The overworked IT person who just happened to quit his job on 18 July 2024

thisbenzingring , 4 hours ago

I hate you. Today I discovered a server that appeared to be in working order was actually just hanging on by a thread. The crash when the crowdstrike driver caused the blue screen of death must have corrupted some of the network configuration in the registry. When I couldnt make the failover cluster live migrate to or from that server I ejected it from the cluster and rebooted it, only it never came back up 😥

Now all my servers are suspect until I can verify that they are healthy.

mesamunefire , 3 hours ago

This latest debacle is making my department move from windows to Linux. We were already planning it very slowly but then everything crashed at the same time…and all our other services worked except the ones on windows boxes. We can’t afford downtime so it was decided.

kautau , 2 hours ago

I don’t know how CrowdStrike works on Linux, but it’s worth remembering that if it’s a kernel level driver like it is on windows, and they release a driver that crashes the Linux kernel, there’s a chance for the same thing to happen.

frog_brawler , 1 hour ago

CrowdStrike absolutely fucked Linux in the past.

ramble81 , 1 hour ago

Thank you for mentioning that. I really hate how people on here think Linux is some panacea that will magically solve everything. It too it just another tool that depends on how it’s used. CrowdStrike exists for Linux, and it was crashing systems a few months ago.

The bigger issue is most people who use Linux know what they’re doing. There are a lot of competent Windows Administrators too who didn’t have issues or were able to recover them in a timely manner. What happens though is you have a very large set of people who just need a computer, need is secured and don’t know how to administer or manage it. Doesn’t matter if they’re running Linux, or Windows, they’ll always have the greatest problems. They just happen to use Windows because it offers better Enterprise support options and usability. One day, Linux may be that, but I guarantee it won’t fix all of those pebkac issues.

frog_brawler , 1 hour ago

I mostly agree. As someone that’s worked with both Windows and Linux for over 15 years, I think we need to ask the question of “why do we see so many incompetent admins?”

If you aren’t paying people enough to give a shit about what they are doing, they won’t.

radicalautonomy , 22 seconds ago

The Feels Good guy has a stick figure hand sticking up out of his upper arm. I cannot unsee it now, and I suspect neither can you.