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Y2K News Section : 2000
Welcome to the London Times ( News International Ltd, London, UK at :
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Current Y2K Stories :
* Local Red Lion Hotel had ALL room charges default to $199.00 at the stroke
of midnight on 1/1/2000 regardless of circumstances - software is being rewritten ...
* Local Clatsop County D.A.'s Office prints out 30,000 files this month - system
is NOT y2k compliant ... plans are to set the clock back a month in January and
keep printing hard copy. New system ready for next year ... no update yet .
* Local Western Bank still has three PC's running Windows_95 that aren't fully Y2K
compliant ... auto-reset rollsover to 1/1/1980. Assistant Manager assures computers
were upgraded, but cannot find the MSDOS 'date' function to verify it's not '1980' .
* Costco nationwide dumps entire card membership system because of Y2K ... all
new software and new membership cards already issued ...
* US Forestry Service advises to 'turn off and unplug' all PCs on the 31st
then plug them back in on Jan 3rd to avoid year rollover ( NOT ... see the
small CMOS internal battery for continuous BIOS/RTC clock operation ... )
No responce, but origional WIN_98 'locks up', and WIN_95 resets to 1980 .
* Associated Locksmiths of America 'loses' entire member database due to
new database software. Asks members to 'update' essentially a blank slate
membership renewal form ... no comment received.
* Casio Digital Watch NOT compliant - new battery test to 1990, not 2000 !
rollover occured to YEAR 100 ... next critical date is 2/29/2000 ...
* Local State of Oregon offices 'think' they are Y2K compliant, yet they are
running old Windows_98, which is NOT without upgrades ... no word as yet
* Primera HMO in Bend, Oregon asking for TWO monthly payments in advance
for January 2000 due to potential billing errors ...
* Safeway Stores, Inc. issues employee bulletin to fill prescriptions in advance
at least 5-7 days in anticipation of Y2K problems. New Compaq PCs running
custom Safeway software in old MS-DOS ! No updates are available yet ...
* Portland General Electric, and Northwest Natural Gas claim Y2K compliancy ...
all operations went normally during the New Year's Weekend ...
* Many Local Businesses will 'wait out' Y2K and avoid 'unnecessary' upgrades
Many as of yet are unaware of database errors ...
* Local US West phone company switching sub-station is ancient - modems speeds
limited to 33.6 Kbps maximum here ... long distance fiber optics OK ! No plans to
upgrade outdate switch. Only 56K connections available are outside the local
service area. Internet ISPs in outlying areas getting new customers ...
* Local Computer Repair Shop offers $25.00 Y2K test only - recommends a new
motherboard replacement, with upgraded Windows ( unnecessary for Y2K ) !
see Y2K-specific fixes, and FREE Y2K BIOS/RTC test !
* Local Oregon government employees asked to work entire New Year's weekend
for emergency services ... few, if any problems were reported locally ...
* shecora.com institutes hourly Y2K updates from around the country ! Pager alert
and e-mail notification network sign-up now CLOSED ! New update : the 400+
network is now a testing/proving ground for Y2K software nationwide ... for example
we discovered that ALL Netscape web browsers older than 4.0 are NOT compliant
nor are they working correctly. Most noticed are "post" functions on the 'Net with
all local cache failing ( re-load, restore data, save cache, post, online forms that
use the local Netscape cache memory may have corrupted data ) ...
* Community College did not upgrade for Y2K - report today that, despite their being
aware of the problem, no upgrades were made at all. A few PCs were compliant. The
surprise problems included e-mails being sent out over-and-over for 30 minutes, some
difficulty sharing Word files between computers, and what sounded like a few bad
failures on the network. ALL computers are now being upgraded on weekends, and
the date of completion is targeted as two months from now ... note, re-installing WIN
98 with the newest 'upgrade' version takes nearly 2.5 hrs. Necessary Y2K-specific
patches shouldn't take over a half hour. I wonder which method is being used ...
* M.E.R.T.S. was finally planning to have their first Y2K staff meeting on Dec. 27th.
No details on their plans. Word was there were a variety of different computers,
with specifics, depending on PC age, MSDOS, and Windows' versions ...
NOTE: Windows_2000 will be OK, and the second Windows_98 is compliant ( '99 )
but re-installing the entire Windows_98 just for a few updated files is overkill .
And from WIN_95 to 98 - Critical Y2K upgrade files are NOT on the CD ! see the
free y2k test page below for the FULL story on the necessary Y2K-specific upgrades
that you will actually need for the Year 2000 ... or '1980' if WIN_95, or Year '100'
if patch upgraded via MSDOS
UPDATE : The YEAR 1980 was unexpected -vs- 1900, but that was the start-up
"Windows default year". The YEAR 100 error is currently Microsoft's best patch/fix
for WIN_3.1x through _98 so far. MSDOS is incremented ( 99 + 1 year ), but unlike
Microsoft Explorer, which displays "20" followed by "00" of the '100', for 2000 - the
Netscape actually displays the Year 100 as '100' ! ( ex: 1/1/100 ) ...
On the Oregon Coast about 15% of the several dozen computers I upgraded were
Y2K compliant. ALL computers newer than 4 months were OK. SOME nearly a year
old, but 'new' were compliant. NONE over a year old were compliant/working. Here
about 3% of the business population bothered to upgrade in an area of about
30,000 population ...
1) Fixes for old Windows ( 3.1x and 95 ) are partial - file manager / explorer works
with wrong dates ...
2) MANY web servers/e-mail servers/I.P s are doing the '900 year' rollover now. The
expected 1999 to 1900 didn't occur. INSTEAD the '99 to '100 did, so the file
integrity instead of 13/31/1999 is now 1/1/100 -an incremental rollover appear-
ing on web servers / e-mail servers, and hard drives everywhere. Some servers will
never become compliant, nor fix the 1/1/100 error. E-Mail should work normally,
EXCEPT perhaps in your own hard drive from inbasket to a 'save' directory.
UPGRADE your e-mail program to a new one before downloading, please.
Of note : some web-based forums ( like newsgroups ) also have the 1/1/100 problem
- again it avoids the 1980 error, but creates a new bookeeping one ... more errors
from Y2K to come ...
1) All NON-upgraded/patched non compliant computers will have file manager errors
which give messages like \" Do you want to overwrite a newer file with an older one ?
( from 1980 ) , or :
2) All hard drive date stamps show the years 1998 (98), 1999 (99), 2000 (100), etc.
So far tests show a correct rollover for 2010 as well !
Unfortunately the File Manager displays a 1/1/2000 file as 1/1/:0 and a 2010 file
as 1/1/;0. There is no known fix, but the File Manager (Explorer ) DOES work
correctly !
ONE FINAL THOUGHT : Seems older Windows_95 PCs roll over to 1980 ... so the
all the experts were wrong about 1999 changing to 1900 - either 1980, the start
date for Windows, OR the year 100, the incremental progression from '99 which
preserves the MSDOS integrity ( without the suppressed '1' and added '20' for '2000' )
Y2K UPDATE :
"At Japan's Meteorological Agency, weather monotoring stations reported double-
digit rainfall even though no rain fell outside, while computers at six observatories
failed to recognize Feb. 29."
"In New Zealand, merchants had trouble verifying banking transactions and some
government experts said as many as 4,000 money transfer terminals might have been
affected before the problem was fixed."
"The Jakarta (Indonesia) Stock Exchange closed today as a precaution because of
fear that the automated trading system would encounter computer problems, while
the Singapore subway system rejected some rider's cards."
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