From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 1 9:24:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7701514CCA for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 09:24:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 5317 invoked from network); 1 Jan 2000 17:24:13 -0000 Received: from userar34.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.136.193) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 1 Jan 2000 17:24:13 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA05473; Sat, 1 Jan 2000 17:24:19 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 17:24:18 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: "G. Adam Stanislav" , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I will never trust NBC news again! Message-ID: <20000101172418.C3202@marder-1> References: <3.0.6.32.20000101101332.0080ceb0@mail85.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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