Friday, June 1, 2007

Daisy daisy...


I'm pretty sure Hal would kill me and my mac.

3 comments:

Luke said...

UNIX- you know, the operating system that is used in most mainframes- has no problem with four digit years. The real Y2K issue wasn't the machines, but the software where coders assumed two digit dates instead of four digit, even on *nix machines. I think it was a secret plot hatched years ago to make sure all the old COBOL programmers would have a lot of work for a couple of years.

As for the old IBM machines and their mishandling of dates. Yeah, that was pretty shortsighted thinking- but patches were available well before January 2000.

Ladrón de Basura (a.k.a. Junk Thief) said...

So it was IBM not the Bush administration that brought so many problems during the new Millennium? I hope my hard drive remembers that next year in case I see IBM on the ballot.

Unknown said...

Awesome! I have to send this one to my mac buddies. hee hee....