Mice do like cheese after all
Richard Speed Fri 22 Jan 2021 // 08:15 UTC Share
On Call Welcome back to
The Register s series of On Call stories from those who have to face the most unpredictable resource in the IT world: the user.
Our tale, from a reader Regomised as Mike , takes us back to the glory days of the personal computer revolution and the service department of a ComputerLand outlet.
The year was 1982 and Mike was delighted with his workplace. A fairly amazing place at the time, he said, that was opening very fancy stores selling the brand new personal computer to the public.
IT staff can be so. spiky sometimes
Richard Speed Fri 15 Jan 2021 // 08:15 UTC Share
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On Call A seemingly innocent uplighter looms large in today s On Call tale of NetWare nefariousness in which a reader takes observability to new lengths. Dan , for that is not his name, was working as departmental support for a UK local authority more famous for its wild animal park than its IT prowess. This was back in the 1990s, and Dan told us we had only just managed to gain permission to have networked PCs (council rules stated only Unix was allowed for networks).
The layout had one server per team, and the open-plan nature of the workspace meant that each server was located within the relevant work area.