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Year 2000 Articles archive index

The Y2K archive is now closed. This index is being maintained for archival purposes. Please use the feedback form if you would like to read a specific article.

Frequently asked Questions:

The Year 2000 and spreadsheets - mainly EXCEL.

The Year 2000 and PC Databases - mainly Clipper & Xbase.

Post Mortem on the Y2K Project. The final report on Y2K: what went well, what went badly. Here's to the future! Irish Computer magazine February 2000 and Cutter IT Journal JUly 2000. 

Rollover. The virus threat; Test the contingency plans; TDs receive Y2K survey reports with alarm; The watchers of the night; Collateral damage. Irish Computer magazine December 1999. (There was no article for January 2000; the policy was to wait and observe events before reporting.)

Y2K and the Home PC. Computers in Business Supplement to the Sunday Business Post, November 1999.

Good news, bad news. The Health service, the Gardaí, Government campaigns and some cautions about over-reaction.  Irish Computer magazine November1999.

World Report. International Y2K news and rumours abound at 100 days to go. Irish Computer magazine October1999.

Critical Dates and Deadlines. GPS rollover, 9/9/99 and Government Department progress. Irish Computer magazine September 1999.

Y2K and the Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise.  In May and June 1999 the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise and Small Business heard submissions from a number of groups on the Y2K problem as it affects SMEs.  Irish Computer magazine August 1999.

Y2K: The Last Chance for the special AIB edition of "Running Your Business" magazine, July 1999.

Warning and debunking the silver bullet myth : Westergaard July 1999. http://www.wbn.com/y2ktimebomb/Computech/Management/pobeirne9928.htm (site now closed)

How do you know you're OK? Independent Verification and Validation and the Comptroller & Auditor General report on government Y2K projects. Irish Computer magazine July 1999.

Y2K Personal Preparedness.  Irish Computer magazine June 1999.

Business Continuity Planning. Irish Computer magazine May 1999.

Review of the Delta-T Probe for embedded systems. Irish Computer magazine April 1999.

Risk Management: Insurance and Director's Liability. Irish Computer magazine April 1999.

Lessons from the Birth of the Euro.  Irish Computer magazine March 1999.

Year2000RTC BIOS Fix Product Review. Irish Computer magazine February 1999.

Time line for the Century Change Crisis.   Irish Computer magazine February 1999.

Patrick O'Beirne's report from the Second Global Y2K Summit in Manila, the Philippines, is at http://www.wbn.com/y2ktimebomb/IW/AK/iw9910.htm

What Y2K projects might learn from the successful birth of the euro is described in my article on the Westergaard site on January 26 1999.
The three line summary is:
1) The Euro changeover is nothing like the Y2K project.
2) It's not over yet, there are three years to go!
3) The good news is that those who run well-managed projects and rehearse well will succeed.

1999: The last chance Enterprise Ireland launches the SME helpline and the Corporation 2000 infrastructure report on Dublin. Irish Computer Magazine, Jan. 1999

Applications once again Irish Times Jan 4, 1999. Year 2000: Patrick O'Beirne outlines the steps to test programs.

It won't be alright on the night Year 2000: Time is running out for dealing with Y2K. Patrick O'Beirne tells late starters how to begin Irish Times December 28, 1998

The Devil's Guide to Y2K" Half in joke, half in earnest, this shows how Year 2000 programme management should not be done. Irish Computer Magazine, Dec.  1998

"The Sleeping Giant of Y2K" The Trades (labor) unions. Article for the Westergaard web site http://www.wbn.com/y2ktimebomb/ on 9 December 1998.

"External Impacts" How the global economy could be affected by Y2K. Irish Computer Magazine, Nov.  1998

"Ireland National Y2K Conference 9 Sep 1998", Irish Computer Magazine, Oct.  1998

"The long arm of Y2K law", Irish Computer Magazine, Sep.  1998

"The Year 2000 Problem for Small Firms", Aug/Sep 1998 "Running your Business" magazine of the Small Firms Association, Ireland.

"Report from SPG Year 2000 Conference, Orlando, FL."  Irish Computer Magazine, August  1998

"Letter from Chicago"  Irish Computer Magazine, July 1998

"Year 2000 Testing" Irish Computer Magazine, June 1998

"Survey Results and call for Action" Irish Computer Magazine, May 1998

"Report on SPG Conference" held in New York, 18-20 March 1998. Irish Computer magazine,  April 1998.

"Estimating the effort" of year 2000 projects using Capers Jones' Rules of Thumb and other metrics. Irish Computer magazine, March 1998.

"Time Line for the Century Change Crisis"  Computers in Business supplement to the Sunday Business Post, Dublin, 8 February 1998.

"What can go wrong?" Typical Year 2000 failures in software. Irish Computer magazine, February 1998.

"Year 2000 Technical Strategies" Expansion, Windowing, Encapsulation. Irish Computer magazine, January 1998.

"Surveying 1997"  The Price Waterhouse survey in Ireland and the Neaman Bond survey in Europe. Irish Computer magazine, December 1997

"Software Assessment" Inventory, Impact analysis and test cases. Irish Computer magazine, November 1997

"Embedded Systems Inventory" includes a checklist from Don Estes to find out how well your Y2K project is going.  Irish Computer magazine, October 1997.

"Building a Detailed Systems Inventory" Irish Computer magazine, September 1997

"Software Compliance" Irish Computer magazine, July 1997. Quotes from Karl Feilder, the British DISC Standard for Year 2000 conformance, and the Halberstam Elias Product Survey questionnaire.

"Hardware compliance" Irish Computer magazine, June 1997. Quotes from Tom Becker of RighTime about the PC Clock & BIOS issue.

"Year 2000 problems and the PC" Irish Computer magazine, May 1997. Tips on things to check with PC hardware and software.

"Counting down to the millennium" Irish Computer magazine, April 1997, describing the project management problem.

Engineer's Journal (July 1997), raising awareness by describing the Tiwai Point Smelter failure.

'Running Your Business' , the magazine (ISSN 1393-1016) of the Small Firms Association in Ireland telephone +353 1 490 2244. "Year 2000 and the SME" (Small to Medium Enterprise) June/July 1997, updated July 1998.

Awareness : The Year 2000 Problem Outline and Case studies

Copyright © 1997-2000:

Patrick O’Beirne, Software Process Improvement consultant.