Something I'm curious about...

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Post #83,730

by inthane-chan

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2/24/03 11:25:19 AM

Something I'm curious about...

some of my clients weren't fixed in time and learned firsthand how serious the problem could have been

(Re: Y2k issues)

I'd be interested in hearing what kinds of troubles they experienced - with an "all names changed to protect the guilty^h^h^h^h^h^hinnocent" clause, of course.

"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989

Post #83,743

by Andrew Grygus

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2/24/03 11:57:30 AM

Two client's were not fixed in time because . .

. . their software vendors didn't get their fixes debugged in time. Both vendors had tried to combine the Y2K fixes with other stuff, and got behind on the release.

One, an auto mechanic shop specializing in Land Rover and BMWs, lost all customer service records for January and half of February 2000 because the database couldn't store them in a retreivable manner. I had updated his machine from Xenix (not Y2K compliant) to Caldera Linux in time, but he had to run the old software on it until mid February.

Another client, who refurbs and resells Nortel telephone equipment, had similar problems with his networked accounitng system. Reports were badly out of order and pretty meaningless until the fixed version was done (mid January). Fortunately, he didn't lose data and his reports were good after the fix. This was a DOS network system running with a Samba server.

The accouning system we used in-house simply prevented all access as of 1 Jan 2000. It had to be given a false date even to let you in to review old data, and could post no transactions beyond 12-30-99. Fixes were available in October but I did not install them because I was moving to a different system.

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OK, this got waaaaay out of hand. - (Andrew Grygus) - (86) - Feb. 23, 2003, 10:11:39 PM EST

dunno if I'd trust that scary lookin guy in the tie - (boxley) - (4) - Feb. 23, 2003, 10:15:57 PM EST

Doesn't everyone have an Evil Twin? -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - (3) - Feb. 23, 2003, 10:30:52 PM EST

No, I *am* my Evil Twin! ;-) -NT - (n3jja) - (1) - Feb. 23, 2003, 10:39:37 PM EST

That's what my Evil Twin accuses ME of -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - Feb. 23, 2003, 11:02:31 PM EST

My Evil Twin is named Kevin. - (orion) - Feb. 23, 2003, 11:27:26 PM EST

I think you are right on in many areas - (orion) - Feb. 23, 2003, 11:38:58 PM EST

A Tour de Force {ugh} - (Ashton) - Feb. 24, 2003, 04:59:14 AM EST

Haven't had time to finish much of it yet but... - (ben_tilly) - Feb. 24, 2003, 10:53:34 PM EST

Edits - (drewk) - (5) - Feb. 24, 2003, 11:32:11 AM EST

saw another one - (SpiceWare) - (2) - Feb. 24, 2003, 09:46:03 AM EST

Some more... - (Another Scott) - Feb. 24, 2003, 10:08:24 AM EST

Yeah - should be Pope Johns Pizza - (tuberculosis) - Feb. 24, 2003, 06:48:20 PM EST

Longer time deltas between updates, please. :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - (1) - Feb. 24, 2003, 10:42:20 AM EST

Sorry - (drewk) - Feb. 24, 2003, 10:45:47 AM EST

Andrew, if I may - (cwbrenn) - (1) - Feb. 24, 2003, 09:51:07 AM EST

It's open for linking . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Feb. 24, 2003, 10:06:07 AM EST

Edits - (Silverlock) - Feb. 24, 2003, 10:14:22 AM EST

Blanket thanks for the edits. - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Feb. 24, 2003, 10:53:31 AM EST

Content question - (drewk) - (1) - Feb. 24, 2003, 11:06:08 AM EST

Rewritten. -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - Feb. 24, 2003, 07:44:08 PM EST

ICLRPD (one of many) - (boxley) - (3) - Feb. 24, 2003, 11:07:59 AM EST

Don't know that you'd want to say that publicly - (drewk) - (1) - Feb. 24, 2003, 11:15:35 AM EST

This isn't news to them. - (Andrew Grygus) - Feb. 24, 2003, 11:39:51 AM EST

Guess we're a thumb. - (inthane-chan) - Feb. 24, 2003, 11:26:23 AM EST

Something I'm curious about... - (inthane-chan) - (1) - Feb. 24, 2003, 11:25:19 AM EST

Two client's were not fixed in time because . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Feb. 24, 2003, 11:57:30 AM EST

More edits (other post was getting *waaaaaay* out of hand ;) - (drewk) - (1) - Feb. 24, 2003, 12:53:57 PM EST

Dude... - (admin) - Feb. 24, 2003, 12:08:49 PM EST

Bad link. - (inthane-chan) - (1) - Feb. 24, 2003, 12:22:52 PM EST

Well, that's what happens when . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Feb. 24, 2003, 12:31:57 PM EST

Yet more - (drewk) - (12) - Feb. 24, 2003, 01:30:28 PM EST

Well, that's a good number of corrections . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (11) - Feb. 24, 2003, 01:38:43 PM EST

Like I said in the first post - (drewk) - (4) - Feb. 24, 2003, 02:01:46 PM EST

Yes, please keep it all together. - (tseliot) - (3) - Feb. 24, 2003, 02:14:43 PM EST

Once it got big I thought of breaking it up . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Feb. 24, 2003, 02:21:45 PM EST

Agree on the "single repository"; suggested Intro for others - (Ashton) - (1) - Feb. 24, 2003, 05:21:24 PM EST

Send it to Kevin! - (drewk) - Feb. 25, 2003, 08:59:20 AM EST

One minor error in fact - (Steven A S) - (5) - Feb. 25, 2003, 03:24:00 PM EST

Speaking of which... TheInq story. - (Another Scott) - (4) - Feb. 25, 2003, 03:37:02 PM EST

Yes, I have read the German site . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (3) - Feb. 25, 2003, 04:12:18 PM EST

You *used to* get it all for free by clicking "Weiter>>" (1) - (CRConrad) - (2) - Feb. 25, 2003, 04:58:12 PM EST

Never mind. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Feb. 25, 2003, 05:01:47 PM EST

Uh... No, I'm only on the second page... Wha?!? Noooo! - (CRConrad) - Feb. 25, 2003, 04:53:36 PM EST

couple of minor edits - (cforde) - Feb. 24, 2003, 07:34:58 PM EST

Okay, just one more I promise - (drewk) - Feb. 25, 2003, 09:08:24 AM EST

Well, now it's really getting out of hand. - (Andrew Grygus) - (20) - Feb. 26, 2003, 03:36:04 AM EST

Booyah! - (drewk) - (15) - Feb. 26, 2003, 08:49:54 AM EST

My impression is: rejection by /. is a positive - (Andrew Grygus) - (14) - Feb. 26, 2003, 10:35:43 AM EST

Used to be worthwhile until fairly recently - (drewk) - (2) - Feb. 26, 2003, 10:41:58 AM EST

A trick for /. - (inthane-chan) - (1) - Feb. 26, 2003, 11:12:35 AM EST

Doesn't help much - (drewk) - Feb. 26, 2003, 11:19:59 AM EST

hits are coming in from slashdot.org now . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (9) - Feb. 26, 2003, 12:47:16 PM EST

I linked it in my sig - (drewk) - Feb. 26, 2003, 01:14:28 PM EST

Slashdot hits - must have been from rejectrion process. - (Andrew Grygus) - (7) - Feb. 27, 2003, 10:15:54 AM EST

What's the Linux Today link? -NT - (drewk) - (6) - Feb. 27, 2003, 11:04:24 AM EST

Here it is: - (Andrew Grygus) - (5) - Feb. 27, 2003, 11:40:07 AM EST

Yeah, just saw it - (drewk) - Feb. 27, 2003, 11:42:48 AM EST

I like ganesh's comment #8 in the talk back -NT - (boxley) - (1) - Feb. 27, 2003, 11:57:00 AM EST

Oh hey, didn't scroll down and see that, thanks -NT - (drewk) - Feb. 27, 2003, 12:02:39 PM EST

Meesa think, yousa gonna be FAMOUS. - (admin) - (1) - Feb. 27, 2003, 12:06:04 PM EST

Yep I agree - (jake123) - Feb. 27, 2003, 01:18:47 PM EST

Splooge for nerds, stuff that splatters - (deSitter) - Feb. 26, 2003, 04:16:20 PM EST

That might be my fault :-) - (ben_tilly) - Feb. 26, 2003, 07:50:12 AM EST

Re: Well, now it's really getting out of hand. - (deSitter) - Feb. 26, 2003, 04:21:52 PM EST

Blame Ben - (kmself) - (1) - Feb. 26, 2003, 11:59:10 PM EST

Went up on Linux Today - (Andrew Grygus) - Feb. 27, 2003, 04:51:53 AM EST

404s - (SpiceWare) - Feb. 27, 2003, 03:35:50 PM EST

Need updated link. 404 - Not Found - (n3jja) - (4) - Feb. 27, 2003, 07:02:08 PM EST

Not here either. -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - Feb. 27, 2003, 07:37:09 PM EST

fine here is $MS at work? -NT - (boxley) - Feb. 27, 2003, 07:56:28 PM EST

Found Register retraction / apology - (n3jja) - (1) - Feb. 27, 2003, 09:46:36 PM EST

Oh shoot - now I'll have to dig up another story . . - (Andrew Grygus) - Feb. 27, 2003, 11:33:20 PM EST

Oooff! I'm finally done . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (8) - March 2, 2003, 03:16:23 PM EST

Only complaint... - (kmself) - (2) - March 2, 2003, 03:49:39 PM EST

OK, I finally answered that one. - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - March 2, 2003, 05:46:35 PM EST

(and that's just surfin the high spots ;-) -NT - (Ashton) - March 3, 2003, 12:04:05 AM EST

What Karsten said :-) -NT - (ben_tilly) - March 2, 2003, 04:09:43 PM EST

Just in time, too. - (inthane-chan) - (3) - March 3, 2003, 12:14:23 PM EST

Of course - (drewk) - (2) - March 3, 2003, 12:59:13 PM EST

Also note... - (ben_tilly) - (1) - March 3, 2003, 07:38:28 PM EST

Worth reading... - (admin) - March 3, 2003, 07:40:29 PM EST

It's on The Inquirer now. - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - March 4, 2003, 04:39:10 AM EST

Irony would be if Infoworld picked it up. - (Silverlock) - (1) - March 4, 2003, 09:07:46 AM EST

Wonder if slugbug has seen it yet? -NT - (boxley) - March 4, 2003, 09:27:12 AM EST

Bundeswehr banning MS software research flaw? - (admin) - (1) - March 4, 2003, 11:27:37 AM EST

I will look into that more. - (Andrew Grygus) - March 4, 2003, 12:22:25 PM EST

At least as intelligible as your X-Man666.JPG monologues.
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