Here is Cory's WRP 134, Assessment #2

http://www.kiyoinc.com/WRP134.HTM

DC Y2K Weather Report

December 31, 1999 - 0 Full days to go. - WRP134

-- Vernon Hale (create@premiernet.net), December 31, 1999

Answers

The poor fools at the various public "Year 2000 monitoring sites" don't understand what goes on in the big computer centers.

Right on.

-- Lane Core Jr. (elcore@sgi.net), December 31, 1999.

why is it I can't find this?????? I'v looked at all mirror sights, tried to link up and can't. Can someone provide a direct link? Thank you in advance

-- steve vaughn (billw86@aol.com), December 31, 1999.

link

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

I don't expect more power failures, phone outages, or network failures than we have now. - Cory from WRP133

It looks like Cory's batting 1000 so far. If so, consider this

The big systems will have persisting and intractable problems. This has already started. Some firms will fail. The danger is that failing firms force the misery down to those who are least capable, least able to endure the suffering. Last hired, first fired.

The CEO will lay off the people who do the work and will hire temps, subcontractors at 2/3rds salary.

When large companies fail, their failure can wreck the economies in cities and states. If enough fail, the national or global economy will collapse. This has happened before. The Great Depression of the 1930's was such an event.

We're in a "Global System" largely run on IBM big iron. It all won't shake out for several weeks yet. Hold on to your rice for a while longer.

-- RPGman (tripix@olypen.com), December 31, 1999.

The TLMS tape retention problem was originally detected on 12/29/99 by a customer. It was subsequently reported to Computer Associates who notified their customers. For us, it would have caused 300 of our 1,000 report achieve tapes to be scratched.

This problem would not have been noticed immediately. It would have gone undetected until we really needed to look at an old report to verify system integrity or respond to an audit request. At that point, it would have been unrecoverable - because the tapes would have been overwritten with other data.

-- not going to say (not going to say@somewhere.net), December 31, 1999.