Isn t it easier to use a Year 2000 PC fix that works on/over the Network?
A few network administrators have put forward the view that it is only necessary to ensure that the Network Server is Year 2000 compliant, since the “nodes” always take their date and time from the server. Whilst this statement is true, it ignores the potentially disastrous consequences should any user EVER work on the PC without being “logged on” to the Server. A supervisor of a network with, for example, 100 PCs has to be completely sure that no user will EVER work on ANY of the PC nodes when it is not connected to the Server – for the entire working life of those 100 PCs. It would take a very brave person to put their professional career on the line with such a gamble. A Bill currently before the UK Parliament would make IT executives personally responsible for Year 2000 problems, which may occur. Even if that Bill fails to become law, the current statutes and case law relating to negligence should be enough to persuade any IT executive that the Millennium BIOS Board is the most sec
