Filed under: Humor, OS, How-tos
Immortal? Protect Your Mac from Y10K
Maybe. There seems to be some uncertainty about whether this will actually solve the possible problem of Y10K (that we will all face in the big changeover of the future from 9999 to 10000) or simply add a 0 at the beginning of the display of the year on your Mac. In any case, this how-to shows you " how to teach your Mac running under OS X Tiger to display the system time (e.g. in Mail) as 02005 instead of just 2005." This doesn't involve any actual hacking, just some minor manipulation of Tiger's custom time display settings, but it is still pretty cool if you like 0s before your date, I guess.
Alternately, you could change that lead number to a 4 and tell everyone that you come from the future where everyone uses Macintosh, Windows was destroyed at the battle of Infinite Loop in the OS wars of 2247 when Steve Jobs' clone destroyed Robot Bill Gates with an oscillating laser bazooka, and, by the way, Apple machines no longer run on either PPC or Intel, but rather, on bread alone.
[via BoingBoing]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Melis said 5:48PM on 6-29-2005
I want a computer that runs on bread! I wonder if wheat bread makes it run longer.
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olaf said 5:52PM on 6-29-2005
How did I know that it was CK posting this... oh right, the phrase "Robot Bill Gates" gave it away. :)
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fra said 6:04PM on 6-29-2005
CK... you rock
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Jaysin said 6:16PM on 6-29-2005
I think this is my favorite TUAW post ever. Thank you, C.K.
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C.K. Sample, III said 7:50PM on 6-29-2005
I must thank Futurama for the inspiration for that second paragraph.
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Henry said 12:11PM on 6-30-2005
As an immortal elf, I would like to know what kind of speed increase you can expect when running your computer on lembas bread.
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dan said 9:29AM on 7-01-2005
I think the 2038 bug is a little more prominent :P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_Problem
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Small Paul said 11:53AM on 7-04-2005
And do you want to credit CARS for the end of the second paragraph?
http://www.crazyapplerumors.com/archives/000492.html#000492
Or are you going to try and claim... coincidence?
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