Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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The only apple here is cider.....
I rest my case against Microsoft…..Give me the Furit Company every day, even TODAY, RIGHT NOW :D.


Worldwide Technical Outage Disrupts Flights, Banks, Media​

Worldwide Technical Outage Disrupts Flights, Banks, Media




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Seems good ole Microsoft is having a difficultly or two. My Apple is cruising away as happy as a lark.
 
I rest my case against Microsoft…..Give me the Furit Company every day, even TODAY, RIGHT NOW :D.


Worldwide Technical Outage Disrupts Flights, Banks, Media​

Worldwide Technical Outage Disrupts Flights, Banks, Media




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Seems good ole Microsoft is having a difficultly or two. My Apple is cruising away as happy as a lark.
It could be that Microsoft has been a bit cavalier and used up its goodwill.
 
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Sir Christopher Lee's military career is still shrouded in mystery.
The untold story of Sir Christopher Lee is set to be revealed in an upcoming documentary film.
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee features interviews with friends, family members and famous directors.
Jon Spira, from Headington, Oxford, had access to Lee's scrapbooks and 100 interviews from the British Film Institute's library.
The filmmaker tells the BBC the actor's life was an "incredible story" waiting to be told.
Lee starred in more than 250 films across eight decades, including the Hammer Horror, James Bond, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars franchises.
But as Spira's film explains, he had a military career during World War Two still shrouded in mystery, and helped track down Nazi war criminals.
"Because he could speak fluently a range of different languages he got pulled into the secret service doing missions of which the facts have never fully come out," Spira explains.
"His cousin was Ian Fleming and a lot of people think the character of James Bond was based on him.
"He certainly didn't do anything to disavow people of that.
"You could almost do this as two films. That's why we called it The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee, because his life is one story and his career is another."
Did you know that Sir Christopher Lee was...
1 Born into Italian aristocracy
2 A witness to the last public execution by guillotine
3 Introduced to Rasputin's assassins as a boy
4 A swordsman in an Errol Flynn film
5 The only person in the Lord of the Rings films to have met JRR Tolkien
6 An expert knife thrower
7 The oldest person to get on the Billboard music charts (with a Heavy Metal album)
 
It could be that Microsoft has been a bit cavalier and used up its goodwill.
When I wrote software, I spent hours and hours searching for bugs. I was somewhat protected as my software would not compile the application if a major software bug was evident, but software will run just fine with errors that affect the output of the application. Since so much of the work we did was monitored by no less than FIVE (5) different state and federal agencies and a major error could lead to jail time (which was easy to do when Intell upgraded to Pentium processors and they made floating point errors and my work went to the fifth and sixth decimal (oh it won’t hurt anything as long as you don’t …. Says people who have nothing to lose ) errors could get serious.

So, I would work on the software until three or four AM, then get up at five AM and feed the horses, cleaned the stalls and then shower and get ready for the 40 minute drive to the facility.

You know, I was pretty darned proud of the applications I wrote, but that is one part of my life, I could have done without. (But still better than the position I left previously, had a hellion of a female boss, that everyone hated).
 
I rest my case against Microsoft…..Give me the Furit Company every day, even TODAY, RIGHT NOW :D.


Worldwide Technical Outage Disrupts Flights, Banks, Media​

Worldwide Technical Outage Disrupts Flights, Banks, Media




View attachment 8462147

Seems good ole Microsoft is having a difficultly or two. My Apple is cruising away as happy as a lark.

I *think* they're pinning it on the Crowdstrike software which is a endpoint protection and password management (identity protection) solution.

All the computers should be running fine on their own, it's the connectivity, trusted connections, between machines that will be disrupted by Crowdstrike failures.
 
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Sir Christopher Lee's military career is still shrouded in mystery.
The untold story of Sir Christopher Lee is set to be revealed in an upcoming documentary film.
The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee features interviews with friends, family members and famous directors.
Jon Spira, from Headington, Oxford, had access to Lee's scrapbooks and 100 interviews from the British Film Institute's library.
The filmmaker tells the BBC the actor's life was an "incredible story" waiting to be told.
Lee starred in more than 250 films across eight decades, including the Hammer Horror, James Bond, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars franchises.
But as Spira's film explains, he had a military career during World War Two still shrouded in mystery, and helped track down Nazi war criminals.
"Because he could speak fluently a range of different languages he got pulled into the secret service doing missions of which the facts have never fully come out," Spira explains.
"His cousin was Ian Fleming and a lot of people think the character of James Bond was based on him.
"He certainly didn't do anything to disavow people of that.
"You could almost do this as two films. That's why we called it The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee, because his life is one story and his career is another."
Did you know that Sir Christopher Lee was...
1 Born into Italian aristocracy
2 A witness to the last public execution by guillotine
3 Introduced to Rasputin's assassins as a boy
4 A swordsman in an Errol Flynn film
5 The only person in the Lord of the Rings films to have met JRR Tolkien
6 An expert knife thrower
7 The oldest person to get on the Billboard music charts (with a Heavy Metal album)
Apparently, yer not pullin' our leg about number 7........;)