Seriously, nothing at all happened with that. Companies spent big wasteful wades of $$$ to get their computers ready for it and nothing would have happened.
Seriously, nothing at all happened with that. Companies spent big wasteful wades of $$$ to get their computers ready for it and nothing would have happened.
no
it was a) a legitimate threat to computer systems...read up on it on wiki
b) way way way overblown by the media
we need another y2k10 to boost tech stocks.
D'uh.
Global warming is the current y2k.
Before that there was radon, Alar, and others.
Not to forget.... the end of the world 2012.
And your evidence to demonstrate that nothing would have happened if they didn't spend "wasteful wades of $$$" is...?
Seriously. Since nothing happened, I'd say that was the best "waste wades of $$$" ever spent. No?
back when "loggin on to the internet" was shitting your swim trunks
here by inteligent design wrote:
Global warming is the current y2k.
Before that there was radon, Alar, and others.
Not to forget.... the end of the world 2012.
I think the most current manufactured panic is swine flu virus.
yk wrote:
Seriously, nothing at all happened with that. Companies spent big wasteful wades of $$$ to get their computers ready for it and nothing would have happened.
You are obviously a technical IDIOT with no real knowledge of what the Y2K problem was. Read up on it and you will see that it was a real potential problem that was averted by corrective action. Would the world have ended? Of course not, but records would have become a corrupted mess.
yk wrote:
Seriously, nothing at all happened with that. Companies spent big wasteful wades of $$$ to get their computers ready for it and nothing would have happened.
Nope...no scam at all. I worked for a software company at that time, and we had developers working around the clock (hired extras on finite contracts). Was a lot of work and absolutely necessary for that software.
it was a real concern but was overplayed.
however if you were a Cisco shareholder you were loving it.
current comparable scam is EHRs---physician practices running out spending 100K per provider for EHR b/c its been handed down as gospel or a have-to.
brogan1 wrote:
Seriously. Since nothing happened, I'd say that was the best "waste wades of $$$" ever spent. No?
Let me guess, if something had happened, you would have been one of the first to complain about the idiots who wouldn't spend enough money to ensure nothing happened?
Using your logic, you didn't get scurvy last year, so I guess that means all that vitamin C you ingested was wasted. No?
Um, yeah wrote:
And your evidence to demonstrate that nothing would have happened if they didn't spend "wasteful wades of $$$" is...?
I had two old personal computers from the 1980s in my basement. I took them up, started them and they worked perfectly.
The only people who are saying it was not a scam, are people involved in upgrading computers. It was an obvious scam. Plenty of people, and corporations and many governments did nothing and ended up just fine. The weather service in Kiribati went down that night. That was it! And it was never determined to be Y2K related.
fgfg wrote:
back when "loggin on to the internet" was shitting your swim trunks
Simpsons joke between my handle and Carl Carlson.
The Y2K fixes had to go in long before the year 2000.
For example, credit card expiration dates had to be formatted to four digits once they started having expiration years of 00.
A lot of accounting software had to be updated.
Air traffic controls had to be fixed, but long before the year 2000.
If you wanted to run a report that would go from July 99 to June 00, you had to update that software.
Things just would have been real messy if they didn't make all of the corrections.
2038 bug is going to be way bigger.
Y2k was largely, though not exclusively, a Cobol thing.
Unix time will overflow sign 32 bit integers in 2038, and virtually every computer program in the world relies on Unix time. Virtually all of them will be running on 64 bit hardware by then, but there are millions of databases that will have to have their schemas migrated.
brogan1 wrote:
Seriously. Since nothing happened, I'd say that was the best "waste wades of $$$" ever spent. No?
Nothing happened because orgs made the changes ahead of time.
You really don't have a clue how much of your life is still probably running on Linux kernel 2.2. There is a part of the IT world that operates on the "Stuff works. Let it keep working.". It tends to be a very big deal to change these systems. Just because you didn't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen.
There was way more media fear months after it was relevant.
uh_no wrote:
no
it was a) a legitimate threat to computer systems...read up on it on wiki
b) way way way overblown by the media
This. Some of you don't understand how important and old computer systems doing boring but valuable $$$$ work can be.