I am a networking professional. Am subscribed to a list where users can exchange information to study for Microsoft certifications. Well, today I saw one that I just HAD to post... (this one really takes the cake)

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I am running Windows 3.11 for Workgroups on 45 PC's logging onto Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0. Is there a driver or patch to make Win311 Y2K compliant?

Rob Morgan, mcp

-- STFrancis (STFrancis@heaven.com), December 22, 1999

Answers

Good, now you understand the art of lying.

-- Larry (cobol.programmer@usa.net), December 22, 1999.

Now THAT's what I call S-T-U-P-I-D! Whoever asked that question, ten days before the Crunch, deserves whatever he gets.

That's one of the problems with getting people to understand Y2K. They think it's a simple patch, or quick upgrade. The problem just seems to be beyond their capacity to understand. This guy is probably going to be looking for a new job next year. But there seems to be plenty of companies hiring the terminally stupid.

-- Powder (Powder@keg.com), December 22, 1999.

Thats nothing. Yesterday I was talking to a guy who's company is frantically trying to get compliant. The company does something with heart monitoring. I dont understand all of it but they acquire info live from all sorts of heart machines and process it. They are not compliant and wont be until mid to late January. They made some kind of front end machine which is compliant to at least accept the raw data and then it has to pass through 3 other noncompliant systems and the get finalized back to compliant. They are working on it 18 hours a day and all weekend.

Another small company told me on Monday that they cannot afford to be compliant, the software they need is thousands of dollars more than they can afford right now so they will wait until the rollover to see how bad it is and if they can do it manually.

I hear this stuff daily. I will be soooo locked down on the 31st. I dont want to go outside until 1/3/2000 or until I am sure nothing is going to get ugly near us.

-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), December 22, 1999.

Yup. I ran a compliance checker on my own "certified" work machine, and found that 33% of the exe code on it is non-compliant (Windoze 95, ha). When I queried my IT services people, their response was to instruct me to remove the compliance checker immediately, as it was non-approved software. They also reminded me that by installing non- approved software, I had relegated myself to the back of the queue of machines that they would fix if they went wrong.

Oh, and they aren't going to address the Y2K issue. At all. :(

-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), December 22, 1999.

Microsoft has defined a new word - "compliant#" While it may look like it comes from the root word 'compliant', it is actually taken from the Latin word meaning 'public relations'...

-- Arnie Rimmer (Arnie_Rimmer@usa.net), December 22, 1999.

It's 1/3/2000 when I don't want to go out. That's when all those folks will try to turn on their computers, etc. and they will malfunction.

-- nanook911 (rocki3@juno.com), December 22, 1999.

I'm running eight (yes, eight) versions of Windows on my development machine, from the original Win95 to Windows 2000 Advanced Server RC3. (What a download! Sheesh! BTW, MS is -not- releasing Win2000 RC3 on CD; you have to download it from the MSDN subscriber site and you have to have an MSDN subscription to gain access.)

Of these, four are compliant thanks to judicious patching. (Win98, Win98 SE, NT Workstation, and Win2000.) I use Win98 SE, NT Workstation, and 2000 for development and only test software in the others, so they will not be in use during the rollover.

Fortunately I've end-to-end tested this machine, from the BIOS and RTC to the OS to every last app running on it, and I did so months ago. So I'm good. If only the rest of the world shared that achievement...

O d d O n e, who plans to be watchign with keen interest how the Internet holds up during the rollover, power permitting...

-- OddOne (mocklamer_1999@yahoo.com), December 22, 1999.

What a hoot! I'd love to be there when things didn;t turn out as they were planned. ha ha!

-- ..- (dit@dot.dash), December 22, 1999.