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Y2K is a numeronym and was the common abbreviation for the year 2000 software problem. The abbreviation combines the letter Y for "year", the number 2 and a capitalized version of k for the SI unit prefix kilo meaning 1000; hence, 2K signifies 2000.
Experts sought to allay doomsday fears over the Y2K millennium bug ruling out global recession and accidental nuclear missile launches, adding however, that there would be problems in some ...
On 5 January 1975, the 12-bit field that had been used for dates in the TOPS-10 operating system for DEC PDP-10 computers overflowed, in a bug known as "DATE75". The field value was calculated by taking the number of years since 1964, multiplying by 12, adding the number of months since January, multiplying by 31, and adding the number of days since the start of the month; putting 2 12 − 1 ...
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Britain hit as bug in cybersecurity update on Microsoft systems causes worldwide meltdown. ... with experts likening it to the much-feared millennium bug that failed to materialise 24 years ago. ...
The ensuing report by the Jones Commission (headed by Army Lt. Gen. Donald E. Jones) recommended consolidating the service systems into one agency to improve service and save money. The Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) was established May 15, 1990, by a memorandum from the deputy secretary of defense; this was the first DoD functional agency ...
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Several officials in Lincoln County, Oregon have received an anonymous letter urging people to report "brown folks" they suspect are undocumented immigrants, according to the Lincoln County ...