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Fixes

  • PREMIO Computer, Inc. BIOS
  • Report on Year 2000 Compliant Software/Hardware Solutions
  • !!! The Millennium Bug Solution Home Site
  • Prototype IBM Year 2000 Device Driver
  • IBM PC tools
  • Encapsulation Solutions for Year 2000 Compliance - Jan 98
  • Windowing
  • CMP Net -- Y2K freeware and shareware downloads
  • RighTime(tm) and Y2KPCPro(tm) (The RighTime Company, Miami)
  • Dallas Semiconductor 800 Toll Free Clock CMOS RAM Odin Benchmarq Twinhead DS12C887 DS128 OEC12C8 TH6887 BQ32 Y2 2000 Millenium
  • Links to BIOS Replacements
  • Legal Implications

  • Legal Aspects of the Y2K and the Millennium Bug
  • Lawsuits Filed
  • Year 2000 Information Readiness and Disclosure Act
  • Warren store wins 1st Year 2000 suit - 9/15/98
  • Taxonomy

  • Microsoft Access and the Year 2000
  • GPS WEEK 1024 ROLLOVER
    Folks might want to avoid flying or other activities which depend on the Global Positioning Satelites around August 21 and 22, 1999.
  • 9/9/99 as a Special Flag
  • Windows File Manager Bug
  • Dazzle Dates -- When humans get confused
  • Hollywood Squares Day -- February 30, 2000
  • Leap Years
  • The Crouch Echlin Effect
    This may be a very worrysome observation if it is repeatable. My preliminary attempts to reproduce it were not successful. More work is required.
  • Year 2000: Crouch-Echlin -- Intel Can't Verify
  • Elmbronze Ltd Year -- Crouch-Echlin (Time Dilation) Effect.
    More on the Crouch-Echlin (Time Dilation) Effect.
  • Comments on Time Dilation -- Dr. J R Stockton, Surrey, UK
  • Motorola Real Time Clocks that are NOT Y2K Compliant
  • Time and Date Instabilities in the Year 2000
  • DN - Re: Bugs (Critical Dates list, humorous but long)
  • Chat Rooms

  • 24-Hour Global Y2K Web Chat Room
  • Contingency Planning

  • For some, it's already time to stock up for Dec. 31, 1999
  • Mr. Y2K Preparations for the Big Day
  • Gartner Group Year 2000 Risk Assessment and Planning for Individuals
    Recommends personal and community preparations, but not liquidation of assets.
  • American Red Cross - Y2K Preparedness
    The Red Cross says to be prepared for 1 week without external sources of food, water, cash, and energy.
  • FEMA: Emergency Food and Water Supplies
  • Testing

  • Prototype IBM PC Year 2000 Evaluation Tool
  • Automotive Industry Action Group Year 2000 Test Procedures
  • NSTL Year 2000
  • Vendors

  • IBM's Y2K Bookshelf
  • Compaq
  • Microsoft TechNet - Year 2000
  • IBM Year 2000 Home Page
  • Commentary

  • The Century's coming, the century's coming!
  • Declan McCullagh's recent articles on Y2K
  • CNET Features - Digital Life - 8 myths about the millennium bug
  • Y2K: Minor glitch or major disaster?
  • Mr. Y2K - A Totally Non-Exploitive Year 2000 Site
  • The Journal of Commerce -- Opinion by Robin McKie & Hadley Freeman
    For a start, stay away from the planet's holy places. Most millennial madness has a quasi-religious tone. Israel, which has already deported two immigrants who were preparing to attack the Temple Mount "to precipitate Armageddon," is expecting 5 million pilgrims for the millennium.
  • ABCNEWS.com : Y2K, Today
    Just 8 percent of system failures will occur during the actual rollover; the remaining 92 percent will be spread out over 1999, 2000 and 2001, says Lou Marcoccio, year 2000 research director at GartnerGroup.
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    Highlights some of the critical dates.
  • The Year Two Thousand Fiasco -- A Chaos Manor Discussion
    Long-standing computer journalist Jerry Pournelle weighs in.
  • Special Report - Six Steps
  • The problem you may not know you have
  • Good News

  • Washingtonpost.com: Y2K Fixes Moving Faster Than Predicted
  • Optimistic Point of View -- Critical Systems Won't Fail
  • TIME Digital - July 2, 1998: Gadgets and Appliances Y2K-Compliant, Mostly
  • Bad News

  • Year 2000 Incidents
  • Scientific American: Feature Article: Y2K, So Many Bugs ... So Little Time: January 1999
  • Autmobile Manufacturing Problems
    General Motors finds huge problems with factory automation.
  • Medical Equipment Problems
  • Embedded Systems - the problem is real
  • Year 2000 Incidents
  • Big 3 fight 2000 bug in forced upgrade
  • Embedded System Problem
  • Why Year 2000 Y2K Poses a Risk to Public Health, Safety, Critical Infrastructure and Essential Services - millennium bug
  • Examples of Date-Related Failures
  • Companies Encounter Unexpected Y2K Problems
  • 12/14/98 Y2K IS WORSE THAN ANYONE THOUGHT
  • International Y2K Cooperation Center

  • Financial Sector

  • FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Predicts 5-7 & Bankruptcy Rate
    This is a PDF document.
  • Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council Home Page
  • BAI (Bank Administration Institute) | BAI's Y2K Site
  • Center for Cybereconomics -- Dr. Ed Yardini
  • FRB Y2K Page
  • FDIC Year 2000 Home Page
  • DN - Fortune 500 Report
  • Fortune 500 scheduled internal remediation
  • Food Sector

  • DN - Grocery stores and Y2K
  • DN - We did it before without computers; we can do it a
  • Government Sector

  • Y2K Home Page/CIO Council
  • Above and Beyond Y2K Awareness
    This site is still under construction, but it includes a catalog of many different Federal programs.
  • Texas
  • Massachusetts
  • CNN - Fed agencies among serious stragglers in Y2K preparations - December 29, 1998
  • CITU: Year 2000
  • <i>THE SACRAMENTO BEE:</i> The millennium bug and Al Gore
  • The Napa Valley Y2K Page
  • Manufacturing Sector

  • Automotive Industry Action Group Year 2000 Information Center
  • Fortune: 4.27.98 Industry Wakes Up to the Year 2000 Menace
  • Medical Sector

  • Ventillator Failure
  • An Investigation of Therac-25 Accidents
    This is not a Year-2000 problem, but it is an indication of what can happen due to software glitches.
  • Transportation Sector

  • DN - Re: It's the little stuff that gets ya
  • DN - Railinc
  • Feature Stories April 1998
  • Utilities Sector

  • Electric Utilities and Year 2000
  • Electric Utilities and Year 2000 - Real Life Y2K in the Industry
  • go-Ariane : Galaxy IV birth and death
  • DN - Sewage System remediation survey--Or why the sh*t
  • Electric Utilities and Year 2000 - Real Life Y2K in the Industry
  • Staff Report on year 2000 Survey
  • MN Dept of Public Service Home Page
  • DN - Report from the trenches

  • Uncategorized

  • The Blind Leading the Blind - Gary North's Y2K Links and Forums - Mirror - Programmers'_Views
  • Microsoft Personal Computing - Protecting Your Money in the Year 2000: Year 2000 and Online Banking
  • The Cassandra Project
    It was Cassandra's curse to always speak the truth and never be believed.
  • Year 2000 (InfoWorld)
  • August, 1997 OSSTR
  • GIF image 400x400 pixels
  • Intellectualcapital 1.7.99: Jager: In the Y2K Beginning ...
  • Gary North's Y2K Links and Forums
  • The Millennium Problem in Embedded Systems
  • Everything 2000
  • The Year 2000 Information Center
  • News Release
  • IC 6/25/98: Zvegintzov: Don't Move to that Y2K Commune Just Yet
  • Presidential Decision Directive 63
  • pi Technologies: Home
  • Year2000 News and views. Elmbronze Ltd. Scotland.
  • Year 2000 Guide Data Sheet
  • Year 2000 Compliance
  • Year 2000 (Y2K) Compliance Information
  • Y2KLinks Year 2000 Millennium Resource Database
  • Westergaard Year 2000
  • The Year 2000 Information Center / Millennium Bug
  • The Millennium Bug
  • RighTime™ (The RighTime Company, Miami)
  • PSI Y2k Capabilities
  • PREMIO Computer, Inc. Year 2000 Compliance FAQ
  • Mr Fixit's YEAR2000 Links
  • Jace's TD Website
  • Gary North's Y2K Links and Forums
  • Electric Utilities and Year 2000 - Weekly Column
  • Dallas Semiconductor Corp: Year 2000-Compliant Clocks
  • Dallas Semiconductor Corp Tech Brief 8: Problems and Solutions for the Year 2000
  • The Blind Leading the Blind - Gary North's Y2K Links and Forums - Mirror - Programmers'_Views
  • DN - What We Know About Y2K: A New Year's Contemplation
  • Year 2000 Problems
  • Y2K: Minor glitch or major disaster?
  • Reptilian Associates Year 2000 Information
  • Y2K: The Millennium Bug (Sightings)
    Take this stuff with a grain of salt -- other reports from this web site have been unfounded. However, this is a good source for leads for further investigation. Just be sure you cross-check and verify before getting hot and bothered about any of this stuff.
  • Y2K Now
  • Year 2000 Crisis
  • Electrocution Year 2000

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