Negative Pings

I had a computer today that was having intermittent network issues. I tried a ping as a normal troubleshooting step and was surprised to receive negative ping times.

At first I was excited about the time travel possibilities but soon realized that there must be a glitch in the Windows XP machine I was working on. That's when I found several sites in Google discussing the problem. It seems that AMD dual core processors have an issue with timing between the cores.

There is a patch available, so I guess my time travel fantasies are still unfulfilled.