Topic: Y2K + 10

[weatherforyou]

So how many of you, exactly ten years ago this moment, were getting ready for the world to end at midnight? 

[SlowModem]

So how many of you, exactly ten years ago this moment, were getting ready for the world to end at midnight? 

Well, I wasn't expecting the world to end, but a big mess would not have surprised me.  We had  some cash on hand and had filled up the cars and had food to do for a few days.  That "be prepared" thing just kind of stuck with me all of those years.

[DanS]

Some friends of ours, my wife and myself were just discussing that very thing. Boy how time flies!

[chief-david]

No kidding, time flies.

My almost 1 year old is now 10, almost 11.

I have another who has grown exponentially.

I am not the youngest teacher on staff, I am in the middle-and I am a lot older.

on Y2K, I remember watching New Year's happen around the world.  I would sit and see what celebrations happened on TV. It was really cool. Thinking, it will soon be our turn.

[Downlinerz2]

   As Bob Hopes' theme music says "Thanks for the memories".............

[ocala]

As was then, as is now I had to start work at 3AM.
So I was in bed by 8.
Just another day really.
Although, when I was younger I practiced all year long for this night.

[DanS]

As was then, as is now I had to start work at 3AM.
So I was in bed by 8.
Just another day really.
Although, when I was younger I practiced all year long for this night.

LOL. oh, the memories ...

[SlowModem]

As was then, as is now I had to start work at 3AM.
So I was in bed by 8.
Just another day really.
Although, when I was younger I practiced all year long for this night.

LOL. oh, the memories ...

I get up at 3:30 am for day shift and 3:30 pm for night shift.

[Jim18655]

I spent three weeks setting up temporary power for a VA hospital in case everything turned off at midnight. There was six of us that had to be on site that night to change the power system around and reconnect the emergency generators to back feed the main hospital power system. Some of our wives came along and we had a small party in my office trailer just before midnight. When all was OK we went to the roof and watched fire works over the city.

[Weather Display]

so is the decade just finished called the naughties?

[W7DRM (old call was W3DRM)]

As the Y2K project manager for a division in the company I used to work for (now am retired) I can say I had been involved with and responsible for ensuring that all of our software and hardware systems would continue to run when the bewitching hour came. Every single line of code in  every program was reviewed and tested throughout the company. Nothing was left to chance, not even third party software. It took us over a year to develop and execute the testing necessary. We spent thousands of man-hours in meetings reviewing all possible scenarios and the millions of lines of code involved. We did find some of the code needed to be changed but for the most part, very few lines of code needed to be corrected. That was a tribute to the design criteria that had been established many years prior to the Y2K issues that were identified due to short-sighted software development strategies in other companies.

The result was a very high confidence level that everything would continue to run without being impacted by the change to the year 2000. We succeeded and never missed a beat on any of our world-wide systems and your credit card transactions and cash continued to flow as designed.

Of course, we all breathed a huge sigh of relief when the moment came and went with no alarms or problems. Our Y2K Crisis Response Centers around the world were shut down within a couple hours after all sites had passed the year change to 2000 with no problems being reported. We had expected to have them online for several days but quickly discovered, and verified, that everything was working as designed and thus, maintaining the high-level response posture was no longer required.

And yes, I was and still am very proud to have been part of that operation and to work such fine folks around the world. It was one of my major accomplishments in my career.

[SlowModem]

And yes, I was and still am very proud to have been part of that operation and to work such fine folks around the world. It was one of my major accomplishments in my career.

[Garth Bock]

Here at the university before Y2K was to happen, a high level, well educated director at Facilities Management wrote a document that was distributed at the university. In his doc. he had categorized all the equipment and the level of failure. He included CRT's, speed controlled HVAC fans, and even our university service vans..(yes you read that right)..because....they have a computer chip in them. He listed all of them as having a high failure possibility. He wanted the service vans parked strategically around campus so the parts in them would be available when they didnt start. After I finished laughing hysterically at his 15 page dissertation of what was going to fail and his big plans I rewrote it with my resolution points and level of possible failure...all were low or none. We had no date related problems because all software we ran we had the programmer or company fix the date fields. The only thing that happened was one department admin borrowed my Y2K test software. He had bought locally built computers...they all failed. The university had to sue the little company because they refused to replace the mother boards. All my department Dells passed including some that were P100's !!!! Needless to say he asked me to help put together a replacement plan to switch to all Dells. 

[Chris H.]

No kidding, time flies.

My almost 1 year old is now 10, almost 11.

I have another who has grown exponentially.

I am not the youngest teacher on staff, I am in the middle-and I am a lot older.

on Y2K, I remember watching New Year's happen around the world.  I would sit and see what celebrations happened on TV. It was really cool. Thinking, it will soon be our turn.

I was in third grade. It scared me a little, but then I heard it was just fake (my friend's dad was a bit of a conspiracy theorist)..and I actually believed him more than I did my own parents. Ten years later (graduating highschool in May. Whoo hoo!) and I still don't believe them. LOL

[Chris H.]

And now I'm hearing that two years from now-the world will end. And in 2013, I'll be watching the movie 2012 and get a kick out of it. 

[W7DRM (old call was W3DRM)]

No kidding, time flies.

My almost 1 year old is now 10, almost 11.

I have another who has grown exponentially.

I am not the youngest teacher on staff, I am in the middle-and I am a lot older.

on Y2K, I remember watching New Year's happen around the world.  I would sit and see what celebrations happened on TV. It was really cool. Thinking, it will soon be our turn.

I was in third grade. It scared me a little, but then I heard it was just fake (my friend's dad was a bit of a conspiracy theorist)..and I actually believed him more than I did my own parents. Ten years later (graduating highschool in May. Whoo hoo!) and I still don't believe them. LOL

Congratulations on making it through high school (well almost anyway). Are you planning to go on to college after graduation? At your age you are a very rare individual to have the time and inclination to get involved in a forum like this. Most of us are much older and like myself, are retired and have picked up the hobby late in life. I just wish I had known about weather back in my high-school days, I may even have become a meteorologist, but then, we all take many different paths in life. Whatever you do, enjoy it. If you don't like it, find something you can enjoy. Life is too short to do things you don't like doing.

[Chris H.]

No kidding, time flies.

My almost 1 year old is now 10, almost 11.

I have another who has grown exponentially.

I am not the youngest teacher on staff, I am in the middle-and I am a lot older.

on Y2K, I remember watching New Year's happen around the world.  I would sit and see what celebrations happened on TV. It was really cool. Thinking, it will soon be our turn.

I was in third grade. It scared me a little, but then I heard it was just fake (my friend's dad was a bit of a conspiracy theorist)..and I actually believed him more than I did my own parents. Ten years later (graduating highschool in May. Whoo hoo!) and I still don't believe them. LOL

Congratulations on making it through high school (well almost anyway). Are you planning to go on to college after graduation? At your age you are a very rare individual to have the time and inclination to get involved in a forum like this. Most of us are much older and like myself, are retired and have picked up the hobby late in life. I just wish I had known about weather back in my high-school days, I may even have become a meteorologist, but then, we all take many different paths in life. Whatever you do, enjoy it. If you don't like it, find something you can enjoy. Life is too short to do things you don't like doing.

Thank you! 

There's not many of people my age interested in anything that the world wide web has to offer. It's all facebook and *gag* MySpace..and Twitter I guess. I'm involved in facebook, mainly to keep in touch with my friends in best way (I guess fastest) possible. I'm still organizing everything to get ready for college: information, transcript and credit analysis, and a big one- scholarships. It's all coming together slowly and yet I feel I'm in big, fast, race to May 1st through 5th, the days of final exams for seniors, and then graduation three weeks after that. I'm thrilled but I'm also a little panicked here.    But it'll all blow over by June, and then it picks up again. I've got about 3 months to take the ACT and/or SAT (though based on what I've discovered, most colleges look at ACT scores now), and apply for a scholarship, and send in my latest transcript for fall of 2010. And the best thing: I'm not taking advantage of New Mexico's lottery scholarship because I want to go to OU. What I'll major in...eeeeeh..I haven't decided. Meteorology has been on the top of my list since 9th grade, but my school district made so many changes in graduation requirements (it got the classes of 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 talking..with more changes for the classes of 2012 through 2014) that it shocked the heck out of me..and scared me, so to the point that I hectically made numerous last minute schedule changes on more than one occasion for my junior year and this year. Sophomore year was great...then they made a ton of changes: like ridding the 4-block schedule to 8 periods (this year its 9 periods, but only 6 classes. Please don't ask me to explain it. It still confuses me), reducing graduation credit requirements (In 9th grade, it was 29 to 32. This year? 26 to 28. Irritating because the Class of 2010 has gone over the 28 max limit already, so naturally the new credit requirements doesn't apply?)...so many irritating changes. Which is why my future kids won't attend ANY highschool in the state of New Mexico. Ever.