Newsgroup: it.scienza.astronomia.seti
Titolo: Losing time with using Seti@home

Has anyone else had the problem of their windows clock slowing down after
using Seti@home? Whenever i leave it on all night or all day, i lose about
3-4 minutes. But when i leave my computer on without seti@home running, i
have no time loss!
Help if you know whats up
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 have no time loss!
your clock slowing down is a feature of many types of screen savers

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Either that or you'd better slow down. :^}
Rich

> > your clock slowing down is a feature of many types of screen savers
How about your CMOS battery? I had the same problem on my old 486DX2, got a
new one and problem dissapeared.
Odessit

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Yep, I had that problem once, the new battery did the trick (- no S@h
then -).
On both our computers at the house there is no problem with the clock
slowing down because of the SETI@home client running.
Regards, Alfred.
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Poor WinTelUsers!    We MacIntoshUsers use NTP    (NetworkTimeProtocol).
We always have the correct time to about a millisecond or so.
    Theoretically, WinTels should use NTP; but however, I never found a
WinTelUser making NTP work properly directly from the OS.

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It's a historical design issue. Not to worry, you can get software
like TARDIS which uses NTP. I used to set my computer clock by my
watch, now I set my watch by my computer clock.
BTW, TARDIS is shareware and available for download from lots of places.
Rich


I use Litestep - an alternative shell for Windows 98. NTP works fine from
that.
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Stephen Bell.

 places.
    Yes, but theoretically, WinTels should handle NTP directly from the
OS.    MacIntoshes have NTP as a basic OS-feature for years.    You
WinTelUsers must use software from the third party "Time And Relative
Dimensions In Space."    Theoretically, the same control by which WinTelUsers
set the clock "System" should have an option for using NTP just like on the
MacIntosh.
    Microsoft has no shame with bugs.  Windows 98 is little more than a
bugfix for Windows 95.    Microsoft just knowingly shipped W2K with over
known 63kbugs    -    I suppose that the next OS will be little more than a
bugfix for W2K.
    Why do not you all just buy MacIntoshes?

 from that.
    Poor WinTelUser!    You have to jump through all of these hoops just for
making what should be a basic OS-feature work.
    Might I suggest an iMac?

     Why do not you all just buy MacIntoshes?
I'm an apple ][ owner and I've had it with apples lies. And I will not
buy a computer with no CLI anyway. I'd sooner use linux (in fact, I've
just recently installed it).
Rich


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bugfix for W2K.
Yep. I also dislike the idea that everything shoould be in the OS. I don't
want a web browser to hog memory even when I'm not using it!
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