Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 10:48:05 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:48:08 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3f9880f16babc4ee015024552a77f7af"; logging-data="1946600"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/hWizkk//04zd2t1eZR+836/GNXDc4I90=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:qymlzJJxUgxncbw9njfbzGarGyE= Bytes: 3288 On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:29:19 +1200, Your Name wrote: >On 2024-07-24 03:27:34 +0000, Mad Hamish said: >> On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 07:56:32 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer >> wrote: >>> On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:01:25 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote: >>>>=20 >>>> xkcd: CrowdStrike >>>> https://www.xkcd.com/2961/ >>>>=20 >>>> Make the best of bad times. >>>>=20 >>>> Explained at: >>>> https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2961:_CrowdStrike >>>>=20 >>>> Lynn >>>=20 >>> Was anybody here affected by the CrowdStrike Thing? >>=20 >> A client provided computer went on a reboot loop and meant I couldn't >> do a scheduled software release >> When I went to the supermarket 1/2 the checkouts were out of service >> (I presume crowdstrike) > > >Sounds like just a normal day here in New Zealand ... the idiots=20 >running the supermarkets only ever seem to have half the checkouts=20 >(usually less!) working. Same with bank branches with their tellers. =20 >:-( =46or a while, the card reader in one particular checkout of the local Bartells always refused to read my card's chip. The others worked. They replaced their old machines with new ones. The same thing happened. The problem here, of course, is that there is no way to demonstrate it to anyone. To do that I would have to purchase a lot of items individually, some at one checkout, some at another, while some employee paid attention. Had that /been/ possible, I would have suggested switching cables. I mean, if the problem survives putting in a new machine, doesn't that make the cable the Obvious Suspect? The clerks were hopeless. They didn't read the whole screen and so missed the fact that it wanted me to slide the card. One managed to go so fast that the device actually claimed the card had been cancelled. It hadn't: swiping worked. One insisted I "tap" even that that card didn't have the capability; she was /convinced/ that all cards could do this. Things have quieted down now that the card was updated by one that does "tap". --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"