Y2K OK

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quietone

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I am pleased to report that there have been no operational problems with the Y2K. My HI's have been performing at top level. With a little anxiety on Jan 1, 2000, I took my World War II out and hoped for the best. Slowly pulling it from the sheath, and keeping a steady eye on the woopile, a deep breath or air and....It went through a load of firewood for the wood burning stove like it was last century's news. Yes, my HI's are truly Y2K OK! I can only hope in this new millennium that woodburning stoves, and firewood, will not be put on the endangered list.

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The confidence of amateurs is the envy of professionals.
 
It's good to know for sure that HI khukuris are y2k ready. It's also good to know that all of you (at least all of you who are reading this :cool
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have power and working computers.


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Paul Neubauer
prn@bsu.edu
Computers let you make more mistakes faster than anything
except handguns and tequila. -- Mitch Ratcliffe
 
I heard it was something like 100 million or 100 billion that went into correcting the problems. What amazed me was that there were not even any power outages reported.
 
One quote from one of the news services stated that the equivalent of 600 billion dollars US was spent worldwide to avoid any complications from the Y2K bug. When one thinks of more useful and humanitarian things that could have been done with this money, a person becomes quite incredulous at the lazy computer programmers that allowed this to happen. This is likely the most expensive mistake in the history of mankind.

Harry
 
Y2K? It was once only! A lot of money flied away! but ... it was once only!

Daily - we have backup procedure involving a lot of tape and cartridges! we also have what they called as disaster recovery installation! all of that are going on daily basis ... a lot of money flying away ... daily!
 
As one of the old timers who was using some of the world's first computers I'll have to blame it on a lack of foresight on the part of not just the programmers but industrial management. But I can understand this lack of foresight and here's why.

At Boeing where I worked in the fifties we paid IBM a lease price of $70,000 per month for a computer. Remember, that $70,000 was in 1950 dolllars! Nobody, including Albert Einstein, could foresee the future of the computer. This thing I'm working on right now has more power by thousands than that $70,000 dollar per month IBM 705. And more memory by millions. And I bought it for $2800 which included a printer and scanner. In 1950 people just couldn't imagine the future of the computer. And, those two digits saved was worth its weight in gold a thousand times back in the fifties.

We should have known better, I guess, but we just couldn't predict such a future.

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Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
Khukuri FAQ

 
We are not paying bill of some other lazy programmers, but our own convenience. We demanded the programmers speed and lower cost for computers and we got them. The answer was made by smaller data, smaller programs.

I remembered a joke about dentist. When finished, the patient asked how much to pay.
The dentist answered "Half as much as you thought you would pay 30 minutes ago".
Nothing significant happened is good, except that it make everyone underestimate the danger-could-have-been.

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\(^o^)/ Mizutani Satoshi \(^o^)/
 
I agree with the gist of what wrongfriend is saying. I think alot of the Y2K frenzy was hype, but we don't know what may have happened if so much advance work hadn't been done. That being said, its also true as Uncle Bill said that there is always someone waiting in the wings to profit off of a potential disaster by scaring people. Anyway, I'm glad I was wrong, and everything seems to be fine. I never went in for the doomsday hype, but I thought a few glitches would pop up.

Rob
 
Rob, you're exactly right about the advance work. Here at the newspaper where I work, everthing went quite well -- no glitches of any kind -- but our computer guys had been working feverishly on the compliance problems for almost two years. Sadly, though, as you and others have also mentioned, are those parasites who prey on the fear of others. An elderly couple I know was conned into buying thousands of dollars worth of "survival" supplies that they could ill afford. And like so many other victims of scams, they're too embarrased to complain to the authorities.
 
There might have been ill purposed scams, still I like to say good things and avoid bad things as far as possible, hoping better results. Well, I'm biased!

There's an old allegory. An old man bought a horse for his grandson. The kid tried to ride but failed to break his leg. He had to drag one of his legs since. Everybody said ill of the horse but an old wise. "Too early to say" he said. Some ten years later there was a fierce war that killed most of young men, but the boy survived as he could stay home.


I wish brighter days come on the victims of "hypes" or misunderstandings or bad luck.

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\(^o^)/ Mizutani Satoshi \(^o^)/
 
I think the answer lies somewhere in the middle. I would bet that if the Y2K problems weren't addressed, we would have some real problems on our hands. At the same time, I also believe that we spent WAY too much money addressing the problem.
 
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