Steve Morton
Dgar
Ironically, it was the date formatting featured on the sticker that was the reason the sticker was printed in the first place.
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Bill Ricker
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)
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Mattias Eriksson 🦀🚵♂️⛵@catraxx @dgar
Well there were some gliches, tax payouts that failed, some nuclear plant software that didn't work. Dates displayed wrong in a lot of applications. Flight information systems that didn't work properly. aso.
But luckily, all the obviously security critical systems had been fixed, so no disasters happened. A really impressive global effort.
Well there were some gliches, tax payouts that failed, some nuclear plant software that didn't work. Dates displayed wrong in a lot of applications. Flight information systems that didn't work properly. aso.
But luckily, all the obviously security critical systems had been fixed, so no disasters happened. A really impressive global effort.
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bazkie 👩🏼💻 bitplanes 🎵@dgar that was really something. planes were falling out of the sky, nukes where exploding in major cities worldwide. it was wild
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Wasn't there some sort of a party even to celebrate this "end of the world"?
I remember seeing some promos for it on MTV — nowadays it seems like something from a different world 😆
Wasn't there some sort of a party even to celebrate this "end of the world"?
I remember seeing some promos for it on MTV — nowadays it seems like something from a different world 😆
Hans van Zijst@Dgar 😂
Oh yes, we prepared for the ultimate battle against all evil in the world 😎
Our entire enterprise was on high alert, lots of colleagues were on active duty, everyone else was on standby service.
And then nothing happened, absolutely nothing 😂
Oh yes, we prepared for the ultimate battle against all evil in the world 😎
Our entire enterprise was on high alert, lots of colleagues were on active duty, everyone else was on standby service.
And then nothing happened, absolutely nothing 😂
Ian Robinson@hans Because of the patching beforehand.
I had a colleague who did nothing but upgrade NetWare servers for about 6 months across Northern Ireland.
@Ian Robinson I know, it's the prevention paradox.
But it was funny to see that absolutely nothing happened while many were expecting the world to explode 😃
But it was funny to see that absolutely nothing happened while many were expecting the world to explode 😃
@hans The mobile phone network went down in Belfast for about 10 minutes around midnight. But that was due to service load ☺️
I was on call for The Stormont Hotel. I called them when the mobile network recovered to check if their It systems were okay. They were. They were one of the NetWare systems patched in the run-up to the date change.
Albert Hickey@dgar A friend was working for a satellite company and he said it was August 1999 when the testing was done for air traffic control.
Also 9/9/99 was used as a marker in some inventory systems in the expiration date to mean no expiration date. Meaning after that date the tils did not let products be sold. Most were fixed before hand but I remember hearing of a retailer that had issued.
@dgar
The amount of work that had to be done to make sure all systems were not affect was amazing.
If you were not inside inside the IT bubble then it looked like it was a lot of noise about nothing but it was only nothing because every system was updated and tested to make sure they continued to work.
The amount of work that had to be done to make sure all systems were not affect was amazing.
If you were not inside inside the IT bubble then it looked like it was a lot of noise about nothing but it was only nothing because every system was updated and tested to make sure they continued to work.
katzenbergerI tried to be there and fully aware, on the 12th.
Sadly, I could not figure out, for the life of mine, what the name of the 31st month was, and so the date just passed, without me noticing anything in peculiar.
Verđandi K SoldustyBTW:
☝️ For an average person, turning off the computer before midnight is a great idea on any given day, not just once per millennium.
Chris Bohn@katzenberger @dgar Indeed, the three rules:
1. Do not expose the EPROM to sunlight
2. Do not let the computer get wet
3. Do not feed it data after midnight
1. Do not expose the EPROM to sunlight
2. Do not let the computer get wet
3. Do not feed it data after midnight
Ashwin Dixit...also good advice when carrying a vape on a plane to fly high. 🤫
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@katzenberger @dgar I leave the Raspberry Pi on as that's running the house (eg turning the heating back on again in the morning) but I switch all the others off at night.
Fardels BearSomebody did forget to turn their computer off. Look at where we are now. It's the tech equivalent of stepping on a butterfly during your trip to the Jurassic.
Tommi Nieminen@dgar Yup, I stopped at the uni that night to take a leak and check if I still could boot up my PC.
CTI missed my opportunity, sadly. We had family friends over for a simple NYE celebration that year, and I had MEANT to sneak away in time to get to the basement and pull the main power breaker right as midnight ticked over, as a prank, but hadn't been paying enough attention to the time until someone started chanting from 10s in the other room.
No way to sneak at that point. My life's purpose! Ruined! 😢
Kim Possible 
@dgar remember the funny commercials after it was over? There was one that had a post-apocalyptic landscape, with crashed airplanes, and a loose giraffe running down the street for some reason.
My dad, who had been a C programmer, came out of retirement to make BANK fixing lines of code for big companies. Really a windfall for the older IBM guys.
Trump & Epstein: Biz partners.@dgar
As a tech, I kept telling everyone #Y2K was nonsense: "Computers aren't going to crash just b/c they get the date wrong." 🤦♂️
The giant Nothing-Burger that Y2K turned out to be made me look like a genius to my friends.
But I nearly got fired when I joked to my boss our first day back that we "were struck by Y2k." It was her worst fear. I couldn't believe how gullible people were. 🤦♂️
Ichinin 
✅🎯🙄@MugsysRapSheet @dgar It because a nothingburger because of people putting in lots of hours in the late 1999.
@MugsysRapSheet @dgar Ok, clown.
Cybarbie@Ichinin @MugsysRapSheet @dgar ikr what a dipshit. I recall that somebody died in a hospital in northern Italy as a result of something not working during their operation. Personally I and hundreds of other people worked on very old critical code that kept the electricity grid working. It absolutely would have been down otherwise.
@MugsysRapSheet @Ichinin @dgar Well it's simple really you're an idiot who has no clue what he is talking about.
Comrade Weez@MugsysRapSheet rubbish. The problem was concentrated on servers, connectivity widgets and embedded systems, which were produced in and/or operated in computing 1st world nations. What we did in the big companies flowed downhill to the 'nations which did nothing' in your uninformed opinion. srsly, stop making a fool of yourself or the actual techos will keep pointing at you and rolling our eyes at 600rpm. @Ichinin @dgar
@weezmgk @Ichinin @dgar
The only person making a fool of themselves would be anyone suggesting we didn't run about a million tests pre-Y2K.
It wasn't hard. We simply set the time on the computer to 12/31/99 11:59:55pm and waited 5 seconds.
It's idiotic to think America "saved the world" by fixing a few Servers.
@MugsysRapSheet there's a reason dgar blocked you. You are a clown. Your innocently dopey claim is not even wrong. I'm not here to educate a home computer user on the ins-and-outs of server and networking operation, you can go learn that yourself. NB: If you are not at least 60 years old, you weren't even there. Bye now. @Ichinin @dgar
Lenora@MugsysRapSheet @dgar Y2K wasn’t a joke. Our programmers worked for over 3 years fixing software so nothing would happen. It was time consuming and on the evening before New Years they worked all day and stayed until past midnight to make sure nothing failed. Too many people treat it like it was nothing when it was really a lot of hard work to fix it
@FaithinBones @dgar
I REPEAT: Dozens of countries DID NOTHING and nothing happened (Russia being one of those countries.)
Their computers didn't crash. Power grids didn't shutdown. Rockets didn't launch.
And it had nothing to do with the efforts of programmers in the U.S. or UK (I was there too.)
@FaithinBones @dgar
LOL.
"Dgar" called me a "clown" and blocked me for refusing to believe that fixing some Y2K code in the U.S. somehow "saved the whole world" (including Russia, which did absolutely nothing and suffered no catastrophe.)
@MugsysRapSheet @dgar I agree with him. 👋
@dgar @FaithinBones
Sorry Dgar.
When I have two people replying at the same time, I don't always track who said what. 😉
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I am?
You mean Y2K caused an accidental nuclear strike from Russia that I missed? 🤦♂️
@MugsysRapSheet @FaithinBones @dgar
You have missed the point.
The potential for widespread catastrophe that you reference was all media hype and silly buggers and no one with a brain took it seriously but no one did nothing.
We that prepared for the change worked hard and long to prevent a cascade of failures some of which could have had significant affects in markets, transport, comms etc.
We did a good job.
You have missed the point.
The potential for widespread catastrophe that you reference was all media hype and silly buggers and no one with a brain took it seriously but no one did nothing.
We that prepared for the change worked hard and long to prevent a cascade of failures some of which could have had significant affects in markets, transport, comms etc.
We did a good job.
@MugsysRapSheet as a tech back in the day at Compaq/DEC in Australia, I'm here to tell you that Y2K was no fucking joke and the only reason it wasn't a disaster is because a lot of us worked our hairy balls off fixing shit before it could cause problems. I worked 6 days/10h/day from 1998-2000 on Y2K. If you think otherwise, you didn't work on the problem or were a home computer jockey. @dgar
@weezmgk @dgar
No. That's nonsense.
Software engineers had been prepared since the first 30 year mortgage was issued in 1970.
I'd been VERY interested to hear of some code you intercepted that would have caused a computer to stop working just b/c it got the year incorrect the second the clock struck midnight.
There is NOTHING in a computer where its continued operation is dependent on the correct year.
@dgar I spent the entire night drunk off my ass, playing StarCraft with a friend and it worked just fine.