Is there a shortcut to "hit with hammer"?One of the newly reported remedies by Microsoft is now to reboot machines 15 to 20 times
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A lot of companies have at least a part of their infra on the cloud
Lots. Not all on Azure though. VMware and local Hyper-V are also popular.
An "Arkwright"-style till would be unaffected by an IT problem, wouldn't it? Alternatively a small business such as a cafe or micropub could, in case of emergencies, just have a cash "jar", with enough change to enable customers to pay by cash.
In my book, they belong to the “just in time” brigade. Always carry enough cash to get you home at the very least…
Signal failure at Welwyn, trains going via Hertford loop as usual!
One of the difficulties for small businesses is that if they take cash, they could be a very long way from a bank or post office to cash it in, which literally costs time and money. When I worked in industry the lads delivering would take cash, bring it back to be counted and accounted for, and was my job to go to the bank before closing to cash it all in. Long gone these days!
That's a variant on a very old expression, that on a date a girl should always have enough cash to suddenly get themselves a taxi to get home - if needs be!
This isn't even a wonky update of the OS anyway, there's a good chance that if we were in Windows 7 days and the same piece of 3rd party software did that same update it would fail in the same way
Indeed. There are 3 supermarkets near me and every single one has been cash only today due to this. Fortunately, I am in the habit of keeping a small wad of notes in my safe, so was able to do my shopping as planned. The cashier who served me said she had been told by her manager it could take several days to come back, as head office only had a few IT staff left and they were all having to drive to each store in the country to fix the affected machines on-site, as it can't be done remotely.
Yes that is my answer. All these stupid commnets about cash being useless without computer driven ATMs, we managed without them for 200 years by using banks that had humans sitting at counters. Of course those have been cut back drastically, but temporarily it would be possible to get by until the digital heaven that some worship got its act together. Meanwhile, for those not so obsessed with banning cash from their live, it was simple to just go to a drawer at home and pocket £40 each and visit the stricken Waitrose to get our essentials.
I don't have your expertise, but surely if IT infrastructure is set up in such a way that it is possible for a single person's mistake to have such an impact, then that infrastructure is set up wrongly? For example, was there not a review process at Crowdstrike, so that at least one other person had to peer review their colleague's code before it was released to update servers? Was there not someone (or several people) at Microsoft who manually checked the update first before allowing it to be released to Windows users? I would have thought there must be checks and reviews, precisely to stop one person's mistake having such an effect.
Absolutely.
It wasn’t Microsoft who released this, but otherwise I agree with you. Or rather, they weren’t involved in any way.
I am obsessive about cash and I live in the USA but always and currently have with my passport and wallet about 200$ US, 50£ , 50 € and 20$ Canadian. It is a useful emergency imho.
The Crowdstrike update was delivered to machines via Microsoft's Windows Update service though. It didn't get delivered via an update within the Cloudstrike software. My point was that, rather than Microsoft blindly accepting an update from a third party into their Windows Update service, did they not manually check/test it themselves first?
Agreed - and probably not would be my guess. A bit like the FAA allowing Boeing to certify itself, perhaps?
Sometimes small businesses would keep a cash box, a book for receipts and a calculator somewhere for that.
Agreed. For the foreseeable future, both are needed.
Do you have a reference for that?
Which to me implies they’re pushing the updates directly and MS Update isn’t involved at all.
I don't think there's anything wrong with the statement, it's accurate, a third party sent out a broken update and broke everything, are you saying it's their fault for using a trusted software provider used in almost every industry?
Agreed. It could be that CrowdStrike use Microsoft Installer packeges, but anybody can use those.
To me it can come across as evasive, but of course there's a good argument for being truthful. I guess for me it's about how it's phrased, whether it comes across as trying to shift the blame rather than taking responsibility.
I agree. I don't see much wrong with the statement. It clarifies that the issue is not Ryanair's own making (the pilot didn't accidentally lose the plane in a strip poker game or something) but an issue with a supplier, something that happens in every single industry.
