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Year 2000 One member of the euregio.net staff will be in New York City on the change of the Millenium. Read the press release on Yahoo! for more information about one of the best and biggest New Year's Eve parties. More information about Y2K can be found here. The Bad News Back in the era of mainframe computers or “big iron” (a.k.a. the Iron Age), programmers used an abbreviated date format to conserve precious memory. Using two digits to denote the year—for instance, 99 for 1999—turned out to be a bad idea. According to Information Week, the tab for the Year 2000 software fix will hit $600 billion. Had IT professionals realized back then that Apple technology was immune to the millennium bug, they might have succumbed to temptation—and saved themselves a bundle in the process. That’s the bad news. The good News Apple solved the Year 2000 problem 15 years ago with the introduction of the Macintosh, a personal computer that could handle internally generated dates correctly all the way to the year 29,940. Experts fear that non-Macintosh information systems could interpret the year 2000 (represented in date fields as 00) as 1900; the resulting meltdown could threaten the underpinnings of the Information Society. Euregio.net uses Apple Macintosh G3 servers for its Internet Core Business... That is the good news Current Situation of Y2K at euregio.net Product Category Status Web Server Farm CPU OK Operating System OK TCP/IP Stack OK Backup Software OK HTTP Software OK Proxy Software OK FTP Software OK Mirroring Software OK Form Processing OK Server Side Includes OK Search Engine OK Routers Core Backbone OK Access Servers (PSTN) OK Access Servers (ISDN) OK Corporate Clients OK Switches 100 Mbps OK 10 Mbps OK Hubs 100 Mbps OK 10 Mbps OK Modems Modems (stand-alone) OK Modem Racks OK UNIX Servers CPU OK Operating System OK TCP/IP Stack OK DNS OK Sendmail OK POP3 OK Authentication OK Management Network Monitoring OK Office Automation OK Office Hardware OK While this list is not quite complete yet, euregio.net is sure that the Millenium bug won't cause any interrruption to its core services. We are still testing more hardware and software to make sure that everything keeps running without any interruption. The Year 2000 will be no problem for our business or for our clients who rely on our services for their Internet connection and presence. Top of Page