Sysadmin's Favorite Collection Of Infallible Utilities Failed ... Foully
The Register, Monday, December 4,2023
Unnecessary 'maintenance' turned into a fragging foul-up
Brace yourselves, gentle readers, for we have good news and bad news. The bad news is that the weekend is over, and you have to be back at work. The good news is that Monday brings an instalment of Who, Me? in which Reg readers entertain with tales of technical misfires.
This week, the hero of our tale is "Duke" (not his real name) who, despite dropping out of university, landed a job as a technician at a small PC shop. To give you an idea of the time period, "a Pentium 133 running Office 97 on Windows 95 was the height of business computing, but most of our business clients were still running DOS applications on '486 and earlier PCs" according to Duke.