Posted on 09/28/2021 5:16:25 AM PDT by Openurmind
That’s it thanks
I had the exact same experiences, but as a contractor I wouldn’t exactly say I “suffered” through them... I worked a TON but I made a ton of money.
Personally, I think most ‘smart’ devices are incredibly stupid. WTF do I need my fridge or coffee maker hooked up to the internet for?
That said, I DO like having my stereo and media player networkable. However, both are purely for internal LAN use. I don’t know why I would want to turn my stereo on when I’m not home.
# Y2K, the day nothing happened.......LOL!
At the time, I worked for a multinational telecommunications company. I can tell you 100% for certain that our stuff =would= have broken hard if we’d not done remediation. We proved it definitively in our lab. Time synchronization was critical for being able to cut CDRs (Call Detail Records) for billing. Also, the actual switches would have gone off-line.
Nothing happened precisely because we spent a lot of effort to make sure nothing happened.
I hear ya...for me, it was “suffer” because I was embroiled in several large projects, one of them to replace the system we had to remediate for all the other users, which my first big project.
I learned a lot, but I can say, I felt like too much bread with too little butter!
# If we hadn’t gone through all we did, it would have been catastrophic for us.
Agreed. See my previous post.
They are the same thing... Mint is Ubuntu with cooler features. :)
And the Mint “Cinnamon” version comes with the ability to use all the cool gnome features along with being preloaded and boxed with all the applications you will end up wanting to add to Ubuntu later.
On top of access to the Ubuntu repository, Mint Cinnamon also has it’s own custom repository.
https://cinnamon-spices.linuxmint.com/
It is the best all around full package available. :)
“Your entire house will be throtteld so that those in charge can remain nice and comfy.”
And so the Haitian tent cities will have enough power in their hovels to handle whatever they’ve got going on in their cauldrons.
While this was indeed one of those semi-thankless jobs you do in obscurity (like replacing the subfloor in a bathroom) I can safely say I was so relieved when nothing happened that I didn’t mind at all...:)
I’ll take that any. Day. Of. The. Week.
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Not so bad! I hear Germany is a nice place to do work like that...:)
# But that was Windows, not Unix or Linux, I didn’t try Linux until several years later so I have no idea how it performed. Never have even seen Unix...
Linux has a related issue in 2038. IIRC, originally the DATE was stored as an signed 32-bit int with an epoch date of 1/1/70.
Such implementations cannot encode times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038. They will roll over to 0, with unpredictable results. Fortunately, most systems are now 64-bit, and are good until sometime after the heat death of the universe.
# In the end, it all worked out because we had the best OCD people working on it.
Dyslexics make the best testers. They will type things that no one else will!
Still...you were probably on a knifes edge. If things blow up you could be fired. If nothing happens then nobody says a word.
Quite the extremes :) ...hopefully the efforts were recognized.
That was clearly a job for OCD people! I think certain people are very well suited to that kind of work-I have a lot of people who I am sure think I am overboard with certain things, but when it comes to data I cannot stand dirty data...everything has to be consistent, and it doesn’t just happen by accident.
Hahahaha...inches of data...back in the Seventies when I was in the USN as a jet mechanic, they put me on a special project with one of the engine manufacturers (Rolls Royce/Detroit Diesel Allison) to implement an engine monitoring system for single engine military planes, something that had not been done up to that point.
We had a Digital PDP-11 brought on board for the project, and I got my first exposure to computers...I downloaded all the data from the tapes on the planes, backed it up, fed it into the computer, and configured all the parameters for temperature, vibration, switch positions, throttle position, all those things, and we generated so much paper plotting those things and printing them out on that line printer that the phrase “reams and reams of data” became an inside joke for us that covered a lot of other non-computer areas!
I sure was lucky-that was a plum job for me. I had been a flight deck troubleshooter before that (one of the guys in white you see just aft of the plane giving the thumbs up before they fire off the catapult) which could be a reasonably high stress job, and this new project was all in the brain, the only time I went up on the flight deck after that was to help do maintenance or to get the cassettes out of the planes and reset all the indicator flags after they landed.
I was glad I was not leading that project, that is for sure!
We had the same. The locally built patient database that predated the current owners of the hospital had the two digit date code issue. Testing showed it would fail, and lose data because of it. Our local IT director was the original programmer, so he brought three or four boxes of paper from his garage, spent three days studying the notes, and thirty minutes editing code. No problems after that! We spent New Year’s eve at work, playing Quake on a local server, and eating pizza. Zero Y2k issues.
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