For a brief window this month, the official clocks that quietly coordinate the Internet’s heartbeat slipped out of sync. After a power outage hit key servers in Colorado, the National Institute of ...

I've got what might be an unusual request-- I simply haven't ever tried to do it and manufacturer specs aren't helping much. What I'm looking for is a home-class router where the unit will also serve ...

NIST traced the problem to its Boulder, Colorado campus, where a prolonged utility power outage disrupted operations. The outage occurred during high winds that damaged power lines and triggered ...

Cheap GPS units are readily available nowadays, which is great if you have something that needs to be very precisely located. Finding the position of things is one of many uses for GPS, though. There ...

A rare case of deliberately trying to induce an outage A staffer at the USA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tried to disable backup generators powering some of its Network Time ...

I have a cron job script on my LAN hosts periodically running "ntpd -gqn -4" or "ntpd -gqn -6", in case of system clocks going way (think hours) out of sync, depending on network conditions (sometimes ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently warned that an atomic clock device installed at its Boulder campus had failed due to a prolonged power ...

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