Posts by Bobby Tables

CrowdStrike file update bricks Windows machines around the world

In complete fairness, it wasn't selection of Microsoft products that caused the issue.

I've seen my estate in flames from the impact of third-party software updates in the past, and will do so again... all that changes is _which_ third party software strikes the match...

Debugging source is even harder when you can't stop laughing at it

Richard Kiel memorial abend

Ah, the days of putting humorous things into code... back in the day when I found myself running databases on Netware (don't ask, I still have nervous twitches) we occasionally saw the OS fall over reporting a "richard kiel memorial abend".

https://eeggs.com/items/28509.html

We reported it, and Netware fixed it.

The abend still happened, but it produced a more straitlaced error message :)