Moon's Graden

>Why are other people here?  John R., Theresa, Dogman, Elaine.  Well
>Happy New Year Everyone.  I guess we now have to wait and see whether
>things on the small business end suffer from y2k.

>The dogs didn't get champagne.  Just pigs ears : )  Then on the way home
>they played in the frost that settled on the grass - Lewis with his
>rocks, Freneau retrieving his sticks, Gremlin growling at everyone, Yoko
>growling at Gremlin and Bruno chasing rocks.  They all had smiles on
>their faces.

>Just think - we now will be ending anything dated with 2000 and we lived
>to tell about it.  Later Folks (going back in my tunnel : ).

> With firearms, you see, you can get all the fresh water, food, money,
> clothes, etc. that you need.

> Nah.

> It's over.

> Mine did...all of them.

> I guess that's why they're all sleeping in this morning...

>> Yeah, Happy New Year to you, too, Adrienne.

>Thanks.

>> I was here because I wanted to be close to my firearms if and when the
>> shit hit the fan.

>> With firearms, you see, you can get all the fresh water, food, money,
>> clothes, etc. that you need.

>I meant here in rpdb land - not here as in still alive.  Or maybe you
>understood that and meant firearms in the metaphorical sense.

>> Nah.

>> It's over.

>And there's still a note posted on my elevator that our superintendent has
>been equiped with a "y2k emergency preparedness kit," including first aid, a
>cpr kit, etc.  Funny isn't it?

>> Mine did...all of them.

>> I guess that's why they're all sleeping in this morning...

>Maybe I shoulda tried that.

> :Why are other people here?  John R.,
> :Theresa, Dogman, Elaine.

> Midnight is a pretty normal time for
> my to be posting, and not going out
> is a pretty normal thing for me to be
> doing on New Year's Eve, which has
> always struck me as a pretty lame
> holiday.

>Sorry for the rant, but this is a sore spot with me and not directed
>directly at you dogman, so dont take my ranting personally please.  Just
>think about it people.

>> >> Yeah, Happy New Year to you, too, Adrienne.
[...]
>> I wonder if it was all worth it (hundreds of billions of dollars)?

>> But then again, maybe that's exactly why there were virtually no
>> problems -- i.e., that all the effort was indeed worth it?

> [...]
> > And while this same world was out partying, the techies of the world
> >were spending the night in computer rooms, and even on a multinational
> >conference call for 24 hours solid, monitoring things as they happened on
> >the internet and around the world.
> By the way, if they hadn't screwed all this up in the first place
> (using only two fields to designate the year, instead of four, etc.),
> the world wouldn't have needed "saving," would it?

> For Microsoft DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95 and Windows 98 the risk is based on the BIOS
> for date/time information. Windows users should reset the date in Control Panelthe
> machine's BIOS and operating system should then maintain the date properly.
> Newer Microsoft operating systems such as NT 3.51 SP5, NT 4 SP4 and Windows 98 have
> logic built in to manage most Y2K- BIOS/RTC issues, but its wise to test them anyway.

> Note: For Microsoft NT 3.51 and 4.0 the RTC must be examined. When the Windows? NT
> operating system starts up, it directly accesses the RTCs memory and uses its time and date
> values to set the system time and date. Whenever Windows NT reads dates between 1900 and
> 1919 in the RTC it adds 100 to the year in the system. In effect, it maps the time period forward
> to 2000 ? 2019. Windows NT does not add 100 to dates between 1921 and 1999.

> We may not have got everything right, but at least we
> knew the century was going to end.?

> Douglas Adams

> Computer systems that cannot correctly process dates
> beyond 2000 are at risk of failure one second after
> midnight on December 31, 1999.

> The good news is that since their introduction in 1984,
> Macintosh computers have had the ability to make the
> transition to the year 2000. In fact, the Mac OS and
> most Mac applications can handle internally generated
> dates correctly all the way to the year 29,940.

> There's a name for those hundreds and hundreds of *billions* of
> dollars that was spent world-wide to fix the problem that *they*
> created in the first place.

> I think they should all be pistol-whipped myself.

> >> Yeah, Happy New Year to you, too, Adrienne.

> >Thanks.

> >> I was here because I wanted to be close to my firearms if and when the
> >> shit hit the fan.

> >> With firearms, you see, you can get all the fresh water, food, money,
> >> clothes, etc. that you need.

> >I meant here in rpdb land - not here as in still alive.  Or maybe you
> >understood that and meant firearms in the metaphorical sense.

> Here as in *home* (and not out celebrating), as in where the computer
> is, as in where I was last night -- i.e., here, and on the computer,
> and on r.p.d.b. -- I left a nice drunken trail, eh?

> Home, of course, is also where the *firearms* are -- just in case.

> >> >I guess we now have to wait and see whether
> >> >things on the small business end suffer from y2k.

> >> Nah.

> >> It's over.

> >And there's still a note posted on my elevator that our superintendent
has
> >been equiped with a "y2k emergency preparedness kit," including first
aid, a
> >cpr kit, etc.  Funny isn't it?

> Yes, it is, in a strange kind of way.

> I wonder if it was all worth it (hundreds of billions of dollars)?

> But then again, maybe that's exactly why there were virtually no
> problems -- i.e., that all the effort was indeed worth it?

> Who knows?

> >> >The dogs didn't get champagne.

> >> Mine did...all of them.

> >> I guess that's why they're all sleeping in this morning...

> >Maybe I shoulda tried that.

> I think your dogs hoped you would have.

> :>)

> --

> Dogman

> http://www.i1.net/~dogman

> For everything you've ever wanted to know about Jerry Howe
> and other trolls and scumbags, go here:
> http://www.i1.net/~dogman/trolls.html

> Nicholas Regush/ABC News column - Top 5 Predictions... of 2000 !

> "Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by
> questioning answers."   Bernhard Haisch

> [...]
> > And while this same world was out partying, the techies of the world
> >were spending the night in computer rooms, and even on a multinational
> >conference call for 24 hours solid, monitoring things as they happened on
> >the internet and around the world.

> >Sorry for the rant, but this is a sore spot with me and not directed
> >directly at you dogman, so dont take my ranting personally please.  Just
> >think about it people.

> Marissa, didn't you read this part:

> >>But then again, maybe that's exactly why there were virtually no
> >>problems -- i.e., that all the effort was indeed worth it?

> I think I gave them credit enough.

> By the way, if they hadn't screwed all this up in the first place
> (using only two fields to designate the year, instead of four, etc.),
> the world wouldn't have needed "saving," would it?

> There's a name for those hundreds and hundreds of *billions* of
> dollars that was spent world-wide to fix the problem that *they*
> created in the first place.

> It's called the C.O.B.O.L. Programmers Retirement and Social Security
> Fund.

> Please excuse me if I don't exactly feel sorry for them, okay?

> I think they should all be pistol-whipped myself.

> But that's just my opinion, and I'm sticking to it.

> >--Merissa

> >> >> Yeah, Happy New Year to you, too, Adrienne.
> [...]
> >> I wonder if it was all worth it (hundreds of billions of dollars)?

> >> But then again, maybe that's exactly why there were virtually no
> >> problems -- i.e., that all the effort was indeed worth it?

> --

> Dogman

> http://www.moonsgarden.com/~dogman

> For everything you've ever wanted to know about Jerry Howe
> and other trolls and scumbags, go here:
> http://www.moonsgarden.com/~dogman/trolls.html

> Nicholas Regush/ABC News column - Top 5 Predictions... of 2000 !

> "Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by
> questioning answers."   Bernhard Haisch

> > [...]
> > > And while this same world was out partying, the techies of the world
> > >were spending the night in computer rooms, and even on a multinational
> > >conference call for 24 hours solid, monitoring things as they happened
on
> > >the internet and around the world.

> > By the way, if they hadn't screwed all this up in the first place
> > (using only two fields to designate the year, instead of four, etc.),
> > the world wouldn't have needed "saving," would it?

> Actually we have Bill Gates and his shoddy rip offs of the Mac OS to thank
for
> a lot of this.  The techies were the ones cleaning up the mess he created
by
> his greed.  To illustrate Bill Gates' greed I will give one sample of
> Microsoft's y2k compliance and another of Apples.

> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/year2k/tools/hardware.htm

> > A key part of preparing your computing environment for the turn of the

> > For Microsoft DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95 and Windows 98 the risk is
based on the BIOS
> > for date/time information. Windows users should reset the date in
Control Panelthe
> > machine's BIOS and operating system should then maintain the date
properly.
> > Newer Microsoft operating systems such as NT 3.51 SP5, NT 4 SP4 and
Windows 98 have
> > logic built in to manage most Y2K- BIOS/RTC issues, but its wise to
test them anyway.

> > Note: For Microsoft NT 3.51 and 4.0 the RTC must be examined. When the
Windows? NT
> > operating system starts up, it directly accesses the RTCs memory and

> So now you see that our lovely Bill Gates was so greedy that he couldn't
even
> take the time to make his operating systems y2k compliant in 98.

> By contrast here is a sample of a company that knows what its doing and
takes
> pride in its products (Apple) -

> http://www.apple.com/about/year2000/

> > Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure

> > We may not have got everything right, but at least we
> > knew the century was going to end.?

> > Douglas Adams

> > Computer systems that cannot correctly process dates
> > beyond 2000 are at risk of failure one second after
> > midnight on December 31, 1999.

> > The good news is that since their introduction in 1984,
> > Macintosh computers have had the ability to make the
> > transition to the year 2000. In fact, the Mac OS and
> > most Mac applications can handle internally generated
> > dates correctly all the way to the year 29,940.

> > There's a name for those hundreds and hundreds of *billions* of
> > dollars that was spent world-wide to fix the problem that *they*
> > created in the first place.

> Yes.  The name is Bill Gates.

> > Please excuse me if I don't exactly feel sorry for them, okay?

> > I think they should all be pistol-whipped myself.

> I think Bill Gates should be pistol-whipped.  I loved it when he had a pie
> thrown in his face in Europe : )
> --
> Adrienne
> Gremlin, Bruno, Lewis, Yoko, Freneau

> > [...]
> > > And while this same world was out partying, the techies of the world
> > >were spending the night in computer rooms, and even on a multinational
> > >conference call for 24 hours solid, monitoring things as they happened on
> > >the internet and around the world.

> > By the way, if they hadn't screwed all this up in the first place
> > (using only two fields to designate the year, instead of four, etc.),
> > the world wouldn't have needed "saving," would it?

> Actually we have Bill Gates and his shoddy rip offs of the Mac OS to thank for
> a lot of this.  The techies were the ones cleaning up the mess he created by
> his greed.  To illustrate Bill Gates' greed I will give one sample of
> Microsoft's y2k compliance and another of Apples.

> So now you see that our lovely Bill Gates was so greedy that he couldn't even
> take the time to make his operating systems y2k compliant in 98.

> Adrienne writes:

> :Why are other people here?  John R.,
> :Theresa, Dogman, Elaine.

> Midnight is a pretty normal time for
> my to be posting, and not going out
> is a pretty normal thing for me to be
> doing on New Year's Eve, which has
> always struck me as a pretty lame
> holiday.