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On the technical side - a securitiy update file came out all zeros after download. The code didn't checked it and tried to use one of those zeroes as address, which crashed the software. As the software runs in kernel mode that crash automatically raised the BSOD...
"It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: On the technical side - a securitiy update file came out all zeros after download.
Then you'd think, of all things, a security update would be signed, and the OS would've picked up the fact that its content didn't match what it was supposed to be and stopped everything in its tracks. Unless there's something about that process that I don't understand.
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It WAS signed - with the wrong content in it...
"It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: It WAS signed - with the wrong content in it...
Well that changes everything, doesn't it? You wrote:
a securitiy update file came out all zeros after download
I'm thinking "after download" is wrong; this infers that the file got corrupt in transit and no longer matches the source - and the signature would confirm that.
If, however, the file contained all zeroes (and was signed like that) before the download, and the downloaded copy matches the original, then the problem is a bad file that a signature check will confirm to be okay. In that case, there's something wrong with the process that allowed the file to get signed without first verifying its content (somehow).
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dandy72 wrote: there's something wrong with the process that allowed the file to get signed without first verifying its content
Exactly. They blamed it on a bug in their QA software.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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When QA itself is being automated, you have to ensure your tests can anticipate the unpredictable, no matter how unlikely. That's a tall order. And a terrible idea all around.
I mean, was anyone who installed that update unaffected? If it's a 100% crash rate, then CrowdStrike has a lot to answer for, starting with, how was it unable to detect the problem before it got released to the world?
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We have a spammer who has been posting "great blog" and a HTML free URL for about a year now and has evolved the "great blog" part to try and get it through - I think he's on template #8 or so now.
The latest incarnation is
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I wonder, do you get a lot of spam messages? Because I do and it's driving me mad... 
Nope, that didn't get through either ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Why we can't have nice things.
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No, and that's final.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Badfinger
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I sure hope so. I'm generally not good at math. I had pre-calculus (trigonometry) in college, learned nothing, I have no idea what good it would have done me in the thirty years I've been programming professionally. Nor have I used finite math or discrete math* even though they were required subjects.
As I say, I'm not an engineer, I'm a software developer. I write internal business applications and utilities.
Other people in the enterprise know calculus and can use it to ensure that a missile hits its target.
Developers can specialize, and use different skills, not every developer needs to have the same skill set.
* Correction, I think finite state machines were covered in discrete math. Those are useful, but I don't consider them to be math.
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Yes, and the reverse is also true. Can a student that can't be a good programmer handle calculus? Yes.
I was a mathematics major before I became a programmer. It was not that much an advantage. However, a course in traditional logic was a plus. Flow charts, etc.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Where I work there was some legacy code written by a developer who was a mathematician, nobody understood the code he had written and most had to be rewritten 
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I've had plenty of math, including differential equations,partial differential equations, 2 years of advanced graduate engineering math, etc.
When I look at some of the code I wrote a few years ago, I can conclusively report that math ability has little to do with most programming.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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The only time I (wrongly) thought I needed advanced math was when I had to write a bandwidth calculating application for our Video surveillance software 
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For certain types of programming, calculus is unnecessary. For scientific programming, engineering, and some types of business programming, it is essential. A well-rounded developer should know calculus, but one may still make a living writing software without it.
I have found that many developers (especially on the UI side) don't know the "tools of the trade". They are then surprised or disappointed when the only positions they get are low-level, or that they are fired when they can no longer put in 60- to 80-hour weeks.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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My math suuuuuucks, and yet I still totally agree. I don't find myself using it much for LOB applications, but what your typical dev doesn't realize is that those who can only do LOB and nothing else are slowly being replaced by tools like Salesforce, SaaS form generators, etc. And AI is only going to make that worse.
Now, does it have to be math expertise as that something extra? IMO nope (basics help though) but a good dev needs something to distinguish themselves. Even if that something is just people skills. This industry is too crowded now for the average, run of the mill coder to be treated like a god just because they know a thing or two about these newfangled computer thingies. Those days are gone.
To give an example, I've seen job postings for lawyers where they only wanted a programmer with legal experience. Just saying I can throw a textbox on a screen isn't enough for the better jobs.
Jeremy Falcon
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I've read an article a couple of years ago, about a study in India. They tried to find a correlation between students results in maths and programming. They found none. Whether people were good or bad in math, it didn't make any difference for their programming.
However, they did find a strong correlation between language skills and programming.
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