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The Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH), a fictional character created by Simon Travaglia, is a rogue system administrator who takes out his anger on lusers (his colleagues, bosses and anyone who gets in his way). Image File history File links Bofhlogo. ...
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Simon Travaglia is best known as the author of the Bastard Operator From Hell stories, about a rogue system administrator. ...
The term system administrator (abbreviation: sysadmin) designates a job position of those people responsible for running a computer system or some aspect of it. ...
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The BOFH stories were originally posted in 1992 to Usenet by Travaglia, with some being reprinted in Datamation. They were published weekly from 1995 to 1999 in Network Week and from 2000 they have been published every few weeks in The Register. They were also published in PC Plus magazine for a short time, and several books of the stories have also been released. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...
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Datamation was a computer magazine published in the United States between 1957 and 1997. ...
1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
The Register (El Reg to its staff) is a British technology news website focusing on the computer industry. ...
By extension, the term is also used to refer to any system administrator who displays (or wishes he could get away with) the qualities of the original. The term has become common Internet slang. In the stories the BOFH also spent a brief amount of time as a Bastard System Manager From Hell (BSMFH) - however, this has failed to pass into common usage online. The term system administrator (abbreviation: sysadmin) designates a job position of those people responsible for running a computer system or some aspect of it. ...
Internet slang is slang which Internet users have coined and promulgated. ...
In the stories, the PFY (Pimply-Faced Youth) is the BOFH's assistant; this too has become a general term for a junior or trainee system administrator. The PFY or Pimply-Faced Youth is the BOFHs apprentice in the Bastard Operator From Hell stories by Simon Travaglia. ...
Storylines
The stories take place in three locations; early BOFH editions took place in a university, moving on to an office workplace over time (an exact transition is not given). BOFH 2k began with the BOFH and PFY moving to a new company.
Whilst the BOFH gets irritated at the incompetence of users, he does use this to his advantage to further his devious means, mainly using the following tricks:
- Deleting Luser Accounts
- Deleting Luser's Files
- Lifting floor tiles
- Electrocuting lusers (from an over-voltage cattle prod, or by other means)
- Locking the machine room and triggering the Halon
- Slamming their testicles in desk drawers
- Pushing lusers off the Comms riser
- Blackmail
Early BOFH editions focused mainly on the above tricks, although over time many other schemes and plots have been used, with many now aimed at management as well as the users. Early BOFH editions simply featured the BOFH, the systems manager and the lusers - as time developed, the Boss, PFY and other characters (see below) appeared. SVenssons ITS on KLH-10 Welcome to SV! SV ITS.1648. ...
A cattle prod, also called a stock prod, is a handheld device commonly used for stimulating movement in cattle or other livestock through the use of a (relatively) low voltage electric shock. ...
The haloalkanes (also known as Halogenoalkanes) are a group of chemical compounds, consisting of alkanes, such as methane or ethane, with one or more halogens linked, such as chlorine or fluorine, making them a type of organic halide. ...
Blackmail is the crime of threatening to reveal substantially true information about a person to the public, a family member, or associates unless a monetary demand is met. ...
Mantra The mantra of the BOFH, and sysadmins everywhere is: Non ex transverso sed deorsum. A mantra is a religious syllable or poem, typically from the Sanskrit language. ...
Roughly translated to: Not across, but down.
The phrase refers to how one should apply a razorblade to one's wrist to achieve best results. In this case, Down, not across refers to slicing parallel to your wrist as to more fully evacuate blood from the body. Exercising the blade perpendicular to the wrist is less likely to result in successful suicide, and also tends to sever important tendons, making it very hard to grasp the razor. The phrase has gained mantra status as a representation that sysadmins would rather commit suicide than work with lusers. Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ...
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Characters The following characters appear regularly : - The BOFH, actual name of Simon
- The PFY (BOFH's assistant, 1996-), actual name of Steven
- The Boss (changes throughout the stories as successive bosses are sacked, leave or have nasty "accidents")
- Beancounters from Accounting (disposable, interchangeable, faceless)
- The CEO
- The Head of IT
- Helldesk Operators (disposable, interchangeable, faceless)
- The Boss's Secretary, Sharon
- Security (tape Emmerdale over CCTV video tapes, useless with computers)
- George, the cleaner (invaluable source of information)
The PFY or Pimply-Faced Youth is the BOFHs apprentice in the Bastard Operator From Hell stories by Simon Travaglia. ...
Accountancy (British English) or accounting (American English) is the process of maintaining, auditing, and processing financial information for business purposes. ...
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the job of having the ultimate executive responsibility or authority within an organization or corporation. ...
Information technology (IT) or Information and communication(s) technology (ICT) is a broad subject concerned with technology and other aspects of managing and processing information, especially in large organizations. ...
Did you mean to go to the Wikipedia:Help desk? A help desk is an information and assistance resource that troubleshoots problems with computers and similar products. ...
Security is the condition of being protected against danger. ...
The opening title the show used 1998-2005. ...
CCTV can stand for: China Central Television Closed-circuit television This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Books - The Bastard Operator From Hell (Plan Nine, ISBN 1-929462-17-4)
- Bastard Operator From Hell II: Son of the Bastard (Plan Nine, ISBN 1-929462-40-9)
- Bride of the Bastard Operator From Hell (Plan Nine, ISBN 1-929462-48-4)
- Dummy Mode Is Forever (Plan Nine, ISBN 1-929462-63-8)
- Dial "B" For Bastard (Plan Nine, ISBN 1-929462-94-8)
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