The Bastard Operator From Hell

By Simon Travaglia (spt@waikato.ac.nz)

Written in about mid 1992, this covers a few weeks of a true Computing Administrator's nightmare of an existence. From his beginning, speeding up the backups by assigning null to be the tape device, right up until his death and subsequent resurrection and revenge.

Warning: This contains violence and bad language. Quite bad language really. I haven't removed any of this, just fixed up a couple of typos and re-formatted it into HTML.

There are 15 chapters - you can read them one by one (in HTML format) or download the lot as a Word document, PostScript file or text file.

I am working on converting the other 2 BOFH chapters, the 2 BSMFH chapters, the BOFB and the SIB series.

Note: The Archives below contain only chapters 1 - 13!!!

Download ZIP'ped Word 6.0 document

Download ZIP'ped PostScript file

Download ZIP'ped Text file


David Rawling - David.Rawling@efs.mq.edu.au.