They cannot access any account info at this time. Gives me a lot of confidence going into the new year.

-- nitsuj (nitsuj@world.com), November 23, 1999

Answers

Any news links?

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), November 23, 1999.

Guess Who???Long Live...yaddayaddayadda!!!

-- The Squirell King (StillNuts@upina.Tree), November 23, 1999.

From Dale Ways Essay to Ed yourdon:

"" A large Bank can have 100,000 programs that run on 30 different platforms and use 50 different languages (type,vingtage and compiler manufacturer). Make several thousand code changes across that base in something as ubiquitous as date processing in something like banking operations. Assume you detected ALL dates (you would be lucky if you found 90%) and made modifications PERFECTLY (have the best people been the ones doing this all along?: do you have the best tools? for all environments? do you have the best project management and configuration and version management capabilities AT THIS SCALE?). And that bank is on-line through the fed to all other Banks. How many errors will there be after making thousands of changes to a very large 'system of systems' that no one really understands in detail?**

Every time I read this I hear the twilight zone music!!!

Because this is basically a technical computer engineer telling me the banks are Cooked!!

-- d----- (dciinc@aol.com), November 23, 1999.

These types of 'glitches' do happen all the time. They are typically fixed quickly. Assume it has nothing to do with Y2K.

However, it should be noted that we are rapidly entering a period where it simply doesn't matter what the reason for a given glitch is - the timing and consequences will be far more important than the underlying cause.

-- Arnie Rimmer (Arnie_Rimmer@usa.net), November 23, 1999.

Exactly Arnie,
As the wave of normal failures meets the
Y2K wave, the resulting wave will force
people to exist under a new paradigm.

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), November 23, 1999.

"They" are fixed... eventually... while 'nuttin else is going wrong.

What if... the power is off... and the fixers aren't there... or can't get there... or, or, or?

Because they, and their families, only "expected" a three-day storm?

Wheels within wheels.

We can thank Koskinen, et. al., for the lack of preparedness monkey wrench.

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), November 23, 1999.

Wheels within wheels, in a spiral array.

A pattern so grand and complex.

Time after time, we loose sight-of-the-way.

Our causes can't see their effects...........

Sorry. Just feelin' poetic. (Lyric's by N.P. of Rush)

-- CygnusXI (noburnt@toast.net), November 23, 1999.

I Love Rush!!!

-- MovingPictures!!! (karlacalif@aol.com), November 23, 1999.