Dave Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in 1985 to synchronize time across different computer systems and networks, died at age 85 on January 17
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Dave Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in 1985 to synchronize time across different computer systems and networks, died at age 85 on January 17
Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985. — On Thursday, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf announced …
A profile of David Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in the 1980s, as about two dozen Internet Engineering Task Force contributors work toward NTPv5
An obscure software system synchronizes the network's clocks. Who will keep it running? — In 1977, David Mills … Tweets: @hkanji , @nicolasnova , @yminsky , @hannahseidlitz , @uhoelzle , and @rlove...
A Chromium feature is responsible for nearly half of the traffic load on root DNS servers by issuing DNS lookups that often propagate up to root nameservers
Google is doing to DNS what D-Link once did to NTP. — The Chromium browser—open source, upstream parent to both Google Chrome … Tweets: @jreuben1 , @dennis_kipker , @glynmoody , @hackerfantastic , @...
Widely-used open source Network Time Protocol depends primarily on one overworked project lead
NTP's Fate Hinges On ‘Father Time’ — The Network Time Protocol provides a foundation to modern computing. So why does NTP's support hinge so much on the shaky finances of one 59-year-old developer?...
World's largest DDoS attack reached 400Gbps, says Arbor Networks
NTP amplification fuelling era of super-massive DDoS — Share Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Google Plus Email this article — Some time in December 2014 an unnamed ISP experienced an NTP reflection DDoS...
Apple pushes first ever automated security update for Macs to fix critical NTP vulnerabilities
Apple pushes first ever automated security update to Mac users — (Reuters) - Apple Inc has pushed out its first-ever automated security update to Macintosh computers to help defend …
Maintain an automated networked database? GraphOn wants to sue you
GraphOn is suing Google for patent infringement and the company appears to be doing a nice imitation of NTP, the company that made its name by suing Research in Motion. GraphOn is going for gold in t...
Patent Office finds voice, calls for software patent sanity
The US Patent and Trademark Office is a convenient whipping boy for problems with the patent system. The USPTO famously approved the junk patents at the heart of the legal battle between Research in ...
Lawsuit against Palm makes patent-infringement claims
Patent holder NTP has sued Palm, maker of the Treo e-mail phone, for infringement eight months after winning $612.5 million from BlackBerry creator Research In Motion (RIM) on a similar claim. — The...