Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 18:22:57 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Aussie Linux Y2K failure Message-ID: <4.1.19990319182117.00c2dab0@localhost>
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This just came in via Dave Farber's "Interesting People" list: >Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 19:41:16 -0500 >From: Jock Gill <jgill@penfield-gill.com> >To: Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu> > >Dave, > >For IP sleuthing. > >From a reliable source I learned that earlier today, Friday, in >Australia, at a large icecream plant, their was a very significant >Y2K test. And a very unsettling failure. Seems that their Linux >servers went awry. Seems that this test was confirmed at Linux >central but that no one undestands the problem: i.e no known fix at >this moment. This is unsettling if true. > >Perhaps IPers can tell the rest of us the true situation with Linux >and Y2K. I regret that I am unable to give the exact steps which >provoked the Linux Y2K problem. > >Regards, > >Jock > Can any of our Aussie mailing list participants confirm this? --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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