This global Microsoft Outage

[SSpratt]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cnk4jdwp49et

Any worries? It is chaos out there by the look of the news.

My experience is that I’m not able to work today and had trouble using my debit card this morning. The transaction eventually went through but it’s not showing on my account.

its not affecting air traffic, at least not in the uK, NATS have put out a statement. There is no risk to actual flying planes, its just things like check in and airport display screens that can't work
Airplanes don't work on windows.

This!

Also, companies looking at processes and systems that are complicated and flakey, that always give headaches, and deciding to outsource them because they’re not “core business”… then being appalled when they get worse rather than better.

Outsourcing works for the stuff you understand really well and that always goes smoothly, not the hard stuff.

And around their border with Finland. They do minor fucking around every now and again just to show that they can

Yes but I mean if ATC was affected by a technical glitch, how would it be handled? I'm assuming it was cause them a major headache at the very least.

Wouldn’t 18 eggs bind you up?

I went on holiday once and as I only had a large torch I shoved it in my luggage.

My 2 friends I was on holiday with laughed at me when I unpacked it. 3 days later we had a power cut...

I’ve seen it. It’s impressive how fast they get chased away. 😂 The speed and the sound.

Provided their radio systems still work then ATC can revert to paper and pen. I'm not sure what would happen if they lose all radio.

I wonder which would be worse for an anti-virus/security company - admitting they'd been hacked, or admitting they didn’t properly check an update before issuing it to their customers….

Not if you have enough fibre with it.

He's consuming the 18 eggs for the "protein". There are other foods with protein available, or he can buy some (tasteless) protein powder and mix it in with his normal food.

Seconded.

Aircraft and all the other very, safety critical stuff involved in actual flying won’t run on Windows

It’s more likely to be used more at I guess what I’ll call the admin level, so things like check-in and other airport functions might be more vulnerable to being clobbered.

All was OK at the Sainsbury's I went to. Thank goodness.
I think I'll need to start keeping some cash at home as back up in future though, to save the worry.

Guardian is reporting it's all fixed now.

Saying you've been hacked by a sophisticated state actor is much better PR than saying "We hosed your systems by accident lol".

Loft, shed, garage, under a bed, bottom of a wardrobe or do you need people to do that for you to.

Quick answer - there are published procedures which at a very basic level means that aircraft and crew fly their flight plan, continue to their planned destination, try and land as close to their scheduled arrival time as possible, hoping to get a green light from somebody in the control tower…

If you could please. 😂

Freezer if you have space for a bottle or two..

🤣🤣🤣

Really sensible people do both. In a major crisis your cash will quickly run out or be useless.
If you can afford keep cash around, you could spend a tenner on pasta and beans so you don't have to panic looking for somewhere to spend your cash.

A few people I know - while I'm related to a couple of them - still work on mainframes.

The outputs and inputs tend to need converting to integrate with newer systems.

The problem companies have is when people retire (or in some cases die) they struggle to get someone else who knows the technology. This is one of the reasons they outsource or off-shore some of this work as companies lie about their capabilities in that legacy technology.

We have a water barrel in the shed for cleaning, and 3 20l jerrycans in the kitchen. If there's fewer of you, you don't need as much obviously. Store whatever you have space for, something is better than nothing.

Everything working here (NHS GP surgery)

I keep on reading it was ' outrage ' instead of outage.
This is where cash is king I guess. A few shops were down in town today , but accepting cash

Yep - we are putting all our eggs in one basket with the dominance of Microsoft. Personally I stay as analogue as I can but it's like trying to swim against the tide.