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

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (5400)	4/9/1999 5:01:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Will it work in the Y2K? zdnet.com ZDNet presents a chat with Y2K Expert and Editor of the ZDY2K site, Mitch Ratcliffe. What will happen as the clocks change over to Jan 1, 2000? From the largest concerns to the smallest, Mitch, will be here to answer your questions. Join Mitch in a live chat.

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (5400)	4/9/1999 5:24:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 9818

I am more concerned with Privacy and Security issues with the Internet than Y2K. SEE: 'Cookie Monster' claims Hotmail users zdnet.com Sharing personal information for a price zdnet.com Protect Yourself From a Hack Attack (Very Brief overview) search.zdnet.com:80/cgi-bin/texis/zdhelp/zdhelp/single.html?Ueid=914143 (This story doesn't go into the protection from a hack enough, see Ira Winklers articles) Freemail Vulnerabilities zdnet.com The disturbing thing about illegal unauthorized access into ones computer is you don't know how long they has access and what information was taken. I find this more serious of a problem than Y2K. But that's my opinion. Another thing people don't when it comes to computers, is they are too lazy to back-up their data on a regular basis. Backup Basics zdnet.com How much data and time has been spent on re-building hard drives or data after a crash? This happens every day. Everyone who is new to computers are going to be thinking of Y2K, and put other more potentially serious problems on the back burner. Y2K is just plain and simply over hyped. In my humble opinion.

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (5400)	4/10/1999 2:15:00 AM
From: David Eddy	Respond to of 9818

Cheeky - Mitch Ratcliffe is the 1st true voice of reason. He's off in MightySoft fantasy land. For the umpteenth time... (on a global basis) - 12,000+ IBM MVS mainframes (big iron) - 40,000 IBM DOS/VSE midrange - 400,000+ IBM AS400 midrange - 500,000 DEC VAX... err Compaq VAX And not counting hardware from Bull, AT&T, Hewlett-Packar, Perkin-Elmer, Wang, Prime, Data General, Tandem, Sequent, Sun... Found in an encyclopedia of desktop software... - 3056 vendors - 21,000 products (obviously not all business applications) And then I know a fellow with a totally dead desktop accounting package for CP/M (remember when?)... he's still receiving commission checks from the forms suppliers. Bottom line... Windows NT isn't all that relevant. - David