I had been working from home since Tuesday thanks to Covid. Yes, was unable to do any work (and neither was anyone in the office anyway). At least it meant me and my girlfriend were able to go out properly for the first time since Monday, if only for a bit of shopping and Costa.
EDIT: I should add, I’m not at all looking forward to Monday…
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A supplier's ordering platform was down for half the day which meant orders got placed an hour later than they would have been. That's it.Blewatter wrote: ↑Sat 20 Jul, 2024 12.35 Out of curisosity, Metropollers, did anyone get affected by the IT Outage yesterday? Personally, it was quite minimal in terms of impacting my day. The worst was the dot matrix screen at my station was not working, and my online Maccies order went a bit funny. Besides that, felt like it was a bit overblown. Correct me if I'm wrong.
No problems with the actual trains running or the departure boards either, but the ticket barriers were locked open at both ends. Don't know if that was related or not.
That said, I'm sure it wasn't overblown if it affected you, and there were visible major issues - Sky News being taken off air for one.
What probably is overblown is the idea that somehow it will become inevitable that this sort of thing starts happening on the regular. It has to be a major failure of sign-off processes that an update this flawed was ever able to be pushed out and I doubt is likely to be repeated. Also will probably spearhead a review into all the single points of failure which were shown up yesterday leading to increased resilience.
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My employer was heavily affected for a day and this morning until the fix could be applied. I was, thankfully, not at work yesterday.
A lot of the news coverage was regarding travel, and food retail chains were relatively unaffected, so I get why a lot of people might not have noticed the impact.
Additionally, I'm aware of some businesses affected that didn't get any press coverage at all, perhaps because their problems weren't as wide ranging.
A lot of the news coverage was regarding travel, and food retail chains were relatively unaffected, so I get why a lot of people might not have noticed the impact.
Additionally, I'm aware of some businesses affected that didn't get any press coverage at all, perhaps because their problems weren't as wide ranging.
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Not personally but I did see Sky News' restricted service.Blewatter wrote: ↑Sat 20 Jul, 2024 12.35 Out of curisosity, Metropollers, did anyone get affected by the IT Outage yesterday? Personally, it was quite minimal in terms of impacting my day. The worst was the dot matrix screen at my station was not working, and my online Maccies order went a bit funny. Besides that, felt like it was a bit overblown. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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As well as Sky News (TV), Sky News Radio, which is the IRN feed to stations, was down for a while, but, thankfully, not on the hour.
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So was CBBC!Nick Harvey wrote: ↑Sat 20 Jul, 2024 23.58 As well as Sky News (TV), Sky News Radio, which is the IRN feed to stations, was down for a while, but, thankfully, not on the hour.