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Words from the BOFHen

"We who stride like giants across the world and allow all the systems to speak, each unto the other."
(Chad Robinson, BOFH)

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Tales from the Bastards

• Simes' Pages - Tales from TCP Towers
  Simon Burr is a sysadmin in the U.K., whose "Tales from TCP Towers" are much appreciated on alt.sysadmin.recovery.
• Just PFY
  Being a Bastard from the PFY's perspective.
• A Day in the Life of a BOFH....
  A collection of my a.s.r. posts and work email.

This one is NOT humor. It is the most moving, most well-written, most PASSIONATE defense of Usenet that I have ever seen. Read it. Share it with your friends. Spread the word.

A Rant, by Russ Allbery

The Scary Devil Monastery

• Memorable Quotes from alt.sysadmin.recovery
• Memorable Posts from alt.sysadmin.recovery
• Creedos, oaths, mottos and words to live by from the fine folks at, you guessed it, alt.sysadmin.recovery
• Songs of the Scary Devil Monastery

• How the Bastard Operator Came Amongst His Children
• The Sysadmin Path to Heaven
• An Admin's Voice Mail
  YOU HAVE <click> TWENTY SEVEN <click> MESSAGES.....
• Sysadmin Price List
• So UNIX is dead, eh?
• The MTBUSWA Interval

• A Girl's Guide to Geek Guys
• What makes a SysAdmin?
  Eleven attributes that are essential to being a sysadmin
• 101 Reasons Why You Can't Find Your Sysadmin
• IMPORTANT! READ THIS BEFORE USING YOUR NEW DEVICE
  Like we'd ever REALLY read the directions....
• Men Who Use Computers Are The New Sex Symbols Of The 90s
  An article from Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, on the new evolutionary turn for those who use computers.
• Geekerata
  A UNIX Analog of Desiderata
• How To Install Software -- A 12-Step Program
  An article from Dave Barry on how the software installation process
• A.S.R. Man Pages
  A collection of man pages we really wish were included in UNIX
• SysAdmin Degree
  Some course descriptions of the B.App.Sc.(SA) requirements.
• Some of our Favorite Things...
  Julie Andrews didn't sing this ditty!
• Ten Ways to Tell a Sysadmin from a Luser
• Twelve Days of Technology
  FIIIIIIIVE GOLD-EN SCSI Contacts!
• What do you call multiple sysadmins?
• What life's really like on the Infoban
• When morons come a'pagin'
• A MUSHer's Rant Form Letter
  Feel like the Wizzes are out to get you? Fill out this form letter to let them know!

• Is it Santa or it is a Sysadmin?
• ...Drug Dealers or Software Developers?

• If they made toasters ....
• If God were a programmer....
• If Medicine was like Tech Support....
• If Movies Defined Computers....

Last Modified : February 15, 1999