Comments on: My love affair with doomsagers http://omegamom.com/2006/04/10/my-love-affair-with-doomsagers/ A "good enough" mom muses about alpha moms, adoption, computers, the State Of The World, Internet quirkiness, and the Kosmik All Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:28:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Kate http://omegamom.com/2006/04/10/my-love-affair-with-doomsagers/#comment-417 Kate Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:39:00 +0000 http://omegamom.com/?p=180#comment-417 Now, now, Johnny! Don't you know we have 32 more years to work on that??? (Waves hand.) It'll Get Done! Besides, <I>no-one</I> will still be using these systems then! Bahaha! Whaddaya wanna bet that we'll see another two-year surge of desperately overworked programmers burning the midnight oil to fix <I>that</I> issue? I'm thinking that WinDoze has a different year as their starting point...? Small Mountain University's IT department spent about the same amount of time (1.5 yrs) going through each department and getting rid of the creaky old 286s and 386s, having COBOL programmers go through all the mods on the financial system, and doing other patches. Now, now, Johnny! Don’t you know we have 32 more years to work on that??? (Waves hand.) It’ll Get Done! Besides, no-one will still be using these systems then!

Bahaha!

Whaddaya wanna bet that we’ll see another two-year surge of desperately overworked programmers burning the midnight oil to fix that issue?

I’m thinking that WinDoze has a different year as their starting point…?

Small Mountain University’s IT department spent about the same amount of time (1.5 yrs) going through each department and getting rid of the creaky old 286s and 386s, having COBOL programmers go through all the mods on the financial system, and doing other patches.

]]> By: Johnny http://omegamom.com/2006/04/10/my-love-affair-with-doomsagers/#comment-416 Johnny Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:25:00 +0000 http://omegamom.com/?p=180#comment-416 At the Mega-lo-corp, we were busy plugging the Y2K bugs (err, design oversights) in our code for a full 1.5 years before the event. What you folks haven't worried about is 2038. Have you? At the Mega-lo-corp, we were busy plugging the Y2K bugs (err, design oversights) in our code for a full 1.5 years before the event.

What you folks haven’t worried about is 2038. Have you?

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