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RCRWirelessNews, Friday, April 5th, 2024
Myths and Legends - Three Lies the Private 5G Sector Tells
Or three lies it has told, and is being forced to take back.
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The Register, Friday, April 5th, 2024
Techie Saved The Day and Was Then Criticized For The Fix
You can prove them wrong, but they'll still get you on a non-technicality
more → The Register, Monday, April 1st, 2024
You Break It, You ... Run Away and Hope Somebody Else Fixes It
Enthusiastic young tech decided to simplify the mainframe, with unexpected results
more → DARKReading, Monday, March 4th, 2024
Name That Edge Toon: How Charming
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
While We Fire The Boss, Can You Lock Him Out Of The Network?
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
New Year, New Bug - Rivalry Between Devs Led To A Deep-Code Disaster
How badly do you want your name in the About box?
more → The Register, Friday, January 5th, 2024
Tech Support Done Bad Sure Makes It Hard To Do Tech Support Good
Read the manual, they said. If only they'd said it about the right manual
more → The Register, Thursday, December 28,2023
'I Needed Antihistamine Tablets Every Time I Opened The Computers'
Readers share more filthy tales of cruddy computers, including a potentially explosive airport issue
more → The Register, Monday, December 18,2023
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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
Enterprising Techie Took The Bumpy Road To Replacing Vintage Hardware
Nice ridiculously redundant drive you've got there - what a pity if something .happened to it
more → The Register, Monday, December 4,2023
Sysadmin's Favorite Collection Of Infallible Utilities Failed ... Foully
Unnecessary 'maintenance' turned into a fragging foul-up
more → The Register, Monday, November 20,2023
Why Have Just One Firewall When You Can Fire All The Wall
'Support monkey' turned network isolation job into a banana skin
more → The Register, Monday, November 13,2023
Bright Spark Techie Knew The Drill And Used It To Install A Power Line, But Couldn't Outsmart An Odd Electrician
Shocking problem turned out to be a frame-up
more → The Register, Monday, November 6,2023
Shock Horror - And There Goes The Network Neighborhood
Curious tech learned an important lesson about keeping a grip in tight situations
more → The Register, Tuesday, October 31,2023
After Nine Servers He Worked On Failed, Techie Imagined Next Career As Beach Vendor
Sadly (?) that idyllic outcome didn't eventuate even after some very risky repairs
more → The Register, Friday, September 15,2023
Techie Labelled 'Disgusting Filth Merchant' By Disgusting Hypocrite
For once, the boss rescued IT from a revolting customer
more → The Register, Monday, September 11,2023
Watt's the worst thing you can do to a datacenter? Failing to RTFM, Electrically
A subtle change to a vital piece of equipment almost derailed a major project
more → The Register, Tuesday, August 15,2023
So Much For CAPTCHA Then - Bots Can Complete Them Quicker Than Humans
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
How To Get A Computer Get Stuck In A Lift? Ask An 'Illegal Engineer'
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
Nobody Would Ever Work On The Live Server, Right? Not Intentionally, Anyway
Techie installing an upgrade did everything right. But the user was already wrong
more → The Register, Monday, July 17,2023
Network Died, Hard, During Company Christmas Party, Leaving Lone Techie To Fix It
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
Security? Working Servers? Who Needs Those When You Can Have A Shiny Floor?
The root cause was a buffer error - but not the kind of buffer you're thinking of
more → TechRepublic, Friday, June 23, 2023
Techie Wasn't Being Paid, Until He Taught HR A Lesson
It's one thing to have a twin - quite another to have an EVIL twin
more → DARKReading, Friday, June 23, 2023
Name That Toon: Time To Spare?
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
Cunningly Camouflaged Cable Routed Around WAN-Sized Hole In Project Budget
Leaf and spine networks aren't the only way to make a connection with nature
more → The Register, Friday, May 26,2023
That Old Box Of Tech Junk You Should Probably Throw Out Saves A Warehouse
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
Datacenter Fire Suppression System Wasn't Tested For Years, Then Boom
Jumping Jack had a gas, gas, gas when his wires crossed at the worst moment
more → The Register, Monday, May 1,2023
Shocks From A Hairy Jumper Crashed A PC, But The Boss Wouldn't Believe It
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
World's First AI-Generated Satirical News Website Launches, Outperforms Humans In Humor And Intelligence
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
IT Phone Home: How To Run Up A $20K Bill In Two Days And Get Away With It By Blaming Cisco
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
Techie Fired For Inventing An Acronym - And Accidentally Applying It To The Boss
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
User Was Told Three Times 'Do Not Reboot This PC' - Then Unplugged IT Anyway
Even with instructions staring them in the face, this genius couldn't get it right
more → The Register, Monday, January 20th, 2025
Developers feared large chaps carrying baseball bats could come to kneecap their ... test account?
A whole different kind of 'technical debt' turned into real-world trouble
more → The Register, January 20th, 2023
New IT Boss Decided To 'Audit Everything You Guys Are Doing Wrong'. Which Went Wrong
Pet consultant took down the datacenter in attempt to find other people's errors
more → The Register, December 16th, 2022
Server Broke Because It Was Invisibly Designed To Break
Cause of weeklong outage was under tech support's nose - but not on their mind
more → The Register, December 12th, 2022
Server Installer Fails To Spot Stop Button - Because He Wasn't An Archaeologist
Confoundingly camouflaged control covered in cruft confounds careful contractor, crashes kit
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