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High Treason, on 10 April 2013 - 09:17 PM, said:

Governments are always behind, most of the millenium bug nonesense was because our government were still using punch cards in accounting or something. And these are the people that think they can police the internet... Rather concerning to say the least.

lol
all their security computers, servers, etc are always the latest & greatest

the junk that the "every day" soldier uses is the equipment that's always outdated. it took them forever to switch from NT to XP because of common every day programs that weren't compatible. They're nothing special in of themselves, but if you remove them you basically stop things in their tracks. Programs that controlled supplies, maintenance, web conferencing, etc.

[Person of Color]

Just got a new external screen on the ol' Nomad. Damn those things crack easily.

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[Fox]

I just threw my wireless mouse at the wall. Oh my god, wireless sucks so so bad.

[Person of Color]

http://sonicgivesadv...rape.ytmnd.com/

[Kathy]

Fox, on 12 April 2013 - 04:20 PM, said:

I just threw my wireless mouse at the wall. Oh my god, wireless sucks so so bad.

I've never had problems with mine.

[Sangman]

Cathy, on 09 April 2013 - 12:43 PM, said:

Because...?

2Sang:
1. Who's Cedric Haegeman?
2. Euro Track Simulator 2

1. One who knows his way around Google can find out my real name in an instant so it doesn't matter anymore at this point.

2. Yeah good game

[Sangman]

High Treason, on 10 April 2013 - 09:17 PM, said:

most of the millenium bug nonesense was because our government were still using punch cards in accounting or something

no not really

[Kathy]

Sangman, on 13 April 2013 - 01:27 AM, said:

1. One who knows his way around Google can find out my real name in an instant so it doesn't matter anymore at this point.

I'm a bit paranoid about it. Well, ok, not just a bit.

[Jeff]

High Treason, on 10 April 2013 - 09:17 PM, said:

That was something holding me back, most of my Video, Imaging an Audio programs will not work under Windows 7, but as the Copyright notice on the start screens says 1998, I decided it was time to upgrade (such as that Vegas 12 I got, damn CUDA rendering is the future!).

Governments are always behind, most of the millenium bug nonesense was because our government were still using punch cards in accounting or something. And these are the people that think they can police the internet... Rather concerning to say the least.

CPU encoding, although slower, produces better quality videos than GPU encoding.

[Jimmy]

Sangman, on 13 April 2013 - 01:32 AM, said:

no not really

Sang is right. It had more to do with the fact that banks and other agencies were using two digits for the year to save space. So instead of 1999, they would just write 99 in their spreadsheets and shit. It really wasn't that big of a deal and really showed that the general populace knows dick all about computers.

[Fox]

By the way, since it took me some time to upgrade from Windows 98, I actually a problem with the two digits at some point.

[Person of Color]

Fox, on 13 April 2013 - 02:13 PM, said:

I actually a problem with the two digits at some point.

hello linksys i accidentally the date

[Kathy]

The whole thing?

[Mark]

I've have been one of those old fogeys that resisted OS changes until the programs I wanted to run forced me to upgrade. When I went from win95 to 98se, then to XP and now on Vista, I always set everything to bare minimum to be as close as possible in looks and feel to win95. No themes or any kind of special layouts. I have the clock and my Zonealarm icon down in the right corner and my most accessed programs on the desktop. No quicklauch bar or search bars, tabbed browsing or any of the myriad of extra tools or desktop graphics.

Just finished doing my tax returns, got some help for con coding in my project and now I'm sitting back in my comfy chair and enjoying some hot ham sandwiches.

aaaahhhh what a great day

[Sangman]

JoJo the Idiot Circus Boy, on 13 April 2013 - 01:31 PM, said:

Sang is right. It had more to do with the fact that banks and other agencies were using two digits for the year to save space. So instead of 1999, they would just write 99 in their spreadsheets and shit. It really wasn't that big of a deal and really showed that the general populace knows dick all about computers.

Wrong as well, programmers all over the globe spent timing patching systems. That's why "nothing happened".

There is at least one similar issue in the future which is year 2038... that's when the (usually) integer value used for timestamps (ie. amount of seconds passed since 1 Jan 1970) will overflow which could cause problems. I believe that work is already being done to store the value in a 64-bit variable instead which merely delays the problem, but at least it does so to a time when humans will long be extinct (probably).

[Hank]

Sangman, on 14 April 2013 - 09:12 AM, said:

but at least it does so to a time when humans will long be extinct (probably).

can't wait for this. Mother Earth in it's eternal virginal state of emptiness. Ah, yes. Something to look forward too.

[Mark]

Technically not virginal. The rape has already occured. According to the tree hugging hippies.

[Hank]

Once the evil specie homo sapiens are no more, mother earth will witness a complete rebirth, ergo become a virgin.
According to Greenpeace Water division or whatever derivative I heard that from. I think is was about whales? Can't remember.

[Master Fibbles]

Yes, the tree hugging hippies who didn't take "No" for an answer from the trees...think of all the trees which have been violated by free-loving hippies.

[Jimmy]

Sangman, on 14 April 2013 - 09:12 AM, said:

Wrong as well, programmers all over the globe spent timing patching systems. That's why "nothing happened".

Not wrong. That's why it wasn't a big deal and the general populace didn't know dick all. It was an easy fix, albeit a potentially tedious one.

[Kathy]

But it would be a big deal if nothing was done beforehand.

[Hank]

it is a safer to ride in the far east (by far I mean totally brainless)
http://bostonglobe.c...c24L/story.html
I quote:
The couple felt that such games [arcade] had no place in public rest stops, and the state Depart­ment of Transportation agreed. After receiving an ­e-mail from the Hyams, the Massachusetts agency removed nine violent games from service plazas in Charlton, Ludlow, Lee, and Beverly.

[Sangman]

Cathy, on 14 April 2013 - 12:38 PM, said:

But it would be a big deal if nothing was done beforehand.

Yeah which is my point.

[Master Fibbles]

If the same type of problem were to happen now, it could be a rather big deal. In 1999 not nearly as much was dependent on computer chips as is now. Grant it, I'm not sure how much the date matters in a lot of things but the way people rely on smart phones and GPS, who knows what could happen is the date was 1913.

[Kathy]

Then you should wait for 2038. Some industrial systems are still being installed with a 32-bit timestamp.

[High Treason]

I have yet to encounter a system that isn't "Y2K Compliant" - I have never patched any of mine, but they all had no problems when Y2K came. Nor did any of the software they were running.

My point still stands, these people clearly used outdated systems and nobody had forward thinking until it was almost too late.

@Jeff; Perhaps CPU encoding does have better quality, but as it's not in realtime I doubt it makes much difference and I certainly don't notice any. Given that it's for internet videos I'm not that fussed anyway as it usually gets compressed to death by YouTube and the main priority is usually getting them rendered quickly and using as little bandwidth as possible for the upload. Everything local is done with 8-Bit or 10-Bit AVI Files with no extensive encoding or compression.

[Jeff]

High Treason, on 14 April 2013 - 11:45 PM, said:

@Jeff; Perhaps CPU encoding does have better quality, but as it's not in realtime I doubt it makes much difference and I certainly don't notice any. Given that it's for internet videos I'm not that fussed anyway as it usually gets compressed to death by YouTube and the main priority is usually getting them rendered quickly and using as little bandwidth as possible for the upload. Everything local is done with 8-Bit or 10-Bit AVI Files with no extensive encoding or compression.

Oh, I forgot about the whole Youtube thing.

[Kathy]

High Treason, on 14 April 2013 - 11:45 PM, said:

My point still stands, these people clearly used outdated systems

You'd be surprised how many still do. In some companies there was whole Windows XP infrastructure still operating on SP2. And they were forced to go to SP3 only because of a timezone update that wouldn't install on SP2. Or I know systems that are 20 years old for example.

[Master Fibbles]

I have heard that you used to be able to run the entire NASA program on a modern day laptop. The shuttles were running software from the time they were built (I think coded in Fortran or something).

[Sangman]

High Treason, on 14 April 2013 - 11:45 PM, said:

I have yet to encounter a system that isn't "Y2K Compliant"

Well, it's 2013. Obviously now you wouldn't.