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This is brutal. I actually have to interact with my coworkers. You could call your boss and ask a day off from work due to this issue. 'They for sure would be able to understand the issue at hand.'
 
Amol S. said:
This is brutal. I actually have to interact with my coworkers. You could call your boss and ask a day off from work due to this issue. 'They for sure would be able to understand the issue at hand.'
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Any reason you don't want to get paid to do nothing?
 
My wife went to the office for the first time in 2~3 years, and they have not patched it yet. She is not pleased. Working from home suits her.
 
manly said:
Just reboot "several" times, says MS.

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To Fix CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death Simply Reboot 15 Straight Times, Microsoft Says - Slashdot

Microsoft has a suggested solution for individual customers affected by what may turn out to be the largest IT outage that has ever happened: Just reboot it a lot. From a report: Customers can delete a specific file called C00000291*.sys, which is seemingly tied to the bug, Microsoft said in a...
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May/may not work. Based on a weird set of circumstances where the network comes up and the agent talks to CS for an update before applying policies. Very unreliable.
 
I work for a university and we have a critical gov audit due monday...it's this thing where they give you a list of students (that you don't have beforehand) and want any and every bit of data you have on them going back years. Like every audit trail in every database. Suffice it to say this isn't all in one system. Suffice it also to say that saying little things like "we couldn't work and it wasn't our fault" might bounce off the government's empathy sensors. I've had dealings with INS and the "justice" system and you can get ****ed if you mess anything up, and even if you don't and they mess something up...

Thankfully we were not affected by this outage, though I've heard some other schools were.
 
Conspiracy theory, sun is about to be at solar maximum, lots of coronal mass ejections incoming.

Flame with your dirty minds.
 
sandorski said:
Whatever the cause, I'm sure it will be interesting.
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On the news it said a bad line of code. Don't they test this stuff before turning it loose? 🙄 I always tested the updates I wrote, to my satisfaction. You try to break it, etc. Somebody's in hot water if not already fired.
 
DaaQ said:
Conspiracy theory, sun is about to be at solar maximum, lots of coronal mass ejections incoming.

Flame with your dirty minds.
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We could use a good solid dump of a class X flare. Not like world ending but just enough to bring down the Internet and power for like a week. Let people be reminded why they should work together.
 
Muse said:
On the news it said a bad line of code. Don't they test this stuff before turning it loose? 🙄 I always tested the updates I wrote, to my satisfaction. You try to break it, etc. Somebody's in hot water if not already fired.
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It was a bad configuration or line of code, yes. The resolution is to delete a specific update file that CS pushed, at which point the system can boot without checking whatever that config does and bluescreening the system. The lack of testing protocol is ... Concerning. I don't know what exactly they're doing at CS but given that this affected literally every Windows system without remorse, I have a hard time believing they tested a damned thing.
 
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