It’s a re-run of the Y2K problem, based on the number of seconds since UNIX was invented in 1970 no longer fitting a 32-bit integer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem (View Post)

The 2038 bug is what’s finally going to get the banks off their collective arses, to replace all those ancient COBOL mainframes at the heart of their transaction systems. To say I had the scariest ha… (View Post)

Well I spent something like 30 hours fixing around 100 machines, so call it a grand in my time to my employer. Downtime to others wasn’t too much but call it another collective grand. All but one mac… (View Post)

Biggest LOL of the day: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-overhaul-software-updates-global-outage/ Crowdstrike to overhaul the way they do software updates, after they inadv… (View Post)

But you got the picture, which in this case is definitely worth a thousand words. The chances of someone having to ditch a plane, in the middle of very literally nowhere, were a long way from zero, a… (View Post)