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The Register, Monday, August 25th, 2025
This week, meet a reader who asked to be Regomized as "FireBug," a name that makes sense because the story he sent concerns a firewall he worked on during his time as part of a small team that managed a global company's security and VPN infrastructure.
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The Register, Friday, August 22nd, 2025
Escort's forgotten cap left techie facing rifles and a debrief
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The real lesson here is how little some companies care about training
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Few make it to Friday without some end-of-week blues, which The Register always treats with a fresh dose of On Call - the reader-contributed column that recounts your stories of tech support contusions. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as 'Jake' who told us of the time he worked as the sole sysadmin for an entire hospital.
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This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as 'Steven'. 'One of my first jobs in the 1980s was as a training instructor at the headquarters of CAD CAM company Intergraph,' Steven wrote.
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This week, meet a reader who we'll Regomize as "Marvin," who once held the title "field engineer" at a company that provided outsourced maintenance and repair services for a minicomputer company.
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Startups aren't good at testing software, or respecting contracts
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Unix boxes needed a hotfix to survive early morning cold boots
more → The Register, Monday, July 28th, 2025
And was then blamed for not knowing about inaccurate labels
more → The Register, Friday, July 25th, 2025
Evidence of copious sugar hits hinted at unauthorized usage
more → The Register, Monday, July 21st, 2025
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Ken" who told us that over 20 years ago he scored a job at Amazon.com as a Linux sysadmin, a role for which he admitted he was "completely unqualified."
more → The Register, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
This job was a car wreck in more than one way
more → The Register, Thursday, July 10th, 2025
For the lack of a little documentation, two techies did a lot of accidental damage
more → The Register, Friday, July 11th, 2025
First came the dodgy lawyer, then the explosively angry HR person, leaving a whistleblower techie to save his career
more → The Register, Monday, July 7th, 2025
Years later, deep into a great tech career, your fellow reader remains inspired by the forgiveness received after the error
more → The Register, Monday, July 7th, 2025
Righteous mockery entranced execs in ways slideware could not
more → The Register, Monday, June 30th, 2025
Sensible CEO wouldn't let our hero take the blame - a shoddy supervisor got the slap
more → The Register, Friday, June 27th, 2025
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Nigel" who shared a story from 2004 when the office he worked in found itself in the path of Hurricane Ivan, the superstorm that rampaged its way across the Caribbean and the USA for almost three weeks.
more → The Register, Monday, June 23rd, 2025
And was saved by an even worse meltdown caused by someone else
more → The Register, Friday, June 20th, 2025
Sometimes the 'R' in RTFM stands for 'Remember'
more → The Register, Monday, June 16th, 2025
Custom text fields can be a powerful form of protest
more → The Register, Friday, June 13th, 2025
Abusive manager had to be told there's no such thing as an atomic laptop
more → The Register, Monday, June 9th, 2025
If you like it to keep working, don't put a ring on it
more → The Register, Friday, June 6th, 2025
Doctor? Why does this hospital network run in such strange places?
more → The Register, Monday, June 2nd, 2025
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as 'Slim' who told us of his time as head of IT in Asia for a global trading company - the sort of outfit that plays the markets and needs its tech to run 24 x7 without even the briefest glitch that could slow down a client's trades.
more → The Register, Friday, May 30th, 2025
After three service calls, user reflected on their utter stupidity
more → The Register, Monday, May 26th, 2025
Life in a corporate aquarium didn't go swimmingly
more → atera, Sunday, May 25th, 2025
In today's tech-driven world, IT departments often use humor in the form of memes, jokes, and pranks to brighten up the workplace and boost morale among their hardworking IT personnel, who are devoted to keeping our digital networks running smoothly.
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The Register, Friday, May 23rd, 2025
For once, the IT department was rewarded for finding the fix, and the perfect-if-unexpected fixer
more → The Register, Monday, May 19th, 2025
Yard of Eden just doesn't have the right ring to it
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Self-taught coders who work in HR and have a doctorate in English tend to do that
more → The Register, Monday, May 5th, 2025
On Call The unconditional love of a pet is often a solace, and perhaps never more so than at the end of a busy working week. Which is when The Register competes with the animal kingdom for your affection by delivering a new edition of On Call, our Friday column in which we share your stories of scratching out a living delivering tech support.
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Who, Me? One of the joys of Monday mornings is arriving at work to find messes made over the weekend. The other is reading a new edition of Who, Me? It's The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of somehow recovering from failure.
more → The Register, Friday, May 2nd, 2025
Used his loaf and found sweet solution for bakery borkage
more → How-To Geek, Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Every year, nearly all tech companies come up with new prank concepts that are fun to experience.
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The Register, Monday, April 28th, 2025
When your customers work in super-sensitive situations, bad jokes make for bad business
more → The Register, Friday, April 25th, 2025
y the time Friday morning rolls around, starting the day with a stimulating beverage feels like a fine idea. And so does delivering a freshly brewed installment of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column in which you share tales of tech support triumph and torture.
more → The Register, Monday, April 21st, 2025
Fiddling with the production database - what could possibly go wrong?
more → The Register, Friday, April 18th, 2025
Lad who 'stays in his bedroom on his computer' emerged ready to deliver brilliant tech support
more → The Register, Monday, April 14th, 2025
If this techie had been older and slower, this never would have happened
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Sysadmin sent on road trip that required a lot of time doing nothing
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The graybeard wasn't doing a great job and morale improved once he left. How would you handle this?
more → How-To Geek, Saturday, April 5th, 2025
For decades, software developers have been slipping jokes into their work.
more → The Register, Friday, April 4th, 2025
Techie demoed the effect in about 3 seconds, as On Call again tries to break tech-support world records
more → How-To Geek, Friday, April 4th, 2025
AI is only as "smart" as the information it's given, and we've seen the downsides of the majority of that information being crawled from the internet. But what happens when AI comes across articles that are intentionally fake? Well, more of the same.
more → The Register, Monday, March 31st, 2025
'I'm glad you asked that question. We'll get to that tomorrow' (After I research the answer)
more → The Register, Friday, March 28th, 2025
Self-described 'visionary' made life hell for our hero, then some oily vids returned the favor
more → The Register, Monday, March 24th, 2025
And got away with it when someone else broke it even more comprehensively
more → The Register, Monday, March 17th, 2025
With the weekend behind us, it's time to once again ask the question "Who, Me?" That's the name of The Register's Monday column in which we share reader-contributed confessions of making a mess with tech.
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The same chap also caused a bomb scare in a missile factory
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