We Need A Volunteer To Literally Crawl Over Broken Glass To Fix This Network
The Register, Friday, June 14th, 2024
The Register knows that readers often put themselves in harm's way to ensure tech keeps ticking over, which is why each Friday we salute those efforts with a fresh installment of On Call - the reader-contributed column that details true tales of tech support.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Gordon," who once worked for a very large chipmaker and found himself required to show off its latest wares at a colossal trade show.
"We had a stand that took the form of what I can only call 'lily pads' - circular areas about three meters in diameter, each 'floating' about 50 centimeters above the floor of the exhibition hall," Gordon explained. Each pad was themed - one for gaming, one for music, and others for different things one might do with a PC.
"The lily pads were linked by little 'Japanese bridges'," he added. The PCs on the lily pads were connected too...