IT staff can be so... spiky sometimes Richard Speed Fri 15 Jan 2021 // 08:15 UTC Share Copy On Call A seemingly innocent uplighter looms large in today's On Call tale of NetWare nefariousness in which a reader takes observability to new lengths. "Dan", for that is not his name, was working as departmental support for a UK local authority "more famous for its wild animal park" than its IT prowess. This was back in the 1990s, and Dan told us "we had only just managed to gain permission to have networked PCs (council rules stated only Unix was allowed for networks)." The layout had one server per team, and the open-plan nature of the workspace meant that each server was located within the relevant work area.