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The Register, Monday, November 10th, 2025
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as 'William,' who like many of you got his first taste of computers from behind the keyboard of a Commodore Amiga.
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The Register, Friday, November 7th, 2025
Lost packets would be cleaned out of routers, dead gopher servers would be pulled out of holes
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One SQL slip-up is survivable. Not learning from the first mess meant change
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When tech support collides with Halloween, the results are scary
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Welcome to Monday morning and another installment of Who, Me? For the uninitiated, it's The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that tells tales of your greatest misses, and how you rebuilt a career afterward.
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Techie summoned at 02:00 AM to sort things out sent another 2 billion trying to fix it
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Oh . you mean we shouldn't press that button?
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The 1990s called with a reminder that in the time before ransomware, infosec panics could be quite quaint
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Illicit colo cleanup seemed like a good way to get out of the house during Covid
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Reputations earned over years of service can work wonders
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This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Saul" who shared a story from his time working for an IBM dealer in the late 1980s. "I'd taught myself how to use a PC/DOS and got the job because I knew more about PCs than the hiring manager or the team lead," Saul told Who, Me? On his first day at the coal face, his boss asked him to learn something new: UNIX.
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Cool kids drank the aggressive micro-management Kool-Aid
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An early career lesson in the power of documentation, and the importance of exploration
more → The Register, Friday, September 26th, 2025
Manager's quality control priorities were upside down
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Revenge on managers who slow things down is a drink best served with floating fungus
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Contractor sneakily fired after pointing out odious ignorance
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Student thought she had the hang of this 'Linux' thing and its kooky CLI
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The very premise on which The Register is built is that our readers know quite a lot about information technology, and that stories featured each Friday in On Call - our weekly tales of your support experiences - therefore reflect your working lives.
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From fast food fiascos to botched databases, there are fresh honors for machine learning misadventures
more → The Register, Monday, September 8th, 2025
Monday mornings see the resumption of endless coopetition between IT folks and those they strive to serve but sometimes disappoint. The Register celebrates that eternal struggle with a new edition of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column that offers the chance to admit failures and celebrate escapes.
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Bickering continued despite mess putting cancer patients at risk
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At last, enough hours in the day to RTFM
more → The Register, Monday, August 25th, 2025
Network Time Protocol sometimes needs help from a temporal cops
more → 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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Escort's forgotten cap left techie facing rifles and a debrief
more → The Register, Monday, August 18th, 2025
The real lesson here is how little some companies care about training
more → The Register, Friday, August 15th, 2025
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."
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This job was a car wreck in more than one way
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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.
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And was saved by an even worse meltdown caused by someone else
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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?
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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
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