well, I was talking about the difference between getting time in
milliseconds and microseconds, so it was tongue in cheek to suggest that
an accurate time was being retrieved over internet for gettimeofday()
:), but I looked up ntp and very impressive that this protocol has been
delivering time accurate to within 10 milliseconds since 1985 using
something with as cool a name as a jitter buffer.
Having looked that up, I saw that ntp is built into Unix, Linux, and
a simplified version in Windows server. Do we have it in i5/OS, or at
least PASE?
P.S. I won't have anything ready for a callable CAPTCHA generator for
the original poster of this thread in the time frame he was talking
about, but I've pushed back my other projects and still working on it.
I've pulled together 170 classes so far, mostly from the Apache Batik
project, hopefully will get close to callable code pretty soon.
This was something I had on my list to do anyway, just got to it a lot
quicker than I normally would have.
PHP had an installable graphics library that is already integrated and
ready to go we saw from earlier posts. As for Java, it sounded like
Java's JAI library is the same way but with some licensing issues
(requires indemnification?), but I'm staying 100% Apache open source
with this. We on the i are already using Apache license code so it will
fit right in.
rd
Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote:
The "lot of slack"-problem has been solved pre-SOAP in the ntp
protocol[1], so you need to write a ntp-client and call that instead :)
[1] Feel free to point out the redundancy.
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