UBC sociology professor. Environment, social networks, social movements. Tweets on environment, climate change, social and political issues, & some satire.
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Microsoft says they are "restarting the servers" to fix Outlook. Glad to know a trillion-dollar tech giant fixes their problems the exact same way my 84 year old mom fixes her Wi-Fi router.
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I've been managing Exchange servers for nearly 2 decades.
It is one of the most complex pieces of infrastructure to manage because its databases are enormous and take a long time to repair and rebuild under disaster situations.
Additionally, if the majority of a Database Availability Group (DAG) failed simultaneously, users could experience data loss.
Recovering from backups is an extremely long process and backups could be outdated by a few hours (this is how Exchange backups work).
Imagine moving hundreds of petabytes of data over iSCSI storage. Regardless of how fast the iSCSI and links are, the sheer amount of data makes this a daunting task.
I wouldn't be surprised if this recovery took multiple days and ended up with data loss for multiple users.
I do not miss the days when I'd be woken up at 2am because an Exchange server failed and the DAG was offline.
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technically Jensen Huang is still CEO because they used Outlook to send his termination email this morning
The memes are all very funny. Unless you are the guy who is working collaboratively via e-mail with other people on something that is due today. Which happens to be me.
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microsoft outlook is down and someone just walked over to my desk to ask me a question. this is exactly why we invented email
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On a negative note, Outlook, Teams and other @Microsoft things appear to be down. On a positive note, the new guy who started on the Outlook Team on Monday now knows what the big red button labelled "DO NOT PUSH" does.
For those having Outlook e-mail problems, including at #UBC, this is what Claude says:
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Democrat Scott Colom defeats Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, becoming Mississippi’s first Black U.S. senator since 1881.
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Wow: the @WSJ says Nvidia's board is preparing to oust Jensen Huang wsj.com/business/nvidia-is-p…
Apparently Huang is a human parallel processor.
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It is unclear if he was near a window.
BREAKING: Alexander Darchiev, Russia’s ambassador to the United States, has died at the age of 66, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry. abcnews.link/IXrQyiD
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The fact that only one House Republican voted to impeach Hegseth suggests that either almost all elected Republicans are still in fear of Trump's potential reprisals, or they are card carrying members of a Cult. I'm not sure what other explanations exist.
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