Classic. Remember, the BOFH is no longer the "operator" of some systems at a university. Now he's your ISP, your search engine, your social media services, and many other important things you rely on.<p>"Well, the answer is, we do nothing <i>FOR</i> users. We do things <i>TO</i> users. It's a fine distinction, but an important one all the same."<p><a href="https://www.chinet.com/html/bofh/lastbofh.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.chinet.com/html/bofh/lastbofh.html</a>
To whom it may concern, the TN state "BOFH" license plate should be available now. I've had it for 30 years, but i'm not able to drive anymore and the truck died, so I didn't renew it last month.
BOFH is still a periodic fixture on TheRegister: <a href="https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/</a>
If anyone wants to ROTFL, then this is a good place to start.<p>I've been following Simon Travaglia since the 1980s.<p>I don't know if he still has his old site up, but he also had a bunch of amusing views on Kiwi culture.
Back when computer expertise was hard to come by, so admins could lord over users. The Internet has made these people extinct. SNL parody: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25J3u3P-HHg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25J3u3P-HHg</a>
I had a run-in with the BOFH in real life many years ago as a university student where he was working. I'd messed up something network-related on a lab PC, and noticed that the NIC was now in promiscuous mode for some reason. I did a bit of idle poking around and pinged a few interesting hostnames I found. I was called into the the BOFH's office the next day and interrogated. He glared at me as I explained, and eventually let me off with a stern warning, though the PC was snatched from the lab before I made it back there and never seen again.
If you like bofh and don’t know the ancient lore of tae the paramedic, you’ll enjoy reading it since it is similar in flavor.<p>Probably a better archive somewhere besides Reddit, but this is another Usenet classic<p>Https://www.reddit.com/r/ems/comments/1pnao9/the_collected_magical_world_of_tae_the_paramedic/
Still have the three BOFH Omnibus volumes in my Kindle app, bought originally from Simon, who has since discontinued their sale on Amazon for some reason, IIRC Amazon fees/taxes/something like that which would actually lose him money from having it for sale there.<p>I've reread all three volumes quite a few times over the years, currently on Volume I, year 2000 #24 again, since I mainly read a few stories every time I'm on my 30 minute (lunch) break at work.<p>If Simon reads this, thank you for your work amusing your readers, me among them.
Simon has since updated his website—a couple of different times I think?—but I only feel right reading the pre-El Reg archives the way I read them in 2007, which happily is still on the Internet Archive: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070811042222fw_/http://bofh.ntk.net/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20070811042222fw_/http://bofh.nt...</a><p>(Open an episode in a new tab/window to escape the IFRAME viewport.)
Another funny one is the Twitter account of that guy from Kazakhstan. I forget his name.<p>oh yeah got it.<p>@DEVOPS_BORAT.<p>check him out. hilarious.<p>last i checked, a while ago, he had stopped tweeting, but there are many previous tweets of his anyway, which should still be accessible.<p><a href="https://x.com/DEVOPS_BORAT" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/DEVOPS_BORAT</a><p>Edit:<p>In the context of this current hn thread, this is a gem of a tweet from him:<p>@DEVOPS_BORAT
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Confuse of Dev or Ops? Simple rule: if you are praise for Web site success, you are Dev; if you are blame when Web site down, you are Ops.<p>having been on both sides of the fence, I can resonate with that.
The tales continue at El Reg:<p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/bofh/</a>