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The Government has asked the Power and Surface Transport Ministries to submit an action plan within a fortnight on Y2K compliance measures being taken by them.   The decision was taken at a meeting on Y2K of the Committee of Secretaries (CoS) here yesterday.   Both the sectors would exceed the September-end deadline for Y2K compliance, Mr. Ravinder Gupta, secretary of the Department of Electronics (DoE), told PTI here.   The Y2K bug would hit the power sector in billing systems of State Electricity Boards (SEBs) and regional generation and load despatch centres. . . .     As the electricity distribution system in the country, with five regional grids, was not centralised, failure of one grid due to Y2K bug would put pressure on another which might not take the additional load.   ===================   India, either the first or second most populous country on earth.   And the government has not even gotten an 'action' plan from them yet. As if it really matters now.     http://www.indiaserver.com/thehindu/1999/06/09/stories/...   -- Paul Milne If you live within five miles of a 7-11, you're toast. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

-- a (a@a.a), June 11, 1999

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I smell deep doo-doo ahead...

-- Anonymous99 (Anonymous99@Anonymous99.xxx), June 11, 1999.

Regardless from what I hear from any pollyannas, I do smell the possibility of deep doo-doo ahead.

-- (2.3 miles@from a 7-11. doh!), June 11, 1999.

I'm sure Mr Decker would enlighted you on the insignificance of this partry third world country in the overall scheem of things? Let him tell you about his experience in Ethiopia as a world model. LOL

-- y2k dave (xsdaa111@hotmail.com), June 11, 1999.

India - - - wasn't that the place where we were sending all the code to get fixed? Isn't that the place that has all the surplus programmers? Aren't they supposed to all be computer guru's over there?

Just going by the stuff Milne and Co. were posting a few months ago!

-- Paul Davis (davisp1953@yahoo.com), June 11, 1999.

"India - - - wasn't that the place where we were sending all the code to get fixed? Isn't that the place that has all the surplus programmers? Aren't they supposed to all be computer guru's over there? Just going by the stuff Milne and Co. were posting a few months ago! "

India indeed has a lot of programmers. I believe they are more familiar with older equipment since the old model computers tend to be cheaper (and India is generally poor). Last I heard, though, they were not taking on new work.

Ed Yourdon wrote about India in "The Rise and Fall of the American Programmer", fearing India and other nations would do to the programming industry what Japan did to the US auto industry. Instead, though, the low-priced foreign labor is brought to the US.

-- Anonymous99 (Anonymous99@Anonymous99.xxx), June 11, 1999.