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Audi Pulls Website Because Of Y2K

Posted by emmett on from the let's-take-it-down-in-case-it-doesn't-work dept.

pinhead writes "Audi (USA) has voluntarily pulled their site because of the Y2K scare." What, are they afraid that the website will suddenly start displaying pictures of Volvos? The funniest notice we've seen today is this memo from the Auckland Airport issued 1900 years ago. Y2K has appeared mostly harmless thus far, but we may die of laughter. Update: 12/31 04:30 by E : The Auckland Airport page has been fixed.

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  1. Re:its the same as any other time! by treat · · Score: 4
    Who's to say they didn't just pop another box in here right now on that IP so that if there is any exploits, they won't harm their real content?

    Are the people who took down their website because it's a new year -really- going to be intelligent enough to even think of that?

    Besides, www.audiusa.com/anything gives you a very nice not found page, with links to their entire site. It's still up. They just changed the main page.

  2. Shutting down the site by phil+reed · · Score: 3

    We're talking about shutting down our site, but more because of script kiddies taking the opportunity to mess with sites than because of a Y2K problem.


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  3. Re:I have an idea! by aqua · · Score: 3

    Anyone thinking about Y10k? -- Me Dan Bernstein. He was the one that lobbied the Usenet committees to make date formats survive y10k, and proposed the TAI64 time format, which helpfully lasts from the big bang to the big crunch. Add another 64 bits and you can individually address every attosecond in the whole span.

  4. Re:*sigh*... Stupid Perl Programmers Strike Again by mce · · Score: 3
    Speaking of being lame, in JavaScript, things are even lamer. In versions prior to 1.2, if the year is less than 2000, you get the number of years since 1900, but after that you get the full year. To make matters worse, this has been changed in later versions. See http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Ken_North /y2k_web.htm for more details.

    I really wonder who came up with all these wonderful ideas and what stuff they have been smoking at the time.

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  5. its the same as any other time! by Mo+B.+Dick · · Score: 3

    Do they not realize that their security problems will be the same during Jan. 1 as any other time! Do backdoors and exploits magically show up on Jan. 1 2000? wow thats news to me if they do!

  6. They may have a good reason?? by vanguard · · Score: 3

    We turned off an application or two for 24 hours on our website. I guess they/we didn't want any change orders created while it was 2000 in some parts of the world and 1999 in others.

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  7. *sigh*... Stupid Perl Programmers Strike Again by wdr1 · · Score: 4

    The page is more than likely a bad Perl program. The localtime function (what most people use to get the date), returns a list with the hour, minute, day, month, etc. It returns the year as the number of years since 1900, hence in 1999 it would have returned 99 and now it would 100.

    Some Perl programmers (use the last part loosely), have been concatingating "19" to the front of the year instead of adding 1900. I wonder if Perl will get a bad wrap as these programs start to break and die. I hope not; I Perl.

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