Crowdstrike FU (let's be OS systems honest).

Whenarewethere · Guru

Crowdstrike FU (let's be OS systems honest).

rmoor · Senior Member

I have been saying to clients and friends for years the big one would come eventually.
An internet glitch that would shut the world down.
This one was just a practice run.
A minor glitch.
Wait till some clown sets off charges on some underwater internet cables.
Then the cattle pats will hit the fan.

Unfortunately in this world we have been outbred by idiots.
Most of whom no doubt come under the mantle of the 72 different gender varieties now made available to them.

The really good thing that has come out of all this is that it will be harder for those city centric fools to still try and do away with cash.

Foldies are still king in my books.......

smwhiskey · Senior Member

Whenarewethere wrote:
This whole situation highlights a basic failure that what is required, is lack of slice & divide on OS systems.

Having worked in the industry for the past 35+ years I can tell you without any shadow of doubt is that what this situation (and others like it) highlights is that the number of armchair "experts" who have never worked in the industry and consequently have NFI what they're talking about is increasing at an exponential rate :(

msg · Guru

This seasoned traveller talks about use of cash in the outback.

www.youtube.com/watch

I found this lady's thoughts interesting and enjoyable. Some tinfoil hat moments though.

I have been saying for a while now, that changes to systems are just done without sufficient testing or care. They seem to be of the attitude that "do it and we'll fix it if its wrong" Once again, profit over customers. Hopefully this is big enough to make them pull up their socks.

Would Never have happened in Boomer Days. HaHa. Look how we avoided disaster in 2000. Still don't know if it would have happened or not but we did the right thing and took every precaution to prevent it. Cost companies millions.

smwhiskey · Senior Member

msg wrote:

Would Never have happened in Boomer Days. HaHa. Look how we avoided disaster in 2000. Still don't know if it would have happened or not but we did the right thing and took every precaution to prevent it. Cost companies millions.

It happened or would have happened if not for the huge amounts of money spent over the previous decade making critical systems robust enough to handle it. Where I was working at the time the critical systems were switched off for an hour either side of midnight...just in case. Ironically, it was the first time I ever carried a mobile phone in case I was called out.

I was still fixing code or replacing systems (mostly replacing) in non-critical systems that suffered Y2K related issues as late as 2004.

Whenarewethere · Guru

rmoor wrote:
Wait till some clown sets off charges on some underwater internet cables.
Then the cattle pats will hit the fan.

When the Burnt Bridge Deviation was built, Sydney Northern Beaches, about 1985 completed. The main telephone cable was damaged.

All the businesses & households the far side had no telephones for 2 weeks. I lived on the "fortunate" side in Fairlight, still at the same address.

I worked from home for 2 weeks relaying customers orders from my home phone to another branch in Sydney.

Two weeks later once all sorted out, can't recall getting another call to my private phone number. Had phoned every single customer I could think of to let them know the work around.

Stuffed, today would be an understatement!

-- Edited by Whenarewethere on Saturday 20th of July 2024 02:58:32 PM

msg · Guru

It appears (according to the younger gen on Reddit anyway) that these days AI writes the code and people believe that AI is always right. No one checks. They often don't have the staff to carry out the necessary Q&A. The advantage of using AI for companies is they can employ fewer real people thus cutting costs.

Of course, this leads to many of the frustrations people are suffering these days and the huge profits companies are making.

smwhiskey · Senior Member

msg wrote:
It appears (according to the younger gen on Reddit anyway) that these days AI writes the code and people believe that AI is always right. No one checks. They often don't have the staff to carry out the necessary Q&A. The advantage of using AI for companies is they can employ fewer real people thus cutting costs.

Of course, this leads to many of the frustrations people are suffering these days and the huge profits companies are making.

See previous comments about armchair experts.

Where I work there is a healthy scepticism around AI. Most of us have played in this particular sandpit more than once. Yes we can see the potential benefit of it but experience tells us that (at the moment) it causes more trouble than its worth. So while we may refer to AI generated code, we rarely use it.

IMHO, Any company not reviewing all code changes (regardless of whether they are AI or not) before they move them to Production status deserves to go out of business.

On a positive note, The day AI can fully do my job as a Software Engineer is the day I retire. So I'm not expecting it to happen in the next 10 years.

dorian · Guru

I've used Copilot to help me churn out a Windows CMD batch script. I always review and modify the code, but it has been very useful for me, especially as it helps me to avoid syntactical errors which can sometimes be difficult to find.

dorian · Guru

https://x.com/vxunderground/status/1814280916887319023

How to fix the Crowdstrike thing:

1. Boot Windows into safe mode

2. Go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike

3. Delete C-00000291*.sys

4. Repeat for every host in your enterprise network including remote workers

5. If you're using BitLocker jump off a bridge