On Sun, 2 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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 :-)
> >
Unfortunately
1. While I disagreed - the powers that be wanted to perform a full
physical shutdown of the data centre.
2. Our ISP did indeed have problems. Whether they are due to Y2K or other
is unknown.
3. Yes - the water and power were also turned off.
Cheers
Jason.
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Corporate Express Australia Ltd
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