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Computer 2000 continued from page 1 shortage of resources right now, and that has slowed down a majority of the requests," Cope said. The programmers working with Y2K Fix must look through the thousands of lines of code in USC's mainframe and change the date fields from two digits to four. "We're trying all sortf of ideas to get ready for 2000," Yarbrough said. "We're changing the year date to include four digits. "We're using something known as a sliding window that simply sticks a 19 onto a date, as well as three or four other tricks of the trade. 5 Visits $13.00 1 Mnnth I I VIVI I II $20.00 (restrictions apply) * ~ ifl \K> I fi* LOTTERY SEPTEME LOTTERY SEPTEME Priority Reservations Lc 2nd Floor Lobby Russell H Qf?ntp?mVv^r 1 QQ8 9 a.m. - 1st Ballroom C 10 a.m. - 2nd Ballroom For more information, contact the R< Office at 777-7127 or stop by Russell (l WONDER (THIS MEHL'S CrONNB C 1^1 SHOULD'VE GONE Tl O^???\ ( // -?vY N^^B ~^:-cww?~ -j^ # I p * services "The project is going very well," "said Angelica DeWitt, one of the programmers working on Y2K Fix. "We may experience some problems with our services when 2000 comes, but we don't know until then," "We should be guardedly optimistic," said Yarbrough, who plans to be on campus over that New Year's weekend along with other faculty and staff from several offices and departments to make sure programs and services run smoothly. According to Yarbrough, the rest of the country should not be so content. He recently attended the South n i: H-i- n : . T\: i. v^aruima uaia rruuessmg uxreiaurs Conference. H| Russi V& Pi ^ PRIORITY I: Univi (See Definition ( IF) PRIORITY II: Cart > (See Definition < PRIORITY III: Ret ? ,? ? (See Informatioi itK oU icq on PRIORITY IV: Oth icrt ou (Academic Dep* ittery organizations as ouse NOTE: Academic )ate (See Definition o Date **Lottery Because of the high den jservations to ensure equitable distr House 218. ?f demand is for Ballrot reservable rooms in the If He iikes Me?) ost me^ o ^ d mi. J I fp Help cl receivi 1 working t He reports that about 25 percent of businesses in the U.S. and worldwide have not begun fixing the Y2K problem. "If s too late for them now, but higher education should be okay," he said. "South Carolina is about 54 percent Y2K-compliant, and the federal government is spending large sums of money to fix their systems." Experts expect the public and private cost to fix the Y2K problem to total $300 billion nationally and '$600 billion worldwide. Key applications that could be affected everywhere include retail sales, banking applications, taxation and finanne flrronntincr and hillinp tele phones, electricity generation, air trafell House Unive riority Reserval January to Jul; srsity Wide Event >n pages 123-124 in the Ca ilina Productions )n page 124 in the Carolin listered Student Organizatii n below for times for the L er irtments or Administrate i designated in the Carolin : Space will not be reserved ?n pages 123-124 in the Can September 30** Lottery S land for room usage in the Russell Hoi ibution of space to registered student o im reservations, however, the lottery sj Russell House. Bll??K|j|BjlW ew donors can earn p to $215 ler month! mrs of your time could earn u up to $65 in one week! Mldren, hemophiliacs and heart patients who i products made from the plasma of our donors. The Quality Source NABI BioMedical Center j Assembly St., Columbia SC 29201 254-2280 Sept. 23 Sept. 28\ o prevent fic control, and military applications, among others. "We were told that our elevators would not work when 2000 rolled around," Cope said. "But we looked into it, and it's being fixed." Computer Services is also looking into how the Y2K bug will affect students' personal computers. "If a student has bought a Pentium processor in the last six months, there's no need to worry," Yarbrough said. Computer Services plans to send out software to students some time next year to see if their PCs are Y2Kcompliant. Students can go online to www.eds.com/vendor2000 and other sites to see if their software is com1 Koger Presents S AOUILA Theatre Company of London m Live music! London and NY actors. 0 ;j5 Koger Center for the Arts Tues., Sept. 29 7:30 p.m. S ^ TICKETS ON SALE ? ^ Carolina Coliseum Box Office (M-F, 9-5) Iand all Capital Tickets Outlets. Call 803/251-2222 (M-F, 9-5) to charge. Koger Presents season sponsored by /f&> TIME WARNER ' V CABLE rsity Union tions for yl9 99 September 25,1998 rolina Community) ....September 28,1998 1a Community) * ins September 30,1998 ,ottery on Sept. 30,1998) October 2,1998 s Units or other student a Community, page 124) until January 25,1999 )lina Community) ieptember 30** ise a "lottery" system is used rganizations. The highest level astern will apply to all i?; i 1 1 Fau Kim Alcxand Brook Baker Kehler Black | Ashley Black | Brandy Bran] | Whitney Car] | Rachel Coop ? Mackenzie C Amanda D'Ai | Danielle Evai Melissa Grigg Jessica Hlnkc Casey Keith | Katie List rl a y !rv^ ^^College Jewelr^^ 2510am-5pm 2910am-5pm w problems pliant. Students can also check with the vendors from whom they bought their computers. According to Cope, older PCs might have to be replaced. Others might need updated soft ware, which can be obtained from vendors free of charge. 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