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			20-07-2024, 13:40
			
			
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			20-07-2024, 14:43
			
			
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				Contactless payments were fine at Troon which was the extent of my IT use for the day. 
 
Does seem slightly worrying that a minor error can have such significant consequences. 
			
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 Please tell me you don’t cosplay like a PGA pro when you go to these things … Glasgow Central was full of utter tools getting trains down to Troon the other day   
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			20-07-2024, 15:33
			
			
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				Please tell me you don’t cosplay like a PGA pro when you go to these things … Glasgow Central was full of utter tools getting trains down to Troon the other day    
			
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Happy to confirm a hoody, shorts (since it was still warmish for Scots) and a fairly comfortable pair of trainers was my attire.
 
The other “official” outfit seemed to be the tracksuit of a previous Open or Ryder Cup in the last two decades.
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			20-07-2024, 22:01
			
			
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				Yes, of course, pre-roll out testing is a given and I do not understand why this was not done for a enterprise-grade production deployment. 
			
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 I'd guess it was done, then something else went wrong during the world-wide deployment.  Such as a file got corrupted during transfer, or someone accidentally published the wrong file.
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			20-07-2024, 22:32
			
			
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			quite a shocking amount of computers that were affected according to MS and that is only the ones I would suspect have telemetry on as well 
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpe3zgznwjno
now also the Spammers are trying to take advantage :O 
 
Thankfully at my work we have it only on servers which thankfully for a change isn't my responsibility so I was scot free    
but I know of some ex colleagues that suffered hard
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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			20-07-2024, 22:39
			
			
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				I'd guess it was done, then something else went wrong during the world-wide deployment.  Such as a file got corrupted during transfer, or someone accidentally published the wrong file. 
			
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 Apparently not:  https://twitter.com/Perpetualmaniac/...76668095754753
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
		
		
		
		
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			20-07-2024, 23:00
			
			
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			I remember back in Windows 95 you could get programs to run by putting a link to the exe. 
 
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				More to the point, you would think they would check a machine still works after being updated (and rebooted) before pushing it out to anyone. 
			
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 Yes well alot of peoples dont have good judgement anymore.....
 
Im glad it was fixed........ I dont think Ihave ever seen so many businesses networks not working like I did on friday!! (You dont realise how many are hooked up to the internet)
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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 It doesnt really explain much at all. 
A "Null Pointer Exception" is very common, and easily caused (usually some sort of programming error).
 
In this case, the contents of the C-00000291.sys file they tell you to delete caused a crash in the code using it (csagent). 
This means the error appears to be the csagent code, not the deleted file - it should handle bad data without crashing, but it didnt.
 
[Anyone who knows much about windows may also wonder why a file that basically seems to be data has a .sys extension, it really should not].
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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			Wow I did a search Paul,I have 103 files with the .sys extention..... 
 
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			Too many of these 'outages' happening lately. Banks etc. Think we all know who to blame. Either we don't get an explanation or its blamed on things like a software update. Propaganda at work.
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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				Too many of these 'outages' happening lately. Banks etc. Think we all know who to blame. Either we don't get an explanation or its blamed on things like a software update. Propaganda at work. 
			
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				Think we all know who to blame. Either we don't get an explanation or its blamed on things like a software update. Propaganda at work. 
			
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