UDMA IDE drives uses close to no CPU power. ATA-66 or ATA-100 is pretty good, but the technology only scales to 4 disks/controller.
And you will lose the deep stack of commands that a SCSI controller can look into and prioritize. And you will lose diconnect/reconnect.
SCSI will give some, but since UDMA is useable for low-end server solutions.
But I still buy SCSI disks for most of my servers, and UDMA as secondary disks for junk storage.
In Denmark we have an opt-in law as well, and here it is also the consumer ombudsmand that is administrating the law.
Result: The ombudsmand no longer accepts complaints to be filed by e-mail. Their system couldn't handle the load. Not a single company has yet been convicted.
There is a Linux consultant who is collecting money for running a civil case against one of the spammers.
I have one case that I am going to file. The sender in his apologee admits that he has harvested news and mailing lists for e-mail adresses, and he sees publication of e-mail adresses as opt-in. We need a conviction here in Denmark. 30 days in the shadow would help fight spam.
All this means is that there will be crackz available, and averything is digital, so you get a good quality picture with a new ROM with embedded Linux.
And like with the DVDs, there will come cheap chinese equipment where the producer couln't afford the copy protection circuits, and left them out. My DVD player is all regions. And they use the cheaper video chip that can't generate Macrovision noise to confuse my video.
The difference is: MPAA is suing people that breaks the law by copying music.
MAPS is a voluntary system that your or your ISP subscribes to, which will block access to bad sites.
You can buy your internet connection at another ISP, but you can't buy the latest Britney Spears album on another label because you don't like other artists from the same record company.
I think the only bad thing here is, that MAPS did not tell it was going to blackhole a whole subnet of political reasons.
If peacefire.org is blocked, it is because they put their money with an ISP that is showing bad behaviour.
I think it is OK to hit good customers at bad ISPs, as that is an efficient way to make the bad ISP behave in an acceptable manner.
If bad customers are usually do not want to pay much for the services they get/abuse, so having them drag good customers with them down hits the bad ISP on the money.
I work in a small company, that started with ISP activities, and now mostly do web development and hosting.
It is my guess I have had mail 1000-1500 accounts on my boxes over the last 5+ years. I am now using MAPS RBL and the MAPS Relay list for blocking mail, and I am surprised to see how many connections gets refused.
Since sunday morning we have rejected 12500 connections from 125 hosts. I see 50-75% less spam, and that is what I use it for.
Employees and customers can browse any way they want to, and visit anything, including the alternate TLDs. I am not going to block anything originating from here.
If I were going to use MAPS as censorware, it would be a commercial service we could sell to our customers. But I doubt there is any interest.
I like the idea of cutting off parts of the Internet if they cause too many problems. I have considered dropping access to/from 63.x.y.z myself. 95+% of the traffic from that UUnet owned net is spam mail. One problem is, that UUnet = Sprint is too big to live without. Yet according to spam cop, they are resonsible for 50%+ of the worlds spam.
My opinion is to fair but hard on these ISPs / hosting services which allows spamvertising.
I can see how a free system of first come, first server, one TLD per company and a requirement of free registration will work.
We will get a distributed name server (like we have now), but everybody who runs a name server in the new hierachy should then offer to hand off any longer domain names, or maintain free registrations there.
The end result will be, that everybody will register complete statements instead of just words, and we will again have many more useful domain names.
How about domain names like:
best.breakfast.ever.made
This would of course co-exist together with the old TLDs, where serious companies would live, and then they could use the statement domain names for sales campaigns.
I see it as something good.
When I have things working, i will have my DNS server work for the independent domains. I have a small problem right now.
One important thing to keep in mind if you want to use cheap hi-availability solutions is to always have an extra machine, or know where there is an extra machine you can steal any needed parts from.
I usually have an extra Adaptec SCSI controller around, and RAM I can always redistribute, and the same for disks. And it is possible to run with 1 CPU.
Within 1 hour I can shift one dead machine to other hardware and be up and running again. And this for a much lower price than what Sun charges.
Not that it has yet been necesary, as I buy quality components and quality machines. Mostly IBM Netfinity recently.
Seen from SlashDot's point of view, all the users are known entities with a valied e-mail address. So/. can probably not be held responsible for these "signed" comments. It is my guess, that MS will have to take legal action against the end users.
Making/. do censorship is not something they can demand, at least not on the non-anonymous comments.
I agree that/. should remove articles that contains copyrigthed material, and do it as soon as Microsoft can prove their claim that they are holding the copyright to the material. But trying to take the law (or constitution) in your own hand without a judge actually giving consent is bad, and can cost you more - unless you want a legal system solely run by big companies.
I agree, I agree. - Use real code to insert data into templates
I have done this in a few projects, and it is not perfect, but quite close.
BUT Moving the business logic of the code into include files in PHP is not much different from Perl files reading and parsing HTML or XML templates.
It is all a question of forcing the PHP programmer to use only loop and print on the page itself. Save all database queries in an array/list whatever in the include file. What is really the difference between doing
I have been in the same situation, and what I have been doing is individual HTML files, and then custom tags for my database stuff.
This would be equivalent to putting all code in php include files, and leave as little code inside the HTML as possible.
You are probably in the same situation as me, you are doing the business logic, and someone else the HTML. I have people doing HTML who do now know what the Supposedly there is some solution with servlets / jsp I saw mentioned this weekend when looking at technologies for our next product which preferable would be easily localizable. I did not find much info though, and will probably stick with php4
The right solution would be XML, but we need good XML tools. A folding XML editor where you can select languages to show and enable/disable the code in between would be good. But right now, I think you are stuck with php include files, and the necesary embedded php:(
OSS is fixed faster. Largest danish telecom tested a coupel years back, and came to the fact that OSS had more support and bugs fixed twice as fast than anything you could pay for.
It might be true that not all fixes gets back to the publishers. When I find something that doesn't work, I fix it, and SOMETIMES I remember and have the time to report the fix back.
I know for sure that there is a bug in qpopper 3.0, which can kill the users instance of the process. I have one user for whom it has happened twice in the last 3 months that he was able to reproduce it with the current state of his mailbox and client. No further details until the bug is located and fixed.
This is one example of a known bug that has not yet been fixed. I have enabled debugging, and when it happens again in a month or two, I will be able to start locating the bug. But until then, I might be suspectible to a buffer overflow attack. I could just as well use FrontPage. I have the same security.
First a disclaimer, I have some money invested in US stocks, and my workplace has just been bought to become part of a large worldwide Internet consulting company. I have been promised stock options, and therefore has some interest in price developments.
What has happened on the stock market is, that people has put money into the stock market, and then agreed with other people that their $1 bill is worth say $100. With stocks like Microsoft, you pay $45 for every $ they make (price/earning ratio), which is clearly an unrealistic high price), and $11 for each $1 of book value.
Right now, stocks are dropping because people are starting to realize how overvalued the stocks are, and that some of the companies with hype will never make any money, and at the same time they use old fashioned common sense to re-evaluate the other tech stocks
Just like a chain letter, as long as people keep their money in the system, nothing is bad, and things can keep going up as especially thech stock prices often has no realistic valuation. As people start pulling money out of the market, demand is lower, and prices starts falling.
Even in a down market, there will be lots of winners. Daytraders going short have had their days of their life. Those who pays is most probably private investors who recently got into the market at inflated prices. Those who bought their Apple shares for $35 a year ago has still made a healthy profit with current price of $110. That is still 214% profits in a year.
WHat will happen is, that private investors will realise that the stock market is a high risk game, and they will pull out some of their savings, and put at least part of it into safer investments. The market will adjust, and we might end up with a much slower growing market. And we will probably see company stocks not being so overrated before they start making money
Our new mother company has seen this, and all the companies they are buying has one thing in common. They are all making a profit today. So I still see some very good potential for my stock options. But they will not make me a millionaire. I see them as stocks in a healthy company that will survive, contrary to a lot of the companies that has specialised in shouting growth just because they can spend 10 times more money than they can get in sales.
This security package needs to be part of kernel internals, and will probably need a rework of either the filesystem modules, or at some other higher level
When will it be ready for use ? Kernel 2.6 or before ? This is not a simple standalone RPM to install.
IEEE 1394 is the right way to go. It is close to lossless compression, camcorders supports it, and it is great.
A card with cable to camcorder + misc. software in VE versions can be had for $99. It is the ADS Tech Pyro firewire card. It is a good card with the OHCI standard chipset from Texas that almost everyone else is using.
You probably also want the Promise ATA-66 card, which you can convert into an IDE RAID controller with a $0.10 resistor. This gives you better throughput to disk
Perosnally, I reboot into Windows to do video capture/editing.
I am just a recreational video editor, playing with the stuff I get on tape whne skydiving.
What makes DARWIN different is, that it runs on the Mach 3.0 kernel. This kernel gives you the option of running multiple OS's simultaneous on one box, without some of the sacrifices you make with todays emulators. I wouldn't mind having dual boot become a new definition, where you actually run BeOS, MacOS, *BSD, Linux, and even Winblows at the same time.
C2 is not security. It is only autiting, including logging of who has read and leaked the files on certain tobacco usage in the oval office. We need to get it implemented to sell things to many govrnmental institutions, not only in the US. And the best part is, it has NOTHING to do wit security. As long as you log who you think does things (like NT) then you are OK. And remember, NT is only C2 certified when disconnected from the network.
I see Darwin as something else than the MacOS X being ported. Darwin is the kernel. And most of MacOS X would probably also run on the FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD kernel. No, the interesting part here is, that Apple is getting a BSD personality to run on top of the Mach 3 kernel on multiple platforms. The Mach kernel gives us, among other things, the option of running multiple OS's on the the same machine in a way not possible with current emulators. So how about a dual-boot FreeBSD/Linux box, that actually dual-boots (yeah, boots both OS' at the same time )! I am a many year mac user, and AIX, Linux, A/UX, *BSD, DOS, Windows 2.x -> 2000. And I can say, that the OS down below is not what makes a good platform. It is mainly a few other things like: Consistent user interface (you know the left 3 menus are the same, shortcuts for copy/paste, copy paste in a common clipboard format so the receiving app must not have a filter etc.), and then of course software availability means something. Most users are just using an office package today, and could run anything.
My epxerience from work, where we have a policy that we should try to limit it to 2 max 3 days at home/week is that this is actually quite good.
I see an average of 3-4 days as the max, as you still need to talk to people, have something to ping-pong ideas to, getting feedback etc.
Even at work I sometimes spends 1-2 hours a day on the phone talking with a colleague in another end of country, talking about how to do stuff. Tis is more efficient than sitting in the dark pit at home.
Also expect to work more hours per day when at home.
At our workplace, we try to have people who is going to work at the remote office spend 2-3 weeks at the main office, so that people will learn to know the employees, and this is a good thing.
So one week at work/month is also a solution. Having things break up too much is bad.
I think all this figthing over domain names should be stopped dead by the simple reason, that a domain name in itself is in no way equivalent an advertisement, or the use of the domain name in the specific trademark category.
Now, if people start using domain names as coke.ch for advertising foods, sofdrinks, cocain for consumption etc, then I think they are overstepping the border, and that website should be closed. But there should be nobody who can attack the name itself.
I registered terminal.dk myself a few years ago, and never had much of a website on it (http:/www.terminal.dk really sucks), but I have used the domain name for mail, and uses it for my own machines at home, private IPs etc.
If all this attacking domain names continues, I wonder when somebody will try a hostile takeover of terminal. It could be anybody trying it, from a death-help center to computer makers.
It is starting to look more and more like US patent law. A law designed to protect, which is actually killing more ideas and creativity than it will over protect.
Let the domain names be, and if they are used as an attack against a trademark etc, hit the owner. And if he continues to abuse the domain name, take it away from him.
I guess this site is specificly aimed at Slashdot readers, at least that is a feeling I get.
See their truth #2. They are hitting on the Sun <B>Hardware</B> only, and not Solaris (which also runs on Intel). I can probably find more unstable PCs percentagewise than Sun or IBM Power boxes.
And in #1 they forget to mention Microsoft using UNIX to run their DNS servers:)
I have been using Datek http://www.datek.com for a few years, and they have $9.95 trades, and had 60 secs trades, or the trade was free.
I had a lot of fun daytrading, and paid them lots of money. $10 * 25 trades a day is a lot out of $2000. They also have a good interest rate for cash deposits, as well as a good rate for your margin account.
I am living in Denmark, and that haven't caused me any problems.
I can recommend them. They were the first to have unlimited free real-time quotes. And now they even allow after-hours trading! That can be important as a way to get out of stocks after the 4PM press release declaring a large deficit.
And Datek is provbably the only one online broker that did not have capacity problems on the most busy days the last few years. And that is important. You can lose more money not being able to sell than you are prepared for.
Everybody knows that Y2K will start at either local time, GMT or Local Programmers Time.
Assume it is a chip problem. It is my guessthat some of the code writers for the chips have used local japanese/koreans/malaysin time. Other will be using Austin, Tx time, and some smart programmer has probably found this out, and made sure we are hit at random +- 24h from midnight.
I know I store things in some code as local time, while in others i use GMT time.
Slashdot Mirror
UDMA IDE drives uses close to no CPU power. ATA-66 or ATA-100 is pretty good, but the technology only scales to 4 disks/controller. And you will lose the deep stack of commands that a SCSI controller can look into and prioritize. And you will lose diconnect/reconnect. SCSI will give some, but since UDMA is useable for low-end server solutions. But I still buy SCSI disks for most of my servers, and UDMA as secondary disks for junk storage.
In Denmark we have an opt-in law as well, and here it is also the consumer ombudsmand that is administrating the law.
Result: The ombudsmand no longer accepts complaints to be filed by e-mail. Their system couldn't handle the load. Not a single company has yet been convicted.
There is a Linux consultant who is collecting money for running a civil case against one of the spammers.
I have one case that I am going to file. The sender in his apologee admits that he has harvested news and mailing lists for e-mail adresses, and he sees publication of e-mail adresses as opt-in. We need a conviction here in Denmark. 30 days in the shadow would help fight spam.
All this means is that there will be crackz available, and averything is digital, so you get a good quality picture with a new ROM with embedded Linux.
And like with the DVDs, there will come cheap chinese equipment where the producer couln't afford the copy protection circuits, and left them out. My DVD player is all regions. And they use the cheaper video chip that can't generate Macrovision noise to confuse my video.
Great, we get a new programming language. At least this one is optimized for parallel programming and process syncronization.
:)
One thing I am missing is support for their target devices, like the Palm
BTW: It is not Open Soruce, it is $300 for a source license.
Look at the screen shots, they have Tetris and Reversi running.
The difference is: MPAA is suing people that breaks the law by copying music.
MAPS is a voluntary system that your or your ISP subscribes to, which will block access to bad sites.
You can buy your internet connection at another ISP, but you can't buy the latest Britney Spears album on another label because you don't like other artists from the same record company.
I think the only bad thing here is, that MAPS did not tell it was going to blackhole a whole subnet of political reasons.
If peacefire.org is blocked, it is because they put their money with an ISP that is showing bad behaviour.
I think it is OK to hit good customers at bad ISPs, as that is an efficient way to make the bad ISP behave in an acceptable manner.
If bad customers are usually do not want to pay much for the services they get/abuse, so having them drag good customers with them down hits the bad ISP on the money.
I work in a small company, that started with ISP activities, and now mostly do web development and hosting.
It is my guess I have had mail 1000-1500 accounts on my boxes over the last 5+ years. I am now using MAPS RBL and the MAPS Relay list for blocking mail, and I am surprised to see how many connections gets refused.
Since sunday morning we have rejected 12500 connections from 125 hosts. I see 50-75% less spam, and that is what I use it for.
Employees and customers can browse any way they want to, and visit anything, including the alternate TLDs. I am not going to block anything originating from here.
If I were going to use MAPS as censorware, it would be a commercial service we could sell to our customers. But I doubt there is any interest.
I like the idea of cutting off parts of the Internet if they cause too many problems. I have considered dropping access to/from 63.x.y.z myself. 95+% of the traffic from that UUnet owned net is spam mail. One problem is, that UUnet = Sprint is too big to live without. Yet according to spam cop, they are resonsible for 50%+ of the worlds spam.
My opinion is to fair but hard on these ISPs / hosting services which allows spamvertising.
I can see how a free system of first come, first server, one TLD per company and a requirement of free registration will work. We will get a distributed name server (like we have now), but everybody who runs a name server in the new hierachy should then offer to hand off any longer domain names, or maintain free registrations there. The end result will be, that everybody will register complete statements instead of just words, and we will again have many more useful domain names. How about domain names like: best.breakfast.ever.made This would of course co-exist together with the old TLDs, where serious companies would live, and then they could use the statement domain names for sales campaigns. I see it as something good. When I have things working, i will have my DNS server work for the independent domains. I have a small problem right now.
One important thing to keep in mind if you want to use cheap hi-availability solutions is to always have an extra machine, or know where there is an extra machine you can steal any needed parts from.
I usually have an extra Adaptec SCSI controller around, and RAM I can always redistribute, and the same for disks. And it is possible to run with 1 CPU.
Within 1 hour I can shift one dead machine to other hardware and be up and running again. And this for a much lower price than what Sun charges.
Not that it has yet been necesary, as I buy quality components and quality machines. Mostly IBM Netfinity recently.
Making /. do censorship is not something they can demand, at least not on the non-anonymous comments.
I agree that /. should remove articles that contains copyrigthed material, and do it as soon as Microsoft can prove their claim that they are holding the copyright to the material. But trying to take the law (or constitution) in your own hand without a judge actually giving consent is bad, and can cost you more - unless you want a legal system solely run by big companies.
I have done this in a few projects, and it is not perfect, but quite close.
BUT Moving the business logic of the code into include files in PHP is not much different from Perl files reading and parsing HTML or XML templates.
It is all a question of forcing the PHP programmer to use only loop and print on the page itself. Save all database queries in an array/list whatever in the include file. What is really the difference between doing
The problem is, that HTML was not designed from the ground up to print tables based on vectors/matrices.
This would be equivalent to putting all code in php include files, and leave as little code inside the HTML as possible.
You are probably in the same situation as me, you are doing the business logic, and someone else the HTML. I have people doing HTML who do now know what the Supposedly there is some solution with servlets / jsp I saw mentioned this weekend when looking at technologies for our next product which preferable would be easily localizable. I did not find much info though, and will probably stick with php4
The right solution would be XML, but we need good XML tools. A folding XML editor where you can select languages to show and enable/disable the code in between would be good. But right now, I think you are stuck with php include files, and the necesary embedded php :(
I would also appreciate better solutions.
It might be true that not all fixes gets back to the publishers. When I find something that doesn't work, I fix it, and SOMETIMES I remember and have the time to report the fix back.
I know for sure that there is a bug in qpopper 3.0, which can kill the users instance of the process. I have one user for whom it has happened twice in the last 3 months that he was able to reproduce it with the current state of his mailbox and client. No further details until the bug is located and fixed.
This is one example of a known bug that has not yet been fixed. I have enabled debugging, and when it happens again in a month or two, I will be able to start locating the bug. But until then, I might be suspectible to a buffer overflow attack. I could just as well use FrontPage. I have the same security.
What has happened on the stock market is, that people has put money into the stock market, and then agreed with other people that their $1 bill is worth say $100. With stocks like Microsoft, you pay $45 for every $ they make (price/earning ratio), which is clearly an unrealistic high price), and $11 for each $1 of book value.
Right now, stocks are dropping because people are starting to realize how overvalued the stocks are, and that some of the companies with hype will never make any money, and at the same time they use old fashioned common sense to re-evaluate the other tech stocks
Just like a chain letter, as long as people keep their money in the system, nothing is bad, and things can keep going up as especially thech stock prices often has no realistic valuation. As people start pulling money out of the market, demand is lower, and prices starts falling.
Even in a down market, there will be lots of winners. Daytraders going short have had their days of their life. Those who pays is most probably private investors who recently got into the market at inflated prices. Those who bought their Apple shares for $35 a year ago has still made a healthy profit with current price of $110. That is still 214% profits in a year.
WHat will happen is, that private investors will realise that the stock market is a high risk game, and they will pull out some of their savings, and put at least part of it into safer investments. The market will adjust, and we might end up with a much slower growing market. And we will probably see company stocks not being so overrated before they start making money
Our new mother company has seen this, and all the companies they are buying has one thing in common. They are all making a profit today. So I still see some very good potential for my stock options. But they will not make me a millionaire. I see them as stocks in a healthy company that will survive, contrary to a lot of the companies that has specialised in shouting growth just because they can spend 10 times more money than they can get in sales.
When will it be ready for use ? Kernel 2.6 or before ? This is not a simple standalone RPM to install.
A card with cable to camcorder + misc. software in VE versions can be had for $99. It is the ADS Tech Pyro firewire card. It is a good card with the OHCI standard chipset from Texas that almost everyone else is using.
You probably also want the Promise ATA-66 card, which you can convert into an IDE RAID controller with a $0.10 resistor. This gives you better throughput to disk
Perosnally, I reboot into Windows to do video capture/editing.
I am just a recreational video editor, playing with the stuff I get on tape whne skydiving.
What makes DARWIN different is, that it runs on the Mach 3.0 kernel.
This kernel gives you the option of running multiple OS's simultaneous on one box, without some of the sacrifices you make with todays emulators.
I wouldn't mind having dual boot become a new definition, where you actually run BeOS, MacOS, *BSD, Linux, and even Winblows at the same time.
C2 is not security. It is only autiting, including logging of who has read and leaked the files on certain tobacco usage in the oval office.
We need to get it implemented to sell things to many govrnmental institutions, not only in the US.
And the best part is, it has NOTHING to do wit security. As long as you log who you think does things (like NT) then you are OK. And remember, NT is only C2 certified when disconnected from the network.
I see Darwin as something else than the MacOS X being ported. Darwin is the kernel. And most of MacOS X would probably also run on the FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD kernel.
No, the interesting part here is, that Apple is getting a BSD personality to run on top of the Mach 3 kernel on multiple platforms. The Mach kernel gives us, among other things, the option of running multiple OS's on the the same machine in a way not possible with current emulators. So how about a dual-boot FreeBSD/Linux box, that actually dual-boots (yeah, boots both OS' at the same time )!
I am a many year mac user, and AIX, Linux, A/UX, *BSD, DOS, Windows 2.x -> 2000. And I can say, that the OS down below is not what makes a good platform. It is mainly a few other things like: Consistent user interface (you know the left 3 menus are the same, shortcuts for copy/paste, copy paste in a common clipboard format so the receiving app must not have a filter etc.), and then of course software availability means something. Most users are just using an office package today, and could run anything.
I see an average of 3-4 days as the max, as you still need to talk to people, have something to ping-pong ideas to, getting feedback etc.
Even at work I sometimes spends 1-2 hours a day on the phone talking with a colleague in another end of country, talking about how to do stuff. Tis is more efficient than sitting in the dark pit at home.
Also expect to work more hours per day when at home.
At our workplace, we try to have people who is going to work at the remote office spend 2-3 weeks at the main office, so that people will learn to know the employees, and this is a good thing.
So one week at work/month is also a solution. Having things break up too much is bad.
Now, if people start using domain names as coke.ch for advertising foods, sofdrinks, cocain for consumption etc, then I think they are overstepping the border, and that website should be closed. But there should be nobody who can attack the name itself.
I registered terminal.dk myself a few years ago, and never had much of a website on it (http:/www.terminal.dk really sucks), but I have used the domain name for mail, and uses it for my own machines at home, private IPs etc.
If all this attacking domain names continues, I wonder when somebody will try a hostile takeover of terminal. It could be anybody trying it, from a death-help center to computer makers.
It is starting to look more and more like US patent law. A law designed to protect, which is actually killing more ideas and creativity than it will over protect.
Let the domain names be, and if they are used as an attack against a trademark etc, hit the owner. And if he continues to abuse the domain name, take it away from him.
I guess this site is specificly aimed at Slashdot readers, at least that is a feeling I get.
:)
See their truth #2. They are hitting on the Sun <B>Hardware</B> only, and not Solaris (which also runs on Intel). I can probably find more unstable PCs percentagewise than Sun or IBM Power boxes.
And in #1 they forget to mention Microsoft using UNIX to run their DNS servers
I have been using Datek http://www.datek.com for a few years, and they have $9.95 trades, and had 60 secs trades, or the trade was free.
I had a lot of fun daytrading, and paid them lots of money. $10 * 25 trades a day is a lot out of $2000. They also have a good interest rate for cash deposits, as well as a good rate for your margin account.
I am living in Denmark, and that haven't caused me any problems.
I can recommend them. They were the first to have unlimited free real-time quotes. And now they even allow after-hours trading! That can be important as a way to get out of stocks after the 4PM press release declaring a large deficit.
And Datek is provbably the only one online broker that did not have capacity problems on the most busy days the last few years. And that is important. You can lose more money not being able to sell than you are prepared for.
Everybody knows that Y2K will start at either local time, GMT or Local Programmers Time.
Assume it is a chip problem. It is my guessthat some of the code writers for the chips have used local japanese/koreans/malaysin time. Other will be using Austin, Tx time, and some smart programmer has probably found this out, and made sure we are hit at random +- 24h from midnight.
I know I store things in some code as local time, while in others i use GMT time.
So be afraid, be very afraid...