ITs love Christmas too
December 19, 2016 10:52 PM   Subscribe

Sophos IT Christmas (single link Xmas ad but fun anyway).
posted by CCBC (4 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
...But how come no songs for "Sophos A/V update attempt hangs and freezes my entire server" or "Sophos LiveProtection's non standard DNS datagram is not compatible with local router and freezer my entire server" - just two contemporary frozen-themed classics from my playlist this Christmas.

(I like that the the sysadmin who has to work on Christmas eve to work with a shitty 14 inch monitor - truly Dickensian that.)
posted by rongorongo at 1:07 AM on December 20, 2016 [3 favorites]


Large DNS messages are a standard since 1999. Wikipedia says it's also backwards-compatible with older resolvers, though they don't say whether by de-facto or de-jure standard.

Whereas deciding to freeze or slowing an entire computer while waiting for a network packet is more like a specific industry standard. The standard being that bolt-on security is bad technology, and terri-bad for commercial incentives. You want to say it's an evolving commercial partnership that allows competition? Then the partner providing the platform is still guilty of explicitly listing & promoting partners, without even marking the ones who run file-format decoders un-sandboxed, at the highest possible level of privilege.
posted by sourcejedi at 5:05 AM on December 20, 2016 [2 favorites]


On the twelfth day of Christmas, my users gave to me:
Twelve log-in errors
Eleven CPUs a-frying
Ten SNMP alerts flashing
Nine lady executives ... with attitude
Eight MODEMs dialing
Seven license failures
Six games a-playing
Five golden SCSI contacts
Four support calls
Three Ransomware issues
Two USB failures
And a database with a broken b-tree
posted by jazon at 7:28 AM on December 20, 2016


"It's Christmas Eve and we're out of batteries" - oh, the humanity.
posted by RedOrGreen at 10:55 AM on December 20, 2016


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