'Completely unprecedented' outage causes havoc with IT systems across globe — as it happened
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A massive IT systems outage caused by issues with CrowdStrike software affects banks, airports, supermarkets and media companies across Australia and around the world.

All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It’s all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We’ll see if that changes over the weekend…

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I’ve had my PC shut down for updates three times now, while using it as a Jellyfin server from another room. And I’ve only been using it for this purpose for six months or so.

    I can’t imagine running anything critical on it.

    • 0xD@infosec.pubEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Well with your level of expertise you should probably not be running anything, to be honest :)

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Because I only have one PC (that I need for work), and I can’t be arsed to cock around with dual boot just to watch movies. Especially when Windows will probably break that at some point.

        • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Can you use Linux as main OS then? What do you need your computer to do?

          • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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            4 months ago

            I need to run windows software that makes other windows software, that will be run on our customers (who pay us quite well) PCs that also run windows.

            Plus gaming. I’m not switching my primary box to Linux at any point. If I get a mini server, that will probably ruin Linux.

            • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
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              4 months ago

              I need to run windows software that makes other windows software, that will be run on our customers (who pay us quite well) PCs that also run windows.

              Mingw, but whatever. Maybe there is somethong mingw can’t do.

              Plus gaming. I’m not switching my primary box to Linux at any point.

              Unless it is Apex and some other worst offenders or you use GPU from the only company actively hostile to linux, gaming is fine.

    • ccdfa@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Windows server, the OS, runs differently from desktop windows. So if you’re using desktop windows and expecting it to run like a server, well, that’s on you. However, I ran windows server 2016 and then 2019 for quite a few years just doing general homelab stuff and it is really a pain compared to Linux which I switched to on my server about a year ago. Server stuff is just way easier on Linux in my experience.

      • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 months ago

        It doesn’t have to, though. Linux manages to do both just fine, with relatively minor compromises.

        Expecting an OS to handle keeping software running is not a big ask.