Many are just trying to restructure amid recession, and deal with the Y2K bug.
But if I'm not worried about the Y2K bug, I'm deathly afraid of Y2K hysteria.
The Y2K bug, while not the end of the world, is a serious issue.
The Y2K bug could cause all sorts of mischief, including shutting down some computers entirely.
"It's something like the Y2K bug, because everyone was prepared, " said Ravi Venkatesam of at Atesto Technologies in California.
Attack of the Y2K Bug features cute little "Y2K" bugs demolishing your screen.
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The Y2K Bug, as many now know, is a short-sighted but far-reaching error that was routinely built into computers not so long ago.
At the beginning of 2000, right after the Y2K bug failed to destroy all of mankind, Panasjuk says he got a tip from a friend to check out Entropia.
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He said the Y2K bug problem has been an issue with member companies for the past couple of years, and suppliers, retailers, ordering systems and distribution routes are ready.
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Y2K computer bug had distracted it for years, as it spent heavily to avoid trouble.
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The site also has an entertaining humor section, with links to all those bad-joke pages about the Y2K computer bug.
But technology executives suffered a backlash following the bursting of the Dot-com bubble and before that, when the much-hyped Y2K or millennium bug turned out to be non-existent after clocks switched from 1999 to 2000.
For anyone who has been in seclusion in the High Sierras for the last several years and missed the hype, the Year 2000 computer bug, or Y2K as acronym-enamored technologists like to call it, is the result of a computer programming convention that represents dates with only two digits for the year.
Hardware and software purchased within the last two years are for the most part bug-free or "Y2K compliant, " although there are so many hardware and software permutations there are no guarantees any system is 100% safe.
Given the topic of this conference, it is important that we understand what it might mean if the United States is not prepared for the consequences of the Millennium Bug -- or "Y2K" -- problem that will, all other things being equal, afflict us 641 days now.
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The Washington-based Y2K Cooperation Center, set up to monitor effects of the bug around the world, had warned that significant power cuts were threatening to affect the Gambian energy sector.
Satyam, however, has one drawback: Tackling the millennium bug accounts for 28% of its revenues - considered a high Y2K exposure.
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