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Whoever would've seen that one coming?! They're normally so reliable, and seamless, and fault-free, and never ever throw massive hissy fits for completely incomprehensible reasons.

I laugh in the face of the 'Blue Screen of Death'. My computer only turns on half the time anyway (never explaining itself as to why), neither the keyboard nor mousepad work, and the whole thing is held together with epoxy and superglue. Yet still I manipulate it into doing my bidding.

Surely the airlines, health services, stock exchange &c. should've had some kind contingency plan by now? Or at the very least be able to improvise.




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In a few weeks or so we'll know, my bet is on sloppy QA....shortcuts and all that.
Some companies wait a good while to see if whatever update is safe...simply because there too many withdraws and updates on updates to make the process reliable enough.
 
cotedupy said:
Whoever would've seen that one coming?! They're normally so reliable, and seamless, and fault-free, and never ever throw massive hissy fits for completely incomprehensible reasons.

I laugh in the face of the 'Blue Screen of Death'. My computer only turns on half the time anyway (never explaining itself as to why), neither the keyboard nor mousepad work, and the whole thing is held together with epoxy and superglue. Yet still I manipulate it into doing my bidding.

Surely the airlines, health services, stock exchange &c. should've had some kind contingency plan by now? Or at the very least be able to improvise.




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Have you heard of the school of thought called Resistentialism? Its axiom is
les choses sont contre nous!
 
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This incident is both laughably stupid and unbelievably complex, and it highlights the danger of monoculture in technology. I could go on at length, but I really don't feel like it.

Long story short, contingency plans are well and good, but it's difficult to reasonably plan for an outage where nearly all of your tools, infrastructure, AND client machines all **** the bed at the same time, the only fix is intensely manual, and requires hands-on. Most contingency plans are somewhat less comprehensive in scope.

I bet a lot of organizations are radically rethinking their definitions of risk, and their mitigations for them.
 
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HolyDiverScallop said:
This incident is both laughably stupid and unbelievably complex, and it highlights the danger of monoculture in technology. I could go on at length, but I really don't feel like it.

Long story short, contingency plans are well and good, but it's difficult to reasonably plan for an outage where nearly all of your tools, infrastructure, AND client machines all **** the bed at the same time, the only fix is intensely manual, and requires hands-on. Most contingency plans are somewhat less comprehensive in scope.

I bet there are a lot of organizations that are radically rethinking their definitions of risk, and their mitigations for them.
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I knew someone who managed some large, high-capacity networks. She was in a constant battle with the money guys to build enough capacity not just to support normal bandwidth but the spikes (which generally coincided with the times when having connectivity was vitally important.)
 
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aporigine said:
I knew someone who managed some large, high-capacity networks. She was in a constant battle with the money guys to build enough capacity not just to support normal bandwidth but the spikes (which generally coincided with the times when having connectivity was vitally important.)
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Yep, there's an eternal tension between economy and reliability. And when you add in compliance, well, the calculus gets more complex.
 
cotedupy said:
Whoever would've seen that one coming?! They're normally so reliable, and seamless, and fault-free, and never ever throw massive hissy fits for completely incomprehensible reasons.

I laugh in the face of the 'Blue Screen of Death'. My computer only turns on half the time anyway (never explaining itself as to why), neither the keyboard nor mousepad work, and the whole thing is held together with epoxy and superglue. Yet still I manipulate it into doing my bidding.

Surely the airlines, health services, stock exchange &c. should've had some kind contingency plan by now? Or at the very least be able to improvise.




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Has anyone told you that a can of Raid is ineffective on computer bugs?
 
dragjp said:
The soft has f*ed up again, not the first time and won't be the last. Tip: don't enable auto-update for Wodowes
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Wouldn't have made a difference in this case. The problem was with a third party tool that updates itself independently of OS updates. A third party tool that has complete and total access to your system in order to...mitigate threats from third parties wanting complete and total access to your system.
 
aporigine said:
Have you heard of the school of thought called Resistentialism? It’s axiom is
les choses sont contre nous!
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I hadn't heard of it actually, but after a quick Google - it seems a very plausible, even likely, philosophy.

The thing with computers is they're inherently recalcitrant and lazy; give 'em an inch and they'll take a yard. You have to bend them to your will, even sometimes (as in my case) physically. Otherwise they just pack up and go on strike, citing some nonsense-Gen-Z-mumbo-jumbo-jargon.

As you can see above, I have to keep mine on a very short leash in order for it to continue doing what I ask. Right up until the day its great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren unthinkingly kill me in their merciless pursuit of paperclips.
 
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MarcelNL said:
In a few weeks or so we'll know, my bet is on sloppy QA....shortcuts and all that.
Some companies wait a good while to see if whatever update is safe...simply because there too many withdraws and updates on updates to make the process reliable enough.
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I'm still on windows 10 with autoupdates disabled... microsofts Q&A has really gone down the drain in the last decade.
 
blokey said:
Last decades? They f up every 2 generations since Dos
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I managed to skip most of the bad ones. :D
My progression was 3.1 --> 95 --> 98 SE --> ME --> XP --> 7 --> 10
Of those only ME was a stinker, the rest were fine. But I think 98 was crap before SE, and I'm lucky to have skipped Vista, 8.
With a bit of luck I can hold off on upgrading until Windows 12 comes out and hopefully it'll be good. ;)
 
Jovidah said:
I managed to skip most of the bad ones. :D
My progression was 3.1 --> 95 --> 98 SE --> ME --> XP --> 7 --> 10
Of those only ME was a stinker, the rest were fine. But I think 98 was crap before SE, and I'm lucky to have skipped Vista, 8.
With a bit of luck I can hold off on upgrading until Windows 12 comes out and hopefully it'll be good. ;)
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After hoping for Linux to be ready for the past....👀 3ish centuries....🫣 Fingers crossed, when Win 10 is no longer supported, I'm hoping to finally make the switch. Steam and it's Proton, has really advanced things for my use case.
 
Jovidah said:
I managed to skip most of the bad ones. :D
My progression was 3.1 --> 95 --> 98 SE --> ME --> XP --> 7 --> 10
Of those only ME was a stinker, the rest were fine. But I think 98 was crap before SE, and I'm lucky to have skipped Vista, 8.
With a bit of luck I can hold off on upgrading until Windows 12 comes out and hopefully it'll be good. ;)
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After being the only person on the internet this year to mention Microsoft Bob I discovered there is a forum and fan group for it: https://msbob.org/index.php

Only 29 users and 13 messages in history. I find this hilarious and challenge @cotedupy to get Bob running and post from it! You may need to create a Bob web browser as the web wasn’t a thing then.
 
Justinv said:
After being the only person on the internet this year to mention Microsoft Bob I discovered there is a forum and fan group for it: https://msbob.org/index.php

Only 29 users and 13 messages in history. I find this hilarious and challenge @cotedupy to get Bob running and post from it! You may need to create a Bob web browser as the web wasn’t a thing then.
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I'm afraid I'm pretty snowed under atm with my ongoing research about why programs are now called 'apps', and why none of them work any more. And after getting to the bottom of that; I'm going to be looking into why the f*** my Windows computer doesn't seem to have Word so I have to use Google to open documents.

I bet Bob had MSWord.

Maybe I should look into it...
 
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HolyDiverScallop said:
This incident is both laughably stupid and unbelievably complex, and it highlights the danger of monoculture in technology. I could go on at length, but I really don't feel like it.
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A long-read for the weekend:

The Lessons of ValuJet 592​

As a reconstruction of this terrible crash suggests, in complex systems some accidents may be "normal" — and trying to prevent them all could even make operations more dangerous

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazin...t=fxMcO2i4q5X1Dj0xpa6mikw9F10422eXImd7vo5X61Y
 
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This is the result of a botched update from CrowdStrike, a cyber security company.

But it also shows, I think, that third party software should not have access to the core operating system. You should always be able to boot to ‘safe mode’ and disable the offending culprit.
 
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