Shocks From A Hairy Jumper Crashed A PC, But The Boss Wouldn't Believe It
The Register, Monday, May 1,2023
Many a middle aged man knows that hair today is gone tomorrow, but every Friday you can count on The Register bringing you a new instalment of On-Call, our reader-contributed tales of tech support tasks that required tact in the face of trying truculence.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Monty" because in the 1990s he worked as a computer tech British Columbia - lumberjack country.
"The company had a pulp mill in the town of Prince George and several sawmills around Northern BC," Monty told us. Its HQ was in Prince George, a significant timber town in BC, which was where Monty went about his business.
"One cold winter week, we started to get calls from the vice president of Forestry that his computer was acting up," he told On-Call. "It would randomly restart. And at one point, his keyboard completely failed, and had to be replaced."