Sorry guys, but I have another "stupid" question. Please remember I stated earlier I'm in the music business and had never heard of an "embedded system" or "diesel generators" until someone mentioned y2k.

De Jagar posted this on his website. http://www.year2000.com/releases/NFsilver01_25_1999.html

Now, based on my newly aquired "extensive" knowledge on the subject of utilities ;) I would assume that this new "fix" wouln't help the utility industry that much since most of their problems lies in the embedded system area. Am I anywhere close?

Thanks to all of you for my online course in things electrical.

-- Anonymous, January 29, 1999

Answers

I wrote an email to Peter DeJager this AM asking him his opinion of this fix. No answer yet, but I know he is a very busy man. Seems everyone is researching the validity of the 'Silver Bullet' claim.

-- Anonymous, January 29, 1999

I'm no techie, but it looks to me that the MOST the SB is is a stopgap measure, it allegedly sends your system back to 1972 (why 1972?) to give you time to fix it to make it compliant. It's pretty costly too. And it sez nothing about the embedded system problem.

-- Anonymous, January 30, 1999

If the "Silver Bullet" software fix does indeed send the os back to 1972, perhaps the reason why is that way the days of the week will coincide with the year 2000 calendar. For example, July 1st, year 2000 is on Saturday and that was the same date/day of the week back in 1972. I think this technique was first suggested for PC's until it was realized that some BIOS dates can't be turned back past 1984 or 1980. I do not claim to be an expert on this matter; corrections are welcomed.

-- Anonymous, January 31, 1999