[OFF TOPIC] Politics Thread

[heywoodu 14,017]

5 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Ouch!  Like I say at the University 90% of our PCs ran an identical build, so at least it could be done centrally, but still at least 90-180 minutes to reboot, rebuild & roll out the fix.

But still manually I think? Since the OS wouldn't start on the affected systems and updates/fixes that were pushed were not received, leaving the manual safe mode --> delete file route as the only option  

 

Slightly annoying if you've got 50 systems. Quite a different situation when, as I've seen plenty of people post, you've got (tens of) thousands  

 

Glad we don't use CrowdStrike, I like the data center, but wasn't looking forward to a trip there on this way too warm Friday.

[Grassmarket 3,053]

17 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

But still manually I think? Since the OS wouldn't start on the affected systems and updates/fixes that were pushed were not received, leaving the manual safe mode --> delete file route as the only option  

 

Slightly annoying if you've got 50 systems. Quite a different situation when, as I've seen plenty of people post, you've got (tens of) thousands  

 

Glad we don't use CrowdStrike, I like the data center, but wasn't looking forward to a trip there on this way too warm Friday.

If they are on they can be rebooted centrally.  If not on, reboot with with a USB to start the rebuild.

 

BUT - you still have to schedule.  Every September we had a crisis with all the student lab rebuilds, could only do so many at a time. 150 max I think.

Edited Friday at 02:24 PM by Grassmarket

[Dnl 681]

The article (in Hebrew)

 

Could not find anything in English so the link is above 👆🏽, but our athletes from our delegations, getting ready to go to Paris received threats in their personal Emails, that “1972 will happen again in Paris, if they will decide to go to Paris and not forfeit “

[Grassmarket 3,053]

3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

But still manually I think? Since the OS wouldn't start on the affected systems and updates/fixes that were pushed were not received, leaving the manual safe mode --> delete file route as the only option  

 

Slightly annoying if you've got 50 systems. Quite a different situation when, as I've seen plenty of people post, you've got (tens of) thousands  

 

Glad we don't use CrowdStrike, I like the data center, but wasn't looking forward to a trip there on this way too warm Friday.

Aha, seemingly it is even worse than that…..in any sane rational well-managed system the boot sector is password protected because otherwise your students are going to boot from USB & watch porn. bad things will happen. Guess how many people know their BIOS password?  That’s OK, as a well organised IT team we always store a record of all BIOS passwords in an Excel spreadsheet on the…….ah.  Never mind, if you don’t the solution is as simple as opening the PC (which should be padlocked and chained btw) & fiddling with a jumper switch on the motherboard.  

 

https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/07/19/massive-it-outage-grinds-cyber-world-to-a-halt-n3791994

 

 

 

Edited Friday at 05:34 PM by Grassmarket

[bestmen 2,677]

Yemen under attack of Satanyahu 

 

26 billions $ of weapons , this is the US gift to satanyahu , they  will destroy the area 

 

But brave yemeni, said " we gonna fight until the end " 💪

[heywoodu 14,017]

2 hours ago, bestmen said:

Yemen under attack of Satanyahu 

No doubt that's what the Houthi's wanted though, they have almost literally been asking for it the past months...

 

But yeah, not good for anyone (civilian, at least) to have the whole thing escalate more and more and more.

Edited Saturday at 10:08 PM by heywoodu

[bestmen 2,677]

13 hours ago, heywoodu said:

No doubt that's what the Houthi's wanted though, they have almost literally been asking for it the past months...

 

But yeah, not good for anyone (civilian, at least) to have the whole thing escalate more and more and more.

No , yemeni are defending poor Palestinians under tyranic occupation 

[bestmen 2,677]

Btw , houthi have launched 1 

drone last generation in face of Satanyahu 

 

[Olympian1010 7,737]

Biden is dropping out of the U.S Presidential election.

 

 

Edited Sunday at 06:22 PM by Olympian1010

[heywoodu 14,017]

Biden has just announced his withdrawal from the elections in November. Now the question is who will replace him as Democratic candidate.