Dotta
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I remember Y2K very well too as I worked a 13 hour shift on Y2K at work.I remember when the calendars were all about to flip to the year 2000, and the massive IT precautions and backups that had to be done in case the systems collapsed. Y2K it was called.
We put in tons of overtime hours at the place I was working, just to get ready. (Then nothing adverse happened.)
SBM
God I hope there's no fatalities and this doesn't happen again.
This is giving me flashbacks to 2022 (my fellow Canadians will know) of a massive tech outage we had nation-wide.
We lost internet, cable, public transportation, government services, debit machines, traffic lights, fire alarms/sprinkler systems, and 911 services.. and someone did die. It took 2 days to resolve this little maintenance whoopsie... apparently they've put solutions in place finally (almost the same thing happened a year prior) but I guess we will just have to wait and see what happens when another software update goes wrong.
2022 Rogers Communications outage - Wikipedia
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That happened to me last night at work. My work computer screen went completely blue, and crashed. Fortunately, I am not working in a control tower at LAX!!! How crazy would that have been!
It was about 10:20 MDT for me, I rebooted, and got back on in about 10 minutes.
BBM.
Known as a BSOD - blue screen of death. Surprised a reboot fixed it - I thought there was more involved to recover each computer?
It's a bit re-assuring how fast everything seems to be recovering, though. What I'm hearing now is not about outages but how things are getting back to functioning mode.“This is a very, very uncomfortable illustration of the fragility of the world’s core Internet infrastructure,” said Ciaran Martin, professor at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government and former head of the UK National Cyber Security Centre. While the core problem appeared simple, which should make it short-lived, its immediate impact was remarkable, Martin said.
“I’m struggling to think of an outage at quite this scale.”
A similar thing happened at my workplace today. IT recommended that we reboot and that should fix the issue. It worked for me but not my in-office coworker. Also didn't work for the handful people who keep hitting "reply-all" to the IT email.BBM.
Known as a BSOD - blue screen of death. Surprised a reboot fixed it - I thought there was more involved to recover each computer?
SBM
God I hope there's no fatalities and this doesn't happen again.
This is giving me flashbacks to 2022 (my fellow Canadians will know) of a massive tech outage we had nation-wide.
We lost internet, cable, public transportation, government services, debit machines, traffic lights, fire alarms/sprinkler systems, and 911 services.. and someone did die. It took 2 days to resolve this little maintenance whoopsie... apparently they've put solutions in place finally (almost the same thing happened a year prior) but I guess we will just have to wait and see what happens when another software update goes wrong.
2022 Rogers Communications outage - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
A similar thing happened at my workplace today. IT recommended that we reboot and that should fix the issue. It worked for me but not my in-office coworker. Also didn't work for the handful people who keep hitting "reply-all" to the IT email.
That's where my family member needs to get. It's nuts. No one-way rental cars available from the major city where she currently is stuck so no option but to keep waiting for a flight.Flight cancelations at 2k in the US.
"Delta has canceled at least 640 flights, and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport currently has the most cancellations in the US with 226."
Not a surprise it's Atlanta as it's the world's busiest airport. (And Delta is the main carrier there.) Must be chaos there today.
This! My father-in-law worked for the U.S. State Department at the time — specifically, the Office of Intelligence Research — and they put in A LOT of work creating safeguards to prevent a Y2K meltdown and national security disaster. If the world had just sat back and done nothing to prepare for it, there would have most certainly been a massive global systems failure.A lot of people thought the Y2k thing was a hoax, when in fact it was very serious and could have led to what happened today, except for those dedicated IT people who worked round the clock to prevent the worst from happening.
They potentially saved peoples lives.
A Guardian article from 2019
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The millennium bug was real – and 20 years later we face the same threats | Martyn Thomas
We fixed Y2K, but we’re fools to be complacent about the vulnerability of computer systems, says IT professor Martyn Thomaswww.theguardian.com