GMT and CET rolled over without any major incidents. The cellular networks were busy but thats to be expected. Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking. neil@DOMINO.ORG
This is mildly amusing. Looking at headers: On Sat, 1 Jan 100, Neil J. McRae wrote: From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@genesis.domino.org> Message-Id: <200001010102.BAA05112@genesis.domino.org> Subject: UK GMT roll over To: nanog@merit.edu Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 01:02:34 +0000 (GMT) ^^^^^
GMT and CET rolled over without any major incidents. The cellular networks were busy but thats to be expected.
Of course, one finds many things amusing when sitting behind computer at 10pm on new year's eve, but you might want to fix your mailer or libc...:) -alex
There are also unamusing things like for example the local coffee/doughnut shop being closed tonight when it is supposed to be open 24/7. I consider this to be a serious denial of service by the miscreant who operates the shop. Man does not live by nicotine alone. Meanwhile i sit here like a moron waiting an hour for a non-event to happen. My sole purpose for being here is so that the 'suits' who are out whooping it up, can experience anxiety-free whooping. After midnight i get to dodge drunken revelers on my 33 mile trip home, and tomorrow morning i'll get salt in the wounds when Randy unloads on me for copying this to nanog. I just hope i'm dead when 2038 rolls around. Or is it 2238? I can't remember. Oh well. On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Alex Pilosov wrote:
This is mildly amusing. Looking at headers:
On Sat, 1 Jan 100, Neil J. McRae wrote:
I just hope i'm dead when 2038 rolls around. Or is it 2238? I can't remember. Oh well.
Depends on your Julians, we set ours to blow in the year 2112. :( :)
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Alex Pilosov wrote:
This is [ only ] mildly amusing. Looking at headers:
On Sat, 1 Jan 100, Neil J. McRae wrote:
happen. My sole purpose for being here is so that the 'suits' who are out whooping it up, can experience anxiety-free whooping.
After midnight i get to dodge drunken revelers on my 33 mile trip home, and tomorrow morning i'll get salt in the wounds when Randy unloads on me for copying this to nanog.
Hum, if Randy doesn't unload on you now, does that mean he's a closet "suit" out experiencing "anxiety-free whooping"? And don't be worried about 2038. www.y5b.com is the real threat. --bill 00:00:52
Isn't it interesting to note that there have been no significant y2k problems but there have been significant service disruptions as a result of paranoia and general cynisism? Can we shoot the press now?
There are also unamusing things like for example the local coffee/doughnut shop being closed tonight when it is supposed to be open 24/7. I consider this to be a serious denial of service by the miscreant who operates the shop. Man does not live by nicotine alone.
Meanwhile i sit here like a moron waiting an hour for a non-event to happen. My sole purpose for being here is so that the 'suits' who are out whooping it up, can experience anxiety-free whooping.
After midnight i get to dodge drunken revelers on my 33 mile trip home, and tomorrow morning i'll get salt in the wounds when Randy unloads on me for copying this to nanog.
I just hope i'm dead when 2038 rolls around. Or is it 2238? I can't remember. Oh well.
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Alex Pilosov wrote:
This is mildly amusing. Looking at headers:
On Sat, 1 Jan 100, Neil J. McRae wrote:
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wayne Bouchard [Immagine Your ] web@typo.org [Company Name Here] Network Engineer ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Isn't it interesting to note that there have been no significant y2k problems but there have been significant service disruptions as a result of paranoia and general cynisism?
chalk one up for mass stupidity. people are generally, en masse, much more dense than their individual counterparts. like cows (or lemmings?)...they stampeded on command.
Can we shoot the press now?
ooh! yes, please! -- |-----< "CODE WARRIOR" >-----| codewarrior@daemon.org * "ah! i see you have the internet twofsonet@graffiti.com (Andrew Brown) that goes *ping*!" andrew@crossbar.com * "information is power -- share the wealth."
Andrew Brown wrote:
Isn't it interesting to note that there have been no significant y2k problems but there have been significant service disruptions as a result of paranoia and general cynisism?
chalk one up for mass stupidity. people are generally, en masse, much more dense than their individual counterparts. like cows (or lemmings?)...they stampeded on command.
Mass stupidity? Tell me you didn't sigh just a little when all your clocks had rolled over. It's easy now to be complacent and act cool about the whole thing, but no-one can actually say what might have been. -Steve
Isn't it interesting to note that there have been no significant y2k problems but there have been significant service disruptions as a result of paranoia and general cynisism?
chalk one up for mass stupidity. people are generally, en masse, much more dense than their individual counterparts. like cows (or lemmings?)...they stampeded on command.
Mass stupidity? Tell me you didn't sigh just a little when all your clocks had rolled over. It's easy now to be complacent and act cool about the whole thing, but no-one can actually say what might have been.
sigh? no, not really. i knew what would and what wouldn't happen (okay...i just had a really clear notion) and when exactly that came to pass, i laughed out loud at all the hype and anxiety i'd seen bandied about by some of my more paranoid acquaintances. mostly i was just laughing at the silly people who were frightened and turned off machines thinking that that would help them. it only prolongs the inevitable, and suggests that they didn't have much of clue about what was going on. which is not to say that i didn't see a few problems that i'll have to deal with. one of them, the most important to the people i work with, was not actually a "y2k" problem, but simply a "y" problem. someone had written code that assumed that the tm_yday field in a struct tm was monotonically increasing. of course, that stuff stopped working promptly at midnight. i had something similar happen to me last new years...something rolled not one, but two years, so i got to y2k early. :) -- |-----< "CODE WARRIOR" >-----| codewarrior@daemon.org * "ah! i see you have the internet twofsonet@graffiti.com (Andrew Brown) that goes *ping*!" andrew@crossbar.com * "information is power -- share the wealth."
On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Andrew Brown wrote:
mostly i was just laughing at the silly people who were frightened and turned off machines thinking that that would help them.
I laugh at the people who made a run on gasoline and ended up running several filling stations dry. I laugh at the people who wasted their life savings on 'y2k supplies'. FWIW we saw virtually no usage change on dialups or WAN here. -Dan
On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Dan Hollis wrote:
I laugh at the people who made a run on gasoline and ended up running several filling stations dry.
I laugh at the people who wasted their life savings on 'y2k supplies'.
FWIW we saw virtually no usage change on dialups or WAN here.
I did see the hardware clock on one PII system go a little wacky. # date Sat Jan 1 19:46:48 EST 2000 # clock Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969 and I found out at the grocery store tonight that Barnett^H^H^H^H^H^H^HNationsBank^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HBankAmerica ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HBankofBorg finally deactivated my old ATM card. They've been warning me for several years that they would...ever since they started sending me debit/Visa check cards (which I've refused to use) which they want everyone to have instead of simple ATM cards. It worked last week. I guess they may have had to disable them with some y2k upgrade...or maybe they just decided to use y2k as an excuse to finally do it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis *jlewis@lewis.org*| Spammers will be winnuked or System Administrator | nestea'd...whatever it takes Atlantic Net | to get the job done. _________http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key__________
FWIW we saw virtually no usage change on dialups or WAN here.
We saw a large increase in incoming traffic at 00:00 UTC (jumping from about 5Mbps to a peak of 108Mbs - as we're primarily doing hosting our incoming is usually very low compared to outgoing). We assume this was some form of DoS attack (although it did not saturate any of our infrastructure), which lasted for about 30 minutes then just stopped. Other than that, we did not see any significant increase in traffic around 00:00 - either UTC or USA time. You can see graphs of our traffic over the period at: http://support.bbc.co.uk/support/mrtg/internet/all.html Simon -- Simon Lockhart | Tel: +44 (0)1737 839676 Internet Engineering Manager | Fax: +44 (0)1737 839516 BBC Internet Services | Email: Simon.Lockhart@bbc.co.uk Kingswood Warren,Tadworth,Surrey,UK | URL: http://support.bbc.co.uk/
Yah, MH, static linking, gun to the head. :-)
GMT and CET rolled over without any major incidents. The cellular networks were busy but thats to be expected.
Regards, Neil. -- Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking. neil@DOMINO.ORG
-- Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking. neil@DOMINO.ORG
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Neil J. McRae -
Paul Ferguson -
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Simon Lockhart -
Steve Carter -
Wayne Bouchard