Fledgling Unix software developers might benefit from knowing
these conventions of linking executable programs with libraries.
"The history of LDAP could not possibly be more sordid."Beginner's Guide To Sun One/Sun Java System Directory Server by John Berger ::.
--from The Unix System Administration Handbook, 3rd ed, page 532.
There is a lot of confusion in the world about protocols for transmitting the time of day across the Internet. The industrial-strength member of the field is the true Network Time Protocol (NTP), originated by Dr. David Mills and his team at the University of Delaware, and now maintained by an open-source collaboration. To achieve its high precision, NTP uses UDP (the User Datagram Protocol). NTP does not use TCP at all: any time software you may see using TCP is not speaking NTP. (A client-only variant of NTP is SNTP, the Simple Network Time Protocol.)
There are two commonly seen, but less precise, time-transmission protocols that do use TCP (the Transmission Control Protocol):
But Dr. Judah Levine of NIST says: "Real clock people don't use Windows."Sun Blueprints: Using NTP to Control and Synchronize System Clocks
As of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), Apple has provided a built-in way to configure the "Caps Lock" key to behave as a "Control" key. See "Keyboard & Mouse" settings in System Preferences.fKeys (Kodachi: Mac OS X keyboard utility)
(See also sections on various computing environments for some security tools.)
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