GPS Week Number Rollover Passed Without Incident (Mostly) Posted by Rotundo on Thursday October 14, @08:00AM EDT from the practice-run dept. NavNerd writes "Remember the GPS week rollover in August, when the 10-bit week counter wrapped from 1023 to 0? A survey of readers finds that most receivers handled it fine, a few thought it was 1980, and one hiker reports his handheld insisted he was standing in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for three days." Consider it a dress rehearsal for New Year's. The ocean part was a nice touch. GPS Week Number Rollover Passed Without Incident (Mostly) | Login/Create an Account | Top | 26 comments | Search Discussion Threshold: -1: 26 comments 0: 24 comments 1: 18 comments 2: 14 comments 3: 8 comments 4: 8 comments 5: 2 comments NestedFlatThreadedNo Comments Oldest FirstNewest FirstHighest Scores First The fine print: the following comments belong to whoever typed them. Dashdot takes no responsibility for them, and frankly, neither do most of the people who typed them. first post! by Anonymous Coward (Score:0) Re:first post! by ClamshellCarl on Thursday October 14, @08:29AM EDT (#5) (User Info) Exactly. And the vendors know it, which is why they're scared. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:first post! by RTFM_Ralph on Thursday October 14, @09:07AM EDT (#8) (User Info) Did you even read the parent post? He said the opposite. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:first post! by WebWeaver on Thursday October 14, @09:13AM EDT (#9) (User Info) No, that's not how any of this works. Please read the FAQ before posting. [ Reply to This | Parent ] 1980 by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14, @08:16AM EDT (#2) My car's nav system thought it was 1980 for a week. It kept trying to route me to a mall that was torn down in 1991. [ Reply to This ] Firmware updates by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14, @08:18AM EDT (#3) Most manufacturers had firmware updates out months in advance. The people who got bitten were the ones who never update anything, which is most people. [ Reply to This ] Re:Firmware updates by Gnuisance on Thursday October 14, @08:54AM EDT (#7) (User Info) Mod parent up! [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Firmware updates by LawGeek on Thursday October 14, @09:32AM EDT (#11) (User Info) I tried that and it set my monitor on fire. Thanks a lot. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Old news by NullPointer on Thursday October 14, @08:20AM EDT (#4) (User Info) This was on a mailing list I read three weeks ago. Dashdot, always first with yesterday's news. [ Reply to This ] Re:Old news by HexHead on Thursday October 14, @09:18AM EDT (#10) (User Info) Actually, that's a common misconception. The spec explicitly allows it; it's the vendors who didn't implement it. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Beowulf by RetroRaccoon on Thursday October 14, @08:39AM EDT (#6) (User Info) Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these. [ Reply to This ] Re:Beowulf by JavaJunkie on Thursday October 14, @09:52AM EDT (#13) (User Info) Source? My brother-in-law says otherwise, and he has a Pentode. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Beowulf by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14, @10:30AM EDT (#18) Wait until you see the next version. It's going to be worse. [ Reply to This | Parent ] Re:Beowulf by GeckoGuy on Thursday October 14, @10:40AM EDT (#19) (User Info) I work in this field, and the parent is basically right, although the details are a bit more complicated than one comment can cover. [ Reply to This | Parent ] My experience by StargazerSue on Thursday October 14, @10:05AM EDT (#15) (User Info) I've been working in this industry for 15 years, and I can tell you that this kind of thing comes around every five years with a new name. The underlying ideas don't change much; the marketing does. [ Reply to This ] Hmm, not so sure by Gnuisance on Thursday October 14, @11:08AM EDT (#22) (User Info) I'm not so sure this is good news. Every time someone says 'this will change everything', it changes about 3% of something. [ Reply to This ] Hmm by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 14, @11:17AM EDT (#23) I wonder how long until someone ports Doom to it. [ Reply to This ] Correction by kernel_kid on Thursday October 14, @11:43AM EDT (#25) (User Info) Small correction to the story: it's not the first time this has been done. A university group demonstrated something very similar in 1996. The difference is that this one actually ships. [ Reply to This ] Microwave by Gnuisance on Thursday October 14, @11:51AM EDT (#26) (User Info) My microwave has more processing power than the computer that went to the moon, and it still can't figure out popcorn. [ Reply to This ] 8 replies beneath your current threshold. Show them all (threshold -1).

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