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In article ,
Mike Lindsay wrote:
Anyone remember the Millennium Bug scare? That died a natural death
didn't it?

At what cost? ISTR the people responsible for the deliberately engineered (?*)
problem being the ones that made their fortunes out of it. :-(

*I can't imagine them being so stupid as to do it by accident.

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"The People's Champion." wrote in message
...
So have you had your vacination?
Doesn't the government have a legal duty to protect it citizens?

The state has the obligation to educate people to type properly and/or know
some grammar!

"protect it citizens"!! Really!


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John Porcella wrote:

The state has the obligation to educate people to type properly
and/or know some grammar!

"protect it citizens"!! Really!

Oh, sod it - that's enough of that. Someone who insults the simplest
typo, makes mistakes himself, seldom comments on relevant
issues on this ng, and, when he does, makes inconsequential remarks
late in the thread when the real points have already been made - I'm
blocking this idiot.

André Coutanche

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In article ,
Andrew Cox wrote:
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 23:41:40 +0100, John Cartmell wrote:

In article ,
Mike Lindsay wrote:
Anyone remember the Millennium Bug scare? That died a natural death
didn't it?

At what cost? ISTR the people responsible for the deliberately engineered (?*)
problem being the ones that made their fortunes out of it. :-(

Who are these People Responsible? An elite gang who broke into systems
all over the world, and hacked code to make it fail, or are you
suggesting some sort of global conspiracy amongst programmers? And the
people who made money were largely unnecessary consultants(1), who
would otherwise just have been making money getting in the way of some
other project.

*I can't imagine them being so stupid as to do it by accident.

Do what by accident? Go from 1999 to 2000? Please elaborate.

Most people had realised that 1999 was followed by 2000 and had known and
appreciated that for some time. Computer systems designers had taken it into
account in plenty of time. Some had not expected their systems to be running
by the turn of the century and can be forgiven for problems with their systems
of 30+ years earlier.
Microsoft didn't have that excuse but were the main beneficiaries when even
their very recent systems needed to be upgraded.

(1) Some may say that the word unnecessary is itself unnecessary here,
but I've actually met maybe four consultants who were actually worth
their salary in the last 23 years.

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On 8 Apr 2006 11:55:16 GMT, Huge
wrote the following to uk.misc:


(* Why won't Gnome do pound signs?)

I suppose you can't expect free software to do money.

BTW, how are you getting on with the stuff I sent you a week or so ago?

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On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 11:55:16 +0000, Huge wrote:

Damn right. I got GBP900 (*) just for staying up and having a row with
SWMBO.

(* Why won't Gnome do pound signs?)

It does it here. Run gnome-control-center, click keyboard and go to the
keyboard layout tab. It should have "United Kingdom" in the list and
selected as the default.

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In message , That Bloke Peter
Cook played in The Wrong Box wrote
"Mike Lindsay" wrote in message

Anyone remember the Millennium Bug scare? That died a natural death
didn't it?

Oi! I was worth every penny of the ridiculously inflated salary paid just to
keep a Novell 3.1 box ticking.


Britain spent millions on bug related activities during the run-up to
the Millennium. Italy spent practically nothing. The outcome was the
same in both countries.
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"Alan" wrote in message

Britain spent millions on bug related activities during the run-up to the
Millennium. Italy spent practically nothing. The outcome was the same in
both countries.

Absolutely. When I get back to work, remind me to tell the bosses about the
ever present threat from the Italian IT industry.

I believe they have a lot of people called Alan.