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| Hi everyone! Just wanted to offer some good luck on surviving the next few days! What with bug 2000 and all, who knows... And also, I wish you a happy new year!!! Enjoy the countdown! -Shiri who's gonna spend the new year baby-sitting :-( (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) I don't know about you, but I expect it to be the biggest non-event of the century. (...) I hope you're getting paid well... --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Well if something DOES happen we ("we" meaning the west coast of North America) will be the last to know....so if something happens in Sidney Australia my family has plenty of time to grab food, gas, candles, and a makeshift bomb shelter Until (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) The only question is...which century? :) -- David Schilling (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) (which century? This one or the next one? all the bad stuff happens in the last year of this century, technically :-) ) NO WAY, it's DISASTER in the making! You wanna see an already manifested bug with serious, dare I say it, GALACTIC (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) LOL As of 11:20 pm PST Thursday night, they still haven't fixed it! That was fun to see. (...) Conan O'Brien once asked Kate Mulgrew if she resented the fact that now that they've got a woman "behind the wheel" of a ship why the shows creators (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) The only virus I'm worried about is the Stupid People virus. Looting, crazies, 2 million people picking up their phone at 12:01 to make sure it works, etc. You know, that Stupid People virus... (not quite as tongue-in-cheek as I might like) (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| To All, (...) Well, I am here at AEI to finish backing up the network, shutting down the server and hardware, and pulling the plug on everything, just in case. I don't think anything is going to happen, but better to be safe than sorry. Scott S. (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I agree (and so far evidence does too). But in a lot of cases, it's not because the whole thing was a hoax, as some will now have you believe, but because a lot of people did a lot of work getting systems up to date. (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Yes! And thank you(us?) each and every one. However, I am in agreement with the quoted stat that says most of the Y2K problems will not occur tomorrow (today in some places, Happy all digits rolled year to our Kiwi and Strine friends) but (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Yeah, it better be compliant. That has got to be one of the funniest sites I've seen in a long time. Keep it coming, Matt! (...) LOL! I like that one :) -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Yep, it's basically the only e-mail I'm getting - helps me feel not-so-useless ;-) Don't let it stop - It's the best! (...) Me too... (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Yeah, I didn't think otherwise, but just in case I never hear from you guys again... :-) (...) I hope so too ;-) -Shiri (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) IT, or something between IT and me, or ME, is/are not quite right. Here's the header I received for today's quote. Subject: QRU QOTD for 1 January, 2000 Date: Sat, 1 Jan 100 02:50:01 -0500 (EST) From: qru-qotd@kagomi.com Reply-To: (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Well, since you quoted it here, it looks like you recieved *two* quotes today instead of one. If you consider that "100" quotable, that is. LFB (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) And how, exactly, is pulling the plug going to help? What do you think will happen when you start up again one the first, or the third? There will be mailstorms like the world hasn't even known when the various forms of melissa hit.. Jasper (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) :) Well, as you discovered, we're sending out messages dated in the year 100. (Should be fixed tonight.) The problem is that for no particularly good reason, we're piping the outgoing message through elm's send-file feature, rather than direct (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) :) Thanks, I'm glad you like it. It _really_ needs some updating; one of my new year's resolutions should be to put in some serious overhaul work. (Hall of Fame hasn't been updated in years, and we're several thousand quotes behind on the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) works fine. (...) This is arguably my fault too, in that it means some of the software on the machine didn't get updated, but oh well, at least it's non-fatal. (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Heh. Well I haven't subscribed via email because I get too much and it would be just another piece of delete-key-clutter. But I do visit the site on occasion for laughs. Which reminds me, I gotta unsubscribe to the lugnet groups by mail if I'm (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Thanks, y'all. We appreciate the support. (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) It's called, the boss calling you into his office, saying, Steve: "Scott, I want you to pull the plugs on the equipment." Scott: "Yes sir, how far?" I didn't at home, or anywhere else. But when your boss calls, you don't go into the arguments (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Yah, I figured that was probably it. That was just my bit of rant for the day. (...) I haven't been able to get a Y2K problem while trying.. barney:~$ uptime 10:32am up 47 days, 11:36, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01 barney:~$ date Tue (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Well, I have been going nuts on all the people that were stocking up water, etc. My mom even did that! (30+ Gallons!) My boss Steve isn't the most technical person in the world, he has a hard time logging in in the morning, but Detroit Edison (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Bath-tubs, meet Mr Tap. I even forgot to do _that_... (...) See? Edison strikes again! (see .debate ;) ) Jasper (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Famous last words there, -OR- KER-BOOOOM!!! :) Jeff "I will not be gored... by any old demon sword!" (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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