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Workload Written By Student Made Millions, Ran On Unsupported Hardware, With Zero Maintenance
Nobody minded for 20 years or so, until another student took action
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The Register, Monday, November 11th, 2024
The Sad Tale Of The Alpha Massacre
Welcome, once again, to Who, Me? in which Register readers share tales of tech support moments they might prefer to forget. But forgetting is not a way to learn from mistakes, is it?
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Tech Support World Record? 8.5 Seconds From Seeing To Fixing
Your very fastest resolution, delivered in a flash - even in The Time Before Google
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Relocation Is A Complete Success - Right Up Until The Last Minute
It may be a cliche to say 'Don't rest on your laurels' but you really shouldn't
more → The Register, Monday, October 28th, 2024
I Made This Network So Resilient Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong
As you well know, each Monday (which is today) The Register (which you're reading) brings you an instalment of Who, Me? - our reader-contributed tales of tech gone wrong. This is that very column. To tell you again would surely be redundant.
more → The Register, Friday, October 25th, 2024
Your Computer's Not Working? Sure, I Can Fix That Problem - Which I Caused
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Bill" who told us about the time he wrote "a fairly simple stock control system for a hardware shop."
more → The Register, Monday, October 21st, 2024
Linux Admin Asked Savvy Scientist For IT Help And The Boffin Blew It
In science, every day is about testing hypotheses. Such as: 'plugging this thing in here is OK, right?'
more → The Register, Friday, October 18th, 2024
Yes, Your Network Is Down - You Annoyed Us So Much We Crashed It
By the end of a working week, it can be tempting to just blow up whatever tech you've toiled for days to tame. Which is why each Friday The Register offers a (hopefully) cathartic instalment of On Call, the reader-contributed column in which you share your tetchiest tech support tales.
more → The Register, Friday, October 11th, 2024
Techie Took Five Minutes To Fix Problem Adobe And Microsoft Couldn't Solve In Two Weeks
This is why every admin loves to hate Windows
more → The Register, Monday, October 7th, 2024
After We Fix That, How About We Also Accidentally Break Something Important?
You had one job - doing extra is nice, but dangerous
more → The Register, Friday, October 4th, 2024
Revenge For Being Fired Is Best Served Profitably
The exchange of labor for currency can be a grim business, which is why The Register ends each working week with a new installment of On Call - the reader contributed column in which you tell cathartic tales of Working For The Man.
more → The Register, Monday, September 23rd, 2024
Did You Hear The One About The Help Desk Chap Who Abused Privileges To Prank His Mate?
The result was no joke, thanks to a Microsoft glitch
more → The Register, Monday, September 16th, 2024
I Don't Know What Pressing Delete Will Do, But It Seems Safe Enough!
You've got mail . actually no, you've got nothing
more → The Register, Friday, September 13th, 2024
Muppet Broke The Datacenter Every Day, In Its Own Weighty Way
Mr Snuffleupagus turned out to be all too real and bad at database resilience
more → The Register, Saturday, September 7th, 2024
To Patch This Server, We Need To Get Someone Drunk
When maintenance windows are hard to open, a little lubrication helps
more → The Register, Monday, September 2nd, 2024
Techie Made A Biblical Boo-Boo When Trying To Spread The Word
The technology was willing, but the cache was weak
more → The Register, Thursday, August 29th, 2024
Sweet 16 And Making Mistakes: More Of The Computing Industry's Biggest Fails
As the hardware got more capable, the messes got more expensive
more → The Register, Wednesday, August 28th, 2024
Where The Computer Industry Went Wrong - The Early Hits
A personal collection of the memorable missteps and fumbles
more → The Register, Monday, August 26th, 2024
Bargain-Hunting Boss Saw His Bonus Go Up In A Puff Of Self-Inflicted Smoke
Buying PCs off the gray market can (literally) blow up in your face
more → The Register, Friday, August 23rd, 2024
Tech Support Chap Solved Knotty Disk Failure Problem By Staring At The Floor
A tale of retro tech - have you heard of Trivector computers? - and a very troubled tech support journey
more → The Register, Friday, August 16th, 2024
Client Tells Techie: You're Not Leaving The Country Until This Printer Is Working
A long and strange tech support story that starts in Africa and ends in a Presidential Suite
more → The Register, Friday, August 9th, 2024
Techie Told 'Bill Gates' Excel Is Rubbish - And The Microsoft Boss Had It Fixed In 48 Hours
The Register knows that tech support is a vocation that induces frustration, which is why each Friday we offer a new edition of On Call - the reader-contributed column that details real-life support stories so you can at least enjoy misery in company.
more → The Register, Friday, August 2nd, 2024
Yes, I Am Being Intolerably Smug - Because I Ignored You And Saved The Project
The minutes before a maintenance window closes are maybe not the best time to re-learn obscure router syntax
more → The Register, Monday, July 22nd, 2024
Facebook Prank Sent Techie Straight To Excel Hell
When someone kicks a chair across the room out of fear they'll be fired it's stopped being funny
more → The Register, Friday, July 19th, 2024
Dangerous Sandwiches Delayed Hardware Installation
Welcome again to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed tale of being asked to hold in your rage while dealing with the effluent of tech support. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Brian" who told us about the time he was called into central London to install some audio-visual hardware at a government agency.
more → The Register, Friday, July 12th, 2024
Stop Installing That Software - You May Have Just Died
Life on the frontlines of tech support can be tough, which is why each Friday The Register brings you a fresh instalment of On Call, our reader-contributed column in which you tell your peers what you've endured in the name of work.
more → The Register, Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
Innocent Techie Jailed For Taking Hours To Fix Storage
Hello, hello . what have we here? One very dangerous storage admin, if I'm not mistaken
more → The Register, Thursday, June 27th, 2024
For The Record: You Just Ordered Me To Cause A Very Expensive Outage
And ordered so rudely this techie had little interest in sticking around to fix the subsequent chaos
more → The Register, Friday, June 14th, 2024
We Need A Volunteer To Literally Crawl Over Broken Glass To Fix This Network
The Register knows that readers often put themselves in harm's way to ensure tech keeps ticking over, which is why each Friday we salute those efforts with a fresh installment of On Call - the reader-contributed column that details true tales of tech support.
more → The Register, Monday, May 27th, 2024
A Thump With The Pointy End Of A Screwdriver Will Fix This Server! What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
No, nothing's broken. I'm just working under this desk for . reasons
more → The Register, Monday, May 20th, 2024
Techie Invented Bits Of The Box He Was Fixing, Still Botched The Job
Greetings and salutations, dear readers, and welcome to the sunny spot on the interwebs we like to call Who, Me? in which Reg readers share their tales of tech tasks gone awry.
more → The Register, Friday, May 3rd, 2024
I Can Fix This PC, Boss, But I'll Need To Play Games For Hours To Do It
Loyal Wingman has fond memories of memory register exceptions
more → The Register, Friday, April 26th, 2024
Help! My Mouse Climbed A Wall And Now It Doesn't Work Right
Support chap learns users will try to solve problems in non-obvious ways
more → The Register, Friday, April 12th, 2024
Support Contract Required Techie To Lounge Around In A $5,000/Night Hotel Room
AI promises to tackle inefficiencies plaguing healthcare systems
more → RCRWirelessNews, Friday, April 5th, 2024
Myths and Legends - Three Lies the Private 5G Sector Tells
Or three lies it has told, and is being forced to take back.
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The Register, Friday, April 5th, 2024
Techie Saved The Day and Was Then Criticized For The Fix
You can prove them wrong, but they'll still get you on a non-technicality
more → The Register, Monday, April 1st, 2024
You Break It, You ... Run Away and Hope Somebody Else Fixes It
Enthusiastic young tech decided to simplify the mainframe, with unexpected results
more → DARKReading, Monday, March 4th, 2024
Name That Edge Toon: How Charming
Feeling creative? Submit your caption and our panel of experts will reward the winner with a $25 Amazon gift card.
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The Register, Friday, January 12th, 2024
While We Fire The Boss, Can You Lock Him Out Of The Network?
And he would have got away with it, too, if it weren't for this one tiny backdoor
more → The Register, Monday, January 8th, 2024
New Year, New Bug - Rivalry Between Devs Led To A Deep-Code Disaster
How badly do you want your name in the About box?
more → The Register, Friday, January 5th, 2024
Tech Support Done Bad Sure Makes It Hard To Do Tech Support Good
Read the manual, they said. If only they'd said it about the right manual
more → The Register, Thursday, December 28,2023
'I Needed Antihistamine Tablets Every Time I Opened The Computers'
Readers share more filthy tales of cruddy computers, including a potentially explosive airport issue
more → The Register, Monday, December 18,2023
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WHO, ME? As the year rolls down to its inevitable conclusion, we're running out of Mondays. But have no fear, gentle reader - future Mondays will bring you further installments of Who, Me? in which Register readers share their tales of tech support gone wrong.
more → The Register, Monday, December 11,2023
Enterprising Techie Took The Bumpy Road To Replacing Vintage Hardware
Nice ridiculously redundant drive you've got there - what a pity if something .happened to it
more → The Register, Monday, December 4,2023
Sysadmin's Favorite Collection Of Infallible Utilities Failed ... Foully
Unnecessary 'maintenance' turned into a fragging foul-up
more → The Register, Monday, November 20,2023
Why Have Just One Firewall When You Can Fire All The Wall
'Support monkey' turned network isolation job into a banana skin
more → The Register, Monday, November 13,2023
Bright Spark Techie Knew The Drill And Used It To Install A Power Line, But Couldn't Outsmart An Odd Electrician
Shocking problem turned out to be a frame-up
more → The Register, Monday, November 6,2023
Shock Horror - And There Goes The Network Neighborhood
Curious tech learned an important lesson about keeping a grip in tight situations
more → The Register, Tuesday, October 31,2023
After Nine Servers He Worked On Failed, Techie Imagined Next Career As Beach Vendor
Sadly (?) that idyllic outcome didn't eventuate even after some very risky repairs
more → The Register, Friday, September 15,2023
Techie Labelled 'Disgusting Filth Merchant' By Disgusting Hypocrite
For once, the boss rescued IT from a revolting customer
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