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Back of Y2K bug problem 'broken'
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/cyb/cyb1_0314.html
Experts on the computer problem, who six years ago were making
predictions of impending calamity, are now painting a happier
picture
LOS ANGELES -- After two years of doom-and-gloom pronouncements
about the year 2000 problem, a growing cadre of Y2K experts has begun
to recast its predictions of potential calamity.
This month, Canadian speaker and computer consultant Peter de Jager,
one of the earliest and most vocal Y2K pessimists, published an
article on his Web site titled Doomsday Avoided -- a play on his
first article on the topic written six years ago and titled Doomsday
2000.
"We've finally broken the back of the Y2K problem," he wrote.
"Most, if not all companies, are working on this issue. They are
fixing, or have fixed, their systems. They have examined, or are
examining, their embedded system problems. We are, for the most
part, no longer ignoring Y2K."
Mr Edward Yardeni, chief economist for the investment banking firm
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc and one of the most persistent
drumbeaters on the Y2K issue, recently revised his estimate for a
long global recession due to the glitch from a 70 per cent chance to
45 per cent.
"I've toned down the message partly because progress has been made,"
he said.
Although it is unlikely that Jan 1, 2000, will be an information-age
blackout, it is still entirely possible that serious problems are
looming.
But Mr Yardeni and Mr de Jager are among the most prominent examples
of what has become a discernible turn in the mood surrounding the
problem.
The alarms, at least in the US, have begun to subside, replaced with
a parade of repair statistics and completion percentages.
Even though the latest cost estimates are skyrocketing into the
trillion-dollar range and reports from overseas paint an
ever-gloomier picture of inattention, there is a much stronger sense,
at least in the US, that the problem is being taken seriously.
Out of the panic that seemed to infuse the issue over the last two
years has come a calmer interpretation, driven by the sense that
most businesses and government agencies are at least aware of the
problem and are working to repair it. -- Los Angeles Times
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Also in this issue:
- Need a term paper? The Net is faster than your tutor
The assignment: Write a term paper on the writing of term papers.
Examine the issue of academic fraud. Include specific examples and
cite sources. The paper is due in 24 hours.
- Net taxes look likely (US)
A key Congressman predicted that state and local governments will be
able to tax Net sales.
- Long-awaited domain application released
For companies hoping to cash in on the ".com" registration bonanza,
the waiting is over.
- Drive to get Africa in touch (South Africa)
Johannesburg - In two weeks' time, Minister of Posts,
Telecommunications and Broadcasting Jay Naidoo will don a helmet,
fasten his seat belt and set off from Bizerte, Tunisia, on a
16000km rally to drive home his message to the world: Africa, a
continent with 700-million people, has fewer telephones than New York
or Tokyo. Fewer than 14-million people have access to telephones.
- Alston moves to block Internet porn (Australia)
The Federal Government is investigating ways to block access to
Internet pornography and will consider measures such as personal
identification numbers to ensure people under 18 cannot reach
explicit Web sites.
- Nuclear reactor gets Y2K jitters (Australia)
The Lucas Heights nuclear reactor will be shut down before midnight
on New Year's Eve unless the State Government can ensure that the
"millennium bug" will not disrupt electricity and water supplies.
- Back of Y2K bug problem 'broken'
Experts on the computer problem, who six years ago were making
predictions of impending calamity, are now painting a happier
picture
- Jayalalitha favours total change in telecom policy (India)
The AIADMK general secretary, Ms. Jayalalitha, on Sunday urged the
Prime Minister to bring about a complete change in both Telecom
policy and personnel.
- Bell and Nortel to build 'ultra-capacity' Internet network (Canada)
TORONTO (CP) -- Nortel Networks has landed an $80-million, two-year
deal to upgrade the national fibre-optic network currently being
built by Bell Canada's new broadband and Internet company, Bell
Nexxia.
- Web content development will ascend in importance
NEW YORK -- Portals are like, you know, so over.
Never mind that New York-based Internet research firm Jupiter
Communications packed panel after panel with e-commerce and portal
players -- such as At Home, Excite, Lycos, Drugstore.com and
Ticketmaster Online -- at its flagship conference last week in New
York City.
- Looking for Web site? Try these quick tricks
Sometimes you don't want much out of the Internet.
A fact, a phone number, a single picture. You may want to hop on,
pick up a tiny bit of information and quickly hop off. You can do
that, of course, unless you don't know the address of the site that
has what you need.
- Linux on the rise as non-Windows option
If you haven't heard about Linux, don't sweat it. You're in the
majority. This renegade operating system -- the software engine that
communicates between the computer's hardware and applications, such
as a word processor -- is not yet ready for consumers.
- INSTALLING LINUX TAKES SOME COURAGE
Linux scares me.
This alternative operating system software for personal computers,
built by thousands of volunteers collaborating around the globe, is
Topic A these days in Silicon Valley.
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