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Royce Williams

@ljohn44

Oh, there were hiccups for sure - plenty of issues that weren't caught until the real thing happened. But fortunately, the due diligence headed off most of the serious impact. :D

@Xavier @robertatcara

1 January at 23:28 | Open on infosec.exchange
LJ

@tychotithonus @Xavier @robertatcara As a regular person just going through life it appeared seamless. Thank you!

1 January at 23:29 | Open on mastodon.social
@lizzz

@tychotithonus @ljohn44 @Xavier @robertatcara A lot of mom & pop businesses relying on ancient equipment for payroll, inventory, orders, etc., had failures but they didn't advertise that fact.

2 January at 5:04 | Open on infosec.exchange
LovesThašŸ„§

@Lizzz @tychotithonus @ljohn44 @Xavier @robertatcara at the micro scale delete and setup fresh in Jan was a workable solution. It's an annoying arvo for someone.

It's the big businesses that needed to act, and by and large they did.

2 January at 7:01 | Open on floss.social
Ysegrim

@Lizzz @tychotithonus @ljohn44 @Xavier @robertatcara In Germany, e.g. a couple of libraries sent late fee notices for 99 yearsā€¦ And in Berlin, Germany's largest city, the whole emergency line system went down for all of the "new millennium" night, with all its celebrations, private fireworks, drunk fights etc. All fire brigades, ambulances, and police stations had to patrol all neighborhoods because there was no way to call them. So, yeah, a lot did happen. It just happened to be a lot better thanks to all the prevention.

@Lizzz @tychotithonus @ljohn44 @Xavier @robertatcara In Germany, e.g. a couple of libraries sent late fee notices for 99 yearsā€¦ And in Berlin, Germany's largest city, the whole emergency line system went down for all of the "new millennium" night, with all its celebrations, private fireworks, drunk fights etc. All fire brigades, ambulances, and police stations had to patrol all neighborhoods because there was no way to call them. So, yeah, a lot did happen. It just happened to be a lot better thanks...

2 January at 7:47 | Open on furry.engineer
Jeff Grigg

@ysegrim @Lizzz @tychotithonus @ljohn44 @Xavier @robertatcara

Yes, a lot of work was done to prevent problems.

And, in the weeks following, a lot of work was done to detect, prevent, and recover from problems.

ACM's "comp.risks" usenet forum describes some of the problems that happened.

2 January at 13:53 | Open on mastodon.social
Royce Williams
Jeff Grigg

@tychotithonus

Briefly, from memory, there were *quite a few* problems of small retail establishments resending duplicate charges due to bugs in their software that treated "year 00" as something that could never happen. This would have been avoided by updating their software. And they were informed. Problems were averted by banks detecting and rejecting the duplicates.

Also, we lost track of one of our spy satellites for a few weeks.

Read the comp.risks entries for details.

2 January at 17:25 | Open on mastodon.social
@lizzz

@ysegrim @tychotithonus @ljohn44 @Xavier @robertatcara Interesting that being in different TZs would have given all of us different experiences.

2 January at 16:08 | Open on infosec.exchange
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