Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 23:34:14 +0000 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=DE=F3r=F0ur?= <thivars@freebsd.is> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPS heads up Message-ID: <391DE675.94AF46F7@freebsd.is> References: <2239.957376123@critter.freebsd.dk> <39107B28.F1AB3DA7@3-cities.com>
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How about port FreeBSD to Garmin GPS; they are based on 80386 cpu ? Kent Stewart wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > In message <200005031744.KAA63550@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon writes: > > > Ok, this has nothing to do with FreeBSD, but I just had to post > > > something since nobody else has. > > > > > > By presidential order, on May 1 the error introduced into the GPS > > > system, called 'SA', was turned off. > > > > > > This means that your GPS receivers are now around 5-10 times more accurate > > > then they were before May 1st. > > > > This has nothing to do with FreeBSD unless you count NTP servers, > > but actual data can be found on: > > > > http://212.242.40.185/cgi-bin/ppsoffset.cgi > > > > It may not have anything to do with the OS FreeBSD but it has a lot to > do with what we can do easily and for a really modest price. The > techno-farms need to know where they are at in a field when they > record data. The old offset error made it such that the operator knew > where they were but the computer couldn't tell which field they were > in. A simple differential was expensive. Now, you don't have the wild > swings and two computers recording data using the GPS derived time may > be close enough to record which plant they are taking data for. > > Kent > > > This is "gps.freebsd.dk" one of, if not the, most precise NTP stratum 1 > > servers in the world: +/- 20nsec. > > > > -- > > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > > FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > -- > Kent Stewart > Richland, WA > > mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com > http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > > SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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