[Tfug] *n?x Geeks Beware!!

[Brian Masur]

I'm sure we all look forward to taking a big dump in 2038 also.  However, I 
don't plan to have a SPARC within logical recognition that far in the 
future.

>From: Earl J Violet <earljviolet at juno.com>
>Reply-To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
>To: tfug at tfug.org
>Subject: Re: [Tfug] *n?x Geeks Beware!!
>Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 19:41:31 -0700
>
>I feel very secure sitting here next to 3 SPARC Ultra 10 clones with 24
>rolls of toilet paper in the bathroom cupboard. :)
>
>Earl
>
> >January 19, 2038 is a date which will live in infamy. It is on that day
>that the 32-bit integer storing the number of seconds since the beginning
>of The Epoch will overflow, causing death and destruction unseen by the
>world since the Y2K Bug. As they did in 2000, software will spectacularly
>crash, hardware will explode, appliances will go haywire and attack
>theirowners, and nuclear missiles will simultaneous launch and destroy
>theworld. Casper Kvan was reminded of this impending doom when one of his
>systems suddenly went down.
>
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