Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 11-Jan-2020 08:59 <=-

January 4th: I'm back! Appears there some sort of problem with the
mailruns when rolled to 2020 -- two decade delay on Y2K?!

Richard just mentioned tonight that apparently some of the Y2K fixes
merely tossed the problem down the road 20 years.... maybe that
caught you...? He said that nothing that I use would be affected by
that, though.... :)

I may have read the same article. Prior I hadn't heard anything; it
would have seemed there would have been some 'leak' there could be a 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....

(For the Y2K one I didn't do much other than screen print a
copy of my financial statements from on-line, have a little extra
cash, and make sure the cars were reasonably filled. I didn't think things would grind to a halt and if they did would be isolated cases
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... <G>

Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

That's why I use DOS... <G> (and occasionally linux)

(OK: had deleted what follows and made sense to leave in to go with
the above.)

... Workarounds are lifesavers... until they get waterlogged... ;)

And it's really bad when the patch has to be patched!

That's for sure.... <G>

Years and years and years ago I used WordPerfect. Not cheap but
worked the way I wanted it to and had the functions I wanted and
whatever Microsoft offered didn't. Recall reading WordPerfect did a complete overhaul of their product about 2/3rds of the way into my
using them because there were so many patches and sub-sub-sub-routines, etc., it was causing a significant slowdown. So they started from scratch, rewrote the code, and came out with a much faster and 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?

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