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Re: [Plug] a question of terminology..
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Its amusing to talk about this stuff today. Today is one of the
"mini" y2k's.
Check out /.
J.
When I grow up, I wanna be more like me.
I had a clue. I didn't like it. I took it back and exchanged it for an
attitude.
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, secher wrote:
> Kyle Burton wrote:
>
> > One of the larger problems with Y2K issues, isn't what your systems do when
> > isolated by themselves, but what will happen when they interact with systems
> > that don't behave properly.
> >
>
> Precisely.
> NT4 Server is 9/9/99
> Hub (not that it really matters) 9/9/2000
> Linux Laptop 9/9/1999
> Linux server 9/9/2000
>
>
> >
> > And you can't test that by just rolling your clock forward a couple of months.
>
> try all systems at these dates
> 9/9/1999 (in progress, duh...)
> 12/31/99 and let it rollover to 1/1/2000
> 3/29/2000 (leapyear)
> Shit there was one other date we did testing on at my old work, and I'll be
> damned if I can remember it right now. I've got a head full load testing
> software.
> Peace,
> Vale
>
> >
> > It'll all shake itself out soon enough. People survive hurricanes and
> > earthquakes, where they go for days/weeks/months without basic servies
> > (like electricity, grocery stores, atm machines, basic access to their
> > bank accounts, clean water, etc), and they somehow make it through those
> > trials and tribulations.
> >
> > Y2K will at worst be a few days of not being able to use a handful of
> > these basic services. That's it. I can't see anything more devastating
> > than that happening.
>
> One scary point though. NYC & Pretty much any large city hs about three days of
> food in reserve, and even less of there is no refrigeration..
> Luckily that shit isn't going to happen save a worst case sccenario. However
> what concerns me is the reaction of a bunch of inebriated partiers if the power
> goes out even for a few minutes.. The possibility of lotsa people losing their
> cool *real* fast bugs me more than anything else.
> Peace (Hopefully),
> Vale
>
> >
> >
> > Don't panic. It's a waste of time. Besides, the guide says not to :)
>
> Get a pair of danger sensing sunglasses... ;>
>
> >
> >
> > k
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.
> > -- James Dean
> > mortis@voicenet.com http://www.voicenet.com/~mortis
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Morgan Wajda-Levie wrote:
> >
> > > I seem to remember Vale saying that he had been running his box in Y2k
> > > for a while at the last meeting. Just so he can know nothing funky
> > > will happen next year. :)
> > >
> > > On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 11:02:03AM -0400, Graham, John wrote:
> > > > Sorry I know this is way left field, but what's up with the date?
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: secher [mailto:vkenny@quarterleaf.com]
> > > > Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 10:46 AM
> > > > To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> > > > Subject: [Plug] a question of terminology..
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Ok, if we can't get htis straight, we can't ask the media to do
> > > > otherwise.
> > > > Hacking == working at programming, with the implication that there is a
> > > > problem to be solved.
> > > > Cracking == working at breaking into a supposedly secure system or
> > > > software, with or without the use of programming tools.
> > > >
> > > > Ok? I'm neither one, not qualified to be, but I have been around long
> > > > enough to know the difference.
> > > >
> > > > Just a gentle reminder,
> > > > Peace,
> > > > Vale
> > > >
> > > >
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