Word: glitching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. DOROTHY STICKNEY, 101, original spouse in Broadway's longest-running play, the fusty comedy Life with Father; in Manhattan. Stickney starred with Howard Lindsay, the play's co-author and her real-life husband. In 1939 the couple left a glitch-filled opening night in tears, but audiences adored the play's domestic drollery, sitting through seven years and some 3,200 performances...
Really? No, not really. Well, not likely anyway. But that hasn't slowed the mounting angst over the Year 2000 glitch, particularly on the Internet, where the mix of technical savvy and suspicion is proving to be the perfect outlet for dire predictions. "I've never seen such hysterical projections, and I lived through the paranoia of the 1960s," says Nicholas Zvegintzov, president of Software Management Network, a Los Altos, Calif., company specializing in software maintenance...
...quite so much. Neither a reboot nor a replaced unit has brought it back online yet. Next up: A telemetry data upload and long-distance restart. The crew is hopeful: "They still have a lot of spares," said mission control spokesman Valery Lyndin. With luck, they'll find the glitch before it strikes up a chorus of "Daisy, Daisy...
...sound like a digital-age version of "the dog ate my homework," but we swear that the reason our Reuters news feeds are down is probably because of the same glitch that knocked out up to 90 percent of America's pagers, as well as various radio and TV broadcasts and even many card transactions at gas pumps and ATMs -- PanAmSat's Galaxy 4 satellite has gone a-wanderin'. After the failure of onboard control systems left technicians powerless to stop the key communications satellite from drifting out of position yesterday evening, the binary fabric of our electronic society began...
Huppe and McCarthy said last night that they remain "unsure" as to whether the omission was due to human error--failing to include the first minute of Sunday morning in the printout--or a "computer glitch...