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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 Register, Friday, March 14th, 2025
The same chap also caused a bomb scare in a missile factory
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Using one green screen to manage multiple machines needs more than a Friday afternoon brain
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The week has ebbed away with embarrassing speed, so here we are again with a fresh installment of On Call, The Register's reader-contributed column that immortalizes tech support stories.
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Don't trust your tired self to do rm -rf right
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Turns out you can be too careful checking that backups worked
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'If I wasn't already taking blood pressure meds, I'm sure I would not have survived'
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This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Harry" who once worked for a supergiant global tech services company as it helped a major UK government agency to drag its tech into the 21st century.
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This week, we venture into the realm of office politics with a reader we'll Regomize as "Palmer." Palmer once worked under a newly minted manager who considered Dilbert comics as useful training, and the Pointy-Haired Boss as an inspiration.
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Outsourcing is not supposed to involve taking clients' hardware out of their building to your house
more → The Register, Saturday, February 8th, 2025
That's not even the worst part of this story, which features a flood, broken promises, and plenty of panic
more → The Register, Monday, February 3rd, 2025
At the start of working week, it can sometimes feel like you're just another brick in the wall and the next five days will require you to carry weight for others. To ease you into the mucky business of exchanging your labor for currency, The Register therefore uses each Monday to offer a fresh instalment of Who, Me? It's the column in which you admit to escaping your errors and emerging unscathed.
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Shabby admin invented 'transparent tape' - a terrible storage medium but a magic tool for unlocking IT budgets
more → The Register, Monday, January 27th, 2025
Epic late-night road trip would have been an awesome if not for a secret change of plans
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Then suggested a bloke down the pub might be able to help fix it
more → The Register, Monday, January 13th, 2025
Or ignore documentation that warns you are about to do something dangerous
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Reg-reading heroes snacked on their woes and solved problems with extreme speed
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As the 20th Anniversary of 'Y2K' (the 'Millennium Bug') approaches on December 31, here's a short music parody VIDEO (set to the music of 'YMCA' by the Village People, a hit song from 1978) produced in 1999 by a Silicon Valley tech giant at the time, Sun Microsystems. It was one way the company used to break the ice at Y2K planning meetings in the 6 months leading up to the event.
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The Register, Friday, December 20th, 2024
Digital technology remains frighteningly finickity, which is why good tech support people are always in demand - and also the reason The Register never tires of telling your support stories each Friday in On Call, the column your generosity makes possible.
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Working for a startup is supposed to end with getting rich overnight, but not like this
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ISP deserves criticism too for falling over after script kiddie beefing
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This week's hero is a network tech whom we will Regomize as "Sherlock." Back in the 1990s he was working as an IT manager for a business that had a number of regional hubs, each linked to HQ over a 128K link. Smaller regional offices were linked to their hubs with 64K connections.
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This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Warren" who worked for an US-based organization that operated several sites scattered across London, UK.
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Burglary skills are surprisingly important when building networks
more → The Register, Wednesday, November 27th, 2024
A certain very famous PC manufacturer may not be very good at documenting its legacy tech
more → The Register, Monday, November 25th, 2024
To avoid lock-in, it helps if you remember your keys
more → The Register, Friday, November 22nd, 2024
Nobody minded for 20 years or so, until another student took action
more → The Register, Monday, November 11th, 2024
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?
more → The Register, Friday, November 8th, 2024
Your very fastest resolution, delivered in a flash - even in The Time Before Google
more → The Register, Monday, November 4th, 2024
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
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.
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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."
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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
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
This is why every admin loves to hate Windows
more → The Register, Monday, October 7th, 2024
You had one job - doing extra is nice, but dangerous
more → The Register, Friday, October 4th, 2024
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
The result was no joke, thanks to a Microsoft glitch
more → The Register, Monday, September 16th, 2024
You've got mail . actually no, you've got nothing
more → The Register, Friday, September 13th, 2024
Mr Snuffleupagus turned out to be all too real and bad at database resilience
more → The Register, Saturday, September 7th, 2024
When maintenance windows are hard to open, a little lubrication helps
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The technology was willing, but the cache was weak
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As the hardware got more capable, the messes got more expensive
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A personal collection of the memorable missteps and fumbles
more → The Register, Monday, August 26th, 2024
Buying PCs off the gray market can (literally) blow up in your face
more → The Register, Friday, August 23rd, 2024
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
A long and strange tech support story that starts in Africa and ends in a Presidential Suite
more → The Register, Friday, August 9th, 2024
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.
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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
When someone kicks a chair across the room out of fear they'll be fired it's stopped being funny
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