Re: Random String Generator

[vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx]

i5 has ntp under the name sntp = simple network time protocol - at least as a client and maybe as a server - i forget - configurable for sure in navigator

infocenter will have docs

HTH
Vern

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From: Ralph Daugherty <rdjfc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 

> 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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