Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BCFD 36 Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.comics.strips Subject: Re: xkcd: CrowdStrike Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 00:58:16 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 09:58:16 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3375d37261238d2da5878a2c57dcb096"; logging-data="2188696"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/D9rqIyY0pauDxhPQ1foyB" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:+jLxO3AS3lfc7l62PKKUZQHLdfU= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1892 On 7/23/24 00:56, Charles Packer wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 16:01:25 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote: > >> xkcd: CrowdStrike >> https://www.xkcd.com/2961/ >> >> Make the best of bad times. >> >> Explained at: >> https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2961:_CrowdStrike >> >> Lynn > > Was anybody here affected by the CrowdStrike Thing? > My nephew's wife flew to Europe that day without incident. We were on a river cruise on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. We were about 2 hours late leaving from one port because of the problem. It makes no sense why this should be so. -- ---------------- Dave Scruggs Senior Software Engineer - Lockheed Martin, et. al (mostly Retired) Captain - Boulder Creek Fire (Retired) Board of Directors - Boulder Creek Fire Protection District (What was I thinking?)