Author Topic: Happy new year from 2018 (Read 2890 times)

KiwiKev · « **on:** December 31, 2017, 03:21:31 PM »

To all who haven’t made it yet there is life on the other side, have a good celebration tonight and stay safe.

Kev

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ohiorider · « **Reply #1 on:** December 31, 2017, 03:26:04 PM »

Thanks, Time Traveler!

Slightly less than 8 hours to go here.

Bob

JJ · « **Reply #2 on:** December 31, 2017, 03:32:15 PM »

Happy New Year to all Guzzisti worldwide from northern Arizona!!

:1:

oldbike54 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 31, 2017, 03:36:13 PM »

Wait ... what happened to 1994 ?

Dusty

KiwiKev · « **Reply #4 on:** December 31, 2017, 03:44:43 PM »

Quote from: oldbike54 on December 31, 2017, 03:36:13 PM

Wait ... what happened to 1994 ?

Dusty

Yeh it’s scary how fast the years roll by these days, I swear they used to last much longer :-p

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twowings · « **Reply #5 on:** December 31, 2017, 03:52:27 PM »

Felice anno nuovo!

tetarabra · « **Reply #6 on:** December 31, 2017, 03:53:20 PM »

Happy new year

and all the best from Normandie

rodekyll · « **Reply #7 on:** December 31, 2017, 04:01:28 PM »

Tell us about the future, Kev!

Sasquatch Jim · « **Reply #8 on:** December 31, 2017, 05:44:54 PM »

Well HFNY to all and have a good riding season this year.

Lannis · « **Reply #9 on:** December 31, 2017, 06:21:08 PM »

Quote from: rodekyll on December 31, 2017, 04:01:28 PM

Tell us about the future, Kev!

Sounds strange, but we actually did that on Y2K night.

We were in the machine and server room of our corporate IT operation, with our IBM mainframes and DEC VAXes and racks of Windows servers. There were about 15 of us, covering all the different computer types, and we had a old record player and a stack of Guy Lombardo albums that one of the guys had brought in.

We were pretty sure that we had everything covered - the only systems we had with date dependencies were the older mainframe systems where a "99" had been used as an end-of-file marker, and we got all those, had been testing for quite a while.

Our electrical engineers had assured us that all the hoopla and woe-is-me about "embedded" date dependencies in PROM-based systems and PLCs was nonsense - and they were right.

As midnight crossed Australia, I was calling compatriots in Ozzie computer centers, asking them how it was going - the news was uniformly good - no problems. By the time I was calling guys in the UK and France, it was 6 or 7 in the evening and we had had that "look into the future" and were pretty sure we were OK.

At 12:00 .... nothing happened. Everything kept running except ONE old Cullinet database application that failed; we had it fixed and running by 2:00. Around 3:00 AM our CEO came through, checking on things and we were able to give him a good report.

But we used that "looking into the future" thing with a vengeance ... very comforting it was, although we were sure we were going to do fine despite all the prophets of doom ... !

Lannis

Guzzi Gal · « **Reply #10 on:** January 01, 2018, 01:45:00 AM »

Goodbye 2017, hello 2018!

May the roads ahead be enchanting twisties, and the roads behind beautiful memories.

KiwiKev · « **Reply #11 on:** January 01, 2018, 02:24:36 AM »

Quote from: rodekyll on December 31, 2017, 04:01:28 PM

Tell us about the future, Kev!

You probably know by now it’s not much different from the past ,,

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KiwiKev · « **Reply #12 on:** January 01, 2018, 02:27:21 AM »

Quote from: Lannis on December 31, 2017, 06:21:08 PM

Sounds strange, but we actually did that on Y2K night.

We were in the machine and server room of our corporate IT operation, with our IBM mainframes and DEC VAXes and racks of Windows servers. There were about 15 of us, covering all the different computer types, and we had a old record player and a stack of Guy Lombardo albums that one of the guys had brought in.

We were pretty sure that we had everything covered - the only systems we had with date dependencies were the older mainframe systems where a "99" had been used as an end-of-file marker, and we got all those, had been testing for quite a while.

Our electrical engineers had assured us that all the hoopla and woe-is-me about "embedded" date dependencies in PROM-based systems and PLCs was nonsense - and they were right.

As midnight crossed Australia, I was calling compatriots in Ozzie computer centers, asking them how it was going - the news was uniformly good - no problems. By the time I was calling guys in the UK and France, it was 6 or 7 in the evening and we had had that "look into the future" and were pretty sure we were OK.

At 12:00 .... nothing happened. Everything kept running except ONE old Cullinet database application that failed; we had it fixed and running by 2:00. Around 3:00 AM our CEO came through, checking on things and we were able to give him a good report.

But we used that "looking into the future" thing with a vengeance ... very comforting it was, although we were sure we were going to do fine despite all the prophets of doom ... !

Lannis

Yep it was all a marketing ploy by computer companies to scare people into buying new hardware and software was it not ?

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Brattus · « **Reply #13 on:** January 01, 2018, 02:43:44 AM »

Just down loaded some pics from new years ride to FB but having trouble here. Only guzzi in forty+odd bikes riding today. Warm day 25c was nice.

Huzo · « **Reply #14 on:** January 01, 2018, 02:54:05 AM »

Quote from: Guzzi Gal on January 01, 2018, 01:45:00 AM

Goodbye 2017, hello 2018!

May the roads ahead be enchanting twisties, and the roads behind beautiful memories.

Touche'
Yesterday is in the mirrors, tomorrow is over the fairing...

Lannis · « **Reply #15 on:** January 01, 2018, 08:19:16 AM »

Quote from: KiwiKev on January 01, 2018, 02:27:21 AM

Yep it was all a marketing ploy by computer companies to scare people into buying new hardware and software was it not ?

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I don't think that the computer companies were especially implicated, although I'm sure they took advantage of the hype and panic when they could; they ARE "for-profit" and not a "public service".

In my experience, the main culprits were the news services, and operators of blogs and websites who profited from "panic" and "views" and "click-throughs" and publicity.

I mean, which newspaper or service or blog is going to get more money and attention?

The one saying "The Y2K problem will just require some due diligence and testing but is basically not a problem".

Or the one saying (I wish Sam Kinison were here to do it for me)

""AAAH! AAAH! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE WHEN OUR ELECTRIC WINDOWS FAIL AND OUR TOASTER CLIMBS INTO OUR BED AND KILLS US! AAAH! AAAH!"

It was almost that bad; and people still listen to that stuff in our enlightened year of 2018.

Off to put some blackeyed peas and hog jowl on the back of the stove. It won't fix anything but it's a step in the right direction on anyone's New Year's Day!

Lannis

Pop · « **Reply #16 on:** January 01, 2018, 08:45:56 AM »

Awwwwwww! Fell asleep in my chair and missed it all. Funny, feels the same. Crap. I need a nap.
Pop

Have a safe and prosperous year.

guzzisteve · « **Reply #17 on:** January 01, 2018, 08:54:36 AM »

I was barely awake, lots of fireworks here. Now it's snow flurries. Just another and they keep going faster & faster.

giusto · « **Reply #18 on:** January 01, 2018, 09:06:07 AM »

Quote from: tetarabra on December 31, 2017, 03:53:20 PM

Happy new year and all the best from Normandie

Bonne Annee !!!

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Author Topic: Happy new year from 2018 (Read 2890 times)

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