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	Attack of the Y2K Bug Screensaver at RI Soft Systems
		Undoubtedly, you've heard about the "Y2K Bug" -- the computer glitch that was supposed to cause problems after the date hit the year 2000.
		Watch the bug as he wreaks havoc on your desktop, slicing, dicing, and chopping it to pieces.
		The "Attack of the Y2K Bug" Screensaver and all associated graphics, images, and music are copyrighted by W3i.
	www.risoftsystems.com /store/y2k.asp (251 words)

	“Y2K Bug” Equipment Concerns Intensify
		A seemingly small problem with date calculations that is commonly referred to as the "Year 2000 Bug," or simply "Y2K," is affecting nearly every segment of the economy, and is expected to consume a significant portion of the GNP for years to come.
		The developers of programs now facing the Y2K bug largely assumed that their programs would be updated and replaced long before the end of this century.
		To begin to solve the Y2K problem, the first step is to recognize that it exists, and also to convince administrators of the involved medical facility (hospital, surgery center, clinic, office, etc.) that the problem is real.
	www.apsf.org /resource_center/newsletter/1998/fall/03y2k.html (1150 words)

	Y2K Bug or Millennium Bug
		Y2K refers to a problem that some people think is going to bring chaos and disorder when our computers roll over from 11:59 p.m.
		Y2K compliance is not limited to the computer hardware alone.
		This means that although we may have some Y2K failures on military equipment the powers that pose a particular threat to the United States will probably have even more failures and therefore we will still maintain the most powerful military in the world.
	www.angelfire.com /hi/khurramkhan/y2k.html (2046 words)

	The Y2K Computer Bug: Technical Dangers
		However, the Y2K bug is only one of the technical vulnerabilities posed by the millennium change.
		Someone once described the Y2K bug as "walking into a cloud of mosquitos." You may find that your favorite brand of ice cream is not at the grocery; you may get receipts dated 1900; you may wait longer "on hold" when talking to companies on the phone.
		The effects of the Y2K bug are likely to be similar to what would happen in a major infowar attack.
	www.boogieonline.com /revolution/science/y2k/technical.html (1879 words)

	ABC Online News - Latest Bulletin
		Despite claims the Y2K computer bug does not exist and has not affected businesses in Sydney, there are reports of a number of large organisations in Dubbo being affected by the bug.
		The Y2K bug may have been a fizzer, but experts say the biggest downer may be all the money Australia spent making itself compliant.
		The New South Wales Government is to continue monitoring for the Y2K bug, despite declaring the date switch to the Year 2000 a success.
	www.abc.net.au /news/y2k/default.htm (555 words)

	The Y2K, Millennium or Year2000 Bug and Developing Countries
		The Y2K bug is a computer hardware and software bug which can cause serious problems with computers or any other equipment that uses a microchip.
		For example Y2K could be a problem with such things as medical equipment, automobiles, elevators, process control equipment, etc. The bug is caused by the inability of equipment or software to deal with dates in the 21st Century.
		In simple terms, the bug is caused by the inability of either the hardware or the software (or both) to deal with dates after December 31, 1999 or to deal with the fact that the year 2000 is a Leap Year.
	www.sustainableworld.com /y2kgps/y2keng (879 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Was Y2K bug a boost?
		The second fact which may in time indicate that the Y2K money was well spent is that the Y2K bug is not dead yet.
		The true extent of the Y2K bug is yet to be determined and may turn out to be much larger than is now obvious.
		A further factor potentially underplaying the extent of the Y2K bug is the reticence of organisations to report problems - it simply does not look good, as Telecom Italia found when it sent out bills dated 1900.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/590932.stm (757 words)

	Business: For economy, Y2K bug is contagious
		The Y2K problem, as it is known in computer jargon, makes her antsy enough to stockpile necessities.
		The U.S. government has raised its estimate by $400-million to $6.8-billion for fixing the Y2K bug among federal agencies, and costs are expected to rise again.
		Y2K angst is even rippling through the fringes of the economy.
	www.sptimes.com /News/50299/Business/For_economy__Y2K_bug_.shtml (1668 words)

	THE Y2K COMPUTER BUG -- MAY 1999
		The Y2K bug has arisen from the use in computer programming of 2-digit representations of the year, for example "1984" written as "84".
		If a bug was introduced during the fix, it could be missed.
		Y2K malfunctions with embedded systems are likely to take the form of popping popcorn, beginning with a few pops and reaching a crescendo on the day of 1-January-2000.
	www.benbest.com /computer/y2k.html (10034 words)

	Year 2000 problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Year 2000 problem (also known as the Y2K problem, the millennium bug, the Y2K Bug or just Y2K) was the result of a practice in early computer program design that caused some date-related processing to operate incorrectly for dates and times on and after January 1, 2000.
		This bug was fixed in later versions, but since the epoch of the Excel timestamp was set as January 1, 1900 in previous versions, the year 1900 is still regarded as a leap year to maintain backward compatibility.
		Fry's father is obsessed with the Y2K bug, during the flashback in the episode, "Jurassic Bark".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Y2K (5825 words)

	Y2K Information
		This was a major bug for the whole finance industry.
		The bug not only existed in computer software but it also existed in the firmware being used in the computer hardware.
		Y2K bug was a clicking time bomb for all major computer applications.
	www.y2ktimebomb.com (293 words)

	Y2K bug story
		Mindful of the fact that not every outside organization with whom it does business may have fixed their own Y2K problems, AIS is taking a proactive approach to ensuring that outside vendors will be compliant in time.
		So it is good to know that in general the Seismo Lab has not had many Y2K problems, and those that they have had–updating a few computer programs–have been or are on their way to being solved.
		GPS timing involves using one of a number of government satellites (all of which have been deemed compliant) and satellite ground-support systems (which are currently not compliant), in conjunction with a control segment consisting of monitoring stations and ground antennas (all compliant), to pinpoint a location.
	pr.caltech.edu /periodicals/OnCampus/articles/1999/99.10.y2kbug.html (3265 words)

	(TB8F6) Travel Bug Dog Tag - Y2K Bug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Y2K Bug would love to visit with people on all continents.
		Please take a picture of the Y2K bug near somewhere that would indicate the country or area where he is currently located.
		Y2K is quite a big fellow, so it´ll be quite a challenge to find him a new hiding place.
	www.geocaching.com /track/details.aspx?tracker=202234 (332 words)

	BUG OFF-Y2K, Feb. 1999
		Solving the Y2K bug does not mean you’ll have to enroll in computer night school and learn how to rewrite lines of 0’s and 1’s in some obsolete programming language.
		A Y2K fix is going to be expensive, in many cases, according to Hannah Carvey, a tax attorney with the Washington, DC-based law firm of Dyer Ellis and Joseph.
		The proper tax treatment of Y2K computer conversion costs is by no means clear, Carvey notes, and the IRS’ position will not be the last word on the matter, as a case can be made for deducting Y2K-related costs (including hardware and labor costs) as they arise.
	www.sbcms.org /southcalphysician/articles/art2b-99.htm (3144 words)

	Y2K-like bug to hit Linux computers! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		If you ask what this 2038 bug is, you will have to put up some technical argot.
		The bug has its origins in the way the C language, which has been used to write Linux, calculates time.
		The 2038 bug, on the other hand, affects the basic time-keeping function.
	us.rediff.com /money/2005/may/06linux.htm (611 words)

	The Y2K bug wasn't created by programmers' errors
		THE ROANOKE Times' coverage of issues related to the Y2K rollover bug in computing systems has been unusually irresponsible, even by current journalistic standards, the essence of which seems to be that political correctness is more important than knowledge and that a sensational headline is more valuable than accuracy.
		As one who worked several six- and sometimes seven-day weeks on this problem, I am disappointed that you have chosen to treat the fact that disaster did not happen as if it were a demonstration that the whole thing was one big false alarm.
		Then, on the Jan. 9 Commentary page, you published an opinion piece ("Thanks, Y2K fixers -- but just who bred the bug?") by an ignoramus who said, in effect, that the problem was the fault of the same people who were fixing it.
	courses.cs.vt.edu /~cs3604/lib/Roanoke.Times/Y2K.case.html (945 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Y2K bug fails to bite
		The global preparations for the millennium bug are estimated to have cost between $300 and $600bn and already questions have been asked as to whether this was necessary.
		Basil Logan is chairman of the Y2K Readiness Commission in New Zealand, the first industrialised country to see in the new millennium.
		Any damage from the millennium bug need not be restricted to the moment the date rolls over, but could occur any time a computer mistakenly reads a year 2000 date.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/585013.stm (706 words)

	Will the Y2K bug force you to..., ACP Observer Mar 99
		While the problem, frequently referred to as the Y2K or millennium bug, is expected to affect computing devices throughout health care, it will hit physicians the hardest by crippling practice management software.
		Worse yet, there may not be Y2K compliance retrofits available for many older systems, whose original developers have gone out of business or been acquired by large national firms that don't want to support older products.
		The goal of the event is to raise public awareness about Y2K issues and to alert community organizations to prepare their systems for the new millennium.
	www.acponline.org /journals/news/mar99/y2kbug.htm (1182 words)

	Y2K Bug - Defending Year 2000 Lawsuit Litigation and Liability
		I feel the time has come for me to write this brief and start defining what the legal issues are with respect to Y2K liability so that this document can be used as a legal defense to Y2K millenium bug litigation.
		If you get sued for a Year 2000 bug, you're going to want your lawyer to be familiar with the legal issues contained herein.
		It is written so that those who report on Y2K litigation can have a better understanding of the underlying legal issues from the perspective of the computer industry.
	www.ctyme.com /y2k/index.htm (1454 words)

	Y2k Bug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		David Eggleston Review of Literature 2/24/99 Teri Ferguson Y2K Bug The turn of the century is rapidly approaching.
		Y2K will cause a computer’s date registry to read “00” in which the computer will interpret “1900”.
		The point of view that he tends to support is one of terrible visions of the absolute worst case scenario of the Y2K problem.
	www.freeessays.cc /db/14/cia117.shtml (827 words)

	The Minus Y2K Bug: Learning from the Collapse of Ancient Egypt
		In fact, the Scarab Beetle would become the symbol of the Minus Y2K Bug that brought down Egypt and its dynasty at the time - a symbol that would later be revered by the lords of the next dynasty who benefitted from the disaster.
		Unfortunately, the Minus Y2K bug led to a 100-year error in the data for recent weather conditions that had to be entered into the national supercomputer for weather predictions.
		Unfortunately, a Minus Y2K bug in their navigation system directed the Egyptian army in the middle of the night to walk right into the waist deep water of a portion of the Hunk-Amen-Ra Canal of the Gods, a major public works project that was slated to be the Eighth Wonder of the World.
	www.jefflindsay.com /my2k.shtml (4610 words)

	Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		With more than 20 years of computer programming experience under his belt, Scott has decided that the only real fix for the Y2K problem may be to pack up and move to this patch of land 75 miles from his San Diego home.
		The idea of hundreds, thousands, millions of bugs cascading all at once keeps him awake at night.
		For years the Y2K bug sat quietly, remembered largely as an amusing textbook example of poor software design.
	www.wired.com /wired/6.08/y2k.html (839 words)

	Y2k; Millennium Bug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At the stroke of midnight, the new millennium heralds the greatest challenge to modern society that we have yet to face as a planetary community.
		I am describing the year 2000 problem, known as Y2K (K signifying 1000.) Nicknamed at first The Millennial Bug, increasing sensitivity to the magnitude of the impending crisis has escalated it to The Millennial Bomb.
		Y2K reporter Ed Meagher describes old, undocumented code written in over 2500 different computer languages and executed on thousands of different hardware platforms being controlled by hundreds of different operating systems.
	www.freeessays.cc /db/41/sxm304.shtml (3012 words)

	The Y2K Bug and You
		"Bugs" have been around dairy farms as long as there have been milk cows and farmers.
		Today we are facing a new bug, the "millennium bug," also known as Y2K.
		Many of the Y2K problems affecting agriculture will be similar to those faced by other businesses.
	www.ansci.umn.edu /dairy/dinews/y2kbug.htm (1045 words)

	Year 2000 arrives without disaster \| CNET News.com
		With little trace of the Y2K bug, millennium festivities reach Europe as Moscow fetes the new year.
		It is all-systems go during the rollover to Jan. 1, 2000, according to the Y2K operations center at the Energy, Communications and Multimedia Ministry.
		The Australian government says no Y2K computer bug problems were reported as the country ticked over to greet the new millennium.
	news.com.com /2009-1091-235093.html?legacy=cnet (696 words)

	CNN In-Depth Specials - Looking at the Y2K bug
		...The real answer to the Y2K questions is that no one knows.
		"The Y2K problem is the electronic equivalent of the El Niño and there will be nasty surprises around the globe."
		down to the millennium bug" special analyzes the potential effects the bug could have
	www.cnn.com /TECH/specials/y2k (75 words)

	The Y2K Bug Goes to Court - TIME
		From that small beginning, Y2K litigation is swelling to a flood.
		It was inevitable that Y2K glitches--caused by the inability of some computer hardware and software to read years after 1999--would keep lawyers busy well into the next century.
		The computer industry argues that the Y2K bug is not entirely the fault of individual companies but is rather a once-in-a-thousand-year foul-up that has caught the world off guard.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,990804,00.html (684 words)

	How to Understand the Y2K Bug - eHow.com
		The Term Y2K bug refers to a problem people had anticipated occurring when the calendar turned over from 1999 to the year 2000.
		STEP 1: The Y2K Bug was also known as the Year 2000 Bug or the Millennium Bug.
		In 1992, the Y2K Bug was first discussed in computer industry conferences, and plans were implemented to correct the problem.
	www.ehow.com /how_1233_understand-y2k-bug.html (708 words)

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