Are you sure you want to reformat ALL the computers?

[Sluggo]

A Windows 7 deployment image was accidentally sent to all Windows machines, including laptops, desktops, and even servers.

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/20...sends-reformat-request-windows-pcs-including/

The Emory update page:
http://it.emory.edu/windows7-incident/

 

[WaTaGuMp]

YES!!

 

[MongGrel]

Whoops.

Heh.

 

[sdifox]

With convenience come great lulz.

 

[Exterous]

Heh. It's going to be a long week for that it dept

 

[SlitheryDee]

That's gotta be close to the worst case scenario.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Yes. I AM sure I want to reformat all of the computers.

See you bastards next week!

 

[Markbnj]

Yes. I AM sure I want to reformat all of the computers.

See you bastards next week!

Haha.

 

[destrekor]

lol whoopsie

Damn, the mandatory overtime for that team must be unreal.

 

[her209]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b23wrRfy7SM#t=12s

 

[brianmanahan]

With convenience come great lulz.

the guy who did this was like

and then he was like

and everyone else was like

 

[JManInPhoenix]

Which one of you did this?

 

[lxskllr]

Clean slate. A good time to switch to Debian ;^)

 

[ImpulsE69]

LMAO. This sounds familiar...

 

[Daishiki]

Yeah, I've heard horror stories of that happening with SCCM.

 

[BUTCH1]

Well, we all know how snappy a fresh Window's install is, nothing quite like a fresh, virgin registry for a speedy Windows experience!

 

[bradley]

I wonder how many potential Emory University computer science majors are now having second thoughts.

 

[Red Squirrel]

LOL that's hilarious. That's gonna suck to fix lol.

Maybe that will be the key to taking down skynet once it goes online.

 

[Jeff7]

LOL that's hilarious. That's gonna suck to fix lol.

Maybe that will be the key to taking down skynet once it goes online.

I was watching something the other day on my tablet and then the video started to skip and pause, then the PC became largely unresponsive.

Oooooohhh, Windows is downloading 4300 terabytes of updates again, and with multiple installation processes running it's maxed out my processor. And it always pops up the "Do you want to restart your computer now?" window and grabs focus, which has some convenient hotkeys active. I've caused some accidental reboots thanks to that because I was typing and happened to be hitting the key to trigger the Restart Now button.
At least they stopped the countdown-to-restart thing that Windows XP did, which was a giant middle finger from Microsoft.

The Windows approach to updates is "The update process is going to run because I say you're not doing anything important. Updating!!"


Also fun: Turn off the tablet because the battery's running low, only to find that it's going to attempt to install 13 updates. That then kicks the processor into high gear, increasing the power drain.

"Please do not turn of--"

 

[lxskllr]

I was watching something the other day on my tablet and then the video started to skip and pause, then the PC became largely unresponsive.

Oooooohhh, Windows is downloading 4300 terabytes of updates again, and with multiple installation processes running it's maxed out my processor. And it always pops up the "Do you want to restart your computer now?" window and grabs focus, which has some convenient hotkeys active. I've caused some accidental reboots thanks to that because I was typing and happened to be hitting the key to trigger the Restart Now button.
At least they stopped the countdown-to-restart thing that Windows XP did, which was a giant middle finger from Microsoft.

The Windows approach to updates is "The update process is going to run because I say you're not doing anything important. Updating!!"


Also fun: Turn off the tablet because the battery's running low, only to find that it's going to attempt to install 13 updates. That then kicks the processor into high gear, increasing the power drain.

"Please do not turn of--"

I always disabled automatic updates on my computers. I set Windows to notify, but do nothing. I don't trust others to care for their machines, but since the office is running XP, I could turn the whole mess off. Nothing like the ease of use that comes from unsupported software. You know what you've got day after day :^D

 

[Brovane]

I wonder if they use a change control process.....

 

[tcsenter]

Probably the worst thing I ever did to someone else's computer was to accidentally change the file attributes on all files on the entire volume. The system was Windows 98 but I was using a DOS startup disk (floppy).

I only intended to change the file attributes in one directory which contained like 20 files, typed in the command pressed enter, and immediately turned around to do something else. I turned back around after approx. 20 seconds expecting to see it completed but nope, it was still going. There was no way to stop it except cut the power. I ended-up having to reinstall everything since I didn't have a backup, didn't know the full extent of what had changed, did not want to risk leaving a file with improper or problematic attributes.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I was watching something the other day on my tablet and then the video started to skip and pause, then the PC became largely unresponsive.

Oooooohhh, Windows is downloading 4300 terabytes of updates again, and with multiple installation processes running it's maxed out my processor. And it always pops up the "Do you want to restart your computer now?" window and grabs focus, which has some convenient hotkeys active. I've caused some accidental reboots thanks to that because I was typing and happened to be hitting the key to trigger the Restart Now button.
At least they stopped the countdown-to-restart thing that Windows XP did, which was a giant middle finger from Microsoft.

The Windows approach to updates is "The update process is going to run because I say you're not doing anything important. Updating!!"


Also fun: Turn off the tablet because the battery's running low, only to find that it's going to attempt to install 13 updates. That then kicks the processor into high gear, increasing the power drain.

"Please do not turn of--"

I HATE when dialogs pop up in the middle of typing. There has to be a better way they can do that. It's not just auto updates but just in general.

I also disable any type of auto updates on stuff, I rather update myself when I'm ready to do it. Sometimes I'll just pick a day and update everything. Interestingly in Linux this is actually easier as the packaging is more unified so if I do an update it updates all programs like Firefox etc...

We have XP at work, have not been bothered with updates in a while now. :awe: I can almost see why some people cling so much to that OS though, it's what they know and are used to. 7 is completely different (though it can be made close, I always disable the eye candy crap and bring it back to "classic" mode) then 8 is just a disaster. People just don't feel like dealing with that. If geek people hate it imagine how it is for non geeks. It would be like the car makers replacing the steering wheel with a joystick or something. That would take a lot of getting used to. Then they change it again to streamline everything, it's just two buttons on the dash. Left and right. All the hvac and radio control would be replaced with a small touch screen in the glove box. That's basically what software devs are doing these days.

 

[Ichinisan]

I was watching something the other day on my tablet and then the video started to skip and pause, then the PC became largely unresponsive.

Oooooohhh, Windows is downloading 4300 terabytes of updates again, and with multiple installation processes running it's maxed out my processor. And it always pops up the "Do you want to restart your computer now?" window and grabs focus, which has some convenient hotkeys active. I've caused some accidental reboots thanks to that because I was typing and happened to be hitting the key to trigger the Restart Now button.
At least they stopped the countdown-to-restart thing that Windows XP did, which was a giant middle finger from Microsoft.

The Windows approach to updates is "The update process is going to run because I say you're not doing anything important. Updating!!"


Also fun: Turn off the tablet because the battery's running low, only to find that it's going to attempt to install 13 updates. That then kicks the processor into high gear, increasing the power drain.

"Please do not turn of--"

This. Pop-ups that steal keyboard focus are the bane of my existence. I'm typing rapidly on my keyboard at work when a message flashes on my screen for an instant and one of the options is triggered from the keys I was typing. Sometimes, it can trigger a restart and you lose what you were working on. Other times, you might cancel something or select an undesired option and you'll never even know what it was.

The operating system failing miserably to service you, the operator. It's absolutely insane that Windows doesn't prevent pop-ups from stealing keyboard focus. The entire operating system needs to be structured to prevent this from happening.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Probably the worst thing I ever did to someone else's computer was to accidentally change the file attributes on all files on the entire volume. The system was Windows 98 but I was using a DOS startup disk (floppy).

I only intended to change the file attributes in one directory which contained like 20 files, typed in the command pressed enter, and immediately turned around to do something else. I turned back around after approx. 20 seconds expecting to see it completed but nope, it was still going. There was no way to stop it except cut the power. I ended-up having to reinstall everything since I didn't have a backup, didn't know the full extent of what had changed, did not want to risk leaving a file with improper or problematic attributes.

Oh that reminds me I recently did something similar on my file server. I had a bunch of folders called A, B, C etc... for movies and I figured it's just easier to have them all in one folder. Since Linux permissions are a pain in the ass due to lack of inheritance all these folders have all sorts of random permissions depending on what user put them there (ex: my p2p user, myself, root etc) so it was easier to just go as root. I was typing the following command:

mv A/* .

Sounds fine right? Well I was going fast, doing B, C etc.. at one point I fumbled the keyboard and hit enter before typing the letter.

mv /* .

Yeah. That pretty much wrecked everything. It moved /bin /etc and lot of other stuff. I was able to move it back, but problem is, all the attributes and permissions did not match anymore so I had to compare with another Linux systems to get them to match again.

I still have not rebooted that server, and it scares me to try. It has redundant power supply and is on a ~4 hour battery backup system. I am not rebooting it, ever. :awe: