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

To: Ken who wrote (7051)	7/23/1999 7:22:00 PM
From: Ken	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Do you assume 911 or tele service next year?:<Bell Service Disrupted Again (Natalia Williams, Toronto Star) thestar.com Y2K Test KOs Phone Service (Natalie Armstrong, Ottawa Citizen) ottawacitizen.com For the third time in a week, Bell Canada experienced a noticable problem. Last weekend, the Toronto area 911 system failed, and an electrical fire in a switching station caused a major disruption in service, including bank services and Internet providers. Yesterday's problem, however, was caused by a Y2K upgrade. Bell Canada was transferring "7,500 Toronto PrimeLine customers were being transferred to a new Y2K-ready system. It operated for only three hours before crashing at about 10 a.m. local time. The problem lasted two hours." Customers were then transferred back to the old system.

To: Ken who wrote (7051)	7/23/1999 7:30:00 PM
From: Ken	Respond to of 9818

A MUST READ!<Y2K.Not the End of the World, But Might Be Closer Than You Think (Steve Perry, thestranger.com) thestranger.com "THE OBJECT LESSON OF Y2K is that the headlong plunge into the Information Age which has occurred over the past quarter-century has wholly outstripped human comprehension of its implications. Almost no one grasps the extent to which computer systems control the everyday economic and social functions we take for granted, from international currency transfers to ATM withdrawals to the medical testing devices in any hospital. It follows that almost everyone is prone to drastically underestimate the possible effects of simultaneous computer failures across the land. (And there is no reason to suppose that the legions of the ignorant do not include most politicians and CEOs, which is one reason Y2K issues have taken so long in getting addressed at all.) As one friend put it to me in an e-mail posting about an essay he'd read online: "A depression? On the basis of THIS single material problem?" He was inclined to put down such alarmism to the author's crypto-right-wing survivalist prejudices. He may have been right on that score; even apart from the predictable millennialist types who abound on the Internet, a distressing number of the most avid Y2K commentators seem the sort of folk who might have Ayn Rand shrines in the living room."

To: Ken who wrote (7051)	7/23/1999 7:34:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Respond to of 9818

<Advice for softening harsh florescent lites, please. Can the mantel, is it glass or plastic, how hot does it get?---- be painted very thinly with some kind of paint or paint frosting or tiffany-material?> ooooooooh, Ken. That would look TERRIBLE. What you have to do is go out and buy one. Use it one night - without any other lights on in the house. Though I admit I had the TV on while I was testing in one part of the house:-) First you see how much light it emits in its plain vanilla form. The base is green, the mantle is plastic, and there's a black screen around the mantle. [That, along with the harsh light is what I don't like.] An adequate, well-vented shade should present no problem. The u-shaped fluorescent light is not hot. But, it will cut back on intensity of light. Any color shade (other than white) will cut back on intensity of light further. It's actually kinda fun --- being creative with this. Personally, I'm not gonna do a test to see if it works 18-hrs or 24-hrs. I'm just gonna buy a lot more batteries. Albertson's had a buy-1 get-1 free sale last month. I bought out their whole supply of batteries. Too bad they didn't have those 6-volt batteries on sale:-( Back in Houston I was known for the candles throughout my home. For ambience. Those ... and my specialized "art" lighting system. Still have the candle-holders. Very little of the art. And, just a glimmer of that lighting system I had previously. Lots of BIG candle holders I got thru my travels. A friend, who's family owns over 100 Hallmark stores special ordered and got me special, large, very dense candles at wholesale. [I've never seen them for sale in stores.] Don't know if my "source" has dried up on these candles. My well-moneyed friends in Houston think I'm a "Y2K wacko". I'll give her a call next week. Cheryl P.S. On CNBC they've been running a series of IBD ads. The last person featured - the one who says her portfolio is up over 100% - is one of my very good friends. I've written about her husband on this thread.