[Tfug] *n?x Geeks Beware!!

[Bowie J. Poag]

In other news, I will be retiring on 1/18/2038.

Cheers,
Bowie

Angus Scott-Fleming wrote:

>Seen on the 'net today ... FWIW
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>The Daily WTF - The Harbinger of the Epoch
> The Harbinger of the Epoch
> by Alex Papadimoulis
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>    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 their 
>    owners, and nuclear missiles will simultaneous launch and destroy the 
>    world. Casper Kvan was reminded of this impending doom when one of his 
>    systems suddenly went down.
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>Full story here: http://thedailywtf.com/forums/thread/78254.aspx
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>Angus Scott-Fleming
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