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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Hunt who wrote (6740)	7/19/1999 8:49:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 9818

Y2K Crackdown << It started with a polite letter. Then things got ugly. Now the relationship is over. Such is the story being told by an increasing number of IT managers alarmed by the Year 2000 status of their most critical business partners. With less than six months to go before the millennium bug bites, some companies are no longer just threatening or cajoling suppliers and other partners to get their computer systems into compliance -- they're cutting the cord. Some 15 percent of companies have already suspended or terminated contracts with partners that aren't Y2K compliant, according to an InternetWeek Research survey of 250 IT managers. Another 23 percent of respondents plan to suspend relations with critical partners that don't meet compliance deadlines over the next six months ... more ... >> internetwk.com

To: John Hunt who wrote (6740)	7/19/1999 1:39:00 PM
From: bearcub	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

what do you mean by this phrase, the generator ends? The generator ends provided with economical generators are not conservatively rated, i do not have any 'ends' on my generator that i can observe. also, for a 5kw generator, how many hours should the break-in period be? also, can a half-way skilled mechanically inclined type do the de-carboning and the degumming process themselves? would you mind giving some pointers? also i would like to note for bald eagle and others that batteries such as you suggest should NEVER be stored on a concrete or cement flooring. it saps their charge. also, could you elaborate as to why i sometimes see mechanics garage floors with copper pennies half eaten away and when you ask them why they mumble something about oh, they were on the post of a battery they were servicing.