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Re: Was anyone affected by 2/3/06's major Viri attack?
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Originally Posted by Mike
I don't think that it was necessarily Microsoft's problem. I believe the practice of using two spaces for years was started as early as the 60's, when memory was very expensive and the extra bytes could not be afforded.
Nonetheless, I'm going to start gearing up for the media-hype about the Year 2038 problem. Unix timestamps are stored as 32 bit signed integers, counting the number of seconds since January 1, 1970. This will overflow on January 19, 2038. It won't be a problem on your 15GHz quadruple-processor, 30TB hdd, personal computer at the time, since odds are it will use a 64 bit representation. This will only affect embedded systems and computers from this era.
This is all assuming that we get to 2038 before the technological singularity  |
But it's FUN to blame microsoft =]
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