Xaerxiessia
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If you don't transfer right away , you gonna loose everything at reboot !!!
What a joke.
What a joke.
Who remembers the hysteria about the Y2K bug ?
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Everyone remembers the hysteria, but many don't know about all the work that went on behind-the-scenes to prepare for it. And that behind-the-scenes work paid off with a mostly good result. There were still some failures but not the widespread system crash that everyone feared.
DDO Gaming
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Who remembers the hysteria about the Y2K bug ?
// The cost to fix the Y2K bug is estimated to have been between $300 billion and $600 billion globally, with the United States alone spending around $100 billion. //
ChatGPT is your friend
// The cost to fix the Y2K bug is estimated to have been between $300 billion and $600 billion globally, with the United States alone spending around $100 billion. //
ChatGPT is your friend
LokiFrost
Qui Tacet Consentit #RESIST
I loved the Y2K bug (and the anxiety it caused local, state and federal agencies).Who remembers the hysteria about the Y2K bug ?
// The cost to fix the Y2K bug is estimated to have been between $300 billion and $600 billion globally, with the United States alone spending around $100 billion. //
ChatGPT is your friend
Between mid 1999 and end of Q1 2000, my income jumped from 30K to 80K.
I used the extra money to put myself through school.
~Loki
Rusty_helmet
Teh_troll’s Fluffer
I was on a plane over Y2K and the computer failed and we had to land old school. It was not a Y2K related failure, but people were pretty scared.
svenofnein
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I remember waking up 1/1/2000 and thinking, 'ah, that's a shame'. But I teeter between chaotic neutral and chaotic evil.
Dragavon
Well-known member
It was never a hysteria.
A lot of money and resources was spent to make sure nothing bad happened before the century turned. That is why nothing happened.
TrinityTurtle
Forum Turtle
I sometimes feel like people are allergic to planning ahead. Recognizing there is a flaw and spreading the information and making plans to prevent the flaw from becoming a Problem is a good thing, not hysteria.
LokiFrost
Qui Tacet Consentit #RESIST
There were a lot of bad things that happened during and after Y2K, the general public doesn't remember or didn't care because the world didn't end and it didn't necessarily impact them, per se.
Some of the biggest things that I personally helped resolve was in Lake City, FL.:
- They had several county and federal jails/detention centers whose automated cell locking systems opened up the doors at random times throughout the night; this included the ingress and egress doors to the facilities themselves. We had to sift through 50K lines of code that was cobbled together from COBOL, FORTRAN and LISP to help resolve these issues.
- Additionally, they had a regional airport that experienced random shutdowns and reboots of command and control systems, including RADAR and FAA connectivity. My company helped resolve those issues as well.
On a larger scale was the Y2K work we did for the federal government:
- One of the more "fun" things we helped fix was Lotus123 for the federal govt. At the time, US Customs had Lotus123 integrated into every aspect of their systems at the old datacenter in VA. This was a nightmare to resolve because of the integration with Novell integration issues.
- For a brief time, US Customs servers and network appliances actually stopped talking to other agency systems.
- My company tried to resolve all these bugs with Lotus123 and in the end, migrated them to Domino and Windows-based servers (NT).
None of this stuff made the news and yet, in my book, were "bad".
~Loki
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cdbd3rd
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There weren't even any zombies. Worst apocalypse ever.
Dewboy691
Member
CHAT GPT is NEVER your friend!! This will be your failing!!Who remembers the hysteria about the Y2K bug ?
// The cost to fix the Y2K bug is estimated to have been between $300 billion and $600 billion globally, with the United States alone spending around $100 billion. //
ChatGPT is your friend
TrinityTurtle
Forum Turtle
Yeah, I had to continue to deal with my idiot neighbors survival. It was a massive rip off, I had a plan!
Grimscore_Riffstorm
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Sarlona Raiding
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Heh the first project I worked on out of college was converting 123 spreadsheet calculations put together by non-IT experts into c++ code.
The y2k problem wasn't hysteria, but without a doubt IT departments and software engineers used the situation to get way more budget $ than they needed.
The reason it went so smoothly is because most organizations prepared and mitigated properly.
The US Bridge system is an example of something that we didn't prepare for and mitigate properly.
As the weirdo who privately owned a computer, I was tasked with that y2k stuff in our department, nothing world-breaking but some documentation would go awry if there actually were any production in the night of dec 31 (like the heat-treatment after certain production processes missing the 3h deadline, or the sudden realisation that that unique part number used in 1999 was already used back in 1970.)
But yeah, there was a lot of angst back then, and it was frustrating, trying to convince folks in their 50's that very little will happen.
Well, now I'm in my 50's and Y2K38 will be our doom, I tell you!
But yeah, there was a lot of angst back then, and it was frustrating, trying to convince folks in their 50's that very little will happen.
Well, now I'm in my 50's and Y2K38 will be our doom, I tell you!
LokiFrost
Qui Tacet Consentit #RESIST
DOOOOOOOM
Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!1!!1!1111!!!!!!! The UNIX EPOCH DISASTER!!!!1!11!!1!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!1!!!1!!1!111!!!!1!!1!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Edit: Added 1s to the exclamations to clarify how scary this will be
LokiFrost
Qui Tacet Consentit #RESIST
I miss sharing processor time on my old mainframes. :cry:
Or having to send print jobs to the queue for 4 am printing; hoping that I didn't make a mistake and print out a ten thousand page report instead of a 10 page report...but having to wait until the next business day to find out.
My stress levels were much more manageable back then. :ROFLMAO:
~Loki