Microsoft outage

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

Major effects I have noted are to ABC radio and TV broadcasts, still running, but nothing like normal (for example, the main TV news last night had no finance, no sport, and no weather). My Netbank was still working, but with a note that some features I did not want to use were not. But I did not go anywhere.

Got an email a short while ago from my brother in Houston - he went to the bank to get some cash - only one ATM working, tellers could not work due to no IT, and the queue to the one working ATM was out the door.

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Hope he was not stuck up in the air[biggrin] "Planes operated by several US airlines are being ordered to stay in the air due to major worldwide IT outages.The American air regulator said American Airlines, Delta Airlines and United Airlines requested a ‘global ground stop’ in the early hours on Friday.
This means pilots in the air will be told not to land, while planes on runways cannot take off."

It was only for a while of course :)

Really funny as imagine the look on a pilot's face as he/she said get sodded IF his/her jet was low on fuel :)

Not mine, I'm nowere near this clever!

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Yup, it was one of those days again. I guess CrowdStrike will soon be strikken from the registers because this is bankruptcy type of ef-ups.

Being a unix engineer I was leaning back with a bucket of popcorn :)

-P

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Originally Posted by prelude

Being a unix engineer I was leaning back with a bucket of popcorn :)

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I couldn't get popcorn because the registers, checkouts and EFTPOS at my local Woolies were all down. I have however found the whole thing rather amusing.

Schadenfreude writ large.

It's not over - a lot of the banks will need to fix their branch computers on Monday, since it hit so late on Friday afternoon. Apparently there's a blue-screen loop that's causing problems for some people.

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Originally Posted by prelude

Yup, it was one of those days again. I guess CrowdStrike will soon be strikken from the registers because this is bankruptcy type of ef-ups.

Being a unix engineer I was leaning back with a bucket of popcorn :)

-P

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Seems CrowdStrike has had a busy 2024...

This is their 3rd crash causing event. The other 2 (April and May) were Linux issues again caused by updates

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Originally Posted by Tombie

Seems CrowdStrike has had a busy 2024...

This is their 3rd crash causing event. The other 2 (April and May) were Linux issues again caused by updates

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Gosh, you'd a-thought their QC / Error-Detection procedures would have been .... updated... since then [bigsad]

Unrelated Fun-Facts...

Uncle Klaus (Schwab), he of the. "WEF". foretold. (predicted) this kind of mayhem back in 2020...

And, guess what % of this sinful software company is owned by BlackRock... Yep, THAT. Blackrock wot owns much of the world...

If Ernst Stavro predicted it then perhaps he would make sure it came true.

Today I drove to Yass.

You know the large illuminated signs about 2-3m square used for road closures etc? All the ones that have been there for ages were blank except for blinking spots in the top left and bottom right corners. I wonder if they are internet connected and use a Windows processor 'protected' by Crowdstrike?