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MY FAV! Check out the hand painted silk chinese lantern boats.Happy New Year 2000 What is Y2K Bug?During 1960s to late 80s there was a widespread practice in all computer softwares to use two digits for repreasenting a year rather than using 4 digits. This was done to save computer disk and memory space because these resources were relatively expensive in those times. As the year 90's approached experts began to realize this major shortcoming in the computer application softwares. In year 2000, the computer systems could interpret 00 as 1900 messing up all the computing work. For example if a program function is calculating difference between two dates, it would calculate a negative number. For example difference between 1 Jan 2000 and 31 Dec 1999 could be calculated as -100 years rather than 1 day. This was a major bug for the whole finance industry. The bug not only existed in computer software but it also existed in the firmware being used in the computer hardware. In general this bug threatened all the major industries including utilities, banking, manufacturing, telecom, airlines.


How was it averted?
Y2K bug was a clicking time bomb for all major computer applications. The computer and system application companies came out with year 2000 compliant operating systems and system software. IT companies around the world spent billions of dollars to go through their entire application source code to look for the Y2K bug and fix it. Almost everybody raced around to make themselves Y2K compliant before the fast approaching deadline. Finally when the big day came, many utilities and other companies switched off their main computers and put the backup computers on work. When the clock ticked Jan 1, 2000, no major problems were reported. Almost every bank worked fine, no major power outages were reported, airplanes still flew and the whole world went on with its normal life.

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[TheRaptor26]

sydney will surely show you the best to celebrate new year. . .fantastic place.......

[jjohn2k]

Live for Eternity, beautiful Sydney!!

[thecity1231]

@pabruroliver Did Band TV show that? I didn't know. I watched it on "2000 Today" from BBC, by TV Record.

[Xhunter987]

"MOM!"

"lets move to Australia!"

[Nicodemus582]

esa celebracion de sidney es mucho mas mejor que las que ha echo ojala hagan uno parecido este año

[rania3830]

Australia is multi cultural but they are some of the most racist people you will meet.

[rania3830]

@Josh3455

everything looked crap on tv 10 years ago.

[squallboy25]

@liamo89010 25.05.99*

[squallboy25]

@liamo89010 the Y2K bug was a theoretical catastrophe. It was basically a calendar bug. Computers back then had a clock which tells the computer the exact date marked by 6 digits only. So May 25, 1999 would be recognized by computers as 25.05.98. When year 2000 came the digits would have been 01.01.00. But the computers would recognize it as January 1, 1900 NOT 2000. So you can imagine, anything that relied on computers will think that it is the year 1900 causing all sorts of different problems

[airdriver]

Sydney and Paris take the prize for the best fireworks display on Y2k

[pabruroliver]

I saw it on band tv here in Brazil

it was fantastic

for me the best happy new year all over the world

[Josh3455]

Wow CNN sure looked like shit 10 years ago.