Y2K computer bug had distracted it for years, as it spent heavily to avoid trouble.
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The site also has an entertaining humor section, with links to all those bad-joke pages about the Y2K computer bug.
The other bill would provide antitrust protection for companies within an industry that exchange Y2K computer information with one another.
The concern, he said, is that hackers, emboldened by widespread Y2K computer concerns, could insert viruses that would alter or destroy information on the sites.
It helps that in the face of the Y2K computer scare ahead of the year 2000, the hospital system replaced all its old legacy systems and now runs a well-integrated infrastructure.
Rather, Lyle said that the White House Office of Administration was knee-deep through most of 1999 -- after the e-mail problem has come to light -- in feverish efforts to make all White House computer systems "Y2K" compliant.
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For anyone who has been in seclusion in the High Sierras for the last several years and missed the hype, the Year 2000 computer bug, or Y2K as acronym-enamored technologists like to call it, is the result of a computer programming convention that represents dates with only two digits for the year.
We must be ready for the 21st century from its very first moment, by solving the "Y2K" computer problem.
Navy and Marine Corps computer users "should leave Y2K evaluation to the network administration personnel tasked to perform that function and users are reminded that programs distributed by e-mail must be considered suspect, " the message stated.
As India's high-tech sector boomed in the build-up to the Y2K scare (the computer glitch that later fizzled), Manglik began to imagine returning to India once his daughters finished college.
One after another, speakers warned of Y2K meltdowns, Internet Armageddons and goon squads coming through computer screens in the millennial predawn.
The Y2K Cooperation Center warned that The Gambia's official computer systems could still face problems when normal work resumes after the new year holiday.
' There was Y2K, of course, which was lucrative for a while for a few computer firms.
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