Women in Technology

Article:		Scheduling Tasks in Panther
Subject:		utterly irresponsible
Date:		2004-03-06 10:07:17
From:		tempname
The author is being utterly irresponsible in pointing novice users to the NTP server listing. Public NTP strata-1 and strata-2 timeservers are a precious resource and they don't need to be overwhelmed by home PC users looking for millisecond accuracy on their clocks. There's no need for this anyway- Apple has quite thoughtfully provided NTP servers for those who don't have a company, ISP, or university to provide NTP service, as the author mentions.

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• utterly irresponsible
  2004-03-06 10:28:52  James Duncan Davidson | [View]
  
  
  I appreciate your concern. However, I do want to point out that the book that this text was excerpted from is not for novices. You can see this in the book description, which starts off with the line Running Mac OS X Panther is the ultimate Swiss Army Knife™ for power users who want to customize, tweak, and generally rev up their Mac.
  
  As well, the page I've referred to contains a lengthy discussion on the rules of engagement for using strata-1 and strata-2 timeservers.
  
  Finally, even though it's not clearly stated in the text, my intention for showing how to change your time server was to allow people to change their machines to point at a time server a local network admin might have set up. (Yes, not all Mac users are home users) I will make sure to state this clearly, as well as to put a warning in about using strata-1 timeservers, into the next revision of the book.