Anyone Have Problems with the Microsoft IT Outage?

[smudgersmissingleg]

I went to the supermarket this morning at about 7am to by some ciggies. Tap my phone to pay and..... declined. Did it again and got the same result. Took my card out of my wallet and tapped it.... still nothing. Had to put my card in the reader and entered my pin, luckily that worked.

Made me realise, though. A cashless society is all well and good, as long as the bastard system works. I only had £20 in my wallet which was nowhere near enough for 5 packs of cigarettes. Came to £80+. I immediately went to a cash machine and withdrew some money to keep in my wallet just in case. Lesson learned

 

[BingBong]

I use cash for pretty much most things under £100 if I'm shopping in the real rather than the virtual.

The weird shit that's come out of Austin, Texas the last few days is remarkable. The put options on certain stocks, the busted update from the Democrats favorite IT Sec company. Things that make you go hmmm.

Ah, I did try to post about it here about 8:45 this morning, I had early warning. Every attempt failed with an error, I think 4 goes with progressively shorter thread titles until "Test" got blown out too. So I thought "you too".

 

[fireground_piper]

Fortunately it missed me directly for the most part. The IT world sure had a hell of a day though and many are still working through it.

Seeing just how many organizations rely on Crowdstrike though was very interesting.

 

[Bbailey324]

Mostly unscathed here. Email traffic was noticeably reduced at the office which was fine with me. Lots of goofy 'stuff' seems to originate in Austin.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Mostly unscathed here. Email traffic was noticeably reduced at the office which was fine with me. Lots of goofy 'stuff' seems to originate in Austin.

It's caused a lot of disruption over here in England. Trains cancelled, lots of planes cancelled, doctor appointments cancelled and pharmacists unable to dispense drugs. Apparently, they're getting on top of the problem but it goes to show how much our society relies on this stuff.

 

[huntertrw]

 

[FurCoat]

It's caused a lot of disruption over here in England. Trains cancelled, lots of planes cancelled, doctor appointments cancelled and pharmacists unable to dispense drugs. Apparently, they're getting on top of the problem but it goes to show how much our society relies on this stuff.

And this is why technology sucks. Not too long ago this was not an issue because analog ruled. We are toooo dependent on this glitchy techno garbage.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Wasn't aware that there was one.

 

[ThomasS]

Wasn’t Microsoft’s fault for a change. A VERY popular firewall/anti-hacking package pushed out an update that cratered the computers it ran on.

Took a bunch of our customers out, and my wife’s company’s VPN. My company doesn’t use it, so I didn’t get a free day off

 

[username]

I tried to deposit some cash in the bank and they were down. Went to another branch and their system was up.

 

[VDL_Piper]

Didn't worry me but planes and trains here in Oz have been severely disrupted.

 

[ThomasS]

SAABRE was down. Airlines had a rough day

 

[Non-Mentholated Black Man]

The weird shit that's come out of Austin, Texas the last few days is remarkable.

I realize that you are Across the Pond but there is no need to sully the good name of Texas/Texans by associating those two (2) distinctly different places/people.

 

[warren]

No problems here. But, that outage and the one's to come, are exactly why I carry a substantial amount of cash about my person when out and about. Power outages and Interweb failures are simply a fact of life which one must be prepared for.

 

[Dave760]

I spent my career in IT (and was so happy that I'd retired when I saw the news this morning), and the following are the truest words you'll ever read about software:

If Builders Built Buildings the Way Programmers Wrote Programs, Then the First Woodpecker That Came Along Would Destroy Civilization

 

[jpmcwjr]

Not directly, except blasted by a Karen who was really pissed off about the cockup at many airports. On the news, that is. (Thanks be)

 

[ThomasS]

I spent my career in IT (and was so happy that I'd retired when I saw the news this morning), and the following are the truest words you'll ever read about software:

If Builders Built Buildings the Way Programmers Wrote Programs, Then the First Woodpecker That Came Along Would Destroy Civilization

Except these days, they do..,

 

[Rossi320]

That is why I only use cash

 

[warren]

That is why I only use cash

Do you buy all of your tobacco locally? No mail order or purchases on the web? I' am impressed! Seriously impressed!!!

 

[Rossi320]

Do you buy all of your tobacco locally? No mail order or purchases on the web? I' am

Do you buy all of your tobacco locally? No mail order or purchases on the web? I' am impressed! Seriously impressed!!!

Do you buy all of your tobacco locally? No mail order or purchases on the web? I' am impressed! Seriously impressed!!!

I don't but I try to use cash only,in this society you can't get away from using online banking