RasterWeb: Rambles: y3k

As it's commonly know, we're looking at some potential problems with computers (or anything with an embedded processor, like my shoes) and software as we reach the year 2000. It's also commonly known that part of the reason for this is that programmers long ago (60's, 80s, and yes, even the 70's) never thought their code would still be used it 20, 30, or 40 years time. Well, they were wrong. So software that stores the date as a two digit number, like 97, and so on, will be in trouble when people enter 00 for 2000. Some software will freak out, thinking the user means 1900, other software will cause personal injury and create embarrassing stains when people enter any year after 1999.

Join me!

Face it, we're hosed! There's no way around the year 2000 problem. That's why I'm focusing ALL of my efforts on the year 3000 (y3k) problem! I plan to make all of my software 'year 3000 compliant!' Yes, we've learned a harsh lesson, and it won't happen again! Don't be caught scrambling through millions of lines of code in the year 2997 the way people are now, what sense does that make! Believe me when I say that when I boot up my IIvx in the year 3000, everything's gonna be alright, and I'll be partying like it's 2999!

Reset

As far as the web is concerned, don't worry, from what I know of it, they just have to restart the web in the year 2000 while holding down the 'y', the '2', and the 'k' keys. Something-something unix, I can't remember what. You may experience a few minutes of downtime when this happens, all should be back to normal shortly afterward though (unless you use AOL.) Again, if you experience any difficulty with the year 2000 and your computer, the best thing to do is delete all of your files, toss all of your CD's down a hole, and kick in the monitor with a size 10 Doc Marten... Then just buy a new y2k compliant computer, hopefully it'll run all of your Rhapsody software...

  Last Modified: 04.02.2001 by rasterboy