date +%s Turning 1111111111 574
initsix writes "Break out your party hats. According to http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm , Unix time is supposed reach 1111111111 on
Fri, 18 Mar 2005 01:58:31 GMT
That's only 1036372537 seconds from 2^31 (ie Tue, 19 Jan 2038 03:14:08 GMT)!!"
Eh... (Score:5, Funny)
Big 00000000 (Score:3, Funny)
party till its 1999 (Score:2, Funny)
Woohoo! (Score:5, Funny)
people with way too much free time on their hands (Score:5, Funny)
It gets better ! (Score:5, Funny)
don't forget people you can see the following amazing sights on your home digital clock without modifications !!
11:11:11
01:01:01
00:00:00
12:34:56
please feel free to add your own
Egad! (Score:2, Funny)
Dumbest! (Score:2, Funny)
Financial news: Candle sales skyrocket! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dang (Score:5, Funny)
Just wait, Slashdot will be announcing the Google Cafeteria lunch menu in about an hour.
here come the consultants! (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, this scares me.... has anyone actually looked into the Y2.038205K crisis?
Only a (Score:2, Funny)
This must be quite a party (Score:3, Funny)
Y2K (Score:5, Funny)
what clock (Score:3, Funny)
send it back!
Re:here come the consultants! (Score:3, Funny)
Unless we get a brain tumor and die first. That would suck.
On all Unixes? (Score:5, Funny)
And do we get to sacrifice a virgin when the time comes? Or would sacrificing a non-virgin make more sense in this crowd? : )
Ugliest submission ever (Score:3, Funny)
ah HA! (Score:5, Funny)
Wear your propeller beanie and a t-shirt that says "Kiss Me I use Unix".
Re:Next Party (Score:2, Funny)
It will, just not on the computer you're using right now :-)
Re:On all Unixes? (Score:3, Funny)
You have to catch the virgin first. Sadly, this should prove very difficult for those reading this article.
ObPedantic (Score:5, Funny)
I hereby lay claim to at least 00000100 of fdrake76's geek points, preferably in the form of Funny or Informative.
Re:Here's the process... (Score:2, Funny)
6) PROFIT!!!!
Okay, I can't believe I posted that
-oh well,
om
Yeah, but in hex... (Score:4, Funny)
...it's 0x423a35c7, which isn't particularily meaningful.
Wake me up when it's 0x42424242 or something, okay?
Yaz.
Re:Big 00000000 (Score:5, Funny)
You couldn't be geekier if you were actually standing there with a Dungeon Master's Guide in your hand.
-The old Dungeon Master's Guide or the new one? Because the new ones are swwweeeeeeet!
I stand NOT corrected.
[/Get Fuzzy]
=tkk
I can't wear a party hat... (Score:2, Funny)
News For Nerds. Yes (Score:1, Funny)
1/2
Re:Woohoo! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:On all Unixes? (Score:5, Funny)
How so? I figure stringing up a fishing net over the cubicle next door should take care of this. I just hope he doesn't get the same idea first...
Re:It gets better ! (Score:5, Funny)
I haven't been able to get anything other than:
Here's the meta-process... (Score:5, Funny)
2) Bored websurfer notices another lame story on the frontpage.
3) Bored websurfer posts uninsightful comment about how lame story submissions are produced.
4) Bored websurfer gets modded up as +1 Insightful.
5) Meta-reply gets modded up as +1 Funny or -1 Presumptious
Google Cafeteria Lunch Menu (Score:5, Funny)
* Sweet Potato Jalapeno Bisque with corn
* Creamy Cauliflower Parmesan
Salads
* Warm Southern Chicken Salad tossed in a spicy buttermilk dressing with toasted pecans, corn, green onions and tomatoes
* Tortellini Primavera salad organic tortellini mixed with organic zucchini, yellow squash, tomato sweet peas, pesto vinaigrette
* Organic mixed greens
Entrees
* Grilled Petite New York Sirloins seasoned with Creole spices served with a Crescent City steak sauce and crispy organic onion rings
* Organic Tofu Mushroom Ragout domestic and wild mushrooms, vegetable stock, leeks and tomatoes
Sides
* Roasted Organic Red Potatoes seasoned with New Mexico Chile powder
* Steamed Organic Bluelake green beans
Desserts
* Baileys Irish Cream Cheesecake
* Vegan Chocolate Mousse
* Fresh Fruit
Re:Big 00000000 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Fake Nerds (Score:5, Funny)
nauganerds
Re:Oh dear. (Score:2, Funny)
The joke is dead. Let it go.
God's dead too ...
Re:Oh dear. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:ObPedantic (Score:3, Funny)
Re:here come the consultants! (Score:4, Funny)
We? We're all going to get the same brain tumor?
I imagine that -would- suck.
Re:Fake Nerds (Score:3, Funny)
I nominate "fnord"
Re:What happens in 2038? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Base 10 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What happens in 2038? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:what clock (Score:5, Funny)
Re:On all Unixes? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It gets better ! (Score:2, Funny)
03:14:16
-James.
Re:here come the consultants! (Score:3, Funny)
Don't forget to ntpdate. (Score:5, Funny)
(Germany always seems to work best for me for some reason)
Account for your GMT offset and THEN watch the numbers turn.
Otherwise, you won't feel that disturbance in the force as 1000s of geeks go "Ahhhh"
If you felt that force 4 minutes before the turnover, it's just all those Astronomers going "Ahhhhh" because they converted to Sidereal Time.
Re:people with way too much free time on their han (Score:5, Funny)
-- quoth the Slashdot poster.
Re:What happens in 2038? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh dear. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It gets better ! (Score:3, Funny)
-Jesse
Re:Dumbest! (Score:1, Funny)
Parity On Dudes!!!! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:party till its 1999 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ObPedantic (Score:5, Funny)
No, you won't.
Re:Oh dear. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It gets better ! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Fake Nerds (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Oh dear. (Score:2, Funny)
Did Netcraft confirm that?
Re:It gets better ! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Next Party (Score:3, Funny)
Not much closer, but closer.
Re:Eh... (Score:2, Funny)
Happy unix time rollover! 9999999999 It's the year 2038 bug.
Any computer holding any information useful or important to anyone in the world with half a brain will think it's 1970 and you'll be using UNIX 1.0!
Can you imagine using the console
UPGRADE YOUR UNICES OR DIEZORZ.
Re:what clock (Score:2, Funny)
<blink>00:00:00</blink>
That's the clock on the VCR!
I've got this all worked out (Score:5, Funny)
In 2038, I will be 64 years old. I design and write all of my software explictly so that it will break (badly) in 2038. I hope all of my peers do so as well. Everybody who works for me does.
The plan is, about 2033, people will start going insane over the Y2038 problem. I will be able to leverage my experience as a Senior UNIX Systems Programmer with a core strength in C to grab all kinds of consulting money. Then, in 2037, I'll do some hard-code hacking (i.e. enter deep hack mode for about 6 months) for some really high-end clients (whoever has the most cash on hand), and throw a bunch of money in the bank.
This is really great, because I don't have a retirement plan, and I'm sure the old age pension will be bust by the time I'm 65. So, after having watched a bunch of COBOL/CICS/etc guys get rich in the late 90s, I want to do the same thing in my early sixties. The best part is, I watched the Y2K crap roll out, and I know how to play the management types that get stuck with clock problems... so I can suck them into weeks and weeks of meetings at huge consulting rates. Maybe I'll be able to bill $1000/hr by then!
Most programmers older than I will be long gone. Most programmers younger thank I won't be able to understand the problem, due to brain infestations of the of the Microsoft and Java variety.
There will be few old-sk00l UNIX hats running around. I will be one of them. Hopefully, by then, I will be able to grow a grey beard, so I can really look the part. My skills will be in supreme demand. I'll get rich off the problems I helped to create, and retire in comfort.
Re:It gets better ! (Score:3, Funny)
Only if she's 5'3"!
Re:ObPedantic (Score:3, Funny)
Is ``miffed'' the new euphemism for ``dead''?
Ahh, but I can! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Oh dear. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It gets better ! (Score:3, Funny)
There should be prizes for things like that.
Re:It gets better ! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It gets better ! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It gets better ! (Score:3, Funny)
Hey man, thanks. You're pretty tleet too.
Capture the history (Score:3, Funny)
while [ $(date +%s) != 1111111111 ]
do
echo "Not Yet!"
done
echo "Unix Time"
date +%s
echo "on `date`"
echo "so we captured the history!"
Hey you, listen to me (Score:2, Funny)
- What are you, seen too much Terminator?
- No no, you don't understand. They sent me back to warn you people about the Y2038 bug and make you fix it NOW!
- Aren't we all supposed to be using 64 bit computers by then.
- No, well see that's the problem - we aren't. They made so much heat that the ice cap started melting so we had to go back to 32-bit.
- Now come on, how could you have managed to invent a time machine with 32-bit computers?!
- Well Google actually did, with a Lenovo PC farm.
Re:Big 00000000 (Score:3, Funny)
0xDEADBEEF
Re:It gets better ! (Score:2, Funny)
Countdown Time! (Score:2, Funny)
Also, there's a counter set up here:
http://stevo32.no-ip.org/cgi-bin/countdown.cgi [no-ip.org]
Thanks,
Stephen Clement
Re:Google Cafeteria Lunch Menu (Score:2, Funny)
* Steamed Organic Bukkake green beans
Re:It gets better ! (Score:3, Funny)
That's not a clock, you're actually looking at your cellphone, and your signal went from 4 to 3 bars:
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Re:Next Party (Score:1, Funny)
Tue Aug 9 04:55:21 CDT 2005
So what about then? Fibonacci time!
One one two three. Five, eureka!