Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With all the hype over what may or may not happen as the date rolls over to 2000, possibly causing computers to think it is the year 1900, the "Y2K" bug has infected holiday plans--if not computer systems--around the globe and at Harvard...
...manager said this was a relatively rare "known issue"--code phrase for bug--that Apple will address in AirPort 2.0. I was wireless at last, but it had cost me a day's worth of headaches. This sort of thing happens with Windows all the time, of course. It only hurts with the ones you love...
...Echinacea purpurea, commonly called echinacea, is said to stimulate the immune system when the body first becomes inflicted with a germ or bug...
...heads, providing pretty eye candy for tots and self-referential fun for the big ones. While Disney went back to its melodramatic basics for its feature-length animation of the '90s, Pixar adopted a distinctly modern--practically postmodern--sensibility. Each scene in Toy Story and the even better A Bug's Life (1998) has epic ambition: to touch the heart, engage your brain, tickle the funny bone. Did we get any of that in Pocahontas? Or the god-awful Prince of Egypt? Pooh. Toy Story 2 proves that Pixar is the only real force in animation nowadays. This movie...
...filmmakers can get away with this because of our enduring millennial uneasiness. We still can't be sure what will happen to our computer-assisted jets, nuclear power plants and electricity-supply lines at the moment '99 rolls over into '00. A flurry of bug- fixing and Y2K-readiness reports over the past year seems to have lulled most of us into a what-me-worry? coma, but it hasn't made the problem go away. There are untold millions of embedded chips and creaky old computer systems that will continue to keep track of the date in terms...