School hols

Mooching as I type this... :)

School hols!!!! Sianz 45 more mins need to pack up and go McD part-time liaoz...

Meanwhile, newspapers say IT jobs on the boom, IT jobs big pay and stuff. Wonder how much people pay for people with h4k3r skillz. My cousin told me big audit firms like Earnst and Young have a counter-hacking unit and they teach hacking classes.... wonder how good they are.

The big news today for me is that the US is fast-forwarding daylight savings by 3 weeks. Usually means nothing, but in servers and computer systems, it's a BIG deal, cuz most server software are hardcoded the DST calculation, with no way to change it, except manually unless u have the source then have to remake and rebuild.

This means TONS and TONS of servers out there in the US will have the wrong time and likely for 3 weeks, 21 whole days remain having the wrong time!

BWHAHAHA SQL servers all wrong timestamp. Emails esp those that are legally binding all wrong times. Govt and biz e-transactions all fucked!

Unless of cuz they were warned months in advance. But even then, how about the small businesses? There are millions of small businsess who run server and sell server space. How about co-loc servers? How many will update?

Will be interesting to see wat happens. I predict 3 major failure if ppl dun update now: bank transfer, credit card sales and e-transaction like online air ticket, etc.