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        <title><![CDATA[100% agree with Deadly Ernest]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-320081-3358928]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[That Y2K was way overblown and a conjob/scam. If you remember well, the media et al were saying that airplane engines would stop working and they would fall to the ground, personal cars and trucks and public buses wouldn't start up in the morning-after, so no one would be able to travel, appliances would not work so we wouldn't be able to feed ourselves, wash our clothes or heat our homes. The BS list just went on and on. The scare was out there and people &quot;wasted&quot; money on buying survival kits. None of this was ever going to happen.My brother worked for Detroit Edison as an engineer during this time and he laughed at all the scare tactics out there. He said the same thing that Deadly Ernest has been saying, that outside of some accounting/banking code and legacy mainframe programs, we were not going to feel anything like we were hearing on the news. And he was right.I find it a bit disingenuous the way the many so-called IT professionals are misrepresenting what Deadly Ernest has said. I've read several replies that claim that he said that NOTHING was going to happen and then these same posters claim the Y2K was a success because of all the preparedness that was done prior. Well, first of all, I haven't read that Deadly Ernest claimed that nothing would happen; he's always claimed that only some accounting/banking software and some legacy mainframe applications would have been affected. That's hardly saying that NOTHING will happen. And regarding the legacy codes and applications that were updated to modern during this scare, it's also a bit disingenuous to claim that that made Y2K a success. I wouldn't claim that a bold-face lie, reported by the media, that got my procrastinating manager/CIO/CFO/CEO et al to finally get off his kiester to finally agree to update an antiquated code/software/application/hardware et al to something more modern as being a success. These guys should, by definition of their trade and their title, know the wisdom of upgrading versus using out-dated, vulnerable and antiquted systems. If we're going to measure the social engineering effects of a mass-spread lie, then yes, I suppose you could claim that Y2K was a success - a success in social engineering but not in system failures. Again, as Deadly Ernest has pointed out, 50-60% of worldwide systems were not tested or checked, and they did not fail. The only systems that ever had a chance to fail, were some of the accounting/banking software and some older mainframes. That's it. Period. The rest of the FUD stirred up by the media was total BS. Don't confuse the media FUD with the serendipitous upgrading success of antiquated systems - it should have been done anyways by pro-active IT professional of the time, without all the BS and FUD of Y2K.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Daitoryu]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:20:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Re: WP deserved to die]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Word Perfect was great for centralized word processing departments, but when the PC really took hold and users were doing their own typing MS Word with its dropdown menus overpowered it. BUT---with Word 2007 the menu structure became an impenetrable maze and I tink that a program like WordPerfect could push it out the door. Incidentally, the best wp program pre-Word was one called Word Magic, which had many advanced features,  including WYSIWYG under DOS; it failed because it was sold to a book publisher, not a software company]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AllenT_z]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 07:43:16 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[OS/2 lacked apps]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[IBM was trying to sell machines with the operating system only and leaving it to developers.  &quot;If you build it, they will come.&quot;  Should have bundled every one of their PCs with a complete suite of applications to jump start the market and show off the functionality of OS/2.  After all, what's an operating system without something for it to do?IBMs mistake in the first place was outsourcing the operating system to Bill Gates. &quot;We sell hardware, we don't need to sell software.&quot; Much as we might despise him, he was a very shrewd business man.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NJnewsource.com]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:27:42 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[not to the average USA citizen, some doubted they existed - nt]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Umm! Isn't it time we started &quot;Picking&quot; on a different subject instead of being &quot;Anal&quot; about an easy subject!?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[sdbett@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:14:09 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I won't go into that recent wmd incident, because, when,]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-320081-3239557]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[as a cop, and I had to do a 'hard entry' into a place where we knew the person had bought guns, we always got very worried if we couldn't find them during the search.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deadly Ernest]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:01:49 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[missiles in europe and accidentily photographed south of the boarder?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-320081-3239512]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Naw.. American's where wishing the didn't exist but kept in a heightened sense of fear (rather justified at the time).If you meant those pesky WMDs discussed more recently, I'd like to think the few who where skeptical have been vindicated to some degree.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:57:33 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[not to the average USA citizen, some doubted they existed - nt]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[..]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deadly Ernest]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:39:52 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[European Missile Bases]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[They were once important.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[SObaldrick]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:05:58 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You do realise, that the major reaction you'll get to this will be]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;What, there is something of importance or value outside the USA border? Holly hell, when did that happen?&quot;]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deadly Ernest]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:13:52 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[IPv6 is not a fail]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-320081-3238211]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[IPv6 is not a fail, just because you haven't run out of IP addresses in North America doesn't mean other countries don't have the same problem. I know one of the reasons China loves IPv6 because it offers enough IP addresses for everyone there.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jzou@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:08:55 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This post is a failure I think...added to ye olde list.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-320081-3225457]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[hear, hear.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[The 'G-Man.']]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:44:13 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[WordPerfect was in trouble before Corel]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-320081-3225419]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[WordPerfect's biggest problem is that it totally botched the transition from DOS to Windows. They were late to market with a Windows version, and when they finally did get one out it worked badly and failed to comply with Windows user interface standards. WordPerfect chose to retain keystroke compatibility with the DOS version instead of being consistent with other Windows applications, which might have helped retain their existing customer base but was a major turnoff to potential new customers.Corel didn't acquire WordPerfect until 1996. (The first buyout was by Novell in 1994.) By then WordPerfect was already in a downward spiral; Corel can be faulted for, at most, failing to find a way to escape that.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mark@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:23:16 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Early adopters always pay the freight]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-320081-3222787]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[In another post, you say you're supporting several hundred Vista PCs, yet you say &quot;Win 7 is fantastic, don't delay get the best (at least the best MS offer).&quot;Are you upgrading those several hundred PCs to Win 7?  I didn't recommend anybody purchase Vista, but if I had, given that MS provides no special upgrade pricing for Vista users&amp;mdash;except for late adopters (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/buy/offers/upgrade-option.aspx)&amp;mdash;I wouldn't be pushing them to Win 7 at such an early date.Thinking like a business owner: If I spent several thousand dollars on operating systems two years ago, I sure as hell am not spending that much again today just to get an incremental improvement.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:33:39 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Chalk up another success]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I support several hundred Vista machines and about 1000 users, so perhaps that accounts for a thousand examples?  Anyway I think of examples where they have had issues and others have not.Also consider the age of XP and that it has been the standard for a long time.  OS's always become more successful the longer they go on, as Vista will too.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[n.gurr@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:05:10 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Everyone's mileage varies]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Vista was never going to be well received as it was a replacement for Xp which was everyone's favorite.  I am supporting some hundreds of Vista pcs in a teaching lab with 100 + piececs of software very happily.  Also the Nanny approach is annoying but considered to be the way forward as it reduces that amount of knowledge required and channels people into doing things the 'right way.'  The nanny way is prevalent with it's good and bad points.  Win 7 is fantastic, don't delay get the best (at least the best MS offer) Luddites always benefit last.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[n.gurr@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:56:48 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Not so]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There was a lot of diligent work done by many people.  I remember hearing that a South Korean nuclear plant had a systems failure because of y2k.  I am sure that more serious occurrences were prevented due to hard work.  Also a number of my former lecturers were paid to change systems they wrote a long time before.  The made some serious cash and admitted to milking it for as long as possible. So there is both smoke and fire.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[n.gurr@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:29:16 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[some more failures, and questions on this top 10 list]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-320081-3217810]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[failures:intel celeron processorsemachinesaol releasing ''anonymous'' search results that people could then figure out who they belonged tostill finding usb 1.1 ports on ''new'' pcs......questions:i would guess that more mp3s exist out there than any other digital audio format, so i'm not sure you could call it a failure.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AndyCool22]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:43:33 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Therac 25 is the all-time worst]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-320081-3215739]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[What other software debacle caused deaths?And this one included all the very worst blunders that can be made in software dev &amp; emplementation.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[techrepublic@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:11:59 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I read it as a parody]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-320081-3215116]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[A short and too the point parody of sorts that clearly demonstraits the usual issue with forum arguments; the &quot;my experience&quot; is someone far more valid that the &quot;your experience&quot; from either side's perspective.Even if this person was serious. At least they had the stones to state it honestly.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:03:23 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Nice ..]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-320081-3214646]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Nice to see there's still intelligence on the forum.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[SObaldrick]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:30:09 -0800</pubDate>
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