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Microcap & Penny Stocks : TPII - Year 2000 (Y2K); Groupware; Client Server Migration -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Pierre Mondieu who wrote (7286)	5/26/1998 10:43:00 AM
From: Patrick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10903

To all... sort of O.T. Y2K Update. & more. a couple snips from: The Rapidly Changing Face of Computing (RCFoC) May 18, 1998 by Jeffrey R. Harrow Senior Consulting Engineer Corporate Research & Advanced Development, Digital Equipment Corporation jeff.harrow@digital.com Via the Web -- Read it via the World Wide Web, at digital.com * Out Of Your Own Pockets! -- At least in Australia, that may be how corporate officers have to make up corporate losses due to Year 2000 problems, according to the May 4 Computergram and Ken Crompton, a former Victorian Agent-General addressing the Chartered Institute of Company Secretaries! If you're in Australia and a corporate officer, you may want check out the wording of Section 232 of the Corporations Law...(And if you're in another country, could this be a prelude of things to come?) * On the Lighter Side of Y2K -- To get an idea of what we may all soon be in for if we don't quash these Y2K bugs, consider the plight of a 102 year old resident in Dumfries, Scotland. With thanks to RCFoC reader Tom Cerva for bringing this to our attention, it seems that the local Health office's computer sent this gentleman, who has long ago lost all his teeth, a birthday card extolling him to "Brush your teeth every day." Of course this Y2K-challenged computer had assumed that this was his second, not his hundred-and-second, birthday... and... * It's Just Amazing, What Technology Can Do... Finally, brought to our attention by RCFoC reader Jim Lee, we catch just one last glimpse this week of why it pays to stay up on what technology can (and can't) do. After all, you wouldn't want to 'fess up' to this... Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect confessed. Have a good day!