On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Eric S. Raymond
<esr@thyrsus.com> wrote:
Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>:
> Expect light participation from me here through may 5. I would certainly be
> open here to a discussion of 'now that we have good time, and geolocation,
> what can we effectively measure with it, and with what tools'...
Good time isn't quite a done deal yet.
Good p2p network tomography software is barely a half baked, half formed idea as yet.
Fact checking ntp's raw stats filters is another thing worth thinking about.
Pretend we have good time already... then what?
There are some relatively minor
changes to gpsd and a bit more hardware testing between here and there.
I'd say two weeks, assuming we don't run into any boojums. And I won't
sign off that the job is *really* finished until we can document hard bounds
on the jitter using something like the test rig Patrick Maupin is trying
to build.
Tell me when a good time to pull is. I would certainly like to try current against
the wndr, as what andrew had tested was gpsd 2.X.
By the way, I've had a third GPS vendor - a U.S. outfit called Parallax
Systems - get back to me with interest in the Plain Jane timing-GPS mod
(connect 1PPS to DCD in a stock design using SiRF+PL2303 or functional
equivalents). Had a long, friendly phone conversation with one of
their design guys.
Did ublox ever get back to you? Sexy sadie is calling...
Actually, it still kind of blows my mind that I've been able to
social-engineer all this with a handful of emails.
and a couple blog posts!
Woulda been the
stuff of cyberpunk novels before the century turned...
The whole maker movement is a barrel of fun! While I didn't
care for much of Stevenson's "Diamond age", the core concept
of a reprap and related is becoming more real by the day.