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ON CALL Fronting up to work on Friday morning can feel like a mistake, but The Register tries to make it worthwhile by bringing you a new installment of On Call – the reader-contributed column that shares your tech support stories.

This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Lee" who told us about his time as sysadmin at the headquarters of a retail company.

"It was about the year 2000 and I was a newly minted Certified NetWare Engineer administering Novell servers," Lee reminisced. Before long, Lee was running the teams that managed email servers and provided desktop support for over a thousand users.

"I got to know just about everybody in the HQ and became known as the go-to guy for all things technical," he proudly told On Call.

One Friday afternoon, a vice president called to complain he...

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5 underrated iOS 27 features that make my iPhone way better - and none are Siri AI

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * iOS 27 brings some much-needed changes to the Control Center. * The Photos app is getting a new folder for photos and videos. * Apple's iOS 27 is currently available to test in public beta.

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The manosphere’s testosterone fever is coming for the troops

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewerVictoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. I was in the middle of writing a different Optimizer column this week when I

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Bethesda teases Fallout 5 soon after Xbox’s mass layoffs

Xbox is currently in a “reset” period that includes laying off around 3,200 employees over the next year, involving deep cuts at beloved studios like id Software and Obsidian Entertainment. Now, in an attempt to show that things are still running fine, the company has announced a slate of

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Torvalds challenged the haters to fork Linux. Someone said 'hold my beer'

OS PLATFORMS More a rewrite really, and of a very early version: Linux 0.11 – in Rust Earlier this week, Linux project leader Linus Torvalds told AI haters to fork off, and invited anyone who didn't like his comments to fork the kernel. Well, here you go: linux-0.

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