[UFO Chicago] Happy Billennium!

[Nate Riffe]

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On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Nick Moffitt wrote:

> begin  Elliot Shank  quotation:
> > Jordan Bettis wrote:
> > > Bc informs me that 1 billion seconds is about 31.7 years. That's a
> > > long time, especially in the computer world, but let's make the
> > > next billion seconds even better than the last!
> >
> > Yeah, at the end of the next billion seconds, we'll be at the *NIX
> > version of Y2K.  Anyone for reformatting their drives to get rid of
> > 32-bit date values stored in the filesystem? ;]
>
> 	1e9 seconds ago, Unix ran only on a 16-bit mini that had crude
> (if any) memory protection.  It had 64k of core and a fully decked-out
> system might have a whopping 11MB disk pack!
>
> 	It would be sheer hubris to predict what systems may be like
> 1e9 seconds from now, but it is highly unlikely that they will retain
> the limitations of our current systems.
>
> 	The spindles your data now live on will likely not last two
> decades, and the software will probably accomodate the 2038 issue long
> before then.

Those of us who do hard disk upgrades using dd will have a problem.

>
> > If you're paying attention to the time of this email, you'll know when I
> > just finished my first pass through Kohan.  Damn addictive stuff.
>
> 	Kohan?
>
>

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