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Protip: If Joe Public Reports That Your Kit Is Broken, Maybe Check That It Is Actually Broken
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Because now you have a bill to replace all these perfectly functional devices On Call Welcome back to On Call where t... Read more
The Swift In-person Response Is Part Of The Service (and Nothing To Do With The Thing I Broke While Trying To Help You)
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I'll talk you through the steps... oh sh- On Call Corporal Cockup meets Major Outage in this week's episode of On Cal... Read more
Can't Get That Printer To Work? It's Not You. It's That Sodding Cablin.... Oh Beautiful Job With That Cabling, Boss
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Goodbye, Mr Chips On Call There are few things worse than when someone nicks your chips, be they of the potato or sil... Read more
To Have One Floppy Failure Is Unlucky. To Have 20 Implies Evil Magic Or A Very Silly User
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Not quite what we meant by 'disk capacity' On Call Welcome back to On Call and a timely reminder that no matter how c... Read more
For Blinkenlights Sake.... RTFM! Yes. Read The Front Of The Machine
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Before smartphones and LCD displays there were... green lights and red lights On Call There was a time before phones ... Read more
Yes, There's Nothing Quite Like Braving The M4 Into London On The Eve Of A Bank Holiday Just To Eject A Non-bootable Floppy
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I can indeed make things magically disappear if I shout loudly enough On Call A classic case of a user punching thems... Read more
Don't Be A Fool, Cover Your Tool: How IBM's Mighty XT Keyboard Was Felled By Toxic Atmosphere Of The '80s
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The foulest stench is in the air, the funk of forty thousand... cigarettes? On Call A reader's brush with filth is re... Read more
I Haven't Bought New Pants For Years, Why Do I Have To Keep Buying New PCs?
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Friends and family tech support meets steam-powered computing On Call It's a friends and family episode of On Call to... Read more
A Word To The Wyse: Smoking Cigars In The Office Is Very Bad For You... And Your Monitor
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A matte-black terminal? Neat! Where can I get one? On Call Dark Mode is all the rage nowadays, but screens of the bla... Read more
So You Really Didn't Touch The Settings At All, Huh? Well, This Print-out From My Secret Backup Says Otherwise
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Cultures clash when a combustion turbine goes K-pop On Call Friday has rolled around once more, bookending a sunny we... Read more