tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post5555559682139384201..comments2024-03-13T12:01:30.303+11:00Comments on Billablog: Why Y2K Mattered ....and still doesBillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-60805711094701473682009-12-23T22:04:19.889+11:002009-12-23T22:04:19.889+11:00And for that, we trivialise your work, diminish yo...And for that, we trivialise your work, diminish your achievements and portray you as social misfits.<br /><br />It's a cruel world.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-66144202348076798042009-12-23T21:49:59.443+11:002009-12-23T21:49:59.443+11:00*Sigh* Yes..
A friend of mine worked at a large C...*Sigh* Yes..<br /><br />A friend of mine worked at a large Chinese bank, helping them roll out their first internet banking solution. There was much fanfare on the day, red carpet and everything.. with the chairman of the bank set to be the first person to officially conduct a business transaction on the system.<br /><br />Shortly before the presentation Davo (not his real name) found a major bug in the software - one that would have prevented anyone even logging on to the system, let alone using it. Frantic minutes of coding were followed by even more frantic attempts at explaining why a new version of the system had to be deployed to the servers immediately. Grabbing one of the system administrators, in his best broken Chinese he hoarsely exclaimed "this..most.. important.. thing.. you.. type..password.. now!"<br /><br />Suffice it to say, with three minutes to spare, a new version of the banking system was rolled into place and the grand unveiling went off without a hitch. And no-one but Davo and one bewildered systems admin knew that anything had gone wrong.<br /><br />We are the janitors of the world. We fix the plumbing, we build the rooms you live in. We do all the hard stuff so you don't have to.ferrisoxidehttp://rubyredbricks.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-33948359148001235102009-12-23T11:11:57.550+11:002009-12-23T11:11:57.550+11:00Oh, you prophet of doom, you! We survived the twit...Oh, you prophet of doom, you! We survived the twitpocalypse didn't we?<br /><br />Now a new generation has the opportunity to become overlooked visionaries. <br /><br />I guess one of the unfortunate things about programming must be that if you do your job well, nobody notices.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-84213377748750171202009-12-23T07:49:30.565+11:002009-12-23T07:49:30.565+11:00Time to start thinking about the Y2K38 problem (ht...Time to start thinking about the Y2K38 problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem), the point when the timestamps on 32-bit Unix machines will reset back to zero. Assuming that not all machines will be "so advanced" that the problem will just go away - reasonable given a lot of embedded systems run Unix - we could be in for some for fun.<br /><br />It's the End of the Unix Epoch as we now it.. and I feel fineferrisoxidehttp://rubyredbricks.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-18103787410771555352009-12-22T18:42:15.188+11:002009-12-22T18:42:15.188+11:00That was my thinking. If you have to evacuate for ...That was my thinking. If you have to evacuate for a fire or flood or something and the disaster never comes, that's a good thing, isn't it? If experts manage to prevent the disaster, that's even better.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03412983524190021368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-80912927499912273532009-12-22T15:03:55.777+11:002009-12-22T15:03:55.777+11:00I didn't know anybody thought it was all hype....I didn't know anybody thought it was all hype. I suppose it's better to avoid a disaster and have people say it was all for nothing than to take the disaster.Miahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17881826389793941197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942719624481214321.post-8272271198329379282009-12-18T14:01:39.659+11:002009-12-18T14:01:39.659+11:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Lady Lovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07935193517101273364noreply@blogger.com