What Are You Doing For The End Of the World?

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

Yea I will be 60ish. For sure we will be well into 128bit system by then. 32bit is already on its way out for most important things. Thus should prevent an integer overflow. At least if I understand everything correctly. I just woke up so I could mostly likely be wrong.. hehe

You basically understand it.

The Y2K scare was caused by some old software and BIOS still using 16-bit. Unfortunately, some of that old software and firmware was part of important infrastructure systems.

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

ssshhhhhh....we dont want even more "why is 32 bit Ubuntu recommended" threads

I just checked, and found you are correct. I have been using torrents to download distros; therefore, I didn't realise they still did that.

ssshhhhhh...

[haqking]

You basically understand it.

The Y2K scare was caused by some old software and BIOS still using 16-bit. Unfortunately, some of that old software and firmware was part of important infrastructure systems.

That wasnt a 16bit issue, it was a date storage issue, infact it was a result of dates stored in 2 chr fashion and not 4. (99 falling over to 00 etc)

a 16bit year would run out in 65, 536

[lisati]

ssshhhhhh....we dont want even more "why is 32 bit Ubuntu recommended" threads

LOL!
Back in the day when Y2K was in the press, I remember some people worrying about things like, to cite two examples I find mildly ridiculous, microwaves and washing machines not working properly. They have timing devices in them, right?

[lisati]

That wasnt a 16bit issue, it was a date storage issue, infact it was a result of dates stored in 8 bit fashion and not 16bit. (99 falling over to 00 etc)

a 16bit year would run out in 65, 536

That sounds right.

If memory serves correctly, some of the systems I used back in the early 1980s stored the year part of the date in a form that was equivalent to two printable characters.

[haqking]

That sounds right.

If memory serves correctly, some of the systems I used back in the early 1980s were stored the year part of the date in a form that was equivalent to two printable characters.

correct. The issue was that software where dates were stored with 2 chrs (99 pertaining to 1999 when rolled over to 00 the system would think it was 1900 instead of 2000)

Though I think Old Grey Wolf may have been referring to the 1 byte per character (8 bits) where 00 would be 2 bytes or 16 bits etc.

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

Though I think Old Grey Wolf may have been referring to the 1 byte per character (8 bits) where 00 would be 2 bytes or 16 bits etc.

True.

[alexfish]

On the 23rd I will turn on my iMac, turn on my Win8 Laptop sit on my deck , ponder and think I bet the programme organiser at the History Chanel feels really stupid today.

I find Santa does not believe in history

does an I...mac prevent Snow falling on Christmas day, can a diary with a pen
Express Try feelings.
i@ ponder i.

merry xmas

from somewhere in the NHsphere

PS:
I missed the post Man .He had a day off

[mike acker]

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[geogur]

sorry i missed it too busy , did it happen