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Re: Y2K bug in action
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:39:19 GMT
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LPIENIAZEK@stopspamNOVERA.COM
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Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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. :)
Why did you not choose to be a craftsman and fix the problem correctly?
The true craftsman makes the back side of the dresser just as good as
the front, it matters not that there is no one to see it, for the
craftsman would know, and be ashamed, if he did a slipshod woodworking
job.
(inside every crufty hack there is a small elegant fix trying
desperately to emerge)
--
Larry Pieniazek larryp@novera.com http://my.voyager.net/lar
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NOTE: Soon to be lpieniazek@tsisoft.com :-)
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| (...) Contemplated it. I give my self some small credit for realizing that there was a better fix somewhere. Part of the problem is that our DCL manuals have been lost to history, so figuring out the answer would have been rather complicated, using (...) (25 years ago, 5-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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