Richard PIper wrote:
> Greg Lehey wrote:
> >
> > On Saturday, 1 January 2000 at 7:37:33 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> > > Looks like the Tax Office and Prime TV are playing it careful.
> > >
> > > Emails to both have been reported as undelivered for 4 hours (8-)
> > >
> > > Or maybe they just don't want to give the crackers a target (8-)
> >
> > A surprising number of companies who should know better seem to have
> > closed down altogether.
> >
> > Has anybody seen any evidence of new "virus"es?
>
> This self inflicted denial of service seems to be the only
> Y2K problem I have seen. Did anyone turn the power and water off
> in case they also failed :-)
>
> Richard Piper
No!
Even my ancient Cyrix 686 166+ happily clicked over to 1/1/2000. The only
problem I have heard of is a company in the US whose system crashed when
they tested it a couple of days before the new year. Maybe everyone took
sufficient measures ahead of time.
Stay well and happy
Heracles
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