Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:54:36 -0500 From: Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> To: patl@phoenix.volant.org, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports Software Collection Message-ID: <19991110115436.05745@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <ML-3.4.942252405.5562.patl@asimov>; from patl@phoenix.volant.org on Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 08:46:45AM -0800 References: <19991110172704.A19927@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <ML-3.4.942252405.5562.patl@asimov>
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On Wednesday, 10 November 1999 at 8:46:45 -0800, patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote: > On 10-Nov-99 at 08:27, Christoph Kukulies (kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) > wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 10:57:11AM -0500, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> On Wednesday, 10 November 1999 at 9:39:14 -0600, Cheryl Offholter wrote: >>>> Is it correct to assume that the FREEBSD PORTS SOFTWARE COLLECTION is >>>> also completely compliant in addition to the operating system? >>>> Please advise. >> >> It sounded that he meant "Y2K compliant". (must be some kind >> of degraded jargon during the last 45 days of the millenium :-) > > You mean 'the last 45 days of the 1900s'; since we all know that > 2000 is the last year of the 20th century and therefore the last > year of the 2nd millenium, not the first year of the 3rd. (I'm > assuming that the readers of this list are somewhat more intelligent > and informed than the general populace. If we weren't, we'd be > using Windows... :-) > > But this is drifting wildly off-topic... While we're doing so, though, it's interesting to note that, even if the Millenium were to end in 7 weeks time, this is *not* a "millenium bug". The same issue arose 100 years ago. It's a century "bug": the problem isn't the carry into the fourth place, it's the carry into the third place. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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