After a long lunch, user thought a cursor meant their computer was cactus
The Register, Friday, December 27th, 2024
Reg-reading heroes snacked on their woes and solved problems with extreme speed
The biggest days of the festive season may be behind us, but demand for tech support never stops. That's why each Friday, even this one, The Register shares stories of fixers forced to help flummoxed fools in On Call - the reader-contributed column that celebrates your successes.
This week, we're revisiting the topic of extremely swift fixes that we raised in November, when a reader claimed to have solved a user's problem in 8.5 seconds.
Another reader, who we will Regomize as "Barry," told us he was once called by the user of a greenscreen terminal who, upon returning from a lunch break stretched to unusual length by the need to queue for a bank teller, complained their machine displayed nothing but a "flashing screen."