Amazing, not a single failure reported, not even Italy

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Not even Italy, who started repairs last month (maybe.) If it is true, this is truely a miracle. The first time a software project of this magnitude was undertaken, and everyone ties for 1st place. An industry that never finishes on time, or finishes at all.

"You can't handle the truth". Let's hope this isn't more spin. Of course if anyone didn't have power, they certainly couldn't report it to us.

If all is OK, then some of the best minds in the world have been fooled along with the rest of us. I don't buy it. We'll know more in 10 minutes, and the rest of the story will unfold on Monday. Either way, it is unfolding as the biggest snow job in history. Still remains to be seen who has been snowed.

-- Bill (bill@tinfoil.com), December 31, 1999

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I've been working to fix Y2k for the last four years. The bad code is out there. I've seen it. Believe me.

-- fatanddumb (fatdumb@nd.happy), December 31, 1999.

I have a very uneasing feeling about this. Too many governments etc. have taken this seriously for a 0% failure rate. Wait till March 31st - them we'll know.

Certainly, if few embedded fail @ GMT, that is one less thing to worry about.

-- merville (merville@globalnet.co.uk), December 31, 1999.


Something fishy is going on. 4 mins to GMT roll over.

-- Fred (Fred@freeeee.net), December 31, 1999.

Bill, Bravo my man. You said it and you said it perfectly. I couldn't agree more.

;-)

-- mar (derigueur2@aol.com), December 31, 1999.


2 mts to go. Don't mind being wrong, but something is very odd here, very odd indeed. oops, Big Ben just struck. Now we'll see, maybe

-- Richard (Astral-Acres@webtv.net), December 31, 1999.


Y2K has been touted as being able to make systems fail in "new and wonderous ways". That does NOT mean with lightning and thunder.

There have been no visible catastrophic failures anywhere, and that is wonderful news. But if a water filtration process fails, or banks can't settle with each other at the end of the next business day, etc., that may not be real obvious at this time.

We need WEEKS NOT HOURS to judge Y2K.

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), December 31, 1999.

SOMETHING IN DENMARK IS ROTTEN!!!! I JUST DON'T GET IT--WE SAW FAILURES DURING TESTS--WHY HAVE WE NOT SEEN FAILURES DURING THE REAL THING. I HONESTLY BELIEVE KOSKY AND THE LEADERS HAVE AGREED NOT TO REPORT FAILURES. PLUS I AM HAPPY BUT I COULD JUST PUKE BECAUSE EVERY REPORT SAYS, "HEY THINGS ARE GREAT"!!! being in software, there ain't no way, things could be this great.

-- tt (cuddluppy@nowhere.com), December 31, 1999.

We won't know everything until next New Year's or later. However, if nations like China, Malaysia, Indonesia and Italy, not to mention Russia, Uzebekistan, Kazikstan, etc., can get through rollover without visible problems, it makes whatever follows more likely to be manageable. We may have economic bumps, but the large scale civil disasters that looked possible (or even likely) now seem unlikely -- at least to a non-techie like me.

Jay Golter

-- Jay Golter (JGolter@aol.com), December 31, 1999.


PUKE BECAUSE EVERY REPORT SAYS, "HEY THINGS ARE GREAT"!!!

What did you want anyway? failures, people dying and the world going up in a nuclear holocost?

Sorry, but your reasoning makes ME want to puke.

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), December 31, 1999.


They are not in the business to report the failures and the problems. Don't you get it? Just because they bill themselves as "news" organizations, sheesh, some people actually take it hook, line and sinker.

sdb

-- S. David Bays (SDBAYS@prodigy.net), December 31, 1999.



King of Spain - you are right. Meanwhile, lets all be thankful for all the verifiable good news we can get. I've been chatting on the net with folks I know who are 8 hours into it. That makes me happy.

-- Gus (y2kk@usa.net), December 31, 1999.

Cherri: I'm glad to see that your spelling is getting better.


(I didn't want to let the year end without saying at least ONE nice thing to her.)

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), December 31, 1999.

KOS- Do you mudwrestle??

-- farmer (hillsidefarm@drbs.com), December 31, 1999.

LOL

King of Spain, you might as well stop catering to her..She'll never mud wrestle you! Besides it would be like gettig in the bog with a cross between an anaconda and an ice burg! What doesn't choke you...Will free you

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Shakey~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-- Shakey (in_a_bunker@forty.feet), December 31, 1999.


Embeddeds, the kind that might make lights anywhere go out, are mostly a different animal from enterprise mainframes. There was very little evidence which ones were date-dependent, and what effects they'd have at midnight.

Hard to judge one by the other.

We've all seen too many movies. We're Hollywood entertainment babies. Might as well enjoy the show; the science comes later, and will probably be real BORING, however it turns out.

-- jor-el (jor-el@krypton.uni), December 31, 1999.



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