'I Needed Antihistamine Tablets Every Time I Opened The Computers'
The Register, Thursday, December 28,2023
Readers share more filthy tales of cruddy computers, including a potentially explosive airport issue
The On Call mailbag is bulging with contributions from readers who want to add to The Register's Dirt File, a seasonal spin-off of our weekly On Call column about tech support nightmares that focuses on the dirtiest, nastiest, grottiest, and filthiest environments in which readers have been asked to work.
To open this installment, meet a reader we'll Regomize as 'Wright' who is an assistant IT manager at a very, very, large US airport.
'We had a 22U cabinet deployed out in the public area of our airport that was housing a network switch and an uninterruptible power supply,' Wright explained. The cabinet was locked tight.
Yet the airport's facilities team would often call to ask for keys to get into what they assumed was a locked trash can.