MetaFilter posts tagged with Y2K and brokenlink

Steven Den Beste — Mon, 01 Jan 2001 16:30:10 -0800

The Y2K bug gets in its last lick. We all thought we were safely past that a year ago, didn't we?

alan — Tue, 29 Feb 2000 03:15:41 -0800

Japan hit by leap day glitches Looks like y2k wasn't a total bust. I want to know what happens in seven decades, when all the people who implemented a is post-1972, is not post-1972 solution still haven't updated.

mathowie — Sat, 01 Jan 2000 10:56:07 -0800

Nice! The BrainLog is apparently having some Y2K difficulties. :)

mathowie — Sat, 01 Jan 2000 07:23:11 -0800

In San Francisco, the Ad Hoc Committee Against the New Millennium staged a solemn march against Y2K. "Growing up in the '60s and '70s we were promised things like rocket cars, space travel, alien encounters...android sex slaves," said Horace Higginbottom, who thinks the world has been cheated out of the future. "What do we get instead? They gives us the lousy Internet, crummy e-commerce."

grant — Fri, 31 Dec 1999 10:01:29 -0800

With all this preoccupation with Y2K and the march of time lately, this doesn't seem to be too out of place. British Prime Minister Tony Blair figures it's time for the UK to start capitalizing on GMT as the standard timestamp of worldwide e-commerce. Personally, as goofy as it is, I'm starting to warm up to Swatch's internet time concept. By the way, this was posted @ 831.

tdecius — Mon, 06 Dec 1999 18:57:34 -0800

I have to agree with 'The Wrong Approach' by OSAll staff writer Brian Martin. Martin postulates that nearly every system on the planet could be secured with one simple step: making default installations totally locked down as opposed to the status quo of totally systems. 'I say it could be done in one month. In reality, most unix vendors could sit down and change their default settings in a matter of days.'