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Technology Stocks : FBN Associates - Year 2000/Y2K IPO!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (2185)11/28/1998 1:39:00 PM
From: EL KABONG!!!  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 2770
 
MrB,

I don't follow the Y2K stocks very much, but I saw a quick glimpse of a newspaper article a day or two ago that said that something like a government nuclear agency was lying about Y2K preparedness, that reports had been falsified, and that the agency had actually done little or nothing in the way of preparing for Y2K. I have heard of other instances in private industry (smaller companies) where they too are unprepared. Does anyone think that these types of articles will have any positive impacts of Y2K company's businesses?

KJC



To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (2185)11/29/1998 6:30:00 AM
From: ztect  Respond to of 2770
 
After another late night examining the peculiarities of using javascript
to control IE4--

Dr. Seuss Explains Computers

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
and your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash,
then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!

If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
but your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
and your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
'cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!

When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,
and the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risk,
then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM.
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom.