happy fucken new years....

[abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com]

why oh why oh why...do people insist that y2k is still gonna happen?

and no... it's no joke. no insult... no trick.

there are people out there that still think in realistic terms that y2k is going to happen.

so there is no problem with me arguing with them as they get further and further drunk... because aparently i know nothing about computers. and these people know what the "experts" say.

i.e. the people on the tv that they worship... gah!

Comments

[photosinensis.livejournal.com]

The only thing I'm worride about now is the 2038 bug.

[abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com]

i thought it was the 2039 fix?

[dukesnorre.livejournal.com]

Huh. I guess people will worry about the y2k bug until around 2998, when they'll start worrying about the y3k bug in stead.

[abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com]

and yet... i imagine that they will still call it "y2k."

it's fucken insane arguing with people this stupid. people who don't understand how it works. even the 2038/9 "bug."

it's just ... damn!

[dukesnorre.livejournal.com]

I guess that this (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0965497410/qid=1136127612/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-8027441-1825402?n=507846&s=books&v=glance) will finally come in handy, then.

[kallell.livejournal.com]

read the reviews, thay're awesome


personally my prep for y2k was to just buy more ammo

..from the reviews..

[ace-brickman.livejournal.com]

"I took all of my husbands money to buy a power generator." major lulz

[piepants.livejournal.com]

Set them on fire. A winner is you!

[d-l-leonine.livejournal.com]

These are the people that clearly never had an understanding of what y2k was all about. I was working in a data centre for a major bank in those years and what most people didn't understand is that for a lot of organizations (including a nonprofit I was an officer in at the time) "y2k" hit around 1996-1999. The best example was expiration dates on everything from credit cards to magazine subscriptions which run 2-4 years ahead. I know there are some aspects of a company's database that could wait until 99, but most companies had to have their stuff in order a little bit before that.


I had this conversation at least 100 times in '99 with various friends and family....

Luser: so what's going to happen at the end of the year?
Leo: Absolutely nothing!
Luser: but *so and so* on TV says *blah blah blah*

and, depending on my irritation level, my responses varied from "oh, yea, I think I saw that in the National Enquirer too" too "you believe everything you see and hear on TV fucktard?" and the converstaion was ended there.

[docjeff.livejournal.com]

forget y2k. It's y10k we gotta worry about. my poor old pc will have to be retired then.

(snicker)

[xforge.livejournal.com]

That's probably about the time this damn iBook will finally wear out so I can bloody justify the expense of a new one. :::sigh:::

[docjeff.livejournal.com]

I really ought to get a Mac of some form. If it'll last until y10k that makes the iBook something to look into :)

[hiroe.livejournal.com]

Your icon is giving me a headache. Stop it.

[docjeff.livejournal.com]

lol I was hoping someone would notice that. :-)

I hope this one helps alleviate the headache

[kalium.livejournal.com]

May our new year be Noodly.

[p0m.livejournal.com]

Ironically, our mailserver's auth proxy fell over ten seconds after New Years here. No tech until Tuesday. Glad I'm not there ;)

[jon787.livejournal.com]

Actually there was a chance for failures because a leap second was added to the clock right before midnight.

discussion (http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2005-12/msg00582.html)

[abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com]

they should just abolish day light savings time.

[abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com]

ya... i know. it's sad really.

[dirtymatt.livejournal.com]

It actually does save electricity. Yes people use lights in the morning, but if it's dark when you leave the house, those lights are turned off. Also, people are more likely to use relatively few lights in the morning, bedroom, bathroom, maybe the kitchen. At night people often turn on every light in their house. Also, the bit about farmers is an urban legend at best. Daylight saving time has always been about saving energy. Livestock don't care what the clocks say, and some, I believe dairy cows, are very sensitive about schedules. As far as being an outdated concept, the practice is less than 100 years old and was only standardized in 1966.

Source (http://www.energy.ca.gov/daylightsaving.html).

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Not to mention that the extra daylight in summer is both in the evening AND morning. Putting time forward an hour doesn't mean the morning's going to need lights, because the sun's up earlier (in pure solar time) anyway.

And yes, some people will always get up early enough to need lights anyway. But the bulk of the population will still be getting up after dawn even with daylight saving. In terms of electricity saved, it makes more sense overall to have the daylight moved to the evening, when usage is heavier.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Sell them Y2K-proofing subscriptions, books, materials, software etc. You should be able to pick it up pretty cheap :)

[hiroe.livejournal.com]

Absolutely.

Can i interest you in a DVD Rewinder?

[chainsaw-hime.livejournal.com]

Fucked up thing is that at the software company I work for, a year and a half ago, the same problem as the "y2k bug" actually did shut down our system for a couple weeks.

We do a GPS software for cell phones, and the internal receivers of certain types of phones took a week number in hexadecimal to figure the date. But when week 256 rolled around, the phone hardware itself got stuck in a "I want to reset the phone's internal clock" loop between the receiver and the cellular network.

And then we had a metric fuckton of people pissed off at our service even though it wasn't us, but the phone manufacturer that fucked it up.

[tryst-inn.livejournal.com]

Geez, tell that to the business owner here - just to be sure she was protected from Y2K she reset all the computers back a few decades. So everday at work I automatically look up in the corner of the monitor and get all confuddled because she reset the day and month, as well.

Now, take a few minutes to digest that idiocy.

Yes, she did. Today's date on our computers? July 11, 1967.

[abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com]

wow.... you so have to check out the 70s when you get there. i hear that they are coming out with something called the computer. and you probly already know all the dance moves. and just wait for jaws and star wars to come out.

=P