart while working for the Stanford Research Institute; billions of computer m...
29th July 2008
Time has always been important to civilisations throughout history, despite the fact that it is only now, in the modern age that we have come to some understanding of what time is.
The telling of time has always been important, particularly to our agri...
29th July 2008
Many people are probably familiar with the Internet Time tab when setting their clock in Windows. This is a basic form of NTP (Network Time Protocol) called SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol) that polls a NTP server every so often to synchronize time to....
23rd July 2008
The importance of an authenticated timing reference to synchronise a computer network to, cannot be stressed highly enough.
While there are hundreds and quite possibly thousands of internet based timing sources these can’t be authenticated leaving a ...
23rd July 2008
Linux operating systems are becoming increasingly popular partly due to the many advantages they have over commercial systems like Windows or OS X. Linux offers increased security (as there are only a handful of viruses that can infect a Linux based syste...
22nd July 2008
Atomic clocks are incredibly expensive and generally they are normally only to be found in large scale physics laboratories such as MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology (Colorado) or the Nationa...
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