On Sunday, 2 January 2000 at 16:37:51 +1100, Heracles wrote:
> Richard PIper wrote:
>
>> Greg Lehey wrote:
>>>
>>> On Saturday, 1 January 2000 at 7:37:33 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>>>> Looks like the Tax Office and Prime TV are playing it careful.
>>>>
>>>> Emails to both have been reported as undelivered for 4 hours (8-)
>>>>
>>>> Or maybe they just don't want to give the crackers a target (8-)
>>>
>>> A surprising number of companies who should know better seem to have
>>> closed down altogether.
>>>
>>> Has anybody seen any evidence of new "virus"es?
>>
>> This self inflicted denial of service seems to be the only
>> Y2K problem I have seen. Did anyone turn the power and water off
>> in case they also failed :-)
>
> No!
> Even my ancient Cyrix 686 166+ happily clicked over to 1/1/2000. The only
> problem I have heard of is a company in the US whose system crashed when
> they tested it a couple of days before the new year. Maybe everyone took
> sufficient measures ahead of time.
That's ancient? Just for the fun of it I fired up my 2.11BSD UNIX
system on the PDP-11:
[95] root--> uname -a
2.11BSD pdp11.lemis.com 2.11BSD 2.11 BSD UNIX #3: Sat Mar 7 15:25:50 CST 1998
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/GRANDPA PDP11
[96] root--> date
Sun Jan 2 16:49:11 CST 2000
[97] root-->
No problems.
The story I *do* like is at
http://www.daemonnews.org/199911/editorial.html.
Greg
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