Re: No Y2k Bug

[Richard <richard_snook@primus.com.au>]

David  you raise an interesting point..
With respect to the power thing...thoughthere was never really any danger of power failing in Oz...it was assumed that
the power companies would provide guarentees of service...evennow NO power company wiil guarentee such service Y2K or
not...yet it was expected that the eclectric companies could up their own ante.
Personally I think that the Power industry did a fantastic job of risk management.

cheers >:~)) Richard

David Bromage wrote:
> 
> David McLoughlin (davemcl@AXE*THISiprolink.co.nz) wrote:
> : Daniel Bowen wrote:
> :
> : > The fact that virtually nothing has happened actually goes to show that most
> : > of the governments and companies involved did take the time and spend the
> : > money to fix it.
> 
> : I am not saying that systems did not need checking and in some cases
> : updating, especially older ones. What I am going on about is the media
> : hype which claimed power, phones, the Internet, water supplies, ATMs,
> : aircraft, hospitals and all kinds of other places, machines and
> : infrastructure were going to fail at midnight, causing international
> : chaos and Armageddon for good measure due to the launch of Russia's
> : ICBMs.
> 
> Anybody with half a brain knew that the doomsayers would be wrong.
> Naturally I had a battery powered radio and a torch ready at midnight. At
> worst, I was expecting that the power might go off for as long as it took
> the supplier (in my case ACTEW) to reboot their computers and run a
> diagnostic, or kick in manual control. Maybe half an hour or so without
> power.
> 
> But then I've had the power and phone cut off for longer than that during
> thunderstorms.
> 
> Cheers
> David