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Dotty about dot.commerce?
Before it really starts to heat up.....
HT: Wintrinloo trojan shows up on PCs
*** BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE INTERNET ***
Frontier ISP Outage
Need recommendation on web page creation
Yahoo site down again?!!!
OT: Windows 2000 Active Directory Bug
OT Chip-set snafu strikes Intel
OT: Russian Windows 2000 launched -- first by pirates
OT: NY indicts trader in bank computer-tampering case
reposting and thank you
Virtual Reality, same ol' story just a new face
OT?: New Zealand Internet site claims hit by hackers
OT?: Report: Web Hacks To Cost $1.2 Billion
Pacbell Internet email outage: server problem?
Great Discussion on Internet Problems Going on at a New Website
re: About hackers and your PC.
OT: About Hacker's and Your PC
net traffic report, last 30 days
Y2K -- Internet failure Feb. 29?
Help! Need info/links to the AOL 5.0 Browser Problem
OT Outage on Canadian Venture Exchange Not Reported to Public
Y2K--What Really Happened? Robin Guenier, UK's Taskforce 2000 Director
Paging Cory Hamasaki
"Jamaica Experience Shows Why Dire Y2K Predictions Went Wrong"
OT? Intel confirms huge Pentium III chip shortage
Odd EOM y2k bug on yahoo finance web site
OT High-tech executive found beaten in China
US Intelligence Computer Crashes for 3 days
Mindspring Enterprises Equipment Failure Leaves 1 million customers without e-mail
UK Taskforce 2000: Guenier shuts up Y2K shop
Italy is bothering deJager
Australia now has to ready computers for GST
"The Lessons of Y2K Success" -- latest Yourdon article
Behind the Headlines: the bug is alive and well, claim Y2K gurus
"The Sky Doesn't Fall, And It's All IT's Fault"
Cisco announces recall of Network Processing Engines (NPE-175 and NPE-225)--Due To Anomalous Packet Handling Behavior
User Didn't Like My Y2K Response Letter... Why Not??
Is IBM the only honest supplier?
OT? More on Y2Kiddie Credit Card Cracker
New IBM y2k product alert: 'DFSMSrmm: Tapes with datasets set to EXPDT 99365/99366 & >1999 may be released to scratch in error
What do you think of Cory's thesis that month-end, quarter-end, and year-end batch processing are the real places for y2k to begin to wreak havok, visible or not?
Software believed to have caused widespread phone problems in Australia today
Experts Puzzled by Scarcity of Y2K Failures
When does the build up of unremediated code become critical ????
OT - Slash Dot,com: "A `super' performance by Linux , NRI builds India's first supercomputer running on the OS" - first China, now India...
Do You Canoe?....Death By A Thousand Paper Cuts Version 2.0
Some have work on Y2K to do ?
What happened.
"Not a Y2K Problem..." (Yeah, right!)
Another IBM mainframe problem.
QUESTION for computer geeks: Is there any point in performing Y2K remediation on NON-"mission critical" systems?
A report (Good news) from a member of my Kalamazoo, MI Prep group
SORTED CHAINS AND DATE WINDOWING(what a dumb idea)
OT: MacWorld Expo Link, San Francisco, CA, January 4-8, 2000
How (not just what) do we learn from Y2K?
interesting facts from today
Y2K Benefits?
IBM Year 2000 Alerts
Oh sure, Cookies and JavaScript are Safe!
Ten m-m-m-million for Year2000.com domain name
Happy happy joy joy
What was that website for the Internet SErver that was down that actually sponsored a lot of servers
What's this 19100 glitch?
Australia says Y2K bugs could take months to fix
Not too late to fix Y2K bugs, says SBA
"Vendors Moving Y2K Goalposts"
News from the front line.
Look out for Y2K misuse by hackers [Australia]
Don't wait to fix your pc-- it takes a long time!!
Our Systems Guys Working Over Christmas
Durham Police still find bugs in 3-year old computer syste,
Bob Bemer: Y2k Excuses
OT?: Microsoft CFO Resigns
de Jager's gig with the 'High Tech Consortium' - big Cos build central clearinghouse to determine Supply Chain threats.
Major Insurance Agency Software Vendor Still Patching At The 11th Hour
IT managers confident
I wonder if ...
Mediaone Internet access down all day.
!!! GATES FLEES for Y2K !!! Coward Thief!
a DON'T PANIC warning
If an IT company is like this, it's 'game over' for end-user companies!
INTERESTING... (Associated Press):Tests of Kosky's Info. Center haven't gone as well as hoped!
INTRUDER ALERT?this just happened to me @TB2000
Wake up everyone - It is not happening!
Newsletter from an Electrical Engineer: 18 Things That Can Go Wrong With Your PC
Microsucks Y2K Help Sucks
Is your company y2k ready
Unplug Computers at Rollover???
Cory's WRP 133 Now Posted
Dates to watch (IBM)
Remediation firm predicts 800,000 business failures in the Midwest alone!
Programmers: What language recommended after Y2K?
Y2K won't unravel the Web, local experts say
Three dozen assessments...only one account passed everything...
IT geek introspective: "Peopleware" and Y2K
We're Closer Now, what d0you think?
Simple Y2K Solution
For Brent -- Comments about a "year for testing"
Computer Associates Y2K Chief: PC Problems Likely
microsoft alert
Y2K compliance inspections on 2,000 industries {Thailand}
Y2K watch spoils New Years plans
Unique Y2K Virus Discovered
Internet Companies to Hold Massive Y2K Call ######
Y2K cures worse than the problem!
Babylonia Virus!
Yesterday's Y2K compliance information is ancient history
OT: Cookies -- I told you so
What's up with Lexmark
EDS Installs Diesel Generator
Valley's New Year's Mix: Work And Play; High-Tech: Workers On Y2K Duty To Be Offered A Fun Atmosphere -- Minus Booze (San Jose Mercury News)
Virus set for Jan. 1, 2000
OT: It looks like Linux Kernel 2.2.5 is secure.
IBM *Still* Issuing Y2K PTFs for AS/400
An Open Letter to Ed Yourdon
Oracle to "party like it's 1900"
Why Y2K fixes won't work and why there will be a reccession, according to a 12 year computer Information Technology Manager
Microsoft and Y2K - Comdex Observation
The REAL Millennium Thought Contagion: Y2K? Never Again
Next time an IT "Pollyanna" ridicules you for being a "Doomer," show him/her this.
hotlink to Paula Gordon GWU C-Span Real Audio in the Archives now
The Rotterdam Report, MFX2000, Creeping Corruption. What do we know? Technical assessments requested.
Public's Reliability Of Computer Output After Y2K
$100 Billion Price Tag For Y2K Fix: Computer Bug Repair Sets Peacetime Record (Washington Post via S.F. Chronicle)
Security
Now THIS is a computer virus! From the US Army War College Academic Journal
Any interesting news from COMDEX?
What about 1999 failures?
Programmers/DBA's etc.. Some Info please
Possible Y2K problem that has not been addressed
New Virus Alert: How much will hackers add to the chaos?
Matsushita Imposes Y2K Curbs
British Telecom cuts Internet call costs
Ready or not, Y2K won't go away for any of us
Thought DOS was DEAD??
Warning Issued By US West - Y2k
Almost 1,300 Hardware and Software Products Undergo Y2K Compliance Changes in October
A Year,00ps, month, for testing???
FWIW: CEO departures rise for quarter
**Y2K misadventures...It seems the cure nearly killed us **
Not All Mac Programs Ready for Y2K (San Francisco Chronicle)
I.S. Director needs some help
Dale Way's Response
CNET Special Report: Countdown To Y2K
U.S. Expert Says Computer Viruses A Y2K Threat
OT (slightly) Revenge of the Nerds - sort of...
Interpretation of Dale Way's commentary on Yourdon's End Game article. Can this help me be better prepared!
Metrics ?
Company hired to fix Nevada's system goes bankrupt
Hamasaki: Enterprise systems: the real Y2K issue
Compaq sees Q4 revs rising vs. Q3, some Y2K drag
'First Aid' For PC Software Exposed to Millennium
Windowing could make Y2k linger
New Silver Bullet--FWIW
Microsoft Doublespeak
Unisys - Millions of Computers wont be ready
SAP eyed warily after profit warning
Y2K "Advances" are Reversing
The SNOOP in Microsoft Word
Year 2000 BrainStorm Conference For IT Types--New York, October 26-28, 1999--A Speaker: Thomas Barnett, U.S. Navel War College
Paging PC remediators---does this sound right?
"TESTING HAS BEEN COMPLETED- - - The real definition". Numerous companies have proudly announced that testing has
question for Regulars
Parallel Systems.
Geek Migration
Hewlett Packard y2k check list
Sample Y2K disclosure 3Q (1999) from 3Com.
Can't find recent link re: CIO mag poll on execs. withdrawing cash
SunGard Data Sees Shortfall Due To Y2K Fears
FBI Says Y2K Software Has Been Tampered With (Reuters)
How vulnerable is the internet?
Rats leap from Y2K ship
Police Unable To Log On to INCIS {New Zealand}
PC Week - What we can learn from Y2K?
Software metrics and Y2K rollover error rates
In the real world
Washington Post on Y2K
Ed Yourdon and all fire away at this. This guy is better than Al Gore!
2000 bug pushes techies into spotlight
The Year 2000 is a hoax
ERP to the rescue.
Solution to Y2K Problem Developed At Hebrew University
Y2K - an open question.
Microsoft puts the "Y2K Squeeze" on Japan
E. Telegraph: Only two cases of 9 problems so far
"Excite"...how are they doing? Well, they completed Phase 2...
Interesting items from IBM's not ready list
Did the "3-Day Storm" Knock Out the Weather Service?
How many back door keys does Windows have? And why?
(OT?) What is DAO software??
A Y2K Mystery: How Many Mistakes Are Going Unnoticed? (From NY Times)
Is UNIX y2k OK without a fix?
What is MCHILDS saying about Mainframe OS's
Weird customer Y2K expereinces - anyone else seeing this?
CNN (IDG) -- "Opinion: A global Y2K recession?"
Cap Gemini: Fewer Than Half of Major Firms Anticipate Full Year 2000 Compliance in Critical Systems by Full Year 2000 Compliance in Critical Systems by Year's End
Y2K Chiefs Prepare For Dry Run On 9/9/99
Microsoft's Massive Y2K Campaign
Netscape puts up new Y2K website
9/9/99
Year 2000 Wire/GartnerGroup Year 2000 World Status Fact Sheet
System Meltdown
Some Fortune 500 Y2K Late
MOTOROLA INC - (Year 2000 Disclosure) Quarterly Report (SEC form 10-Q) August 3rd
Tracking mean time between failures/fixes
Old Computers: Environmental & Privacy Nightmare
A Y2K Success Story
DOS programs: Are they/can they be compliant?
Heller: Want to debate Y2K and IT with the COBOL Dinosaur?
IT'S THE CODE
No Vacation Policies for IT
FBI: Beware outside Y2K workers
Remediated code back online?
Article re associated y2k problem
Looking for inexpensive tools for mainframe
AP: Experts warn of new Y2K threat--the hired help
Question For Programmers/Remediators Re: The Blame Game
Finally~my answer to Cory
what is end to end testing
Question for all Computer Professionals
Post Y2K
ComputerWorld headline: Study: 9% of all software still has Y2K errors
Are all Y2K jobs as bad as mine.
Epiphany. Finally speaking face to face with someone who "gets it"
Paging techies: Are FY2000 work-arounds easy?
Mainframe Militia Help
EU (European Union) $210 billion Y2K Problems
Y2K upgrades may lead to new trouble
IEEE
Re-corruption thread was...corrupted! answers here
the re-corruption question: any links
handwritten mail from the irs
EE Times article on domino effect says "threat is increasing", but "don't panic"
Say it isn't so, someone making money off y2k
Viruses set to launch on rollover?
Has Cory been burned by a "Barbie" Doll? Is his reaction to Y2K based on the same type of reaction to his peers?
Will It Work!
InfoWorld: Microsoft Cries Foul on Y2k e-mail messages
IBM's OS/2 "fixes"
Risks of Y2k--From a Scientist's Perspective
Microsucks Office 2000 Adds Y2K Confusion
Programmers as "contract killers" in the UK?
How to post or email without fear of reprisal
Y2K To Cause 10% Of All Computers To Fail
IBM in Y2K crisis
Multiple problems could cause corporate crises
Spot the Y2K problem
Silicon Valley Law Firm Weighs In On Y2K Bug & Legislation (SJ Merc News)
U.S. Technology Imports Susceptible to 15 Day Y2K Delay
Has it occured to anyone??
%%% - What Percentage is FIXED?
DON'T Miss This Post!!! Best Programmer Explanation Yet
OT: Y2K Bugs, Chocolate & Silicon Valley (Humor?)
Question for programmers in Banking
Tech firms battle Y2K with industry consortium
IBM and the Rollover. For the Tech folk
The Big Chill: Impact of Development "Freeze"
NCC UK Survey of 400 members - bad news
IBM chairman sells shares...
"Reality will prevail" email to Gary North
SNA Y2K protocol
45% of Y2K Experts 'Worried'
Details of Washington, D.C. Y2k User Group Survey
PC Week focusses on several Wisconsin businesses
After the ball is over: Jim Seymour's post Y2K thoughts
NIC's Have Y2k "Bug"?.......
June 7 PC Week Y2K articles
Anyone know what CET is talking about?
COBOL system termination dates of 12-31-99 routinely entered in millions of corporate records knowing system could not handle later dates. This major problem is not addressed in the typical rollover test and these records will be lost. This problem
Microsoft has a new Y2K Web site for consumers
For all the newcomers, who here is a programmer?
Microsoft legalize
Business services firms boosted by Y2K
Nikolai's tidal wave analogy
***Motorola SEC filing May18 Going to war on the bug
The "Code" is NOT broken!
Intel Official Warns of Failure of Japan's Power Grid, Public Utilities
Free email and especially Hotmail Problems. Any advice.
Y2K problem with Oracle on NT
question for programmer types
tfletch's Daily Y2k Report & Preparedness Finds (5/18/99)
It's Systemic - your questions / my answers
It's systemic - All computers will crash! - Really?
9/9/99 to bring a preview of armageddon? - take a look!
De Jager article in Scientific American (Jan 1999)
Small Businesses Claim They are Prepared for Y2K
Mr. Poole - Please answer my question.
Capers Jones interview
Most Silicon Valley High-Tech Execs Not Bugged By Y2K Fears And Won't Take Major Steps To Prepare
what about sabotage?
FYI: Y2K Bug Bites J.D. Edwards
Concerns from my favorite computer experts
Elec. Telegraph: Free e-mail "wide-open to hackers"
Another GartnerGroup estimate on when failures would occur
Bit hard by Y2K bug
Windows 95 Y2K fix was kept from users
Need Y2K Programming Advice
Colorado Springs is in hot water
Business as usual? The Year 2000 implications of the normal procedures for fixing computer failures.
Concerns Grow as Y2K Draws Near, According to Survey of CFOs - Press Release
No desperate staff shortages?
Y2K: A Training Issue?
Networking giants leave users in Y2k lurch
Chronology of a successful Y2k project (11 years to completion)
Russian computers have 15-20% chance of Y2k problems
HCFA Hypocrisy
CET, you're no -bks-, I've met beaks....
HOPES-DREAMS AND REALITY FROM EARNEST LAWRENCE THAYER:
signifignt rollover dates prior to January 1/2000
Steve Poole v. Sysman
CIH Virus To Trigger Monday; "More Destructive" Than Melissa
Our Man FLINT
April 1 fiscal year 2000--for N Y state and Canada die it pass without a glitch?
ISO 9000, QS9000, and their software - Anybody working to these spec's?
Does anyone have some good news? Name them.
Software and Y2K - "The Myth of Order"
Yardeni: Survey Says I.T. Crowd Foresees Y2K
"Microsoft to charge for Windows 98 bug fixes"
Where are the "expert" pollys?
A response to a post by Mr. Yourdon
Y2K related Fun with my local ISP
Why is the IT press so quiet?
OOP vs COBOL - My stupid question
Y2K as seen from the IT trenches -- through a periscope
Five Layers of the Year 2000 PC Issue
Y2K PM needs help
Where is all the calamity from canada, japan and states Fiscal rollover 4-1-99??
More top execs leave EDS
How do I create a Testing Schedule for my company?
Anybody get zapped by the Melissa virus?
Code implementation - a few thoughts on pre/post Y2K
Report on Ed Yourdon at DC meeting
Y2K remediation introduces errors
Does Ed or Anyone Else Know What Professor Thomas Landauer Says About y2k?
Programmers-what's your job like?
A different kind of enlightenment: slightly off topic but relevant for the board.
Why is 09-09-99 a problem?
Question....Hard drives...are they compliant if purchased after 1990
Microsoft Y2K 10-Q Feb 12
Lee Commission Refuses to Pay Gartner Group
Y2K Forces Product Freeze
Microsoft, Windows 2000 and Y2k
Yahoo Not Y2K Compliant
What can this mean?
Interesting de Jager story on Hyatt's site
Paper, "Fear and Loathing in Mid '99?"
Who are the veteran computer folks on this board?
Are computer sales booming?
Development 'Lockdown' Predicted Before Millennium
Bill Schoen and the 1984 article on Y2K
Consulting group analyst terms senators' warnings "fear-mongering"
Y2K Failures and the Bell Curve
Silicon Valleys Computer Currents Magazine: The Y2K Cure -- Solution or Snake Oil?
NGI (Next Generation Internet Initiative)
Fortune 500 vs. PC Industry/Chip Makers
Where's The Money Coming From?
IT programmers leaving Govn't, going private.
AOL Playing Catch-up with Y2K
Crouch Echlin Effect?
JAE Mac date problem?
Y2K a bore in Silicon Valley
WalMart: Changes at the top of their IT division
Peter de Jager Strikes Back
My posting yesterday on Peter de Jager
A Y2K reporter speaks (from csy2k)
DeJager's Current State of Mind
Ed Yourdon to Address Information Assurance at ISACC '99
CIO Falls Flat On His Face
Here's one that weighs heavily !!
Silicon Valleys Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, PG&E, Microsoft Corp. Etc., Are Preparing For New Years Eve
looks like the Polish SS may have been 1999/Y2k related
Y2K is
NOT
a maintenance problem!
Microsoft, Citigroup Join New Cyber Defense Company
Where's Scott?
Russia: Face the FACTS
Y2K Impact on Unix systems
Intel Sales, Profit End '98 With Powerful Numbers (Y2K Comment)
Are the paranoids after us?
How is Euro really doing ?? largest software project to date..
"99 Problem Caused 'Few' Computer Glitches"
April Flaws' Day awaits (Y2K)
CE effect - Intel tests, white paper due next week
residual errors and "Infomagic"
What do you think of these 8 questions posed by a Y2K skeptic?
1/1/1999 problem in Avvion Servers
IBM's Recommended Testing Guideline - Can it be done in 1999?
PRODIGY,AOL,COMPUSERVE,ETC Y2K THREATENED? COMPLIANT?
Bob Bemer - Y2k Solution (for some aspects) in Beta Testing
Two Digit Date Windows
Curiouser and Curiouser - Windows 98/NT problems
$75 million bonus ?
intel/big scam
Embedded System tester kit....
Fat Lady Paradigm
where are the programers and experts
When was bug last programmed in?
y2k boom time for PC suppliers?
If there wasn't a Y2K problem we would have to invent it!
Has your company finished fixing y2k?
WHAT THE EXPERTS THINK
But do I get a royalty check?
Further RTC info
follow the money
Slowing the clocks down?
Internet/Communications Alternatives
Scary response
Here's one (lengthy) account of why testing takes so long.
why fix? Why not mimic?
Good news --- and bad news
Why Y2k renovation company stocks are doing so badly
Client/Server Compliance Levels?
Why isn't Y2K the #1 IT priority today?
Who would you blame and why
Y2k - The fault of designers?
Competition for Programmers
Why not just subtract 10 from all dates?
Code "99"
Point Of Sale computers (Restaurants)
Y2K Cobol Solution on NBC
Y2K effects on Outsourcing Computer Ops.
Current "Vendor Letter" Strategies?
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