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

To: Jeff Mizer who wrote (9641)	1/1/2000 8:17:00 AM
From: Jim	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Jeff, if you were right, I would be writing the same thing to you, - if I could-, sitting in the dark and the cold with no extra food or water. With your modest preparations, you couldn't lose since everything worked out fine and you had peace of mind. I think a lot of companies have new computers and software now, thanks to increased budgets for Y2K. As I said before, "Give a 2 year old a hammer, and everything becomes a nail - Give an IT manager a Y2K budget, and everything becomes a Y2K problem" Even I was surprised that there were no problems in Russia and China. I guess the essential services were OK from the start. I feel sorry for all the people who couldn't enjoy the celebrations because they had to sit at the office, or station looking at computer screens that never flickered. Here in Canada, even the army leaves were cancelled. I also feel sorry for all those who were taken in by that test scan and added a $150 computer board that they didn't need to fix their computer to make it Y2K compliant. I'm not sure what the lesson to be learned here is, except that perhaps people take the path of least resistance ie. "lets do all these things just in case" even thought every test worked. Now that we've got over the uncertainty, we can get on with making 2000 good year. Best to you and your family, and to all others who participated on this thread. Jim

To: Jeff Mizer who wrote (9641)	1/1/2000 9:51:00 AM
From: flatsville	Respond to of 9818

Jeff--The only thing that has happened is that the short attention span crowd has been placated <ggg>. Happy New Year to all.

To: Jeff Mizer who wrote (9641)	1/1/2000 9:56:00 AM
From: IngotWeTrust	Respond to of 9818

An incident in Oregon...wouldn't you know it(grin) Fair Use, etc... Power Line Sabotaged in Oregon The Associated Press-As reported in Washington Post Friday, Dec. 31, 1999; 1:19 p.m. EST BEND, Ore. A large tower holding a line that carries electricity from the Pacific Northwest to California was toppled in an act of sabotage, officials said today. Bonneville Power Administration spokesman Perry Gruber said a computer re-routed power less than one second after the high-voltage line dropped at 8:53 p.m. Thursday. No customers lost power. "We've had towers collapse before, but never as the result of malicious mischief like this," Gruber said. David Szady, special agent in charge of the FBI's Portland office, said there was "no evidence or intelligence that this was Y2K- or millennial-related." Gruber refused to say how the tower ? which he said is between 80 and 200 feet tall ? was taken down. The FBI said the tower was brought down without the use of explosives, but declined to give further details. Authorities had no suspects. The BPA's transmission grid covers 300,000 square miles of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and western Montana. The BPA's intertie system, including the line that was damaged, enables Northwest utilities to buy and sell power from British Columbia to the Mexican border. Other connections link it to the Missouri Valley grid. ¸ Copyright 1999 The Associated Press

To: Jeff Mizer who wrote (9641)	1/1/2000 11:24:00 AM
From: Sawtooth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Hi, Jeff. <<I cannot believe it has been 24 hours and not a single reported major problem reported worldwide. I thought I was so doggone careful in where I sifted Y2 info and cannot believe it turned into such a hoax. I cannot believe how much time and money was spent.>> It wasn't a hoax. I can state with absolute certainty that our organization and many others had programs that, left unremediated, would have resulted in inaccurate calculations due to the two digit date field. They failed when we tested them; they would have failed in real life (and they still could). While no major Y2k-related events surfaced, there are plenty of organizations today looking at their output and seeing some things that are a little odd. Not life threatening, not unmanageable; but things that didn't go quite as expected. I'm dealing with several now. 'Course these types of things pop up every day. And, of course, it's fabulous news that we all have power, phone, water, ... . Many have worked for several years at the local, national and international level to cooperate on addressing the common threat of Y2k. My thanks and congratulations to all of them! Things will continue to surface; they do every day. Happy New Year, Jeff! I've enjoyed your perspective on the thread. ..........VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV