Please offer me some links to failures large or small....

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Hello. Could some of you give me some of your favorite links to documented failures? I find it complicated trying to search around all the time and i don't have much time during the day to check up on them.

Thanks

-- Teresa (maclinnt@hotmail.com), January 05, 2000

Answers

http://greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic=Grassroots% 20Information%20Coordination%20Center%20%28GICC%29

-- Swampthing (in@the.swamp), January 05, 2000.

http://stuarthrodman.com/Bugbite.htm

  1. Computer problems hit three nuclear plants in Japan
  2. Zanzibar Television, Radio, Suffer Y2K Glitch
  3. Computer problem hits Mali's railway
  4. U.S. nuclear weapons plant still has Y2K glitch
  5. Brief Outages Interrupt Chicago Air Traffic
  6. Country Report For NIGERIA
  7. Computer Malfunction Delays Flights
  8. Incident Reports 1/1/2000 - 3 p.m. Briefing
  9. Transmeta screws up on Y2K -- Where's Man Friday when you need him?
  10. y2kmistakes.com
  11. A Screen Shot of the Clock after Rollover at the U.S. Naval Observatory
  12. < font size="2">U.S. Nuclear Weapons Plant Still Has Y2K Glitch
  13. Pentagon: Y2K Hindered Sky Spy Data
  14. A sprinkling of Y2K troubles
  15. Microsoft reports bugs in Web-page software, Hotmail
  16. Y2K Bug Didn't Bite U.S. Workers Only minor glitches reported on first business day of 2000
  17. Year 2000 Bug Triggers Few Disruptions
  18. Y2K hits ATF and other agencies
  19. Y2K bug hits heating system in Korean apartments
  20. Y2K Bites Spanish Nuclear Reactors
  21. Pentagon fixes its spy-2K glitch
  22. Denmark's Unidanmark Says It Found Y2K Fault in Its Unitel Payment System
  23. Mill ennium Bug Hassles Show Systems Not Immune
  24. High -Tech Professions Call Y2K 'Hype' - Survey
  25. Year 2000 Problem Reports Received By ECRI
  26. Y2K Bug Causes Intelligence Losses
  27. German salesman hits jackpot with computer glitch
  28. ISE first casualty of the millennium bug
  29. First Y2K workday brings few computer problems
  30. MP3 device hit by Year 2000 glitch
  31. Power facilities cite few glitches
  32. Minor bug problems arise
  33. Bug hits payroll with blast from past



-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), January 05, 2000.


hey, what are you, too lazy to look? anyway, there are lots of nice failure posts listed on www.michaelhyatt.com under BUGS. all together with few of those annoying polly posts between them that tend to water down their message.

-- tt (cuddluppy@nowhere.com), January 05, 2000.

Thanks to all of you, and in answer to the last reply, no I am not lazy. What is your problem? If my question annoys you, then please disregard my question. Geesshh.

-- Teresa (maclinnt@hotmail.com), January 05, 2000.

Yes, those annoying polly posts. Gawd, don't you just hate it when someone tries to lend some perspective to what is nothing more than some minor, inconsequential glitches?

I know you doomers want to revel in the volume of these reports (it's the only sense of satisfaction -and hope- you have left), but the truth of it is: they're barely an annoyance. No one's inconvenienced. Big deal that a website or a report has a date of 01/01/19100 in its upper right-hand corner. Oh my gawd, someone is charged a video tape rental fee of $24,000!! Run for the hills! Jump in your bunkers! Make sure the labels are taken off your cans, cause the govt. could otherwise confiscate these things!!!!

Getting tired of your spam yet?

-- boomer (ace@ace.com), January 05, 2000.



And for each of these there will be hundreds that we've only encountered anecdotally so far, because the system owner wishes to hide them under the carpet -- forever, or at least until the bug has been fixed.

If there are enough, and if they can't be fixed fast enough, there will be an impact on the economy. It's too early to judge this, although the omens are far more promising than I'd have believed a week ago.

Personal experiences that may or may not be anything to do with Y2K:

Till receipts dated 1980, 1999 (4th. Jan), and 19100.

The delivery computer for a white goods retailer scheduled delivery of a washing machine purchased on 29th December for 24th December 2001 (!) Or that's what it printed on the paperwork anyway - it was delivered as promised on Monday, rather to my surprise because that was a public holiday and I'd assumed the shop person meant Tuesday.

(If you're wonderying why I splashed out on something electrical before Y2K success was guaranteed ... call it faith, and not wanting to scare my Mum!)

A three-penny credit to my bank account on 29th December that I don't understand. (Some people get lucky, I get three pennies)

My microwave oven went ga-ga between 8pm on 31st and 9am on 1st. Unplugging it and plugging it in again fixed it.

One of our printservers was AOK on 28th and is now doing odd things. (A printserver is a box that connects a printer to a network. It's the size of a matchbox, but contains a fairly powerful computer running quite complex software).

It took a lot longer than usual for the teller to pay a cheque into my account this lunchtime, spend waiting for the computer to do whatever it does. She said it had been "acting up since yesterday" (which was the first banking day of the year in the UK). Did I want a receipt? YES! More waiting ...

Gnats, mosquitoes, maybe the odd wasp, but no rattlesnakes (yet?). MeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEeee! Slap! ouch! MeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeee.....

-- Nigel (nra@maxwell.ph.kcl.ac.uk), January 05, 2000.


MY PENIS SHRUNK TO A MERE 12"! Horrors! Should I have saved up some candles or batteries or some other worthless shit?

-- DONKEY DONG (DON'T YOU@WISH. PAL), January 05, 2000.

Yourdon was probably the biggest failure. You could try his site at www.Yourdon.com. Also sites for Yardeni and jeJager. You're welcome.

-- trackersortof (tracking@aol.com), January 06, 2000.

Another good link that someone posted earlier today:

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3872a32d5936.htm


-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), January 06, 2000.

Having a Y2K bug is the technological equivalent of having herpes or being a leper. Since it is very embarrasing and frightening, it is rarely revealed to be more than a small pimple.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), January 06, 2000.


Grassroots Information Coordination Center.

-- that's disgusting (hawk@but.true), January 06, 2000.

Scroll down to "Media Reports" at this link:

http://www.humanitarian.net/challenges.html


-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), January 06, 2000.

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