Hmm or maybe not. The recommended advice was to try restarting my computer five times. It’s still going.
I can, however, see emails on my phone, so…Joy.
Like any of that's enough to fight the Dark Master. Bator.
Xander ,'Lessons'
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
meara - Jul 19, 2024 8:31:53 am PDT #1623 of 3451
Dana - Jul 19, 2024 8:44:04 am PDT #1624 of 3451
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
The solution to this IT problem is for IT people to tediously, manually fix every single machine that's been affected, so I imagine that's what's got Scola reconsidering his career.
-t - Jul 19, 2024 8:46:24 am PDT #1625 of 3451
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, I saw an email this morning about that mess affecting our servers. Glad I took the day off.
Emily Nussbaum = gold
DavidS - Jul 19, 2024 8:47:45 am PDT #1626 of 3451
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I woke up to a text from IT about some global outage but then see that sadly everything seems to have been restored in time for me to actually work today. Boooo.
Ugh. After months of planning I had a friend flying out to see me today. Her flight is cancelled, and the trip is off. We can't reschedule until mid-August. Huge disappointment.
Tom Scola - Jul 19, 2024 8:53:25 am PDT #1627 of 3451
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
I work with Linux systems, and the outage today only affected Windows systems, so I wasn’t DIRECTLY affected by it, thank god. (I did bring in muffins for the Windows team that sits two rows over from me).
Even still, seeing the news this morning caused me to freak the fuck out. Next time I won’t be as lucky, and it’s only a matter of time before it happens.
Jessica - Jul 19, 2024 10:01:06 am PDT #1628 of 3451
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
A bunch of our vendor-facing retail tools are down right now, and BOY what a relief it is to be able to tell them that unlike in 2017, this is DEFINITELY not Amazon's fault.
DavidS - Jul 19, 2024 10:42:04 am PDT #1629 of 3451
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Aimee posted on FB that she's been stranded for 7 hours at the start of her trip because of the outage.
Dana - Jul 19, 2024 10:42:35 am PDT #1630 of 3451
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I saw someone on Twitter claiming that Southwest isn't affected because they still use Windows 3.1, and I can't tell if that's a joke.
askye - Jul 19, 2024 10:52:16 am PDT #1631 of 3451
Thrive to spite them
Ugh. I bought several Hanes cooling t shirts. They had good reviews and recommendations and for awhile they did what they were supposed to. The fabric gets cold
But today it just was holding in the heat and I had to be in the back room longer than normal and so I got really hot. And sweaty. I thought I had cooled down ok I even changed shirts (there was a clean one in my car I've been meaning to take inside) and I started getting brain foggy. I did finally stop for lunch.
It's not the hottest day it's been but it's very humid. Lunch as been some chicken salad, celery sticks, yogurt, watermelon (maybe I might save it for a snack) and I got a electrolyte drink mix that I mixed with electrolyte water . I am feeling a little better.
erikaj - Jul 19, 2024 11:07:06 am PDT #1632 of 3451
Always Anti-fascist!
Asking for -ma for my mom's friend's grandson...it's a saga, apparently, and not mine to post anyway, but thought I'd ask for a good thought for Branden, anyway.