Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees
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- ▪He assumed an email problem could wait until he had finished the PC upgrade, so promised to be there in ten minutes.
- ▪Click here to send On Call an email telling your tale, and hopefully we'll be smart enough to share it with our readers on a future Friday. ® software outlook on call
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| Publication time | Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:30:00 +0200 |
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); software Sysadmin summoned to explain italics – to a user with at least two degrees What an idiot Simon Sharwood Simon Sharwood APAC Editor APAC Editor Published fri 7 Aug 2026 // 07:30 UTC ON CALL Welcome to another edition of On Call, the reader-contributed column The Register runs each Friday to share your tech support stories.This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Darwin," who once worked as a sysadmin for a Wall Street law firm – the sort of outfit that charges four-figure…
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