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

To: flatsville who wrote (8844)	9/30/1999 12:12:00 AM
From: Runner	Respond to of 9818

One positive result could be Iraq's supposed nuclear and germ warfare plants. If they are still running them the bug may cripple the bugs. Runner

To: flatsville who wrote (8844)	9/30/1999 2:38:00 AM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

fcw.com Navy, Marines throw early Y2K New Year's party SNIP: >Sailors and Marines from the U.S. 7th Fleet and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit last week threw an early New Year's party festooned with streamers and balloons to celebrate the successful completion of a 10-day test to validate that all of its computer code is free from Year 2000 bugs.<

To: flatsville who wrote (8844)	9/30/1999 10:43:00 AM
From: flatsville	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

A two parter on y2k and Japan--The World's second biggest economy. Fair Use/etc... wired.com Japan Pays for Blas‚ Y2K Plans by Debbi Gardiner 3:00 a.m. 29.Sep.99.PDT With four months to go to Y2K, some Japanese government officials are in a near panic after months -- years -- of apathy. The core infrastructures seem ready to confront the millennium bug, but they're beginning to realize this may not be quite enough. Last week, the Economist pointed out that despite being the world's second-largest industrial economy, Japan lags in Y2K preparedness behind, among others, Thailand and Chile. As a result, a number of Western tech workers are predicting chaos. Others are tsk-tsking that the compliance tests should all have been conducted months earlier...