I don’t know whether I’m alone, but I’ve had two separate problems with computer systems which didn’t survive the transition from 2010 to 2011, making me wonder if there’s a more generic “Y2KXI” bug, like the famous Y2K bug, only more subtle…<\/p>\n
On New Year’s Eve, my X10 home automation stuff was all working. On the 1st, the lights failed to come on at the appropriate time. After a bit of investigation, I checked the clocks in the two timer\/controller units, both of which now showed a date in 2012. Clocks reset to the right time, things returned to normal.<\/p>\n
Then last week I had a problem where I discovered my PDA was corrupting appointment times, converting the vast majority of my appointments to an all-day slot a day after the original date. This was clearly happening a few minutes to a few hours after synchronisation, and the original appointments in Outlook on the laptop were OK. At first I blamed the iPad (well you would, wouldn’t you), or maybe a component of Office 2010, which I have now partially installed on my PCs, but some testing confirmed that the problem was occurring even when neither of these had had a chance to affect the data. I then realised that QuickAgenda, which I had installed to show my diary on my PDA’s home screen was running very slowly, almost as if it was processing something…<\/p>\n
Gotcha! With QuickAgenda removed not only has the corrupt appointment problem gone, but I’m also finding synchronisation much quicker and less prone to duplicate appointments. However, this wasn’t a problem in 2010.<\/p>\n
Has anyone else noticed this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I don’t know whether I’m alone, but I’ve had two separate problems with computer systems which didn’t survive the transition from 2010 to 2011, making me wonder if there’s a more generic “Y2KXI” bug, like the famous Y2K bug, only … Continue reading