[10:52] <penguin42> Could be worse, could be an IT admin
[10:58] <zxmpi> a windows it admin
[10:59] <penguin42> haha the thought of it
[10:59] <zxmpi> sure, they have the whole weekend to fix the problem :-)
[11:00] <penguin42> what ever happened to testing a few machines first?
[11:01] <zxmpi> the best bugs always slip though
[11:05] <zxmpi> the analysis of the bug when we know more next week will be fun
[11:06] <penguin42> it'll be something like a missing ,
[11:08] <daftykins> what did i miss?
[11:08] <daftykins> also happy Friday, gents
[11:09] <zxmpi> someone in it decided to release a patch on friday.
[11:10] <zxmpi> https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/19/crowdstrike_shares_sink_as_global/
[11:11] <daftykins> ah someone mentioned the name earlier but i had no idea what it was
[11:11] <zxmpi> norton antivirus for enterprise :-P
[11:43] <daftykins> blargh
[11:45] <zxmpi> do you know how hard it is to get the stoned virus onto a boot dvd? :-)
[11:47] <daftykins> heh
[11:47] <daftykins> i still use optical media from time to time
[11:48] <zxmpi> same, found an audio cd of bbc comedies i hadn't opened and ripped last week :-)
[11:49] <zxmpi> https://www.discogs.com/release/21710095-Various-Vintage-Beeb-Comedy-Favourites
[11:50] <penguin42> zxmpi: Can you tick off entries in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Book_(BBC)
[11:52] <zxmpi> none so far. cd was released in 2011 so anything spicey wouldn't have made the cut
[11:59] <zxmpi> fun for everyone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike_incident#Impact
[13:30] <zxmpi> jul 19th Happy Galway Liberated from The Indians Day to all who celebrate. Also Marathon became Snickers and the Ice Age ended.'
[20:33] <Sindhi> guys im looking for ##uk community
[20:35]  * penguin42 hands Sindhi a cup of tea and a jaffa cake
[20:46] <davef> Right lads, who pushed out a 42K file filled with zeros today? You broke the god damn Internet and gave me a headache.
[20:50] <penguin42> hoh was it?
[20:51] <davef> Sindhi: DMing me ##uk please won't get you to the UK. I identify as Canadian. :) 
[20:51] <Sindhi> oh
[20:52] <Sindhi> #ubuntu-uk lol 
[20:52] <davef> I just come here to pester penguin42, zxmpi and daftykins for Jaffa Cakes.
[20:52] <Sindhi> anyway then you should join #Canada 
[20:53] <davef> Yes, I probably should. But I wont. It's full of hosers 😂
[20:53] <penguin42> davef: Have you stayed dry there - I heard you got a few hours of our rain?
[20:54] <davef> Yeah, I'm dry. Couple of the Montreal highways flooded a few days ago, especially Decarie highway.  
[20:55] <davef> I think we have 100mm rain in about an hour
[20:55] <davef> *had
[20:55] <davef> And our sewer system can only deal with 70mm an hour