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Techie Solved Supposed Software Problem By Waving His Arms In The Air

The Register, Friday, May 2nd, 2025

Used his loaf and found sweet solution for bakery borkage

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Charlie" who once worked as field service engineer for a company he told us "installed computers for various large customers."

In this story, Charlie got the job of visiting a bread factory where two machines communicating over a serial cable were intermittently glitching. Charlie was told this was a software problem and sallied forth to fix it.

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