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Re: Happy New Year!

ollie — Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:06 am

Author: ollie

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 10:06 am

MartyBartfast wrote:

hootenanny

Who remembers 10 years ago waiting for all the planes to fall out of the sky, the nuclear power stations to blow up, and the banks to disappear up their own backsides?

What people forget was the mammoth amount of work that went into updating applications and programs to use a 4 digit year format instead of the 2 digit format. Some applications still have problems if only 2 digit year formats are used - have a look at your spreadsheet programs. A 2 digit year format means that you are only working from 1930 - 2029 by default, so date of birth before January 1930 means that you haven't been born yet. We have about 27 years to fix a similar problem for *nix operating systems (Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 actually). See The Year 2038 Bug for more information - hopefully it will be called The Friday the 13th bug

Re: Happy New Year!

khakilang — Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:09 am

Author: khakilang

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:09 am

This will be another year for Linux. I just hope Linux user will be increase by leaps and bound.

Re: Happy New Year!

jjmac — Mon Jan 10, 2011 2:25 am

Author: jjmac

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 2:25 am

Yes, hny slippery, and all.

Quote:

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Who remembers 10 years ago waiting for all the planes to fall out of the sky, the nuclear power stations to blow up, and the banks to disappear up their own backsides?
>>

I do ... and it did happen. But spread out a bit.

jm

Re: Happy New Year!

nelz — Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:47 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:47 pm

MartyBartfast wrote:

Who remembers 10 years ago waiting for all the planes to fall out of the sky, the nuclear power stations to blow up, and the banks to disappear up their own backsides?

Well, the last one happened, although it was a few years later

Re: Happy New Year!

Rhakios — Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:36 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 9:36 pm

A happy and Linuxy new year to all.

Re: Happy New Year!

catgate — Sat Jan 01, 2011 2:57 pm

Author: catgate

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 2:57 pm

Lang may yer lum reek

Re: Happy New Year!

Dutch_Master — Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:58 am

Author: Dutch_Master

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:58 am

People are dumber... Your proof: the OP

Anyway, mine didn't start too well. Or rather, last year ended with a big bang that caused damage to my house and my neighbours below. Some ***** threw a fireworks bomb inside the communal stairs at about 11 PM... Fortunately it was "only" a window each (above the door) and I had enough spare wood to cover up the holes for the time being, but it did ruin my evening.... Oh well, we're covered by the insurance, so that's a relief...

Happy New Year, even for the fish (and against my better judgement )....

Re: Happy New Year!

Ram — Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:15 am

Author: Ram

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:15 am

MartyBartfast wrote:

hootenanny

Who remembers 10 years ago waiting for all the planes to fall out of the sky, the nuclear power stations to blow up, and the banks to disappear up their own backsides?

urm, not me. Well I just didn't expect any of that to happen. Come on, computers are dumb.

Re: Happy New Year!

MartyBartfast — Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:11 am

Author: MartyBartfast

Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2011 1:11 am

hootenanny

Who remembers 10 years ago waiting for all the planes to fall out of the sky, the nuclear power stations to blow up, and the banks to disappear up their own backsides?

Re: Happy New Year!

Ram — Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:02 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 10:02 pm

Bazza wrote:

Hi 1sf (troll)...

HNY to you too birfdy bruv, I trust the family is fine......

I do miss your intellectual posts, please do more.

/Me awaits flak.

I'd slap you with a cold fish if I had one.

Oh btw Happy New Year....!!!!

Re: Happy New Year!

Bazza — Fri Dec 31, 2010 9:29 pm

Author: Bazza

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 9:29 pm

Hi 1sf...

HNY to you too birfdy bruv, I trust the family is fine......

I do miss your intellectual posts, please do more.

/Me awaits flak.

Re: Happy New Year!

johnhudson — Fri Dec 31, 2010 7:41 pm

Author: johnhudson

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 7:41 pm

And compliments of the season to you too.

John

Happy New Year!

1slipperyfish — Fri Dec 31, 2010 6:36 pm

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2010 6:36 pm

happy new yeaR to everyone, i hope your new year finds you and your families happy and healthy
paul