Re: Random String Generator

[Ralph Daugherty <rdjfc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanks for the info, Vern.

vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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
>
> -------------- Original message -------------- 
> 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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