Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving
A UK local council IT technician named Teague admitted to acquiring a free ISDN router from a supplier and configuring it before a holiday. He answered 'Yes' to a setup prompt about DHCP use, which later caused network issues. The mistake emerged after he left for vacation, leaving colleagues to resolve the disruption.
- ▪Teague worked for a local council in the UK and often obtained free technology from suppliers.
- ▪He acquired an ISDN router and configured it, answering 'Yes' to whether his organization used DHCP.
- ▪The configuration change caused network problems after he left for a week-long holiday.
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Networks Hope your holiday was horrid: You botched the last thing you did before leaving That box-full-of-old-tech-you-should-probably-have-thrown-out-but-kept-just-in-case got a techie in trouble Simon Sharwood Mon 4 May 2026 // 07:00 UTC Who, Me? Monday is upon us once again and The Register hopes that when you arrive at your desk, all is well. We offer that sentiment because we use the first day of the working week to bring you a fresh instalment of "Who, Me?" – the reader-contributed column in which you confess to making mistakes, and explain how you survived them. This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Teague" who told us he once worked for a local council in the UK. "Blagging freebies from kit suppliers was an everyday occurrence," he told The Register.
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