Live: Global IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world
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There are reports of IT outages affecting major institutions in Australia and internationally.

All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It’s all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

      • 1luv8008135@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Also, enterprise infrastructure running on a Mac? It’s something I’ve never heard of in over a decade and a half of working in tech. And now I’m curious. Is it a thing?

        • andxz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Depending on what your definition of “enterprise” is, I’ve attended what was at the time a fairly large and prestigious art school that ran everything on Macs.

          They even preferred that we didn’t bring windows laptops, although after some… rather intense protests by pretty much anyone under 25 we did get to bring our own peripherals.

          Edit: I’ll also add that outside the shitty keyboards and mice, the server system they had set up with our accounts on etc was completely fine.

          Never had a single issue with it and it was my first ever touching a Mac.

        • ndru@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          I’ve never heard of Macs running embedded systems - I think that would be a pretty crazy waste of money - but Mac OS Server was a thing for years. My college campus was all Mac in the G4 iMac days, running MacOS Server to administer the network. As far as I understand it was really solid and capable, but I guess it didn’t really fit Apples focus as their market moved from industry professionals to consumers, and they killed it.

      • lustyargonian@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Yeah the more I read it seems some crucial security software deployed bad patch.

        I’m sure whatever OS would dominate would face widespread issues just by the numbers.

        But to be fair it’s fun to make fun of Windows/MSFT :p