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Y10K
Aren''t you guys/gals tired of all this computer bugs crap? Before Y2K, people even said that every damn computer chip could stop working and that we would have a damn Armageddon here, but what happened? Just about nothing.
IMHO, people who pronounce these bugs are just lame people who don''t know what they''re talking about and just do it to scare people into buying new products.
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Daniel Netz, Sentinel Design
"I'm not stupid, I'm from Sweden" - Unknown
IMHO, people who pronounce these bugs are just lame people who don''t know what they''re talking about and just do it to scare people into buying new products.
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Daniel Netz, Sentinel Design
"I'm not stupid, I'm from Sweden" - Unknown
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Heh, not a bad idea foofighter.
maybe my grand children will see the year 10,000 approach... who knows? - Eric
Why should we worry at all? 
Nah...just why 2038?...what about that year...?
JEWELAYE
Nah...just why 2038?...what about that year...?
quote: Original post by SiCrane
I think we''ve got more worries about 2038 than Y10K.
JEWELAYE
Spiff - the main reason nothing happened was because more money than Bill Gates could imagine was pumped into fixing Y2K. There could have been problems w/o awareness and fixing it.
Mike
Mike
Actually, the problem was extremely trivial except for a couple instances. However, the media(useless media) once again did a wonderful job of telling how dead we are. *kills the media*
sad mac = sad firahs
sad mac = sad firahs
Well, *I* got a phone bill for January 1900, so there were at least some problems.
And if you measure time as an unsigned 32bit integer of the number of seconds from New Year''s Day 1970 then in 2038 the counter will overflow and the computer will start thinking it''s 1970. Most UNIX machines keep track of time this way. Hopefully by 2038 we''ll recompile the kernels to use a 64bit integer instead. Once that happens it''ll be good for another 292271023017 years.
And if you measure time as an unsigned 32bit integer of the number of seconds from New Year''s Day 1970 then in 2038 the counter will overflow and the computer will start thinking it''s 1970. Most UNIX machines keep track of time this way. Hopefully by 2038 we''ll recompile the kernels to use a 64bit integer instead. Once that happens it''ll be good for another 292271023017 years.
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