Subj : Y2K again..? was: Note from Daryl Stout To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Fri Jan 17 2020 01:27:44 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 11-Jan-2020 08:59 <=- BM>> January 4th: I'm back! Appears there some sort of problem with the BM>> mailruns when rolled to 2020 -- two decade delay on Y2K?! NB>> Richard just mentioned tonight that apparently some of the Y2K fixes NB>> merely tossed the problem down the road 20 years.... maybe that NB>> caught you...? He said that nothing that I use would be affected by NB>> that, though.... :) BM> I may have read the same article. Prior I hadn't heard anything; it BM> would have seemed there would have been some 'leak' there could be a BM> problem. Perhaps the authors of those kick-it-down-the-road fixes aren't around any more or forgot it would eventually loom again... it was, after all, 20 years ago.... BM> (For the Y2K one I didn't do much other than screen print a BM> copy of my financial statements from on-line, have a little extra BM> cash, and make sure the cars were reasonably filled. I didn't think BM> things would grind to a halt and if they did would be isolated cases BM> and fixed so running within a few days.) There was a lot of hubbub before Y2K... and lots of people scrambling to patch important stuff.... Richard didn't expect much of a problem, either, but we did take the precaution to shut down all the computers entirely before midnight, and wait a few minutes after before turning things back on.... And then nothing happened... BM>> Yesterday it worked. BM>> Today it is not working. BM>> Windows is like that. NB>> That's why I use DOS... (and occasionally linux) BM> (OK: had deleted what follows and made sense to leave in to go with BM> the above.) NB>>> ... Workarounds are lifesavers... until they get waterlogged... ;) BM>> And it's really bad when the patch has to be patched! NB>> That's for sure.... BM> Years and years and years ago I used WordPerfect. Not cheap but BM> worked the way I wanted it to and had the functions I wanted and BM> whatever Microsoft offered didn't. Recall reading WordPerfect did a BM> complete overhaul of their product about 2/3rds of the way into my BM> using them because there were so many patches and sub-sub-sub-routines, BM> etc., it was causing a significant slowdown. So they started from BM> scratch, rewrote the code, and came out with a much faster and BM> better-running product. Makes sense... :) Did they offer the new product at a discount to their faithful customers that were still using the old version...? ttyl neb .... Why do they keep moving my paperwork from the dining-room table? --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .