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Re:Knocker uppers: Waking up the workers in industrial Brita... by aivisol on Saturday October 19, 2024 @11:23AM (#41888331)
NTP server.
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Re:Knocker uppers: Waking up the workers in industrial Brita... by gerdesj on Saturday October 19, 2024 @05:23PM (#41890882)
I configured timesync (using NTP) for the GWR office networks many years ago. Some years later I used theirs to act as a stable source for Scotrail's office network too.

As I'm sure we all know here: The four horsemen of the IT apocalypse are NTP, DNS and BGP.

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Re:Knocker uppers: Waking up the workers in industrial Brita... by d0gsg0w00f on Saturday October 19, 2024 @09:09PM (#41892092)
Who's the fourth horseman? Or did I miss a joke?
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Re:Knocker uppers: Waking up the workers in industrial Brita... by aaronmdjones on Sunday October 20, 2024 @06:58AM (#41894531)
There are only 3 hard things in computing: naming things, and off-by-one errors.
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