I dunno, maybe i should turn the chillers back on, but what the hell, ive got a cold and i need to keep warm if i go into the machine room. The early accounts of the bofh took place in a university. The electronic rights of the original bofh are owned by datamation magazine. Datamation magazine owns the electronic rights to the orgional works of the bofh. Skip to main content this banner text can have markup. But at least now the radios off, it was on its 12 repeat of wildfire. But at least now the radios off, it was on its 12 repeat of wildfire this week, and its only tuesday. I reassign null to be the tape device its so much more economical on my time as i dont have to keep getting up to change tapes every 5 minutes. Bastard operator from hell, compleat archives metafilter. Anyway, to get them off my back, i invite them in to see just how hectic an operator s life really is, and have prepared lots of flashing lights and alert sounds to keep the mindless cretins fooled. Im sitting at the desk, playing xtank, when some thoughtless bastard rings me on the phone. The bastard operator from hell the complete edition.
I reassign null to be the tape device its so much more economical on my time as i dont have. The bastard operator from hell bofh is a fictional rogue computer operator who takes out his anger on users and others who pester him with their computer problems, uses his expertise against his enemies and manipulates his employer. I have a pdf file and i need to split this into individual pages. You know how bored you get when works going on and on and on, and nothing interesting is happening, and youre listening to a radio that picks up one station on fm, and its always the station with the least records in the city, about 5. If the bastard operator from hell didnt exist, it would be necessary to invent him. So anyway, i quicklime the engineer to remove any fingerprints and then fedex him back to headquarters. I hope you like it so much youll tell your friends about it. So anyway this company was moved to the cloud a few months back and my engineers are having hell with some old bat at. Bastard operator from hell, compleat archives march 21.
This is a collection of links to most of the bofh stories from 2000 to 2016 for bofh episodes from before 2000. Someone has messed up the kernel pointers the bofhstyle excuse generator brought to you by jeff ballard. The original bofhstories the bastard operator from hell a. The semicomplete, gluten free, cold pressed and high fibre bofh archives, torn straight from the bastards own jotter pad by the very forces of nature, now loving presented in a hardtosee font by your favourite web renderer. A system administrator with absolutely no tolerance for 10 lusers. Bastard operator from hell wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The bastard operator from hell is off to the movies. The extraordinary tales of the bastard operator from hell bofh and quicklimefetching minion pimply faced youth pfy. I had heard there was some one they called the bastard operator from hell. Jeff ballard based upon the the bastard operator from hell stories written by simon paul travaglia. I get back from britian and return to my old stomping grounds to take up a post as an analystprogrammer. This site contains adult themes, violence, profanities, and other such fun stuff.
Bastard operator from hell topic the bastard operator from hell bofh is a fictional rogue computer operator who takes out his anger on users and others who pester him with their. Maybe its the sysadmin version of that famous quote from voltaire. I would normally do this manually but i have thousands per month and so i want to automate this process. I make sure hes got enough disk for the job by removing any files not related to the task at hand. As a show of solidarity, some realworld sysadmins even began adding bofh into their signature files like some sort of doctoral title, joked one 90sera technology columnist.
First published in 1992, it is about a magnificent bastard system administrator who is also travaglias author. Members of the new stripy shirt brigade are full of beans and raring to go. I assign the tape device to null its so much more economical on my time as i dont have to keep getting up to change tapes every 5 minutes. Were trying another arbitrary file to prove that it all works.
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The bastard operator from hell appendix internet forum world. Bastard operator from pandora 2 points 6 years ago. Short for bastard operator from hell, bofh is a fictional administrator created by simon travaglia that becomes angry with the users hes supposed to be helping. Celebrate system administrator appreciation day with the bastard. The bastard operator from hell bofh, a fictional character created by simon travaglia, is a rogue system administrator who takes out his anger on users often referred to as lusers his colleagues, his bosses, and anyone who gets in his way. In the matrix reloaded, arahanga can be seen in one of the first establishing shots of zion, as a machine operator who flashes quickly by the camera. The bastard operator from hell bofh is a fictional rogue computer operator who takes out.
As the bofh, you arrive late at work, and find the building unusually quiet. Ok, you need to run the file thru the mailer to clear the eigth bit, other wise the journal recovery will probably choke with an instruction error. They all file into the control room, about 10 of them in all, the dweebish types who hang out in groups like this as a social event. The bastard operator from hell style excuse server. I think the bastard surgeon from hell and all those would be funny if they were written as confidently and with such disregard for others as these are. The bastard operator from hell appendix free download as pdf file. The semicomplete, gluten free, cold pressed and high fibre bofh archives, torn straight from the bastard s own jotter pad by the very forces of nature itself, now loving presented in a hardtosee font by your favourite web renderer. He has released 74 works with other bands and artists including his work as death cube k. Like all those doctorate final report papers that have got quite large in the last couple of weeks.
Im really starting to worry about the number of account breakins weve been having recently the manager isnt though. Several other people have written stories about bofhs, but those by simon travaglia are considered canonical. Weve found the real bastard operator from hell ingenious it boss banishes hapless callers to onhold hades with extension 666 by shaun nichols in san francisco 29 apr 2016 at 18. This pdf contains every bastard operator from hell bofh story written by simon travaglia before its reintroduction at the register. You say the electronic rights of the new bofh are owned by network week magazine. Bastard operator from hell often abbreviated to bofh is a long running series of short stories by new zealand writer simon travaglia. The bastard operator from hell the complete www edition. A system administrator with absolutely no tolerance for 10lusers. They dont care of human hostages so all the personnel have been told to leave. The bastard operator from hell university of waterloo. How to split a pdf into pages using vba vba visual basic. Im busy with my new shell replacement login script, and its almost foolproof.