IT outage, lots affected

[paul&mandy]

Just see on the news. Said it for years. Too reliant on tech.

 

[Chae1]

Main thing is TFF still working.

 

[paul&mandy]

Main thing is TFF still working.

It's run by hampers on a wheel and thick old copper cable

 

[ladycrofter]

Third time in 6 months Manchester and Edinburgh airport have gone down. First it was the passport gates and then the luggage handling system.

Tech guy on the radio this morning said it's because one of Microsoft's security systems ran an update and it didn't work. And they have no redundancy in their server system to take up the slack. Ridiculous.

 

[ladycrofter]

It's run by hampers on a wheel and thick old copper cable

Yes it actually is just about. The tech guy said because all of the systems are so interlinked from ticketing to baggage handling and everything else across the entire global transport network, that it's nearly impossible to update any part of it without everything else going down.

IIRC the NHS are still running Windows XP. Possibly because it works and it doesn't do bloody updates every day oh the good old days!

 

[Still Farming]

Looks like CHAOS, records,banking, NHS, trains, etc etc across the board??

 

[Dry Rot]

My internet was out for about 1.5hrs last night. I posted about it in the Computer & IT section. Everything else worked except land line and internet.

 

[Chae1]

It's the Russians.

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

John Conner will save us !

 

[zero]

Couldn't expect anything less when everyone relies on one system...

 

[Bald Rick]

Bad update from Crowdstrike is the cause

I blame Lewis Hamilton, F1 driver (as they sponsor him/Mercedes F1)

 

[kiwi pom]

Stuff going on here too apparently but it’s dark and cold outside so I’m staying by the fire

 

[Macsky]

Sister and family travelling home from Spain today, delayed in the airport, and been given hand written boarding passes.

Just spoken to local sports centre and their systems affected too.

 

[Dave6170]

Local vets system is down

 

[yoki]

In keeping with our weather recently, is this just another type of "cloud burst"?

 

[Nick Adams]

It's the Russians.

Or Chinese.

Cyber warfare is a big issue apparently.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Life is bliss, I’m totally unaffected by any of it, other than TFF of course, I wouldn’t give a damn if the whole lot went down and never came back

 

[Northeastfarmer]

. Too reliant on tech.

As you inform us of this using tech….

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Life is bliss, I’m totally unaffected by any of it, other than TFF of course, I wouldn’t give a damn if the whole lot went down and never came back

People were certainly a lot happier and content before the internet and phones were invented

 

[Macsky]

People were certainly a lot happier and content before the internet and phones were invented

And productive. Amount of time I waste staring at a screen is horrifying really.