thier botched patch caused BSODs everywhere. Desktops, servers, ( and embedded devices?  donno ).  Talking to our server guys, the fix is reboot in safe mode, login with local admin, remove a file, reboot.     Not hard but requires touching .. and time..   so remote users, are f-ed and  have to come in. And if you dont have remote KVM switches, VMs, or whatever on your servers, people are going to be digging out crash carts and spending the weekend in the data center..

And ya non-windows OSs were exempt from this.  Or if your machine was off during the update window. ( which apparently saved my VM at home, and my VDI session, tho we couldn't access our PDCs from AWS for most of the day, so they were still in effect, dead. )

Sat Jul 20 2024 07:17:27 EDT from darknetuser Subject: Re: Happy "Global Blue Screen Of Death" day, everyone!

What happened?

And speaking of windows and VMs

Seems this apple i have from the shop and running a win10 VM. its only a gen 6 CPU so no win11 VM for me ( its only a couple of years old... the last of the Intel powerbooks .  Intel was shipping past gen 10 .. what is up with that, Apple? )

and trusting a cloud service for something so critical 

Sat Jul 20 2024 12:39:54 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: Happy "Global Blue Screen Of Death" day, everyone!

Can we agree to blame both?

We can blame Crowdstrike for pushing bad code without proper testing and staging. We can blame Microsoft for publishing an operating system so fragile that it crashes at the drop of an electron. And we can blame IT consumers for continuing to accept the worst operating system ever built.

Reports are estimating 8.5 to 9 million machines cloudstrike directly hosed.  No way to count indirect effects due to services being down.

If they still exist in 6 months, ill be surprised.

LoL. M$ is now blaming the EU regulations.

"the forced us to allow 3rd parties to integrate with windows. If we could just force everyone to use MSDefender this would never have happened, so its their fault"

This morning:

"Network Infrastructure - Issues accessing a subset of Microsoft services -  Starting at approximately 12:00 UTC on 30 July 2024, a subset of customers may experience issues connecting to Microsoft services globally."

wonder who gets blamed for that one :) 

Sat Jul 27 2024 19:42:04 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

They'll blame everyone but themselves, but they only have themselves to blame.
The outage is 100% Microsoft's fault and they should be fined trillions of dollars for it. Top executives should be in jail for it. Bill Gates should be shredded feet-first in a wood chipper for it.

Whomever at MS thought it was a good idea to add 'emojis' to emails as an option instead of forcing people to reply, needs to be taken out back. 

Here, in teams, people actually use those things.

I make fun of them when they do.

Tue Aug 06 2024 21:32:22 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

That doesn't bug me as much as the little menu of auto-generated replies that they attach to things now. I disable that whenever I see it.

Remember kids, paying for Microsoft Office is gay; use LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice instead. Granted, using software made by The Document Foundation or Apache might be gay, but it's less gay because you don't have to give them money.

Until you drop a card deck as you walk across the datacenter.

( not that i have done that, but i know someone who did )

Sun Aug 18 2024 22:32:22 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Literally anything is better. Punch cards are better.

From  LXer's  feed. People still do this. A surprise to me.

[#] Thu Aug 22 2024 02:05:39 EDT from rss <>

Subject: Microsoft's Patch Tuesday borks dual-boot Linux-Windows PCs[Reply] [ReplyQuoted] [Headers] [Print]

Microsoft says it's investigating issues with a patch intended to plug a two-year-old flaw in the GRUB open source boot loader that is crashing some dual-boot computers running both Windows and Linux. In that crash users are aptly told: "Something went seriously wrong."

https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/08/21/microsoft_patch_dual_boot/

"Coming as a surprise this afternoon is Microsoft deciding to contribute the Mono Project to be stewarded by the Wine development community."

Dont trust them. I bet they are getting out of the .net business.  Coming up with a new proprietary subsystem. "here, you can have our old dead crap, we care about the community!!! "

M$:  "Chrome has a security bug, we suggest you stop using it, and choose another browser" "Oh, and here are all the details of how to exploit the bug"

Sure, security flaws should not be kept secret, but lets not search for them for the sole purpose to be used as a marketing stick against the competition, which you actually are riding on the back of, for free...    I foresee another IE coming, a proprietary browser from M$ that has extra lock-in features. ( i also can see the chromium project being shut down soon. f-opensource, it cuts into their bottom line and companies like M$ are not helping matters, at all )

Once again, i'm reminded why i am glad my time in this ***** industry is almost over.