The 'I work in I.T' thread

[andybond]

I used to be a ECDL examiner and marker many years back.

Many, many years back

 

[Donny_Dog]

I used to be a ECDL examiner and marker many years back.

Many, many years back

I'd be worried stating that out loud pal. Wouldn't pass a DBS check

 

[andybond]

I'd be worried stating that out loud pal. Wouldn't pass a DBS check

I think I failed most of those doing the DBS check so I know I am safe.

 

[Krarl]

 

[Krarl]

 

[charltjr]

Anyone else get clobbered by the AWS authentication outage this morning? Knocked out our automated monitoring for every customer in North America, so that was a fun 90 minutes until they got it working again 😂

 

[Advikaz]

Still the best marketing i've seen

 

[R3k1355]

Couple of weeks work and several grand of research grant money down the swanny, thanks to Microsoft forcing an update midway through the analysis run. By the time it'd finished f**king around the samples were ruined.

Not me, I just house the machine in one of my Labs. Things been nothing but trouble.

 

[Donny_Dog]

Couple of weeks work and several grand of research grant money down the swanny, thanks to Microsoft forcing an update midway through the analysis run. By the time it'd finished f**king around the samples were ruined.

Not me, I just house the machine in one of my Labs. Things been nothing but trouble.

View attachment 1709098

Could it not have been offline? For any serious local number crunching, we isolate 🤷

 

[Krarl]

Couple of weeks work and several grand of research grant money down the swanny, thanks to Microsoft forcing an update midway through the analysis run. By the time it'd finished f**king around the samples were ruined.

Not me, I just house the machine in one of my Labs. Things been nothing but trouble.

View attachment 1709098

PEBKAC

Take it offline for any work like that or force stop the updates completely

 

[andybond]

MS doesn’t force updates.
Your box either checked in with MS and updated or SCCM set a deadline , or a group policy was defined to check in , update and reboot.

 

[R3k1355]

Could it not have been offline? For any serious local number crunching, we isolate 🤷

It breaks down all the time and they need to access the machine, pull the log files and try to rescue data 🤦‍♂️

It's not ours, it's here on trial so none of us are in a position to fiddle with the configuration.