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Re: Y2K bug in action
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Wed, 5 Jan 2000 05:31:55 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Miller writes:
> Rather than looking for the proper way to remove any two characters, I just
> changed it to 20. If anyone is still using this machine in one hundred
> years, they can deal with it. :)
I just finished reading William Gibson's "All Tomorrow's Parties" (Which,
BTW,is a pretty good book, albeit with a weak ending.).
In the book, one of the funny things that he postulates is that in the future,
there pretty much will not be any new software, just a continual patching and
re-patching of existing code to suit circumstances. As hardware gets faster
and faster, there is no need to optimize code, only to provide more
functionality, even if it means bloatware.
I suppose one of the rare exceptions to this would be entertainment software
that has to try to wring as much performance out of each clock cycle that it
can, so that it doesn't limit its market to just Johnny's Rocket PC with the
12GHz Octium IV processor.
Will
(Who spent yesterday and today battling a code problem that strangely enough
had nothing to do with Y2K ;-) )
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| (...) aka "reality", as it's known outside the publishing world. (...) I doubt that that will continue for more than a few decades. There's just so much you can do with a computer - immersive VR with more objects than you can handle is probably the (...) (25 years ago, 6-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| Discovered and squashed a Y2K-related problem today. The weekly full backup on our (soon to be decommissioned but still limping along) VMS failed, complaining "Volume label too long." Turns out that the volume label for a tape must be six letters or (...) (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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