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Dan Langille | 2 Dec 2004 05:36
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BSDCan 2005 - call for papers

BSDCan 2004 was an enormously successful grass-roots style 
conference.  It brought together a great mix of *BSD developers and 
users for a nice blend of both developer-centric and user-centric 
presentations, food, and activities.  Based upon that accomplishment, 
planning for the next event began shortly thereafter.

BSDCan 2005 will be held May 13-14, 2005, in Ottawa.  We are now 
requesting proposals for papers.

The papers should be written with a very strong technical content 
bias. Papers and proposals of a business development or marketing 
nature are not appropriate for this venue.

The schedule is:

19 Dec 2003	Proposals acceptance begins	
19 Jan 2003	Proposals acceptance ends	
19 Feb 2003	Confirmation of accepted proposals	
19 Mar 2004	Abstracts due	
19 Apr 2004	Formatted final papers must arrive no later than this
                date

Please submit all proposals to papers <at> bsdcan.org

NOTE: This is the schedule for formal papers. We are also accepting 
submissions for for talks and presentations. If you have a proposal, 
please contact us on papers <at> bsdcan.org.

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Henning Brauer | 10 Dec 2004 15:55
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OpenNTPD 3.6.1 released

December 10, 2004

We are pleased to announce the release of OpenNTPD 3.6.1.
This is our second formal release, which includes improvents and 
enhancements done after the OpenNTPD 3.6 release.

OpenNTPD is a time syncronization application, allowing network-based
time syncronization, either to a number of time servers or to a single
"master" time server. OpenNTPD keeps a machine's local clock in sync
with a number of Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers, and can
redistribute the local clock, being an NTP server itself.

The default configuration file will sync the computer's time
to pool.ntp.org, a large group of NTP servers from around
the world, which is a good timekeeping solution for many OpenNTPD users.
This means that for many people, using OpenNTPD consists of just running
the installed program -- the default configuation is useful and "safe".

Highlights include:
-Support for the Network Time Protocol, per RFC 1305 and 2030
-low memory footprint
-easy, straightforward configuration file and command line options
-complete and accurate manpages
-Written using secure and reliable programming techniques, including 
 privilege separation and exclusive use of bounded buffer operations
-OpenNTPD can now account for large clock offsets at startup by
 setting the time hard instead of stepping, making the use of
 rdate or ntpdate prior to startup superfluous.

OpenNTPD is in use in many production environments.
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