A lazy fix to the Y2K bug caused software issues when the date rolled over to 2020. Later this year, programmers also avoided a Y2038 bug, pushing the problem back to 2486 Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24833130-300-2020-in-review-revenge-of-the-y2k-bug-as-lazy-fix-takes-down-software/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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New Jersey Desperately Needs COBOL Programmers
In New Jersey, the coronavirus outbreak has resulted in something that few people outside that state’s tech department would have foreseen: a dire need for COBOL coders. From a report, shared by reader AmiMoJo: Standing for Common Business-Oriented Language, COBOL’s day came and went long ago. It initially made a splash by giving coders a programming language that could work across…
Linux is Ready for the End of Time
January 19, 2038 is for Linux what Y2K was for mainframe and PC computers in 2000, reports ZDNet. It’s the day that the value for time “runs out of numbers” and, in the case of 32-bit Unix-based operating systems like Linux and older versions of macOS, “starts counting time with negative numbers…” “But the fixes are underway to make sure all…
This Year’s Y2K20 Bug Came Directly From ‘A Lazy Fix’ to the Y2K Bug
Slashdot reader The8re still remembers the Y2K bug. Now he shares a New Scientist article explaining how it led directly to this year’s Y2020 bug — which affected more than just parking meters: WWE 2K20, a professional wrestling video game, also stopped working at midnight on 1 January 2020. Within 24 hours, the game’s developers, 2K, issued a downloadable fix. Another…
A lazy fix 20 years ago means the Y2K bug is taking down computers now
The millennium bug is back with a vengeance, after programmers in the 1990s simply pushed the problem back by 20 years Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2229238-a-lazy-fix-20-years-ago-means-the-y2k-bug-is-taking-down-computers-now/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Get ready for the ’20s!
“Anybody besides me notice that the past two decades have been nameless?” Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/get-ready-for-the-2020s-decade…
Do You Remember the Y2K Bug?
harrymcc writes: In the late 1990s, lots of people were concerned that the Y2K bug could lead to power outages, financial collapse, riots, and worse when the clock rolled over to January 1, 2000. Hundreds of books about the problem and suggestions on how to respond (quit your job, move to the country, stockpile food) not only capitalized on this fear…
Netflix Cancels Rebooted ‘Mystery Science Theatre 3000’
Netflix’s reboot of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 made this year’s “Best Of” lists from both The New York Times and Rotten Tomatoes. Yet apparently their bosses didn’t like them, and have shot them into space. Forbes reports: In a controversial move poisoning Thanksgiving for many indie comedy fans, Mystery Science Theater 3000 host Jonah Ray tweeted that Netflix has cancelled the…