RE: Y2K Furor
- To: "m*@ucdavis.edu"
- Subject: RE: Y2K Furor
- From: T* D*
- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 19:40:10 +1300
I was very disappointed to find that my PC which checked out as "Y2k OK"
with a test program actually fails to boot properly since the century
change. It gives me a "CMOS checksum error". Luckily I have found a way
around it. I just have to set the year back to 1999 before I turn the PC
off and then set it back to 2000 after I have booted up. Every day. Sigh.
If I forget, I have to manually reset some of my CMOS settings every time
(after the checksum error the PC resets the CMOS settings to their default
values). I could just leave the PC running forever I suppose. Until it
crashes. Or there is a power cut.
As for the doomsaying, if nobody had bothered to change their systems for
Y2k, there WOULD have been wholesale crashes. There may still be a lot of
problems, but the hundreds of billions spent on fixing problems in code
that is over 30 years old has minimised them.
I wrote some of that code back in the early 70's, under instruction. I said
to the boss "This date format that is in all our files won't work in 2000"
and he said, "Don't worry, this system will have been replaced long before
then and besides, it will be somebody else's problem."
Luckily my garden does not depend on computers for its successful
operation!
Tim Dutton
"Raindrops", Main Road North, Kaitoke, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
(Latitude 41? 5' South, Longitude 175? 10' East)
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Dills [SMTP:cdills@fix.net]
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2000 10:24 AM
To: brom-l@bdt.org.br; medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Y2K Furor
The recent furor remind me of something I read a long time
ago. If I have it right, the earth was predicted to go through the
tail of Halley's comet in 1910. Oh what a furor, a frenzy of
doomsayers.
It is said that every scientist in the world turned on every
instrument they had and no one, NO ONE, noticed a flicker of a
needle. Nothing!!
I hope the doomsayers this time are not disappointed by the
lack of problems this time. Personally I'm pleased and not a bit
surprised. But then again, I have a Mac!!!
---Chas---
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