Stratum one autonomy and assumptions about GPS

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> esr at thyrsus.com said:
> > I have a USB thermometer on order, they're cheap.  Might I suggest you get
> > one and repeat this experiment, actually plotting your temperature
> > variation? 
> 
> Most CPU chips include a temperature sensor.
> 
> For Linux PCs, you need the coretemp module loaded.  The lm-sensors package 
> does that.
> 
> You can get it by either parsing the output of the sensors command or by 
> looking in things like
>   /sys/devices/platform/coretemp.0/hwmon/hwmon0/temp2_input

Is the CPU temp going to be a good approximation of what the clock sees,
though?  I can think of several reasons to doubt it.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>