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Ty but Im good lol

 

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Lowes July 19 105 days before Halloween

 

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Lowes July 19 105 days before Halloween

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I just walked past one of the ghost divers in one of our local Lowes stores earlier this week. I think it was before yesterday, but am not certain.

Christmas (stuff on display in stores) is just around the corner! [Ugh.]

 

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Lowes July 19 105 days before Halloween

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Halloween is the BIGGEST thing for some of my kids. They go all out.

 

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I really struggled with where to put this. Humor or ?

Southwest Airlines Avoids Crowdstrike Issues - Thanks to Windows 3.1? - Slashdot

Slashdot reader Thelasko shared Friday's article from Digital Trends: Nearly every flight in the U.S. is grounded right now following a CrowdStrike system update error that's affecting everything from travel to mobile ordering at Starbucks — but not Southwest Airlines flights. Southwest is st...

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I really struggled with where to put this. Humor or ?

Southwest Airlines Avoids Crowdstrike Issues - Thanks to Windows 3.1? - Slashdot

Slashdot reader Thelasko shared Friday's article from Digital Trends: Nearly every flight in the U.S. is grounded right now following a CrowdStrike system update error that's affecting everything from travel to mobile ordering at Starbucks — but not Southwest Airlines flights. Southwest is st...

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Neither funny, nor shocking, really. Investment in technology infrastructure isn't "sexy" and for things that have kept going and going and going with barely being touched, this happens all over the place.

I really can't decide whether this is a bad thing, or not, for all kinds of functionality that does not touch cyberspace. There are many of us here who have helped microbusinesses keep WinXP machines running because the "command and control" software they run for some very expensive equipment simply does not exist (because the maker of what it controls, that still works just fine, went under or because no updates were ever issued) and/or replacing that equipment, that is perfectly functional otherwise and likely to remain so, with something current is a major financial outlay that makes no sense unless it's necessary. Something like an industrial metal lathe that uses a program under XP to control it, that is still working just fine, makes zero sense to replace (as a single example).

I would not want Windows 3.1 running air traffic control. But if it's what's turning the baggage carousel on/off, and it's been doing it for decades without incident, . . .

[As an aside, this is why I also don't buy most of the stuff the "you've gotta keep the inside of the case spotlessly clean" people say. I've worked in environments like restaurants where machines were not opened for years and the inside not only has dust bunnies the size of Yeti, but they're usually greasy, too. There was a time when PCs were much more fussy about cooling than they have been in some time. If you look at the Tmax of most processors of the last decade and a half or so, you could put these machines out on a sidewalk almost anyplace (the desert southwest being an exception) and if they were kept dry, they'd still be cool enough no matter what the ambient temperature. PC hardware ceased being "a delicate flower" a long, long way back.]

 

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I really can't decide whether this is a bad thing, or not, for all kinds of functionality that does not touch cyberspace.

This is the key - I have a friend with a woodworking shop that uses a Win95 controller on this $50K C&C machine (that he got at auction for $5K plus had to hire a flatbed semi to bring it from about a thousand miles away - yikes. Anyway, it has been functioning fine all these years. Ever year or so I go over, unbury it from the mountain of sawdust and very carefully clean it out. Other than that, it keeps chugging along. Over the years at my insistence, he has sourced spare RAM, a spare power supply, a spare motherboard & CPU and TWO spare controller cards, as they came as a set, i believe. We haven't needed any of it, haha.

I heard once that a great many ATMs run WinXP (I suspect embedded). Not sure how I feel about that, but I'm definitely uncomfortable with Southwest's decision. I expect now that it's out in the open, they'll have to upgrade to save their stock price.

 

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The Worldwide IT Outage Isn't Funny, but the Memes Sure Are

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