Breakdowns now may be good news in that some problems will be fixed now and not contribute to the confusion at rollover. Perhaps no breakdowns means no remediaton and no tests. Can anyone involved in remediation and testing shed some light on this issue? For example the crash of the D C subway system. Is this good news (working on it) or bad news where accumulating glitches overpowered the system? I would rather see as many glitches as possible now instead of later when they would all happen together.

-- Moe (Moe@3stooges.gom), September 24, 1999

Answers

Are recent computer glitches and crashes good news or bad news? Are they the result of testing of remediation or breakdowns due to no efforts to remediate?

answer... YES

-- Linda (lwmb@psln.com), September 24, 1999.

"Are recent computer glitches and crashes good news or bad news?" Good news. They are waking people up. This is good. We are in the lead up period where FOF is (in general) possible. So they can be fixed. When they are explosions at refienries and the like, they will cause more capacity to come on line.

"Are they the result of testing of remediation or breakdowns due to no efforts to remediate?" Remediation, breakdowns caused by no remediation are hidden currently (liability). They will be visible later.

-- ng (cantprovideemail@none.com), September 24, 1999.

These breakdowns are the result of the 1998 remediation with a year for testing which is now cramped into 98 days because they could not get the job done in 1998.

Last year these would have been good news.

At this juncture, it only shows you how bad things really are.

Its only logical.

-- neverhasbeenenoughtime (onlylogical@hotmail.com), September 24, 1999.

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ng:

"When they are explosions at refienries and the like, they will cause more capacity to come on line. "

Huh?!?!?

Who would bring previously dormant, unremediated(!) capacity and risking more explosions at the risk of employees.

Companies have not expended Y2K remediation resources on dormant facilities and/or equipment.

Lawyers would have a field day.

Think outside of those "Polly Boxes!"

Regards, Bob Mangus

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-- Robert Mangus (rmangus1@yahoo.com), September 24, 1999.

Bob,

Explosions now (99 days) are exlpsions that will happen. Anything that has the FOF fools move, either to fix or take unredediated, untested off line, is beneficial.

You're right with the rest except the tense in "Lawyers would have a field day."

Lawyers will have a field day. They've already started.

-- ng (cantprovideemail@none.com), September 24, 1999.

Anybody who thinks glitches and crashes are somehow "good news" has got to be the most brain-dead Polly on the face of the earth. I can't even imagine the kind of psychotic nonsensical spin that could possibly make an actual breakdown of systems anything other than catastrophic.

Let's be clear here. Glitches and crashes are bad news. They are proof that the systems are crumbling and it can only get worse. The remediation is a failure. Prepare for the worst, or you'll end up dead.

-- (its@coming.soon), September 24, 1999.