'Completely unprecedented' outage causes havoc with IT systems across globe — as it happened
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A massive IT systems outage caused by issues with CrowdStrike software affects banks, airports, supermarkets and media companies across Australia and around the world.

All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It’s all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We’ll see if that changes over the weekend…

  • andxz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Depending on what your definition of “enterprise” is, I’ve attended what was at the time a fairly large and prestigious art school that ran everything on Macs.

    They even preferred that we didn’t bring windows laptops, although after some… rather intense protests by pretty much anyone under 25 we did get to bring our own peripherals.

    Edit: I’ll also add that outside the shitty keyboards and mice, the server system they had set up with our accounts on etc was completely fine.

    Never had a single issue with it and it was my first ever touching a Mac.

      • andxz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        This is almost 20 years ago today, so my memory is a bit hazy, but basically each student had an account with a certain amount of space. I can’t remember the size, but given the amount of digital files we did produce it would’ve been 500GB+/ student. We could also “see” the account folder for everyone in our class for file sharing and stuff.

        There were also accounts/folders for each teacher, which we used to turn in the primary copy of whatever assignment we had done, if it was digital. Physical art were scanned or photographed also, as a sort of backup. We were also required to back every project up via USB sticks, ofc.

        There was also a dock for each digital camera that they had which allowed us to get our photographs transferred to our own folders.

        Now, I’ll freely admit that I haven’t touched a Mac since I left that school, and I’ve never had any interest in them whatsoever, so I don’t know what they used or if it even exists anymore. Someone with more knowhow maybe does?

        I do remember them specifically (proudly) telling us it all ran on Macs, otherwise I probably wouldn’t have any reason to believe so. The “server room” was basically what looked like a glorified closet with a rack and a couple of Macs that didn’t look like the ones we students used. This was just before the all-in-one models were introduced, iirc.