People Find Amazing Ways To Break Computers. Cats Are Even More Creative
The Register, Monday, May 5th, 2025
On Call The unconditional love of a pet is often a solace, and perhaps never more so than at the end of a busy working week. Which is when The Register competes with the animal kingdom for your affection by delivering a new edition of On Call, our Friday column in which we share your stories of scratching out a living delivering tech support.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Walt" who fixes computers.
"One day a client came in and complained that her laptop would not turn on."
Walt opened the laptop, examined it for a minute, saw that various blinkenlights were all the right color but the display appeared dead.
"Do you own a cat?" he asked.
"Yes," his astonished customer replied. "How did you know?"