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