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Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner

What a wind-up!

ON CALL Welcome to another installment of On Call, our weekly reader-contributed column that shares your stories of tech support jobs that tested your skill, sanity, and sensibilities.

This week,meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Nathan" who told us that back in the mists oftime, he worked for a small investment company.

"Itssole purpose was, and probably remains, managing the European investments of avery rich Russian oligarch who shall remain nameless," Nathan told On Call.

As befitted the oligarch's wealth, the firm'spremises featured an elaborate entrance foyer with a standout feature Nathan describedas "a magnificent chandelier suspended from the ceiling with a clockworkmechanism to lower it down for cleaning."

Chandeliers don't need to be cleaned every day, but aftercleaners got around to the job, an entire floor of the firm lost all networkaccess – WAN and LAN were both deader than Lenin.

Nathan did the usual tests...

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