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In 1996 I was supporting a small dialup operation, and one of our customers was having non-stop problems connecting via modem. Their plant was 2 hours away, bu
by macintux 3y ago
In 1996 I was supporting a small dialup operation, and one of our customers was having non-stop problems connecting via modem.
Their plant was 2 hours away, but I was driving past there to visit a friend, so I made arrangements to drop by and investigate.
For reasons unknown, most of their Windows desktops were configured to a year in the 21st century, probably 2096 instead of 1996 but it’s been a while. Wish I knew how they ended up that way, but I’m surprised dialup was the only thing they noticed that was broken.
- jasonfarnon 3y agoA lot of shareware back then stopped working after a certain # of calendar days, which it used windows to figure out. So I always had my date set far in the future.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoHow does that work? Surely you'd set it to the past. Unless it's a $networkDate - $installDate > $x thing.
- jasonfarnon 3y agoyou're right--I think the trick must have been to set the computer date far in the future when installing the software, then return to the correct date for future executions.