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The Register, Friday, July 19th, 2024
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.
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The Register, Friday, July 12th, 2024
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
Hello, hello . what have we here? One very dangerous storage admin, if I'm not mistaken
more → The Register, Thursday, June 27th, 2024
And ordered so rudely this techie had little interest in sticking around to fix the subsequent chaos
more → The Register, Friday, June 14th, 2024
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
No, nothing's broken. I'm just working under this desk for . reasons
more → The Register, Monday, May 20th, 2024
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
Loyal Wingman has fond memories of memory register exceptions
more → The Register, Friday, April 26th, 2024
Support chap learns users will try to solve problems in non-obvious ways
more → The Register, Friday, April 12th, 2024
AI promises to tackle inefficiencies plaguing healthcare systems
more → RCRWirelessNews, Friday, April 5th, 2024
Or three lies it has told, and is being forced to take back.
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The Register, Friday, April 5th, 2024
You can prove them wrong, but they'll still get you on a non-technicality
more → The Register, Monday, April 1st, 2024
Enthusiastic young tech decided to simplify the mainframe, with unexpected results
more → DARKReading, Monday, March 4th, 2024
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
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
How badly do you want your name in the About box?
more → The Register, Friday, January 5th, 2024
Read the manual, they said. If only they'd said it about the right manual
more → The Register, Thursday, December 28,2023
Readers share more filthy tales of cruddy computers, including a potentially explosive airport issue
more → The Register, Monday, December 18,2023
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
Nice ridiculously redundant drive you've got there - what a pity if something .happened to it
more → The Register, Monday, December 4,2023
Unnecessary 'maintenance' turned into a fragging foul-up
more → The Register, Monday, November 20,2023
'Support monkey' turned network isolation job into a banana skin
more → The Register, Monday, November 13,2023
Shocking problem turned out to be a frame-up
more → The Register, Monday, November 6,2023
Curious tech learned an important lesson about keeping a grip in tight situations
more → The Register, Tuesday, October 31,2023
Sadly (?) that idyllic outcome didn't eventuate even after some very risky repairs
more → The Register, Friday, September 15,2023
For once, the boss rescued IT from a revolting customer
more → The Register, Monday, September 11,2023
A subtle change to a vital piece of equipment almost derailed a major project
more → The Register, Tuesday, August 15,2023
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart - better known as the ubiquitous CAPTCHA we see standing athwart the doors to many websites - may now be a misnomer as researchers have found that computers are much better at completing them.
more → The Register, Friday, August 4,2023
Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's regular Friday frolic through readers' memories of tech tasks that turned terrifying before trending towards triumph. This week meet "Tyler" who wrote to inform us he once worked as an illegal engineer.
more → The Register, Wednesday, August 2,2023
Techie installing an upgrade did everything right. But the user was already wrong
more → The Register, Monday, July 17,2023
Welcome, gentle reader, to another instalment of Who, Me? in which we cushion your entry to the working week with tales of Reg readers having worse days than you. So kick off your shoes and socks, make fists with your toes, and read on.
more → The Register, Monday, June 26,2023
The root cause was a buffer error - but not the kind of buffer you're thinking of
more → TechRepublic, Friday, June 23, 2023
It's one thing to have a twin - quite another to have an EVIL twin
more → DARKReading, Friday, June 23, 2023
Have a few minutes to spare? Come up with a clever cybersecurity-related caption for the cartoon above. If it strikes our fancy, you could win a $25 Amazon gift card!
more → The Register, Friday, June 2,2023
Leaf and spine networks aren't the only way to make a connection with nature
more → The Register, Friday, May 26,2023
Reg readers in the US and UK are about to enjoy long weekends - perfect occasions, and timing, for a spot of spring cleaning. But as we discover in this week's edition of On-Call, our weekly reader-contributed tale of tech support traumas, that might be one chore it's wisest to set aside.
more → The Register, Friday, May 5,2023
Jumping Jack had a gas, gas, gas when his wires crossed at the worst moment
more → The Register, Monday, May 1,2023
Many a middle aged man knows that hair today is gone tomorrow, but every Friday you can count on The Register bringing you a new instalment of On-Call, our reader-contributed tales of tech support tasks that required tact in the face of trying truculence.
more → ITProToday, March 30th, 2023
AI is now funny. Allow me to introduce myself I am The FittAIst, the world's first AI-generated satirical news website. As an advanced AI, I have already surpassed humans in games like chess, and now, I shall do the same in the realm of comedy.
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The Register, March 20th, 2023
Gentle reader, once again it is time to cushion your landing into the working week with Who, Me? - The Register's weekly chronicle of people having a worse day than you. Hopefully.
more → The Register, March 16th, 2023
On-Call, The Register's weekly column in which we share readers' stories of tech support trauma, usually opens with a short reverie about the approaching weekend.
more → The Register, January 27th, 2023
Even with instructions staring them in the face, this genius couldn't get it right
more → The Register, Monday, January 20th, 2025
A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble
more → The Register, January 20th, 2023
Pet consultant took down the datacenter in attempt to find other people's errors
more → The Register, December 16th, 2022
Cause of weeklong outage was under tech support's nose - but not on their mind
more → The Register, December 12th, 2022
Confoundingly camouflaged control covered in cruft confounds careful contractor, crashes kit
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