A Thump With The Pointy End Of A Screwdriver Will Fix This Server! What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The Register, Monday, May 27th, 2024
No, nothing's broken. I'm just working under this desk for . reasons
WHO, ME? As a fresh working week commences, The Register understands that many readers may feel like giving the kit they tend to a good thump. Which is why each week we offer a fresh and hopefully cathartic instalment of Who, Me? so you can take heart from fellow readers' tales of tech support agonies rather than letting irritation overwhelm you and create your own.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Mel" who told us about his time as a field engineer for machines that ran Pick OS - a relic that our sibling site The Next Platform recently reminisced about because it integrated an OS and a database.
Mel's employer had written software for the OS, even though he described it as "rare as rocking horse excrement."