International IT meltdown | James O'Brien - The Whole Show

This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio from the 19th of July 2024.

00:00 - Massive, global, IT outage - How quickly can things fall apart?
50:04 - Just stop oil founder jailed for five years
01:34:30 - Airports across the world affected by CrowdStrike outage - Victoria Innes, LBC Reporter
01:39:21 - If it's over for Biden, does Harris stand a chance?
02:23:28 - Russell Watson, Full Disclosure

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[johndewhurst]

I used to work for a government department my job was to source technology for people that suddenly went blind, deaf or loss of mobility etc. putting their jobs at risk. The manager called me in the office as I arrived at work early and told me the server was down so computers where all off. She was trying to contact computer support that was based over a hundred miles away to send out a computer engineer. I asked her to give me 5 minutes before trying them again. I knew the evening before electricians were waiting to start work after we left. My hunch was right, one of the electricians had unplugged the server to plug his drill in. I plugged it back in and it rebooted. The manager was so relieved she had not booked technicians to travel all that way to replace a plug.

[Bullet]

In Canada, healthcare shut down. Anyone with a Windows OS. Also Windows cloud servers down. This will take days.

[MrWhitmen]

Leading Britain’s conversation where Leeds is not part of it. 😂

[purplemonkeydishwasher]

Back in 2003 I accidentally shutdown a switch in Manchester for 5 minutes. It was the days before we were so reliant on the Internet. The guy at the desk next to me said I turned white. I went down to the lead network engineer to confess what I'd done expecting the sack and in his broadest Yorkshire he said "well you'll never f££king do that again!" And sent me back to work. I never heard any more about it.

[danmayberry]

Is Nigel's return flight circling the mid-Atlantic?

[deancyrus]

54:39 can we take the MPs to court for the Brexit delays to trucks?

[andrewstevenson]

I once deleted an entire database by mistake. Single click followed by another to "confirm". Tens of thousands of dollars of effort deleted. Thank goodness for daily backups. But for a few hours it was horrible.

[BrockSamson-ii]

the caller who says that China is a cashless country forgets that there is a China outside of the cities

[bigdougscommentary]

Nobody from Florida has ANY valuable opinion.

[Frithogar]

The whole world is getting a taste of Brexit for a few days.

[joshbhoy]

Side note about the IT crisis. My mum came off a 14 hour flight from Taipei (she was visiting me) and got to Amsterdam during this issue. Flights cancelled and given a 15 euro voucher, no hotel or food, her rescheduled flight was cancelled. Ended up having to fly to Manchester (she was going to Edinburgh) and then get the train up to Glasgow. KLM staff doing nothing, like i said she was given a 15 euro voucher and thats it. All she wanted was to be home after a 14 hour flight and staff treated the customers with contempt and the airline was useless.

[IndiBrony]

Global Hopper now has over 3000 subscribers. I think James underestimates his own power 😂

[goingoutotheparty]

I got a free sandwich at work. Best thing that's happened in 14 years 😂

[MDisaster]

"I hadn't just gotten the wrong end of the stick, I'd reinvented the stick. With two wrong ends."

This had me howling

[mickreaddin]

"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

[chrisharris]

The reason the Big End in you car no longer goes is the On Board Computer that will shut down the car when oil pressure drops, when you have OBC issues it is it doing it's job and preventing further damage when one of the mechanical systems fails.

[ptypty]

Hello from Central America, we got hit, phone service providers were down, it was a mess.

[bignev]

The National Lottery was the only thing that affected me.

[tammersalem]

The day I heard a "change request" being explained on LBC .... 😂

[diogeneslamp]

If it was a bug in a patch then several people will be having pointed conversations with management. A software change has to be specified, designed, coded, tested, and deployed correctly.

This wasn’t one person’s failure, most likely. It was a failure of process at an $83 billion company.

EDIT

I should have listened 22 minutes into the video. Two experts basically said everything I typed above.