Major worldwide tech outage?

[George K]

[Mik]

Didn't mess up my grocery order, so there's that.

[Doctor Phibes]

Apparently a lot of our work computers are getting BSOD's. Mine has not suffered any such thing.

[Horace]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Major worldwide tech outage?:

Apparently a lot of our work computers are getting BSOD's. Mine has not suffered any such thing.

Probably shouldn’t turn it on, then.

[jon-nyc]

Chase couldn’t do anything in the branch today. But the ATM worked.

[jon-nyc]

I had several zoom calls today and all the MSFT flunkies had to call in on their phones.

[Axtremus]

Granted it's CrowdStrike's fault. Good thing most (virtually all) networking routers and switches do NOT run on MSFT/Windows. Else you can't even go online to complain.

[Renauda]

@jon-nyc said in Major worldwide tech outage?:

Chase couldn’t do anything in the branch today. But the ATM worked.

Online banking seems unaffected here. At least I had no issues depositing and making transfers online during the past half hour. Perhaps earlier this morning there were problems. Don’t know.

Will learn later if the cancer hospital’s network was affected.

[mark]

We were unaffected. We don't have any customers that use CrowdStrike.

[Copper]

Somehow we were able to complete our round of golf.

I guess we were just lucky.

[jon-nyc]

@Renauda said in Major worldwide tech outage?:

@jon-nyc said in Major worldwide tech outage?:

Chase couldn’t do anything in the branch today. But the ATM worked.

Online banking seems unaffected here. At least I had no issues depositing and making transfers online during the past half hour. Perhaps earlier this morning there were problems. Don’t know.

Will learn later if the cancer hospital’s network was affected.

Online was fine here too. It was the local branch that was out all day.

[George K]

[Axtremus]

There is a whole generation of Silicon Valley “software engineers” raised in the idea that frequent software updates is the best way to achieve security/reliability. These are a generation that probably never worked for an “old school” company that had proper QA team and QA process that maybe releases software upgrades no more frequently than once a quarter. (But luckily they also don’t do much with MSFT/Windows, so that’s a bit of a saving grace.)

[Copper]

A "custom hardened OS" sounds like a swell idea, but first get a huge pile of money to pay for it.

And the fancy "custom hardened OS" is going to break anyway, just like your cheap Windows.

Better to spend your money on the recovery procedure. You'll eventually need it for either system.

[jon-nyc]

[Horace]

Here’s your BSOD that I guess caused my delay in Paris. Saw this BSOD on a couple screens here.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Major worldwide tech outage?:

Well, that brings back nightmares...Go live is usually at 0200...

[Jolly]

If they'd just used Windows 3.1...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tedreed/2024/07/20/meltdown-what-meltdown-southwest-flew-on-time-all-day/

[Mik]

[Mik]

@jon-nyc said in Major worldwide tech outage?:

You’d be surprised how much stuff is tested in production. Sometimes I feel like Don Quixote, the last knight tilting at it. It’s laziness, pure and simple.