**Y2k ** Is it now a question of contaminated data and uncorrected databases?greenspun.com : LUSENET : TimeBomb 2000 (Y2000) : One Thread |
Are these the main issues left? Please help I am not too sure.If you want to know the power of this forum read below.
With all the yelling and schizophrenic behaviour lately I thought it might be nice to remind everyone of the good that has come from this forum.
I could be wrong, but many who lurk may never have defined opinions using the loudest arguements.
Here is a snip from Big Dog's request for lurkers.
http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001RRm
So yes, I can envision many things becoming less than optimum as this event unfolds.My prediction? Don't have one, sorry. All I can say is you need insurance. How much? Sorry, you have to make up your own mind about that, it's called being an adult.
-- Will (), September 21, 1999.
People, I could not have formed this opinion without you, and I thank you one and all.
Oh, and a special thanks to Brian imager, nice to see a person with such positive ambition.
-- Will (righthere@home.now), January 05, 2000
Will,Best to "be prepared..." for anything.
Shift Happens. Then... and now.
Diane
-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), January 05, 2000.
Er, those were ALWAYS the issues. I hope we've shaken off the TEOTWAWKI's and other extremists and can now concentrate on the boring but nasty stuff.
-- Servant (public_service@yahoo.com), January 05, 2000.
Servant - correct, these were always the biggies for me, anyhow. I worked on Y2k for a couple years before I even heard of embedded systems. Read Cory - big iron breaking can bring down the country. This will take a couple weeks to surface, a couple months to feel the pain.We are scraping along the iceberg now.
-- bw (home@puget.sound), January 05, 2000.