OT: Y10K is coming... Beware
 

I try and warn fellow programmers that the Y10K bug is coming and now is the time to start fighting it. Imagine when the years become 5 digits long, all the 4 digit year code will need to be redone.

Many people say, "My application will not be running then." Well, that was said the last time too! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif

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Y10K nothing. What about the Y2038 bug? All 32-bit UNIX timestamps will overflow to be January 1, 1970 sometime in 2038 (I forget the exact date/time).

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Of course, by then practically everything will have switched over to 64-bit (or more), which will be enough for near 300 billion years.

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But what if there's these little entrenched programs everywhere, that nobody really thinks about?

We must prepare for Y10K!

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Yes... you'd be amazed at just how much legacy code makes it into an operating system.... nobody touches the drivers for a disk drive, for instance....

Of course, by the time y10k rolls around, most of us will be either:
a) Long since dust
b) done facing the Final Judgement (computers hardly a concern after that)
c) Computer programs of some stripe

Now, the y2038 bug could be much worse.... depending on how the OS handles the overflow when it happens.

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When I'm done facing the final judgement, I want my computer there with me!

I'm not addicted, nope nope nope.

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Didn't we already hit the Y10K bug back in 2000?

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We're still hitting it now. I have to scan drivers liscenes at work, and none of the ones that expire past 2050 scan correctly.

Why? Becuase instead of fixing the problem, some hurried programmer just stuck in logic that said that every year PAST 50 was 19xx, every year BEFORE that was 20xx..

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Year 10K = Year 10 * 1,000 = Year 10,000. *Insert cheeky grin here*

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You mean the Y2K bug. And no we didn't hit it, it apparently has a -80 racial offense modifier.

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Said it wouldn't be a concern - either not available, running perfectly, or impossible to make run - regardless, not a concern.

Just make sure you're going the correct direction in case B.

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The cow goes Moo!

The joke goes WHOOSH! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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Ahem... think binary. WHOOSH, indeed...

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OOOhhhh, is that what Fyron meant? I didn't get it either. Of course 2000 in binary isn't 10K anyway, it's 11111010000. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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There are 10 types of people in the world http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Those who don't know binary, and nerds.

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01010011 01101111 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00101100 00100000 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100101 00100000 01110100 01111001 01110000 01100101 01110011 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100100 01110011 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01110100 01111001 01110000 01100101 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100111 01110101 01101100 01100001 01110010 00100000 01110000 01100101 01101111 01110000 01101100 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01101110 00111111


Go to this site to translate...

http://www.adcott.net/binary/

And by the way this is binary for 2000

00110010001100000011000000110000

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01001110 01101111 00101110 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00100111 01110011 00100000 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01110100 01111001 01110000 01100101 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110000 01100101 01101111 01110000 01101100 01100101 00100000 01110111 01101000 01101111 00100000 01100100 01101111 01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 00100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00101100 00100000 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 01110011 00100000 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01110100 01111001 01110000 01100101 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01110000 01100101 01101111 01110000 01101100 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100100 01110011 00101110

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Hasn't posting in binary been done to death yet? (rhetorical question)

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the horse is dead. put down the stick.

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Well, except then you also need to use 1024 for k (2^10) at which point, y10k (binary) = y2048 (decimal) which still doesn't work....

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k = 1000... ki = 1024

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Bwoooop! Bwoooop!

The Nerd-Alert Siren has been activated.

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01010100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101110 01100101 01110010 01100100 01110011 00100000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100111 01110010 01101111 01110101 01110000 00100000 01110111 01101111 01110101 01101100 01100100 00100000 01101100 01101001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01101001 01101110 01100110 01101111 01110010 01101101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110100 01100001 01101000 01110100 00100000 01110111 01100101 00100000 01100001 01101000 01110110 01100101 00100000 01110111 01101001 01110010 01100101 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101100 01111001 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101110 01101110 01100101 01100011 01110100 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01100001 01101100 01100001 01110010 01101101 00100000 01110011 01111001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01101101 00101100 00100000 01101000 01100001 01100011 01101011 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01110010 01101111 01110101 01100111 01101000 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01110011 01100101 01100011 01110101 01110010 01101001 01110100 01111001 00100000 01101101 01100101 01100001 01110011 01110101 01110010 01100101 01110011 00101100 00100000 01100001 01100100 01101110 01110011 00100000 01110101 01100011 01100011 01100101 01110011 01100110 01110101 01101100 01101100 01111001 00100000 01110010 01100101 00101101 01110000 01110010 01101111 01100111 01110010 01100001 01101101 01100101 01100100 00100000 01101001 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101110 01110100 01100101 01101110 01110100 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 00101101 01101111 01100110 00101110 00100000 01011001 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01100001 01110100 01110100 01100101 01101101 01110000 01110100 01110011 00100000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01101001 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 00100000 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01100110 01110101 01110100 01101001 01101100 01100101 00100001 00100000 01000111 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01101001 01101110 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110111 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01101101 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 01111001 00100000 01100101 01101101 01110000 01101001 01110010 01100101 00100001

Translator - http://www.adcott.net/binary/

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Binary…..Blah

The only thing it’s good for is slinging IP.
The computer converts what I type into it, then back to text again. It takes no action on the part of the user, so why would I need to worry about it?

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Apparently, nerds can't spell.

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01001111 01100110 00100000 01100011 01101111 01110101 01110010 01110011 01100101 00100000 01110111 01100101 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100000 01110011 01110000 01100101 01101100 01101100 00101110 00100000 01001001 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00101100 00100000 01110000 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110100 01101001 01100011 00100000 01101110 01101111 01101110 00101101 01100011 01101111 01101101 01110000 01110101 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01111010 01100101 01100100 00100000 01110100 01111001 01110000 01100101 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01100011 01100001 01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 00100001 00100001 00100001 00001010 00001010 00111010 00101001 00100000 00111010 00101001 00100000 00111010 00101001

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And I'm nerdy enough to actually read that. O.o

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Wiht or without the translator?

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With. Heh. I could do it by hand if I wanted to, however.