Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 17:24:18 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I will never trust NBC news again! Message-ID: <20000101172418.C3202@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001011632490.8913-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <3.0.6.32.20000101101332.0080ceb0@mail85.pair.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001011632490.8913-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 04:34:41PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > >>And what is this talk about a Y2K *virus* that Ms. Couric came up with? A > >bug and a virus are two quite different things! > > It *is* true that there are some viruses out there that are triggered on > jan 1 and that *simulate* the y2k bug. SO even computers that are Y2K > ready may *appear* to have fallen prey to the bug. So this report is not > incorrect. > On a related note I heard that a US Naval website had a counter that was counting down to the "millenium" and at midnight it rolled over to Jan 1 19100. Can anyone confirm this? > -=> jm <=- > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- "there's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 architecture that allows you to install Windows too" -Matthew D. Fuller ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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