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

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (8891)	10/8/1999 2:39:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 9818

zdnet.com October 8, 1999 One glitch does not another make SNIP: How many times did computers fail on Thursday, October 07, 1999? No one knows, but Y2K Today, a Web site dedicated to public information about the Year 2000 Problem, seized on one error to demonstrate that the date rollover could be serious. Unfortunately, it's misleading to draw the comparison between Y2K and the failure of a NASDAQ computer that was in the midst of an upgrade. During a system change, NASDAQ experienced problems that caused management to severe communications between its computers and those on other markets......

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (8891)	10/8/1999 2:42:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 9818

zdnet.com October 8, 1999 What Will Happen: Insurance SNIP: It's January 3, 2000. A family in Minnesota needs support from its homeowners insurer because a pipe broke in their home. Will the insurance company be ready? The answer is, "yes." The insurance industry, along with the financial sector with which it is closely aligned, has made excellent progress preparing for Y2K. Insurance leaders began the Year 2000 preparation process in the mid-1990s (see chart), and all report that their mission-critical systems are Y2K ready.

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (8891)	10/11/1999 4:41:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

cnniw.newsreal.com@2@9@3@126&path=News/ Thinking About Y2k? Here'S The Real Skinny SNIP: >No one alerted you to Peter de Jager's "Doomsday 2000" article in Computerworld back in 1993. You skipped Newsweek 's scary millennium bug cover piece in 1997. You passed up the opportunity to buy "Y2K real estate" in the hinterlands and resisted the tempting Internet offer of a year's worth of dehydrated food for your family for $3,999. You're still OK, government Y2K experts say.....<