Microsoft-Crowdstrike issue causes 'largest IT outage in history'
Microsoft-Crowdstrike issue causes 'largest IT outage in history'
A major IT outage has grounded planes and sent broadcasters off air.
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Hmm far fewer comments on Lemmy this morning lol. Poor IT folks... I'm sorry.
It sucks so bad. Today I learned a lot of users don't know the difference between forward slash and backslash.
I coded for 15 years and I still don't.
Forward Slash... / ...leans forward.
Back Slash... \ ...leans back.
Or is it
Back Slash... / ...because the bottom is back.
Forward Slash... \ ...because it's forward at the bottom.
/s
I had it backwards for a really long time because you draw / from front to back (ie you write it in a backwards direction) I thought that was the back slash. That still feels right to me despite being wrong.
In the old days of using UNC paths a lot we found ourselves saying whack whack server name whack share name. Then forward slash was just slash.
I always remember the difference by imagining them as lines on a graph. Forward slash is the line with positive slope and backslash is the one with negative slope.
So damn easy to mix them up
I was going to say.... I just call them Linux/windows slashes, but idk forward vs back
Is that the squiggly one?
lol ouch. I luckily never updated my laptop so I dodged the bulk of it lol.
I'm in IT and I'm still here, commenting away!
~Posted from Linux Mint~
I'm in IT, I am not affected but will express my sympathy in between handfuls of popcorn!
don't they all live for this day?
ie fixing bad decisions made by some corpo clown 4 years ago to save 25 cents on something?