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return2ozma@lemmy.worldBanned from community to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Microsoft-Crowdstrike issue causes 'largest IT outage in history'

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return2ozma@lemmy.worldBanned from community to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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  • lennybird@lemmy.world
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    Hmm far fewer comments on Lemmy this morning lol. Poor IT folks… I’m sorry.

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      It sucks so bad. Today I learned a lot of users don’t know the difference between forward slash and backslash.

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        I coded for 15 years and I still don’t.

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          Forward Slash… / …leans forward.

          Back Slash… \ …leans back.

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            Or is it

            Back Slash… / …because the bottom is back.

            Forward Slash… \ …because it’s forward at the bottom.

            /s

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              hmm

            • Repple (she/her)@lemmy.world
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              I had it backwards for a really long time because you draw / from front to back (ie you write it in a backwards direction) I thought that was the back slash. That still feels right to me despite being wrong.

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            In the old days of using UNC paths a lot we found ourselves saying whack whack server name whack share name. Then forward slash was just slash.

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          I always remember the difference by imagining them as lines on a graph. Forward slash is the line with positive slope and backslash is the one with negative slope.

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          So damn easy to mix them up

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          I was going to say… I just call them Linux/windows slashes, but idk forward vs back

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        Is that the squiggly one?

      • lennybird@lemmy.world
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        lol ouch. I luckily never updated my laptop so I dodged the bulk of it lol.

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      I’m in IT and I’m still here, commenting away!

      ~Posted from Linux Mint~

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      I’m in IT, I am not affected but will express my sympathy in between handfuls of popcorn!

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      don’t they all live for this day?

      ie fixing bad decisions made by some corpo clown 4 years ago to save 25 cents on something?

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    When being let go from your Sysadmin job a few months ago is a blessing in disguise.

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    Oh look, Linux works.

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      So does my TI 85.

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        My Ti-89 also appears to be uneffected.

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        You must have meant IQ 85.

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      You because no big companies are using it hehe

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        Every big company uses it. You’ll find Red Hat at nearly all Fortune 500 companies somewhere.

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    I work nights, we were the first people in the company to experience the outage lol we left IT a “sorry for the chaos” note

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      Hahaha.

      "Tally-ho chaps. Sincerest apologies for the chaos. Chin up.

      rockSlayer"

      Bet you slept like a log.

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        Sure did lol and it gave me a reason to have a long weekend

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    Happy I’m not in IT anymore.

    One of my first major outages was caused by the iloveyou.vbs virus that emailed itself to your contact list. It brought our exchange server to its knees in minutes and took quite a while to clean up.

    Nobody really understood at the time that attachments could be dangerous.

    • return2ozma@lemmy.worldBanned from communityOP
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      I’m in IT :(

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        Sorry man, good luck 😅

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    So is this what was making my teams show me as away? I kept trying to make it green and shit but it wouldn’t change.

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    I’ve never been happier I dropped out of my CS classes

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      Aww why may I ask?

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        deleted by creator

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    Still waiting for “updates good” crowd to weight in.

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      It was a 3rd party update and you absolutely should keep your systems updated.

      There you go 🙂

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        Apart from security updates, why?

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          This was a security update. That’s what Crowdstrike is, intrusion detection, antivirus, etc.

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