Programming Bugs

9 Sep 2004

Customers of So-net broadband who were charged more than $110,000 in their latest monthly bills backdated to the first day of 1970, may have been the victims of a computer fault similar to the...

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Millennium bug lingers

29 Dec 2000

Although a potential millennium bug crisis was avoided last year, experts warn that some errors in computerised systems still need to be rectified.

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Official Web site crashes

26 Mar 2000

A GLITCH, not computer hackers, is being blamed for a three-hour crash of the Government's information Web site yesterday morning.

The server supporting www.info.gov.hk was down from...

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Warning on leap year rollover bug

29 Feb 2000

Minor glitches caused by the leap-year rollover bug could affect some computer systems and electrical household appliances, experts say.

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Y2K experts ready to leap

21 Feb 2000

Y2K specialists will gather one more time at the end of this month to prepare for the last of the serious rollover bugs.

A variant of the millennium bug may strike at the midnight...

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Y2K prophets cling on to their nightmares

8 Jan 2000

This proud declaration screamed across the top of a Web page of telecoms firm Global One yesterday: 'Global One Successfully Crosses Over Into the New Millennium with All Network Elements and...

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Opinion

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

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Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

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Hi-tech dangers

As fears over the Y2K bug subside, hundreds, if not more, computer technicians in Hong Kong who have laboured long and hard to fix it now face the sack, having completed their mission.

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Drink-drive charges in doubt after bug strikes

Up to 11 suspected drink-drivers may escape prosecution after breath-test devices malfunctioned because of the Y2K bug.

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Commerce sector breezes into 2000

Hong Kong businesses and the banking system rode the transition into 2000 smoothly, with local companies reporting only minor operational and equipment glitches related to the Y2K bug.

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Officials on alert for late Y2K glitches

HONG KONG cannot afford to become complacent about the Y2K bug despite a problem-free passage into the new year, public officials have warned.

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China says services beat bug

CHINA reported that it had safely entered the new millennium free from Y2K problems with all key services working normally.

But officials cautioned that most computers would only...

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Y2K shows world can co-operate

ON Friday, the letters I was typing on my laptop suddenly started coming up on the screen in red. Each had a line through the middle of it, as if everything I wrote was being crossed out.

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