On Call
Swooping In To Claim The Glory While The On Call Engineer Stands Baffled
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Backups or crack-ups? Welcome to the world of the IBM System/3 On Call Sometimes you're the one on the phone, and oth... Read more
A Lightbulb Moment Comes Too Late To Save A Mainframe Engineer's Blushes
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Throwing light onto a frozen bit of big iron On Call The weekend is almost upon us – a time for adult beverages and... Read more
The Ministry Of Silly Printing: But I Don't Want My Golf Club Correspondence To Say 'UNCLASSIFIED' At The Bottom
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Weekend upgrade shows how many MoD staff made personal use of tech On Call A reader takes us back to a bygone era, wh... Read more
Say What You See: Four-letter Fun On A Late-night Support Call
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It's on a computer screen. It must be some sort of technical jargon, right? On Call We do like our acronyms and initi... Read more
Sharing Is Caring, Except When It's Your Internet Connection
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The SSID 'AllYouCanEatBuffetOfPr0n' might not help either On Call Remember those halcyon days when grabbing some free... Read more
How To Keep A Support Contract: Make The User Think They Solved The Problem
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Look what you found! Aren't you clever! On Call Let us take a little trip back to the days before the PC, when termin... Read more
Scoot On Over For A Wheely Tricky Mystery With An Electrifying Solution
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The computer is a chauvinist, you say? On Call Round off your week with an electrifying tale from the land of chunky-... Read more
Fatal Attraction: Lovely Collection, Really, But It Does Not Belong Anywhere Near Magnetic Storage Media
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Your PC is not a fridge On Call Friday brings the promise of a weekend free from the work laptop but likely shackled ... Read more
Computer Shuts Down When Foreman Leaves The Room: Ghost In The Machine? Or An All-too-human Bit Of Silliness?
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The answer won't surprise you On Call It's Friday mystery time as a Register reader finds himself embroiled in The Ad... Read more
Check Your Bits: What To Do When Unix Decides To Make A Hash Of Your Bill Printouts
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Symbol shenanigans turned out to be the least of the government's problems On Call Fire up the Cossie*! We're going b... Read more
Electron-to-joule Conversion Formulae? Cute. Welcome To The School Of Hard Knocks
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Shake, rattle and roll is incompatible with your PABX On Call There are some things they don't teach you in college, ... Read more
Not Too Bright, Are You? Your Laptop, I Mean... Not You
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Those knobs can be sensitive On Call Friday has arrived, and the promise of the weekend stretches out before us. Spar... Read more
See That Last Line In The Access List? Yeah, That Means You Don't Have An Access List
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But I hired the most expensive of contractors – how could this have happened? On Call Just one more day to go – t... Read more
Exsparko-destructus! What Happens When Wand Waving Meets Extremely Poor Wiring
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You killed my data centre, prepare to die On Call Welcome to another edition of On Call in which a contractor's shonk... Read more
Try Placing A Pot Plant Directly Above Your CRT Monitor – It Really Ties The Desk Together
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Actually, no. Don't do this On Call The week is over once again. Celebrate with a watery On Call tale involving a cat... Read more
Where's The Boss? Ah Right, Thorough Deep-dive Audit. On The Boardroom Table. Gotcha
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Ooh, watch out for splinters On Call It's Carry On Call time this week as a Register reader finds himself dealing wit... Read more
Go To L: A Man Of The Cloth Faces Keyboard Conundrum
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When a user really is holier than thou On Call We round out the week with a spiritual On Call from a reader who was o... Read more
Ouch! When The IT Equipment Is Sound, But The Setup Is Hole-y Inappropriate
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Let me draw a picture for you On Call The week may be over, but the capacity of users to stick things where they shou... Read more
The Server Is Down, Money Is Not Being Made, And You Want Me To Fix What?
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The sound of silence? No, no, it's stupidity On Call A reminder of who is really in charge and how one should set one... Read more
Oh Lord, Won't You Buy Me A Mercedes-Benz? Detroit Waits For My Order, You'd Better Make Amends
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I've worked hard all day on-call... you drive me round the bend On Call Friday is here, and with it a story from the ... Read more