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Britain facing terrorist threat until 2038, former top cop warns By Christopher Hope, Home Affairs Editor Last Updated: 12:38AM BST 01/07/2008 Britain will be vulnerable to terrorist attack for another three decades, a major report will warn today. Tory leader David Cameron will today unveil the study from Lord Stevens of Kirkwelpington which will criticise the Government for a "lack of a clear border security strategy". Lord Stevens, who as Sir John Stevens was the Metropolitan Police Commissioner between 2000 and 2005, is also international Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown.Lord Stevens: 'lack of a clear border security...

The Year 2038 Bug You made it through Y2K, but will you make it through Y2038 (also called Y2.038K)?  So why did Y2K go so smoothly? And what is the difference with Y2038?In Y2K, computers still kept perfect time. The only issue was that software that used only the last two digits of the year had trouble determining that 00 really was greater than 99.  It was just a matter of fixing software to use the full year value as it should have to begin with.But, Y2038 is entirely different.  In Y2K, computers still kept perfect time and internally had...

Many 32-bit root servers currently use the FreeBSD 4.7 operating system. As with all Unix and Unix-like operating systems, time and dates in FreeBSD are represented internally as the number of seconds since the UNIX Epoch, which was the 1st of January 1970 GMT. 32-bit systems can only store a maximum of 231 non-negative seconds (2,147,483,648 seconds or about 68 years). Which means that 32-bit UNIX systems won't be able to process time beyond 19 Jan 2038 at 3:14:07 AM GMT. One of the common solutions will be to switch to 64-bit architecture systems that can store a maximium of...