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Technology Stocks : Y2K damage reports
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To: Snowshoe who wrote (229)1/3/2000 12:39:00 AM
From: Gersh Avery  Read Replies (1) of 286
 
Hi Greg ..

Thanks for bringing these here ..

At this time, these look like minor display glitches .. but these are just the things that are being seen ..

What we are not seeing are the data records that are being overwritten in database files .. pointers set wayyyyyy out of wack .. accounts payable, receivable, emplyoee withholding records, customer files .. all set to be wacked the first time someone tries to update or enter a transaction ..

In these cases, it would be best if the system crashed the first time that this took place .. but it will not .. each entry that takes place will destroy more and more information, until somebody notices that there might be a problem ..

Yep .. what you see is cute .. it's the stuff that you don't see could be very nasty.

Bad part is that folks are starting to believe that it's all over with now .. They'll start the day out by turning on their computer .. it boots .. so there is nothing left to worry about .... whammmmm .

Nothing to worry about???? It's far to early for that ...
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