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I’ve had an interest in accurate timekeeping and NTP, the Network Time Protocol for quite a while.

At one time or another over the years, I’ve run the original ntpd, xntpd, and OpenNTPD. I currently have the chrony NTP server running on my old server, to aggregate NTP needs on my home network.

Another fortune from the local strip mall Chinese restaurant.

I had been hosting this blog on a $5 a month VPS from Host the Best, but they have been shut down by the data center they’re renting from. Host the Best is apparently not dealing with abusive customers effectively.

There’s no projected service restoration date.

Unix, and now Linux, have included a wc command for a very long time. Most explanations of its use are misleading fluff and garbage, and do not give you an appreciation of its true value.

I decided to try the kea DHCP daemon on my production server.

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Across the Space Frontier, Joseph Kaplan, Wernher von Braun, Heinz Haber, Willey Ley, Oscar Schatchter, Fred Whipple, edited by Cornelius Ryan, Viking Press, 1952.

I tried to understand the space station’s orbit with numerical integration.

Code repo, go look at it, see if you like my code.

My Arch Linux laptop started rebooting when I closed the lid and re-opened it.

As Ben Franklin noted, “Men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other resources”. So it was with this problem.

My pet Roomba, Dobby, got himself good and stuck under an overstuffed easy chair.

I completed Wordle 1,056 without any mechanical or computational help. I believe I can deduce the answer from my third guess.