Bob George wrote:
>I wouldn't say it's "all" hype, although the problem does seem to have been
>overblown. A potential crises is pretty easily avoided if you just look at
>the problem. Much like thinking through a fire escape plan, planning for
>contingencies is a "good thing." I've (sadly) been wrapped up in some Y2K
>work over the last several months, and we DID find some problems. None of
>them are a big deal in and of themselves, but had they all been encountered
>all on the same day it sure could have caused some chaos.
Yes, critical places (hospitals, phone, tv+radio, electricity, water etc.)
should be checked (I bet there might be other things that can be incorrect
there as well which would have been found by now). But checking every
elevator? That's giving money away without any point. Hiring consultants to
check up/do things that are needed seems much better in that respect. And
what are all these people going to do after 2000, the ammount of Cobol
programmers should be rather less.
>The result of all this work is that we're doing some long-overdue system
>upgrades, finally retiring some old junk and updating a few things. More
>importantly though, we're FINALLY putting together plans to deal with WHEN
>things go wrong -- Y2K or not.
That's important, in a few places there should always be a
"backup-plan"/"worst case scenario fix" or other. Myself aren't buying any
"Y2K survival kit" since it just sounds expensive and useless.
>I still expect the people factor to be the biggest issue -- at least
>locally. There's a quote something to the effect of "Never underestimate the
>power of stupid people in large numbers." Me? I'm stockpiling up on Y2K
>memorabilia. I figure it'll be worth a fortune on E-Bay in about 10 years!
Yes, we have all learned the hard way that stupid people can have an effect
- why would we otherwise have Windows ;)
//Bernie
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