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Ironic post considering Microsoft OS crashes are wreaking havoc across the globe today…
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I hate all operating systems with the possible exception of QNX, but Apple hardware in particular is hateful.
And considering how many problems I've had with several different people's Apple products in the past week, 1 dodgy update from a mid cyber security firm hardly rates, even if the blast radius was stupid. That's not windows' fault. That's "imma put all my software eggs in one basket, what could happen?" fault.
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Only a little OT. Around the millenium I helped administer some QNX based systems (VISA VAPs). Absolutely loved it.
But they had their own Y2K bug!
The standard c library definition of year in the time struct was "CE year minus 1900", not "CE year % 100", and the ls file dates reported year 100.
Cosmetic issue only, but amusing. Probably occurred in a bunch of other *nixes too.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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One of the very few software adjustments I had to make for Y2K was to have our UI show the year as 00 rather than 100 -- DEC (ANSI) C on OpenVMS.
And the DBAs had to alter some Oracle reports, if I recall correctly, to use RR rather than YY for the date.
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I'd be interested in hearing why you hate all operating systems with the possible exception of QNX.
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Because every single one I've ever used has let me down, in a big way at one point or another.
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https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Early in my career, Serge, a middle management guy whom I also respected for his technical knowledge, told me that he sometimes had to deal with this kind of thing:
Serge: I want 2+2=4 on the screen.
Developers: We can do it, but it won't be elegant. We have to rewrite the operating system.
Is that what you're talking about? 
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Surely not OpenVMS. 
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Turns out it wasn't a Microsoft issue. It was a kernel component installed by CloudStrike that was causing this issue. Not sure why CloudStrike is even using kernel level components.
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obermd wrote: Not sure why CloudStrike is even using kernel level components.
They provide all the cyber security software that OS makers use.
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I like it. Good rock and roll. Reminds me of Kenny Wayne Shephard.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Makes me want to swing the "Mace of Molag Bal" 
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Brilliant man, tragic ending.
I'm actually running several retro devices with CP/M 2.2
A home without books is a body without soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Oh dear, back to therapy...
First PC, an Amstrad, had GEM pre-installed.
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"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olsen, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) 1977
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Why is your password 917201999?
Me...
Safe for work.
Jeremy Falcon
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Why is your password ji32k7au4a83 ?
Because.[^]
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Done (or at least imagined) before - Dave Barry Official Website
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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) I (ignorantly) thought it was Gates.