{"id":115,"date":"2006-01-01T14:39:25","date_gmt":"2006-01-01T18:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/wordpress\/?p=115"},"modified":"2011-12-17T12:18:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T16:18:51","slug":"echos-of-year-2000-y2k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2006\/01\/echos-of-year-2000-y2k\/","title":{"rendered":"Echos of Year 2000 \/ Y2K"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is January 1, 2006, and sitting watching Television last night – I thought back to 2000 and thought about the fear that we all held watching the ball drop and half-expecting the sewers to back up on Times Square as midnight kicked over.
\nAlso today I am “cleaning out my closet” and pitching some old stuff and came across a Powerpoint Presentation that I made in 1999 about Y2K – at the time, I was the CIO of the College of Engineering at Michigan State University and I got a bit of flak about this talk.
\nNow six years later I am going to throw away the printout of my slides as I clean my closet so I figure that before I pitch them, I would type them in in case anyone in the future decides to ever look back at this point in time. Kind of a time capsule.
\nHere are images of this talk<\/a><\/p>\n


\nYear 2000 – A view from a college
\nCharles Severance
\nDirector of Computing Services
\nCollege of Engineering
\nNot too worried about Y2K
\nWe have no core data processing activities
\nProblems
\n– getting the right version of Excel and Word
\n– Operating Systems (NT 4.0 and UNIX)
\n– Bad BIOS’s – There is no $$ for new computers anyways
\nWhat we have done
\nTalked with AIS
\n– Helped identify areas we might have missed
\n– Reassured that AIS services are OK
\nWhen we encounter a patch or upgrade that fixes Y2K we apply it
\nWhat we will do
\nEducate our users to perform their own BIOS checks – Before Fiscal year-end
\nBy Summer – All of our server infrastructure and public labs will be Y2K
\nFall – Focus on heavy users of data software
\n– Know the version\/pathc for Y2K
\n– Access, Excel, dBase, FoxPro
\nConcepts
\nBe educated about the problem
\n– AIS and Web Pages
\nWe can lag behind because our problems are the same as millions of other desktops
\n– If they are not solved by the industry – The College of Engineering can’t help
\nAssume that my trackball won’t have broken everything in my office Jan 1, 2000
\nObservations
\nTo the non-aware folks, Y2K is a soap opera
\nTo the technology folks, fixing broken stuff is our daily activity – properly approached, Y2K is just integrated into our regular activity.
\nSome projects won’t make it on time – what’s new
\nThe Real<\/i> Disaster
\nWhen every person in the USA has $500 extra cash in their pockets and nothing happens Jan 1…
\nThe lines at Mongolian Barbecue will be terrible….
\nAnd Best Buy will run out of 10GB disk drives – causing general panic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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