The third bofh collection by simon travaglia by simon travaglia. A system administrator with absolutely no tolerance for 10lusers. Bofhthemed stories illustrate certain thorny relationships between end users and network operators. Free association has its dangers in the company therapy sessions. The bastard operator from hell the complete edition. Based upon the the bastard operator from hell stories written by simon paul travaglia. Welcome to our special issue on violence in the workplace, i mean system administration. The 1998 star trek rave free, part two the 1999 series. Several other people have written stories about bofhs, but those by simon travaglia are considered canonical. Feb 25, 2009 carson cant keep up with rodney dangerfields nonstop oneliners 1974 duration. The bofh stories were originally posted in 1992 to. Twas the night before christmas, and the ransomware struck.
The bastard operator from hell and the paintball session. He has released 74 works with other bands and artists including his work as death cube k. I hope you like it so much youll tell your friends about it. The queues waaaay too long to have everything printed and sorted by the time i told them, so i kill all the small jobs so theres only 2 left and i. 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. The semicomplete, gluten free, cold pressed and high fibre bofh archives, torn straight from the bastards own jotter pad by. 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 appendix free download as pdf file. The bastard operator from hell appendix internet forum world. Bastard operator from hell, compleat archives metafilter.
The bastart operator frae hell bofh, is an imaginary rogue seestem admeenistrator that taks oot his anger on uisers aft cried lossers, his colleagues, bosses an awbody that gets in his wey the term is uised for tae refer tae ony seestem admeenistrator that shaws or wisses he coud get awa wi the qualities o the oreeginal an aw. First published in 1992, it is about a magnificent bastard system administrator who is also travaglias alter ego, given that the characters name is simon the very few times any first name is used at all who abuses his position to both inflict misery upon. He was issued a citation for a code indecent exposure. The bofh administers a corporate system and expresses himselfherself rudely toward other users in the company who. The math coprocessor had an overflow error that leaked out and shorted the ram the bofhstyle excuse generator brought to you by jeff. Told them to use password retrieval utility called fdisk. 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 trouble with the bastard operator from hell linux journal. The bastart operator frae hell bofh, is an imaginary rogue seestem admeenistrator that taks oot his anger on uisers aft cried lossers, his colleagues, bosses an awbody that gets in his wey. Bastard operator from hell topic the bastard operator from hell bofh is a fictional rogue computer operator. The term is uised for tae refer tae ony seestem admeenistrator that shaws or wisses he coud get awa wi the qualities o the oreeginal an aw. If you have any suggestions, im sure you do, feel free.
If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple faq for additional information. The bastard 97 a visit from the auditors 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. The bastard operator from hell, the sites fictional weekly column, has been turned into a live action film series by the production company, remote films, and the online specialist, culture jam. The phrase bastard operator from hell bofh is a fictional character in it literature who is rude. Apr, 2020 the bastard operator from hell, the sites fictional weekly column, has been turned into a live action film series by the production company, remote films, and the online specialist, culture jam. Dec 01, 2000 simon travaglias bastard operator from hell is the folk hero of system administration, and his stories are linked to from everywhere. I honk my horn but his hearing aids probably turned way down to whisper, so im stuck. Join our great community and live your dream and experience the law of the street. If youre not familiar with basic it stuff some of it may. The electronic rights of the original bofh are owned by datamation magazine.
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. March 23, 2020 by admin 1 back on the helldesk with bofh 2 bofh. The queues waaaay too long to have everything printed and sorted by the time i told them, so i kill all the small jobs so theres only 2 left and i can sort them in no time. Datamation magazine owns the electronic rights to the orgional works of the bofh. If you havent read the bofh stories, hes a selfdescribed don, did you really think we could put that word in lj.
Mar 21, 2005 the latest bofh, or bastard operator from hell. As a real 1%er, this is a thing you needed to learn very fast. First published in 1992, it is about a system administrator who is also travaglias author avatar, given that the characters name is simon the very few times any first name is used at all that abuses his position to a inflict misery upon those around him. John paul tremblay who p british science fiction television programmes revolvy brain bofj. Bastard operator from hell ii son of the bastard slashdot. Be careful, though, the only things that go in the main namespace are tropes and should be created through the ykttw system. Sysadmins should at least pretend to be nice to their users, but we all can think of times when some of them arent. This is a collection of links to most of the bofh stories from 2000 to 2016 for bofh episodes from before 2000, please see the official archive. Farright leader walks free from court after conviction for refusing to hand his phone passcode over to police. Carson cant keep up with rodney dangerfields nonstop oneliners 1974 duration.
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. 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. May 08, 2017 bastard operator from hell heute ist backuptag. Translation find a translation for bastard operator from hell in other languages. I dunno, maybe i should turn the chillers back on, but what the hell, ive got a cold and i. 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 several other people have written stories about bofhs, but those by simon travaglia are considered canonical. If you want to start a main bastardoperatorfromhell page, just click the edit button above. The operators of these pages are responsible for their content.
The bastard operator from hell university of waterloo. Mar 23, 2020 bofh 2001 pdf 1 back on the helldesk with bofh 2 bofh. 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. Despite the picture on the cover, linux journal does not normally advocate violence as a solution to system administration issues. 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, and one of them is youre so vain which wasnt too bad a song until you hear it about. This pdf contains every bastard operator from hell bofh story written by simon travaglia before its reintroduction at the. Although most episodes are included, some have been inadvertently missed out or had disappeared from the web. Its the story of an abusive it guy basically doing whatever he wants to users and getting away with it. Terrorists crashed an airplane into the server room, have to remove binladen.
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