"Year 2000"
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Y2K Series - By Jon Slough
This is a series of articles that have appeared in the EPCUG newsleters.| Part 1: | Y2K: the Series | Jul 98 |
| Part 2: | But what is the big deal? | Aug 98 |
| Part 3: | So What About My Computer Hardware? | Sep 98 |
| Part 4: | OK, my hardware is fixed.... what about my operating system? | Oct 98 |
| Part 5: | Applications Are Next | Nov/Dec 98 |
| Part 6: | Macros and other Special Programming | Jan 99 |
| Part 7: | Data Conversion and the Active Real Time Clock. | Mar 99 |
| Y2K and the Family - By Jon Slough | ||
|---|---|---|
| Part 1: | Who’s Afraid of Y2K? | Apr 99 |
| Part 2: | Keep Your Family Warm | May 99 |
| Part 3: | Food and Water for Your Family in an Emergency | Jun 99 |
| No Y2K and the Family This Month | Jul 99 | |
| Part 4: | Red Cross, FEMA, and CIA Positions on Y2K | Aug 99 |
| Part 5: | Local Governments and Y2K | Sep 99 |
| Part 6: | Observations and Conclusions | Sep 99 |
Some other Y2k articles in our newsletters
| August Meeting Preview | Aug 98 |
| August Meeting Review | Sep 98 |
| Y2K CD From Microsoft | Jan 99 |
| Y2K TOLL-FREE INFORMATION LINE | Jan 99 |
| The Jo Anne Effect | Jan 99 |
| January Meeting Review | Feb 99 |
| Y2K User Group Possibility | Feb 99 |
| Y2K Humor - Y zero K | Feb 99 |
| Y2K Clinic Again and Again? | Apr 99 |
| Y2K: Intelliquis—The 81% Solution | Apr 99 |
| FREE Y2K PC CHECK | Jun 99 |
| THE Y1K CRISIS - Canterbury, England. A.D. 999 | Oct 99 |
Some Y2K Internet Sites sorted by Subject
By Jocelyne and Jon Slongh
and others
| Y2K Issue | |
|---|---|
| A Business Guide to the Year 2000: Business and gov't users should start here. Better than SBA's site. | http://www.support2000.com |
| MITRE/DOD Year 2000 Homepage: Excellent for tools, vendors, certification. Better than ITAA's site. | http://www.mitre.org/research/y2k |
| America's Job Bank-IT and Year 2000: Federal gov't y2k job bank useful for employers and job seekers. | http://it.jobsearch.org |
| The Year 2000 Information Center: Guru Peter de Jager's site. Daily press clippings, tools, conferences. | http://www.year2000.com |
| Dr. Ed Yourdon's Homepage (programmer): Free y2k Powerpoint presentation, netbook, EXCELLENT links. | http://www.yourdon.com |
| Westergaard Year 2000: Great columnists, government news and commentary. | http://www.y2ktimebomb.com |
| President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion: See what federal agencies are doing/not doing. Links. | http://www.y2k.gov |
| State y2k Info: Nice USA map-click on your state to connect to your state's homepage. | http://www.y2k.gov/java/abouty2k6.html |
| Public Technology, Inc.: Check this site to see what cities/counties should do about y2k. | http://pti.nw.dc.us |
| Y2K: Are We Ready?: GOP House y2k site. See what House and Senate committees are doing | http://www.freedom.gov/y2k |
| Cassandra Project (Paloma O'Riley's site): Site for y2k community preparation. Y2K user group links,articles. | http://millennia-bcs.com |
| Dr. Gary North's Y2K Links and Forums: North (historian) has categorized news, pessimistic, good for research. | http://www.remnant.org/y2k |
| Dr. Ed Yardeni (economist): Y2K netbook, newsletter, economic slant. | http://www.yardeni.com/y2kreporter.html |
| Y2K Resource / Tool Sites | |
| SBA (small business administration site) | http://www.sba.gov/y2k |
| Year 2000 Web Page Tools and News | http://year2000.com |
| Mitre Organization, good site for Tools | http://www.mitre.org/research/y2k/ |
| Information Technology Association of America | http://itaa.org/year2000.htm |
| Y2K PC Tools Comparisons | http://sawkins.com/ |
| Welcome to the Safteynet Security Cafe. | http://wvw.safteynet.com/ - give it a try, invalid for me. |
| ZD/NET Jobs / Tools / Articles | http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/special/y2k/index.html |
| Intelliquis Web Page | http://www.intelliquis.com |
| Web books about Y2K | |
| Dr. Ed Yourdon Main Web Page | http://www.yourdon.com/ - lots of links and resources. |
| Y2K News & Government | |
| Gary North's Lot's of news, pessimistic outlook | http//www-.remnant.org/v2k |
| Y2K Are We Ready? GOP National Site | http://www.freedom.gov/y2k/ |
| Westergaard Site, reports about the Government | http://www.y2ktimebomb.cpm/PP/RC/dm9830.htm |
| Westergaard Main Page | http //www.y2ktimebomb.com/ |
| National Association of State Information Resources Executives | http://www.nasire.org/year2000/index.html |
| Y2K, What is the Federal Governments doing? | http //wvw.y2k gov/ |
| Y2K. Select your state to see what they are doing. | http //wvw.y2k gov/java/abouty2k6.html |
| New York Times Editorial | http://geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7933/y2k-nyti.txt |
| NASA | http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/cio/y2k/ |
| Small Business Support | |
| Business Support, tools, Legal, Etc | http://www.support2000.com/ |
| Hi-Tech2000 Inc. - Advanced Technologies Consultancy | http://www.hi-tech2000.com |
| Y2K Links | |
| Mother of AlI Year 2000 (Y2K) Link Centers | http://pw2.netcom.com/~helliott/00.htm |
| Community Preparation Sites | |
| The Joseph Project, a Christian Non-Profit Group | http://josephproject2000.org/ |
| The Cassandra Project | http://millennia-bcs.com/ |
| International Y2K Web Sites | |
| World Bank, Looking into other countries. | http://www.worldbank.org/y2k/ |
| Canadian Y2K Site | http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_mangb/y2k/engdoc/homepage.html |
| Canada-Pennsylvania Web Page | http://www.can2k.com/ |
| THE YEAR 2000 CHALLENGE FOR THE UNITED NATIONS | http://www.un.org/members/yr2000/yr2000.htm |
| "Unifying Year 2000 Solutions Globally" | http://www.globalmf.org/" |
| Singapore National Computer Board | http://www.ncb.gov.sg/ncb/yr2000/links.html |
| Job Sites about Y2K | |
| A Specialty Service of Amenca's Job Bank | hltp://it.jobsearch.org/" |
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Updated 23-Oct-1999