FWIW, I host a site for a guy that sells the food... http://www.csin.com/ be sure to stock up now, cause when it comes down to it, according to them the only thing that will be usable as currency is food.

On a real note, I wonder what the run on the bank will be like????

Wayne


>Anyone who has spent any time on News:Comp.Software.Year2000 or any of the Y2K watchdog sites knows
>that there are many IT professionals who believe that the new millenium will mark the end of the world as we know it.
>About 2 years ago, I might have agreed. My personal viewpoint now is that we will have problems, yes, but the majority
>of the problem will have been identified and fixed by the time the rollover happens, and past a moderate stock-market crash
>and a few well-known companies declring bankruptcy,things will continue on as before and we will all still have houses
>and food.
>
>Cory Hamasaki, the editor of the Year 2000 watchdog newsletter, feels differently. Regular columns in the newsletter
>(which is aimed at IT professionals; Cory himself is head of a company that specializes in y2K fixes) preach that everybody
>should be stocking up on food and water, building a shelter in the wilderness and stockpiling guns and ammunition. I am not joking!!!
>The most recent letter detailed how to store grain in Nitrogen filled pickle buckets, and where to buy canning equipment and
>other survival goods. It is kind of scary listening to programmers sounding like militia men and Branch Davidians.
>
>The 4 companies that I am intimately familiar with have all hired y2K consultants to pinpoint all potential problems,
>including those in off-the-shelf software, custom software, hardware, and embedded systems (telephone, elevator, security etc.),
>and all of these problems have been addressed. we have seen the advent of near-magical fixes like Christof Lange's solution.
>COBOL programmers now have similarly magical tools available to them, and I suspect most other major tools/languages do (or soon will)
>as well.
>
>I am curious- as a programmer, what is your take on the severity of the problem? Are the companies you work for taking care of things? Are
>you going to convert all of your paper worth to valuable metals and go hide out in your cabin in the mountains with 2 years worth of food and fuel?
>
>Even though we are all Fox programmers, I feel we are nonetheless a fairly representative group of minds from around the IT world, each of
>whom has their own personal perspective.