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Re: An armed society...
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Tue, 22 Jan 2002 20:59:33 GMT
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Mr L F Braun wrote:
> And, of course, everyone says that Y2K was overblown, that it was
> nothing, et cetera, et cetera, but we'll never know--because so much
> work and time were put into preventing trouble. And you know what?
> Trouble was almost completely prevented. I'd call that a massive
> success in spite of procrastination, not a "non-story." But that
> would be dealing in counterfactuals.
While Y2K deserved much of the concern raised, it really was overblown.
I don't remember how many times I had to re-explain exactly what the Y2K
exposure of our product was, and it was a minor problem in that the next
time the machine booted after December 31st 1999 the system would detect
a problem with the clock, and demand the user re-set the clock. Once
done, the system won't have a problem again until January 1, 2100.
Incidentally many machines based on the IBM AT architechture have this
exact same problem because they use the same real time clock.
I also had to constantly document how the date was used in our system
(basically only for display and in some log messages).
The time to discover the problem was well spent. The time to continually
re-document the problem was not.
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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| (...) You were lucky if that was the only problem you had to contend with. I was involved with the upgrade of a mainframe PIMS application, customised by the client from an OTS package, which needed major changes regarding data entry, reports, and (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| I'm sorta me-tooing, but hey, why not? (...) And our borders aren't 100% secure--and see what problems that wreaks? Imagine if we were fully balkanized--just look at the operation of the US under the Articles of Confederation if you want to see the (...) (22 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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