Whatever next ??

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

[Speedy Builder5Participant @speedybuilder5]

My apple is working

[noel shelleyParticipant @noelshelley55608]

It had to happen sooner or later ! Noel.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

My PC is also working

[Mark EasingwoodParticipant @markeasingwood33578]

I beleive the problem is with servers, not home computers, and then only those using CloudStrike security software, who seem to have issued a broken update.

[Sonic EscapeParticipant @sonicescape38234]

Hmm … I think I’ll go to an ATM. Normally I have almost no cash. If something happens to the banks, I will have to survive with what grows in the garden until they fix the bug 🙂

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Jason

It’s happening on a higher ‘layer’ than our humble local machines

MichaelG.

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-19/what-is-crowdstrike-outage-explained/104120260#

[Peter GreeneParticipant @petergreene36336]

I think we’re used to the expectation that problems percolate downwards. That is if a given layer is affected everything below it is similarly affected (but not upwards).

In this case though, as you say, it seems not to be the case.

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, well I had absolutely no problems getting cash out of an ATM earlier today.

Regards Nick.

[noel shelley]

On noel shelley Said:

It had to happen sooner or later ! Noel.

Yep.  And I hope lessons are learned.  Nothing is infallible.  Just like monocrops getting devastated from an infestation.  Much better to spread the resources so that you’re not sh*t-out-of-luck when something happens.  The phrase “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” seems to be regularly forgotten.

Mike

 

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Slightly off-topic, but it reminded me of one serious failure that I witnessed:

We had contracted with an excellent service-provider for a system with [almost] guaranteed 24/7 reliability …. Everything ran beautifully, until the day when the firmware update for the fancy RAID array failed.

🙁

MichaelG.

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