global-microsoft-outage

[DanielBowman]

Petrol generator, lithium house battery, power packs, 3 FM radios to pick up emergency broadcasts, spare smartphone, big packs of duracells, water for 2 weeks, lots of cans of beans and soup, emergency chocolate, calor gas heater, camping gas stove, first aid kit, more batteries, crappy wind-up radio/torch thing, sub-zero rated sleeping bag, more emergency chocolate and biscuits, extra jumpers, coats, gloves, hats and duvets, 500 bog rolls just in case, emergency flashlights, old car battery in the garage hooked up to old car radio, etc, etc... I guess it must be winter approaching. Its all good, like caffeinated soap.

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I guess the toilet-roll buying here is not quite at the full-on pandemic panic level yet (or 'bog-roll-gate', as we call it)

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Some Bosnian had nice blog:
Besides clean water and antibiotics, he mentioned disinfectants (any little cut can get septic fast) and the most interesting thing:
stash of false gold "wedding" rings to use at road blocks as bribe.

And the most important thing to have, so as not to become supermarket, especially in multi-ethnic societies:
a gun and a lot of ammo.

 

[DanielBowman]

Absolutely, but not being tied to a cloud company is still something to avoid.

I've known people that work at MS and a real problem is that they literally can't fix bugs because they don't have a test lab and the software is so bloated that often they can't even get a full core dump to even start identifying the instructions that caused the panic. So bugs that occur at MS can and do get fixed, the others are often times unfixable as they don't know what happened.

Their most popular product Active Directory is also buggy as hell when you have many sites replicating over faulty or slow lines.
Some guru from Microsoft had to fly over and tailor it to our environment.

Monolithic kernels are probably/hopefully the way of the past - at least on bare metal. Hypervisors gonna be microkernels with drivers in userspace i.e. no kernel panic when they fail.
Monolithic OS can then run on predictable virtualized HW for speed and legacy reasons.
GUI advantage is most likely obsolete too - even now it is pain to automate and with agentic Ai, you don't need GUI, just proper API.

 

[cracauer@]

Some Bosnian had nice blog:
Besides clean water and antibiotics, he mentioned disinfectants (any little cut can get septic fast) and the most interesting thing:
stash of false gold "wedding" rings to use at road blocks as bribe.

And the most important thing to have, so as not to become supermarket, especially in multi-ethnic societies:
a gun and a lot of ammo.

Ammunition is the thing to hoard. It will be excellent trade material by itself.

Just beware secondary explosions when your place is hit.