keeping simple

Windows support in Timekeeper and MiFID II Compliance

TimeKeeper® PTP/NTP time synchronization software now works on Microsoft Windows® Operating Systems including Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012. This has been a lot longer in coming than we originally expected because most of our early customers turned

MiFID2 and security – keeping track of the money

A shorter version of this post is on the FSMLabs web site. MiFID2 is a new set of regulations for the financial services industry in Europe that includes a much more rigorous approach to timestamps. Timestamps are in many ways

MiFID2 Timestamp regulations

There are a number of places in the new guidelines that increase the rigor required for timestamping data. One key part covers SI’s (systematic internalizers) who operate kind-of like private exchanges. TimeKeeper’s ability to produce traceable audit and to use

RISC-V and Bloat

Went to UT today to listen to David Patterson speak about the open RISC instruction set architecture and processors he and his colleagues are developing. As a software developer, hearing about free hardware makes me giddy with joy, perhaps with

Annals of unintentional irony

Come back after a trip to see Marc Andreessen’s team of twitter posters complaining wryly about how government is so gosh durn big and citing experts like Milton Friedman. A difficulty of modern economics: I have yet to talk to

The Enterprise Profile for PTP and TimeKeeper

One of the most interesting things we saw in the proposed IEEE 1588 enterprise profile was a bold suggestion on fault tolerance that looked familiar. Here’s FSMLabs press release from September 2011 TimeKeeper 5.0 offers the ability to monitor multiple

What does the UNIX file system do?

Unix, Linux, Windows and other operating systems and the world wide web all support file systems with the familiar path file names like “/home/snowden/travel/boardingpass.pdf” or “/system/passwords/secret/dontread.txt” although sometimes with different separator characters between the individual “flat” file names. For example,