Hi Joe,
the issue is windows, but caused by crowdstrike.
Unlike Linux, Microsoft Windows never implemented switchable boot images.
Microsoft loads all drivers as separate files. Linux has a one file/image
kernel that includes all the loadable kernel driver modules. Its just bad
design, if one d
On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 12:48 AM Joe Monk <
05971158733e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> [snip]
> "Script Kiddies" is industry slang for kids who write viruses and then
> attempt to deploy them. Not all of them are malicious, but nevertheless
> they are PUPs (potentially unwated progra
And to think this happened from an inadvertent coding error.
Just think what might it would have been like if
one of their staff actually wanted to distribute malware.
At 06:39 PM 7/19/2024, Joe Monk wrote:
More to the point, the issue is not Windows, but the abuse of Windows.
Example: req
https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/u882o5/intro_to_tcpip_over_packet_radio/
On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 11:27 PM Paul Edwards
<0676ab6435a5-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 13:04:00 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike
> wrote:
>
> >*Are you suggesting using physical
On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 13:04:00 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
>*Are you suggesting using physical cash because software andhardware
>engineers are unable to create a reliable alternative?*
>
>Absolutely yes. There are myriad reasons, in my case I have a pension paid
>into a UK account. Domiciled in
On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:38:53 +, Nash, Jonathan S.
wrote:
>This reminded me of Danny Hillis's discussion about
>how we need a plan B for the Internet:
>
>https://youtu.be/2K6WN3LBHiw?si=R1-dBlYzdZRwCvSr
I just watched the video.
One of the things he mentioned was the police department
being
Paul wrote:
*Are you suggesting using physical cash because software andhardware
engineers are unable to create a reliable alternative?*
Absolutely yes. There are myriad reasons, in my case I have a pension paid
into a UK account. Domiciled in Australia it's the best way for me to
access these f
On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 10:26:46 +1000, Clement Clarke wrote:
>Can we bring back OS/2?
It's still available. I bought a commercial license for ArcaOS
because I was thinking of switching to it - where there is the
ability to actually report bugs and get them fixed without
being asked to pay full west
"Can you elaborate on this? Who made the decision to require
admin rights?"
Software developers using the registry to store things. Any software
install on a Windows PC requires admin rights to write certain values to
the registry.
Linux does not suffer from these issues, nor does macOS.
"Can yo
In Tech Support we never had an issue with having admin rights to our PCs.
Newbies in security/audit had the bright idea to change that. It made us less
productive, and gained nothing in return. A coworker called it security
theater.
Dave B.
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On Friday, Jul
I agree with Leonard. About a year ago, an automatic windows update made my
home PC unusable. I had to being it up in safe mode and fall back. Windows is a
necessary evil but still evil. Luckily, I rarely use the PC anymore with the
iPhone.
Dave B.
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Can we bring back OS/2?
Clem.
On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 9:39 AM Joe Monk <
05971158733e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> More to the point, the issue is not Windows, but the abuse of Windows.
> Example: requiring administrator rights to do ordinary, everyday tasks.
>
> This led to "scr
(Multiple replies included.)
Rick Troth wrote on 7/19/2024 6:56 AM:
Somehow a name like "Crowdstrike" seems fitting.
Yeah, but this was Strike 3. Seems that Crowdstrike sent out a bad
update in 2009, and another bad update a year ago. Quality control
must be non-existent. I hope they go o
On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:39:02 -0500, Joe Monk wrote:
>More to the point, the issue is not Windows, but the abuse of Windows.
>Example: requiring administrator rights to do ordinary, everyday tasks.
Can you elaborate on this? Who made the decision to require
admin rights?
>This led to "script kid
More to the point, the issue is not Windows, but the abuse of Windows.
Example: requiring administrator rights to do ordinary, everyday tasks.
This led to "script kiddies" which caused us to be defensive on PCs, e.g.
Anti-Malware.
Joe
On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 6:31 PM Steve Beaver <
050e0c375a
We never had these problems until Windows showed up
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No one said I could type with one thumb
> On Jul 19, 2024, at 18:22, Paul Edwards
> <0676ab6435a5-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 06:46:40 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike
> wrote:
>
>> Some
On Sat, 20 Jul 2024 06:46:40 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
>Some kind of false economy to make the PC the entire tool of choice for
>certain routine tasks.
>
>In the 1980s we had proprietary banking terminals, private/leased line
>point to point communications and passbooks.
This is a topic of
Some kind of false economy to make the PC the entire tool of choice for
certain routine tasks.
In the 1980s we had proprietary banking terminals, private/leased line
point to point communications and passbooks.
No way our branch network would be unable to perform front counter
transactions. We ha
2 things. 1. I noticed it after I sent it. 2. I knew some foolish person or two
would take great pleasure in showing their spelling prowess.
Yeah, would be nice to be able to edit after the fact.
Dave B.
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On Friday, July 19, 2024, 2:58 PM, Peter Sylvester
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>> We run sort splits on large tape datasets, with over a hundred million
>> records. They get split into 3 separate datasets, depending on the data.
These jobs do not use FILSZ.
Eric,
Does the job SORT the data before split , or is it just splitting with a COPY
operation to separate datasets ?
Hello All,
Unless I'm misreading the manual, from the DFSORT Application Programming
Guide, FILSZ can be used to improve performance.
We run sort splits on large tape datasets, with over a hundred million records.
They get split into 3 separate datasets, depending on the data.
These jobs do not
Hi,
This morning (or night if you want), access to IBM documentation had "error
503" for many pages.
(Almost needless to say that that the "report issue" button didn't work anyway).
99.99% uptime? 99 Luftballons;.?
Peter
On 19/07/2024 15:37, Dave Beagle wrote:
Microsoft via a Crowdstrike s
On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 10:31:59 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote:
>*outage not *outing
>
Yes, but it may be better to replicate misspellings in Subject:
lines to facilitate text searches.
(Does LISTSERV support threading headers?)
--
gil
--
In fact it is not first time where defender or antivirus transformed
into enemy.
I remember Symantec update which crippled my Firefox. Just at the moment
I needed it to get to HMC and perform IPL, etc.
Not to mention the Defender and other AV software deletes your files
despite it is NOT a vi
The good news is that there is a Plan B. The bad news is that ISBN-13 :
978-1892065001 is a novel, not a plan.
Some lawyer is going to get rich off of this sort of thing. If you must
outsurce, get iron-clad penaltie clauses and insurance coverage for vendor
collapse.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.
It seems to be a driver in those PCs that talks to something in some cloud
somewhere somehow.
The House is now taking bets on how long it takes to get a coherent story on
what happened.
(Which is reasonable--fix it, THEN talk about it!)
This one seems slightly more self-inflicted (in that the
I had to go into my laptop via safe mode and delete a crowdstrike file from
within windows directory tree to get mine to come back.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Schmitt, Michael
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2024 10:37 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
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I'm not running Windoze so I haven't experienced it first hand, but this
does sound serious. From the Wikipedia page:
"On July 19, 2024, a faulty CrowdStrike software update
caused blue screens of death on Microsoft Windows machines,
disrupting millions of Windows computers worldwid
There is no plan B
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No one said I could type with one thumb
> On Jul 19, 2024, at 10:36, Schmitt, Michael wrote:
>
> The impact is larger than just Microsoft's cloud. The cloudstrike update is
> causing crashes in Windows PCs and servers. For some it causes the PC to be
The impact is larger than just Microsoft's cloud. The cloudstrike update is
causing crashes in Windows PCs and servers. For some it causes the PC to be
unbootable.
(It crashed my PC but it was able to restart)
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Dave Be
lol spell check but thanks for correcting a 2nd grade word.
Dave B.
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On Friday, July 19, 2024, 10:32 AM, Phil Smith III wrote:
*outage not *outing
The real question is how many (OK, how FEW) CxOs are going to look at this and
say "Gee, SPOF, eggs in one ba
Yes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect:Direct for a pretty accurate
timeline.
I was in Sterling VMD 1997-2000 (through the CA acquisition), which was in the
same building as NMD (the NDM/Connect:Direct folks), despite being nominally
separate companies by then. I never dug into the dich
This reminded me of Danny Hillis's discussion about
how we need a plan B for the Internet:
https://youtu.be/2K6WN3LBHiw?si=R1-dBlYzdZRwCvSr
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Dave Beagle
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2024 9:38 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
*outage not *outing
The real question is how many (OK, how FEW) CxOs are going to look at this and
say "Gee, SPOF, eggs in one basket, *not under our control*, is this cloudy
thingy really such a great idea?"
-Original Message-
> On 7/19/24 at 9:38 AM, Dave Beagle wrote:
>
>> Microsoft
Somehow a name like "Crowdstrike" seems fitting.
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On 7/19/24 9:42 AM, Greg Cray wrote:
Saw that. Airlines, banks, and numerous other industries were affected.
Microsoft 365 after a Crowdstrike update.
Greg
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On 7/19/24 at 9:38 AM, Dave Beagle wrot
Saw that. Airlines, banks, and numerous other industries were affected.
Microsoft 365 after a Crowdstrike update.
Greg
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On 7/19/24 at 9:38 AM, Dave Beagle wrote:
> Microsoft via a Crowdstrike security update is experiencing the largest
> outage in world history
My recollection:
NDM was owned by Sterling Commerce, which sold network products, while
Sterling Software sold storage management solutions. In 1993 Sterling
'bought' (actually merged with) Systems Center and renamed the product
Direct:Connect. In 2000, CA aquired Sterling Software while
Microsoft via a Crowdstrike security update is experiencing the largest outage
in world history. Long live the mainframe.
Dave B.
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