From: Stuart Remphrey <stu@remphrey.net>
To: Valdimar Sigurdsson <ricercar@lycos.com>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The 2038 bug...
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 18:15:06 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD0_1ckfuBWrvBEnz6X2BJkO4U3pWCXTB+QznS+3NCXWfOf8mA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a2794918-0d0b-e10e-3c4c-dd2e684ba52c@lycos.com>
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By which time you may well find yourself managing a system through 2038
transition -- whilst your own age is the ultimate answer, but to what
question?
(getting a little off-topic, unless Sirius Cybernetics Corp developed their
systems on Unix?)
On Sun, 10 Jan 2021, 15:23 Valdimar Sigurdsson, <ricercar@lycos.com> wrote:
> I for one will be 42.
>
>
> On 12/31/20 1:19 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>
> As the new year is about to kick in (down-under anyway), it got me to
> thinking (always dangerous): how many here will be around for it to pick
> up the pieces that are no doubt still lying around?
>
> I'll be about the ripe old age of 85, so I may be around to see the
> Imminent Death of the Internet (Film at 11).
>
> 2100? Forget it... Too bad, as "Revolt in 2100 (?)" is one of my
> favourite Heinlein books.
>
> Others?
>
> -- Dave
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-10 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-31 7:19 Dave Horsfall
2020-12-31 7:24 ` Niklas Karlsson
2020-12-31 8:10 ` arnold
2020-12-31 15:30 ` Warner Losh
2020-12-31 16:09 ` Adam Thornton
2020-12-31 16:12 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-11 7:18 ` alan
2021-01-11 14:01 ` Stuart Remphrey
2020-12-31 18:36 ` Theodore Ts'o
2020-12-31 21:34 ` Warner Losh
2021-01-06 16:32 ` Dario Niedermann
2021-01-06 17:08 ` Henry Bent
2021-01-06 18:05 ` Dario Niedermann
2021-01-06 18:20 ` Michael Kjörling
2021-01-06 21:09 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-12-31 19:18 ` Bakul Shah
2021-01-04 8:22 ` Peter Jeremy via TUHS
2021-01-04 9:13 ` Angus Robinson
2021-01-04 21:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-04 21:56 ` Warner Losh
2021-01-05 18:05 ` Dan Cross
2021-01-06 7:21 ` Warner Losh
2021-01-07 22:56 ` Stuart Remphrey
2021-01-08 1:25 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-01-10 6:56 ` Stuart Remphrey
2021-01-04 8:59 ` Sergio Pedraja
2021-01-07 22:50 ` Stuart Remphrey
2021-01-10 7:16 ` Valdimar Sigurdsson
2021-01-10 7:24 ` Niklas Karlsson
2021-01-10 10:15 ` Stuart Remphrey [this message]
2020-12-31 15:05 M Douglas McIlroy
2020-12-31 16:51 ` arnold
2020-12-31 23:31 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2021-01-09 8:44 Norman Wilson
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