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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!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: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 10:13:14 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 19:13:15 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="61928307e7b17c325ea6a1cca70e401e"; logging-data="3085106"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18TKzJJEhpnlX5HhXWDMjTRZdBe0uEMxhc=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:WEZqMvWFbGO27uQ7agw5ausEjTo= Bytes: 2277 On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 08:46:39 +1200, Your Name wrote: >On 2024-08-01 07:58:16 +0000, BCFD 36 said: >> On 7/23/24 00:56, 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? >>> My nephew's wife flew to Europe that day without incident. >>=20 >> We were on a river cruise on the Columbia and Snake Rivers. We were=20 >> about 2 hours late leaving from one port because of the problem. It=20 >> makes no sense why this should be so. > >Various possibilities. For example, the Crowdstrike glitch could have=20 >affected the boat's navigation computers, the company's ticket buying=20 >and checking system, etc. Just wait till we all have chips in our heads that can be disabled (by disabling a server they must connect to) by something like this. Won't /that/ be fun! --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"