throwaway3306a

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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
What I meant when I said reinstall the PCs was to reinstall the critical computers necessary for operation of medical machinery to make basic and still mostly manual/paper based operation possible, not every computer they have there. I
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
You misunderstood me, I am easily convinced that this is the case - what I don't get is how they could let it be the case.
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
I talked to people in charge of the operations on a daily basis for years. I really don't think these considerations have changed that much since my times of leadership of an entire department managing just that.
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
It's pretty obvious they meant the material possessions. Isn't it in guidelines to look for the more charitable options?
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
Yes, they wouldn't be considered doing the Linux stuff in a professional capacity.
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
Things haven't changed in IT so much. I am not in ICT management anymore, but I write software for the modern enterprise systems and networks - I'm reasonably up to date. Ad medicine - hence my question, I'd really like to k
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
They are people. They are entitled to everything every other human is entitled to. Including being idiots.
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
Are they trying to help any cause other than their own? Also - don't generalize based on nationality, please. These behave like this, others behave differently. This changes nothing about the war in Ukraine or Ukrainians.
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
You're free to donate money to Ukraine yourself. They didn't ask to be born there or to be in that situation. I live in a country with hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees just living their new lives, working - and spending
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
It's not like your bank account immediately stops working when you cross the border. There are people who had successful careers finding themselves in this situation, is their story not valid just because they also weren't complet
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
I expect the local admins to be able to install a fresh OS not connected to the enterprise network. And I expect them to have physical copies of stuff like disk encryption keys, also backups of OS installations and images, and all critical
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
If it's stuck in a boot loop, the first thing I do is call the local admins and tell them to take a fresh SSD and a Windows installation USB drive with them. Plug the new SSD, reinstall the OS and copy the files from the old one. Compu
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
I have trouble accepting that. Even if they had to unplug the computer from the network and disable SSO and antivirus in safe mode, it's possible to get the computer operational. Even if they had to reinstall the OS and the critical so
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
What if it turns out they harmed the patient by insisting on following the standard procedure during a worldwide outage? Isn't that the same kind of liability risk, and is the regulation really going to protect them in this case? If so
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
So the problem really isn't CrowdStrike or any computer at all, but dumb policy or regulation?
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
If it requires a computer, why was that operationally critical computer not restored from a backup within hours after the problem started? This has nothing to do with CrowdStrike or other bugs - it could've simply failed hardware wise
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
I really, sincerely don't understand that. How does an unscannable barcode prevent a doctor/nurse from administering medicine they are holding in their hands?
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
I have managed IT departments that managed hundreds of locations and thousands of computers running Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, no cloud at all. And I went through several similar outages (similar in impact on our operations, not ca
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
Presumably they would fix these computers first thing during the night from a backup? If not, is this really about CrowdStrike, and not about a hospital unable to keep their absolutely critical computers backed up and restored in a timely m
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
I get that, my point is, why is it absolutely necessary to use the computer system? Why don't they just knock on the door, go grab the medicine and tools, apply it, then fill it into the system later? I understand they would just post
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
While I appreciate the effect this kind of downtime can have, I just don't understand these stories. Presumably it was planned in advance, so the patients know the time of their appointment and the doctor knows what was planned, and ev
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
The bad person is the one who decided to lock and downsize public toilets. All the arguments about taxes are about money for public good that market can't solve, well where is it?
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
As I said, it's obviously not zero issues with Apple either. But this particular issue is an exception imho, my own experience and everyone with a Mac around me is saying the battery lifetime is much better than any other brand they tr
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
It has a simple reason, any other device is much worse. All my Lenovo laptop batteries died in 2 years, meanwhile my MacBook from 2015 still gets 3 hours of battery life. That one was expensive, but now with Apple Silicon the Macbook has be
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
So the solution is to combine them?
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
How to manage Slack access control via Azure AD groups? Even the most basic integrations are missing in other options...
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
People use Teams because it's well integrated into Office, 365, Entra and other MS products, they would (and recently do) pay for it. It has functionalities that no other alternative has, e.g. it can act as a full call centre solution
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
Yeah, true... There is currently a big anti-EU/Schengen backslash in my state because we can't control entry of Russians that got the visa elsewhere. Which is a problem as we stopped giving them out because they acted as if we wer
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
Weird, considering there are entire countries that stopped giving them out.
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by throwaway3306a 2y ago
That's not about experience, that's about following the regulated standards. This is well known ever since technology (not computers) got into hospitals.

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