I remember that we were all aflutter and paranoid about Y2K. The damned media had hyped it like an overwound rubber-band airplane motor, and when midnight came---and went---and the world didn't fall down around our ears, we began breathing again, and realized that we'd been "had", thoroughly "conned" by a bunch of seasoned scammers, to the tune of MILLIONS of dollars.
We put away the flashlights and the 12ga shotguns...and went to bed. }-p
By the time 2038 rolls around, I'll be long gone, taking a "dirt nap"--- ;)
Heh!!! While there were a few genuine issues (which were competently solved), IMHO the whole thing was grossly overblown. The panic was happily fueled by the media, as well as by some companies looking to make a fast buck selling "snake oil" (ie: "remedies" that were bogus, for a problem that didn't really exist).
The simple, free software/OS patches solved 99.9% of the problems, and the custom business software providers handled their clients' problems without the "meltdowns" that were feared.
Agreed. Any PC running Win95 or better wasn't going to fail, but the way the media carried on we were going to fall back to a pre-industrial society, the sun would explode, cats sleeping with dogs etc.
Most of the fixes had to be done on mainframes, and all of it was done long before the date turned. There was a problem, it was fixed, media goes berzerk. Film at 11.
XP is already so "patched", it's like a psychotic's crazy-quilt. Patching patches, which are themselves "multiple-patched", does not make for a stable OS, IMHO... ;)
I would love to see MS write an OS that - and I may be crazy thinking this - operates the system. Just that. One that doesn't try to take control of every single aspect of PC operations. A 2 cd set: one with OS, hardware and networking, and one with all the Other Shite like IE, Outlook, Themes, screen savers, Explorer, Firewall, Backgrounds, media players and all the other little buggy things that are turned on by default that I spend so much time turning off but can't delete because they're system files.
I would like to find the lazy programmer who thought DLLs were a good idea, and kick his arse. And the other programmer who thought scattering software files across a dozen directories was a good idea because keeping a program in its own directory was too bloody hard.
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I remember that we were all aflutter and paranoid about Y2K. The damned media had hyped it like an overwound rubber-band airplane motor, and when midnight came---and went---and the world didn't fall down around our ears, we began breathing again, and realized that we'd been "had", thoroughly "conned" by a bunch of seasoned scammers, to the tune of MILLIONS of dollars.
We put away the flashlights and the 12ga shotguns...and went to bed. }-p
By the time 2038 rolls around, I'll be long gone, taking a "dirt nap"--- ;)
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Come to think of it, wouldn't heads in jars be possible already?
Lizard Rat out.
Wolf in a Jar in Albany NY
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It's like people being upset that a bridge didn't fall down because it was designed to not fall down.
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Have teh best
-=TK
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The simple, free software/OS patches solved 99.9% of the problems, and the custom business software providers handled their clients' problems without the "meltdowns" that were feared.
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Most of the fixes had to be done on mainframes, and all of it was done long before the date turned. There was a problem, it was fixed, media goes berzerk. Film at 11.
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Details at 11...
:-D
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Have teh best
-=TK
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I would like to find the lazy programmer who thought DLLs were a good idea, and kick his arse. And the other programmer who thought scattering software files across a dozen directories was a good idea because keeping a program in its own directory was too bloody hard.