Posts by KirkBresniker

CrowdStrike file update bricks Windows machines around the world

Re: Related?

I was able to recovery by myself using the windows recovery command line and the instructions in the article to delete the offending file, I did need another system to get my bitlocker recovery key, but the advanced debug screen pointed me 90% of the way there.

Oh Sonos! App update borks users' favorite features and worse

Counter-intuitive is putting it mildly

My wife was convinced that somehow either my daughter had changed something on our network or that I had somehow relegated her to using only the Sonos device in our laundry room because after the automatic update of the app on her iPhone she couldn't figure out the sequence of swipes and clicks on new meaningless icons to display all of the devices on our network. We've also been using Sonos since the beginning with the physical remotes. I still enjoy the audio quality and the hardware but I'd like them to show their work on usability studies that show that what their users actually do has ever gotten easier. The problem with getting used to something counter-intuitive is that when it's arbitrarily changed to a different something counter-intuitive it's doubly painful.

Internet's safe-keepers forced to postpone crucial DNSSEC root key signing ceremony – no, not a hacker attack, but because they can't open a safe

Re: Yep.

CDC7600 ~= 36 MFLOP/s @ >500kW, $5M

Raspberry Pi ~= 1400 MFlops @ 6W, $25

50 * (36/1400) ~= 1.3 years

So that's quite a few milliseconds, but you'd still be better off waiting for the hardware to catch up to the demands of the problem.