Bits and PCs - a Computers and Tech Miscellany

[Ensign Steve]

My coworker points out that all the managers' laptops are fucked, while we engineers are fine.

We're staging a coup.

[JoeP]

On the positive side, if the Crowdstrike board had annual objectives to increase brand awareness ... done.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

Or if you tried to take a flight. Or called 911. Or went to the hospital.

That's within my definition of being involved - inadvertently and unwillingly - but still involved.

[JoeP]

Crowdstrike: "Our mission is to stop breaches...."

Yup, servers that are down aren't going to be breached.

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by JoeP

CrowdStrike fixes start at "reboot up to 15 times" and get more complex from there | Ars Technica

Wag on the Internet:
30-50 feral reboots

[specious_reasons]

Turns out if you BSOD a whole lot of cloud computers, shit goes down.

[JoeP]

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[JoeP]

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Lest you be uncertain, that's the buggy file that prevented lots of machines from booting

[JoeP]

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[JoeP]

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Ex military FFers able to confirm this? ES?

[JoeP]

[Crumb]

Maybe tech monopolies aren't the best idea.

[Sock Puppet]

I'm gonna be really edgy and suggest that we need a Clownstrike thread.

ETA to Jope: I assume you can turn it into your thrad if you want, :adminpower: - or ban me for spamming the board, whatevs.

[Ensign Steve]

Originally Posted by JoeP

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Ex military FFers able to confirm this? ES?

can confirm

[LarsMac]

Originally Posted by Crumb

Maybe tech monopolies aren't the best idea.

Oh, come on. What can go wrong?
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Um, nevermind.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Investment

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

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[viscousmemories]

from Imgflip Meme Generator

[specious_reasons]

Have we talked about the Sonos App debacle?

Sonos, in order to support some new products, created a new app for their systems. Instead of putting this out as a beta for people who wanted these new products and features, they more or less forced everyone to update to this new app. Unfortunately for them, the app wasn't actually ready for use. It was buggy and missing features that significant portions of their users actually used.

Since the "upgrade," my sound system volume can no longer be controlled by my remote's volume control. The volume can only be controlled via the volume buttons on the speakers or through the Sonos app, but the new app keeps on forgetting my system! I rarely rate apps on the Apple App store, but I was so frustrated I'm one of the many, many people who rated the app 1-star.

So many people complained in so many forums that the CEO had to do damage control:
Sonos CEO apologizes for disastrous rollout of new app - The Verge
and they're considering allow the old app to be reinstalled.

This was an unforced error, but instead of punishing the CEO, they laid off 100 people, or 6% of their workforce. But he's confident "that today’s actions will not impact our ability to deliver on that promise.” Just as he was so confident he could force a deadline on the new app and then force everyone to upgrade and everything would work out OK.

I had considered getting a new speaker for my PC and some new headphones, and had strongly favored Sonos products up until this. Now, I'm even considering replacing Sonos as the speakers for our entertainment center.

[beyelzu]

I’m going to get a new console in order to play NCAA football,

Does anyone here know the tradeoffs between the latest Xbox and PlayStation?