Anyone affected by the above? They probably asked some junior coder to do a quick patch and the whole planet goes down.
A genuine ‘Oh ****’ moment.
What can you do but shrug your shoulders?
Just looking in the Guardian at the airports that are down: La Guardia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Toronto, Gatwick, Milwaukee - the list is huge.
A genuine ‘Oh ****’ moment.
What can you do but shrug your shoulders?
Just looking in the Guardian at the airports that are down: La Guardia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Toronto, Gatwick, Milwaukee - the list is huge.
The risk of push updates clearly demonstrated. Will they learn from it? No.
Yes. Sometimes my old PC would not boot up properly and it was because there had been an update 🤦♂️. Would be very nice if MS put a message up on the screen ‘We’ve made an update overnight. Please reboot’
And even if somebody successfully sues because of a mission critical failure it still won’t change a damn thing. There will be another. And another, and another.
The real fun happens when all of the Linux VMs or containers happen to be managed by some M$ host that is offline.
I know the medical world is also a bit jacked today. Wife does medical scheduling and things are iffy for most.
Posting from a Linux box since about 2001.
I know the medical world is also a bit jacked today. Wife does medical scheduling and things are iffy for most.
Posting from a Linux box since about 2001.
The Wife works from home, and the company has been down since last night. Her computer (at home) began re-booting to blue screens at about 11:00PM (PST) last night. She is still waiting for the fix.
Dan
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A few hours ago I saw diyaudio screens with missing banner ads. Dunno if that was related.
I can watch the world burn, but it's no fun knowing it's costing billions of dollars around the world.
"They" should know better, but I hear infosec people saying there's not enough money for testing releases. I can't imagine it being too hard, do in-house testing, then update a very few machines in the field, wait to see if they're still running, do a slow rollout to limit any damage rather than push the "Update All Systems At Once" button.
I've got dual boot Windows10/Ubuntu on my Dell desktop. A year ago a Ubuntu update stopped it from booting. I'm far from a Linux expert but I figured out how to load the previous thing in Grub to get it to boot but I never figured out where to report the problem, so I never did. Maybe I shudda just spammed it and let everyone yell at me for reporting it in the wrong place. Anyway, I occasionally let it update until the update stopped killing it, which took a few months.
While the problem seems to be caused by CS, Microsoft has been responsible for their own buggy updates as well. I've literally never seen a CS or MS bug like this in Linux.
Work forces me to use OS X, but my life is so much easier when they let me use a Linux box, even remotely.
Work forces me to use OS X, but my life is so much easier when they let me use a Linux box, even remotely.
This was not a Microsoft update, and my computer tells me when it needs to reboot after an update, and feature that goes back to at least the early days of Win10. (I am on W11)
I couldn't log into my bank on line, but they were operational for brick and mortar.
All computers seem ok, but I don't run Microsoft 365.
All computers seem ok, but I don't run Microsoft 365.
A friend (recently retired IT) told me his friend (with much less than average computer knowledge, frustrating to even hear about) called this morning to get help with his computer, a Chromebook, that didn't work. Today I learned a Chromebook has to "phone home" over the Internet to do anything.
My employer uses 365 and there were no noticeable problems while I was working remote today. CS is not a vendor that my employer has used to manage security over its network which I imagine they are very happy about today.
You have to wonder how they sent out a half baked update to their huge client base without sufficient (any?) regression testing to identify that there was an issue.
Not always. I’ve did multiple reboots on my old PC to get it to behave and there wasn’t an advisory from MS. They’ve gotten better at it (I’m on Office 365). The new PC has made a massive difference I have to say.
This wasn’t an MS update. Can you imagine if it was? There would certainly be a new CEO coming.
Yes, but the reason they've moved to push updates is because people wouldn't apply them if they were left to do it and that resulted in bonnets exploiting problems that'd been fixed months or years earlier.
So there are risks either way.