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Lloyd Miller wrote:
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> -Caveat Lector-
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Goddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Lloyd Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Monday, January 04, 1999 10:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Pro-panic (fwd)--Y2K
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> At 09:16 PM 1/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
> > Maybe someone can answer this question for me. Why don't folks just
> >purchase new y2K compliant software. Export the old data from the old
> >software....Automatically alter all the old dates in the old data to a
> >compliant format and then up-load the data into the new software....this
> >would seem to be the best investment of time and money.
>
> Good point. Maybe the central conspirators are running
> the bug-fixing racket and planned the bug crisis. They'll
> cash in to the tune of billions and then sit back in their
> remote estates while Y2K culls the herd. Several people
> have told me they've read or heard accounts of programmers
> who warned people years ago about Y2K, and they were just
> ignored. Could be psychology, or maybe it was the plan.
>
First, I think that is basically what they are doing. However, it
isn't as automatic as you might think. Also, there seem to be some
inbedded systems that may run into a problem with this and they have to
be removed from the equipment and then reinstalled. Plus there is the
problem of testing all this once you have fixed it. Have you ever gotten
any software that had a bug? Supposedly the company ran it through its
paces and did not find it. Now there is a problem and they have to spend
money sending you a fix. Well, they probably tested it, but there were
so many variables that they could not test them all. So they sent it out
and after a while they fixed all the problems that cropped up. That's
basically the situation now. They will probably fix most everything, but
there will still be problems that won't turn up until 1/1/2000.
Unfortunately, it is not just one program that is going to have
problems. Its going to be a whole lot of programs having little problems
(or maybe big ones). That's what the problem is. And it is very
difficult to figure out just how bad those problems will be and how
easily they will be fixed.
I just talked to a fellow who was one of the top techies for Bell. He
said that the phones would not go down because of any software problem
with dates. However, he did say that the maintenance software had to be
fixed (when to change batteries, etc). He said that he told his boss
back in 1976 when they were doing an upgrade on the software that they
were using then that they would have a problem with the software in
2000. His supervisor said that she would be retired by then so it wasn't
a problem for her. And that was it.
I also know a fellow who is working on y2k for nuclear power plant
computers. He told me "expect weeks without electricity".
best wishes, Howard Davis
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