She's home gloat

That would be find for most of us but I have a feeling Iggy uses his programming skills to get a bid in as close to the last second as possible. At least that is what I suspect.

Wes

assuming its a windows box:-

net time /setsntp:clock1.redhat.com

in a cmd prompt

will keep it right after you've set it close.

regards Mark Rand RTFM

You go to see Jim?

Sounds like a very relaxed life. I am impressed.

Great. Makes me glad that I do not use it. I use linux and all I had to do to get time working, was to type

sudo aptitude install ntp

There is a nice NTP program for Windows that works GREAT. I can find out a link.

A man after my own heart. I still have to OCCASIONALLY wear a watch. But no cell phone.

We have a cell phone for emergency use by SWMBO - Pay and talk - current credit balance is ~$300.00 or 20 hours of local talk time, and this is after taking off $40/year for roadside assistance coverage. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

My bidding program is JBidWatcher and I believe that it keeps its own, separate time. It syncronizes it with eBay's official time.

I lost my cell phone on an ATV ride a couple of months ago. I don't miss it.

Steve

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:17:31 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm, Gerald Miller quickly quoth:

Instead of the usual $40/month for a cell phone, I opted for a TracFone. The original phone was $15 and came with 80 minutes talk time and 3 months service. I used a total of 12 minutes in those 3 months. I then spent $99 on a 1 year contract with 600 minutes. I still have a month to go and 535 minutes. It sits in my truck until I need to call someone from West BF who has given me bad directions to their home.

I hate cell phones for all the drops and garbled voices (from damnear everyone I talk to on them) and I still insist that the technology is NOT ready for prime time.

Feh!

-- Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. -- Thomas Jefferson

I have myself and my mother on a Verizon family plan. Unlimited in network voice, text, pic and vid messaging, and a sizeable pool of minutes and messages for out of network use. Very useful since we're typically 1,700 miles apart. For something like $4/mo more I have an international calling add on to my phone that gets me good rates for calls I periodically need to make to the UK.

I've seen some new plans offered with unlimited anything to anywhere in the US, which means the cell is now fully viable as a land line replacement.

Either you have a lousy phone, or are in a really bad coverage area, or perhaps you got suckered into a GSM phone which still has crap for coverage in the US. The early digital cell phones were pretty crappy for voice quality compared to analog, but those problems went away in the first few years. My current LG VX8300 phone is perfectly clear nearly everywhere.

This puts me in mind of my mother who insisted that she could spot anyone wearing false teeth. I was never able to convince her that she could probably spot *bad* false teeth reliably, but was surely less accurate when confronted with good ones.

Cell phone-lessly yours,

You are likely right, would make more sense to sync with ebay for that application.

WEs