Sink the booze collection!
Simon Burr
collection ship of ChezBOFH. Its mission - to deny the denizens of ChezBOFH
access to their kitchen by over-filling every available work surface with
itself.
This must not happen!
So the members of ChezBOFH decided to call in help... And the best help
available for this mission are the various BOFHs out there - the fine men,
women, trolls, cats, dogs and even the occasional waterbuffalo whose livers
are amongst the strongest in this world.
Your mission, should to decide to accept it, is to arrive at ChezBOFH on
the 30th January 1900 GMT for a long-night raid on the booze collection. A
reconnaissance mission will be conducted on the Friday night to assertain
exactly what faces us - any parts of the booze collection which can be safely
attacked at that time will be.
Provisions of various sorts are welcomed, but please do not bring anything
to aid the booze collection in its mission - It already has sufficent
quantities of spirits, wine, beer (decent stuff and several lagers) and ciders.
If R&R space is required, please let us know so that we can plan a safe
sleeping area.
--
Simon the stressed si...@bpfh.net
You want *what* ? By *WHEN* ?
Lars Balker Rasmussen
> Your mission, should to decide to accept it, is to arrive at ChezBOFH on
> the 30th January 1900 GMT
You know, I wondered why you invited us a year in advance.
--
Lars Balker Rasmussen "Woo hoo!?"
Ralph Wade Phillips
Simon Burr wrote in message <788eq7$p6f$1...@mafia.bpfh.net>...
>It was early in 1999 and into the depths of Cambridge sailed the pocket
booze
>collection ship of ChezBOFH. Its mission - to deny the denizens of ChezBOFH
>access to their kitchen by over-filling every available work surface with
>itself.
(stuff deleted)
>
>Your mission, should to decide to accept it, is to arrive at ChezBOFH on
>the 30th January 1900 GMT for a long-night raid on the booze collection. A
>reconnaissance mission will be conducted on the Friday night to assertain
>exactly what faces us - any parts of the booze collection which can be
safely
>attacked at that time will be.
>
Dang! Only missed it by 99 years!
Now, let's see ... where did I put that flux capacitor? <STR>
RwP
Dan Grabski
> Dang! Only missed it by 99 years!
>
> Now, let's see ... where did I put that flux capacitor? <STR>
"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour,
you're going to see some serious shit." Doctor Brown, _Back to the Future._
I claim my Delorean and year's supply of Libyan rocket launchers as my
prize.
ObASR: Nothing. It's too quiet. The boxen are plotting something, I know it.
Dan
--
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"Developing error messages? Doesn't Windows have enough of these
already? And we need a whole fscking book on how to do this?"
-- Derick Siddoway on O'Reilly NT books
Kai Henningsen
> the 30th January 1900 GMT for a long-night raid on the booze collection. A
> You want *what* ? By *WHEN* ?
Kai
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- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu)
Simon Fraser
> When was the last time you saw a year immediately followed by a timezone name
In some documentation written by a placement student, if memory serves
correctly. We also had to explain to him that UTC wasn't the "American
name for GMT"[0].
> Oh, and we've gone from name changes to logo changes *sigh*
I'm hoping that the amount of new processed dead trees we'll need
will cause enough confusion to help me get some new business cards,
with my own special job title on them...
Simon.
[0] The student was rabidly anti-American, as Simes will no doubt
vouchsafe.
Petteri
>Simon Burr mumbled:
>
>> When was the last time you saw a year immediately followed by a timezone name
>
>In some documentation written by a placement student, if memory serves
>correctly. We also had to explain to him that UTC wasn't the "American
>name for GMT"[0].
>
>> Oh, and we've gone from name changes to logo changes *sigh*
>
>I'm hoping that the amount of new processed dead trees we'll need
>will cause enough confusion to help me get some new business cards,
>with my own special job title on them...
>
>Simon.
>
Hmm, I wonder how much they're looking into what people put as their
title.
-Petteri
Lionel
pjx-n...@fault.org (Petteri) said:
I *nearly* managed to talk our CEO into letting me put 'BOFH' after my
name on my new business cards, on the basis that 'people will just
assume that it's some sort of tertiary qualification'.
Come to think of it, has anyone got any ideas for a professional
sounding expansion for 'BOFH', in case I decide to try again by
backdooring it through the office staff?
Simon Fraser
> I *nearly* managed to talk our CEO into letting me put 'BOFH' after my
> name on my new business cards, on the basis that 'people will just
> assume that it's some sort of tertiary qualification'.
> Come to think of it, has anyone got any ideas for a professional
> sounding expansion for 'BOFH', in case I decide to try again by
> backdooring it through the office staff?
Business Operations & Facilities Head?
Simon.
Kai Henningsen
> In <79SKL...@khms.westfalen.de> kaih=79SKL...@khms.westfalen.de (Kai
> >> Henningsen) writes: the 30th January 1900 GMT for a long-night raid on
> >> the booze collection. A
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> When was the last time you saw a year immediately followed by a timezone
> name ?
Can't say, but I'm pretty sure I saw more examples of that than hhmm
without anything in between followed by a timezone.
Giles Todd
> Lionel mumbled:
>
> > Come to think of it, has anyone got any ideas for a professional
> > sounding expansion for 'BOFH', in case I decide to try again by
> > backdooring it through the office staff?
>
> Business Operations & Facilities Head?
Business Onanism & Felching Here.
Damn. I think I need a new domain name.
Giles.
--
Saxo cere comminuit brum.
Peter Williams
>I *nearly* managed to talk our CEO into letting me put 'BOFH' after my
>name on my new business cards, on the basis that 'people will just
>assume that it's some sort of tertiary qualification'.
>
>sounding expansion for 'BOFH', in case I decide to try again by
>backdooring it through the office staff?
Bachelor of Fowl Handling. (oops... wrong professional image)
Bachelor of Organisational Finance Harmonisation
(moving funds to the appropriate places...)
More as I think of them.
Regards,
Pete
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[snip]
->2001" for the next release and so on - I think that the Marketoid is following
->the Microsoft way a little too much (although it could be argued that even
->following the Microsoft way in the smallest ways is too much). Oh, and we're
[snip]
This reminds me of a story of a friend/future PFY/phone firewall/etc..
who used to work for a certain company that changed from a 'free' support
setup to a 'limited time'/'fee'/somesuchnonsense support setup. They were
told by the PHB's to tell the customers that complained about the switch that
it was done due to 'Us modeling our support after Micro$oft'.
I can't think of a single person in that group that did as instructed.
Which is a Good Thing, as it just might have caused quite a few 'loyal'[1]
customers to bail.
[1] 'I've been a loyal <fruit> user for X years!!!' Really? Hmmm... My
records show you haven't boucght a machine from <fruit> since you bought
that <2^C>.
--
"I just went visual on this goofy looking Finn riding on a gnu,
wielding one pissed off penguin... gah"
- Bob The Sane
Justin The Cynical - mo...@ados.com
The Mikado
Funny thing about that...the Fruit Technical Choir [1] ordered
the purveyor
of fruit flavored [2] Internet Browser devices for the
technically impaired
to refund all moneys charged for said support for <obsolete>
fruit and
to continue doing so until said machines cease to exist.
The Mikado:[3] "Hi! I'm sorry. I can't help you as I am not part
of your dept.
However, go get me a carbonated drug injector and maybe we can
talk."
[1] One of the few times I've actually agreed with a government
agency.
[2] Lime, Grape, Tangerine, Blueberry....
[3] Anyone who takes umbrage at my delurking:
"Fsck You! We do what we want"[4]
[4] Modern Times, the only album from this group not available on
CD
Justin The Cynical wrote in message
<78mv60$hft$1...@nntp.or.nw.verio.net>...
Joe Thompson
<jlo...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> <delurk>
> [3] Anyone who takes umbrage at my delurking:
> "Fsck You! We do what we want"[4]
Well, I wouldn't be offended by your delurking had you not flouted all
USENET conventions of response placement *and* proper line-formatting. --
Joe
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Joe Thompson
Joseph Creighton) wrote:
> Joe Thompson <fbi...@orion-com.com> wrote:
> }Well, I wouldn't be offended by your delurking had you not flouted all
> }USENET conventions of response placement *and* proper line-formatting. --
> }Joe
>
> I think we have an answer right here:
>
> }>X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4
> }>X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4
I don't accept that as an excuse for being a silly bugger though. -- Joe
Ben Coleman
>Come to think of it, has anyone got any ideas for a professional
>sounding expansion for 'BOFH', in case I decide to try again by
>backdooring it through the office staff?
Business Office Fast Help.
Business Optimization Facility Handler.
Ben
--
Ben Coleman NJ8J http://bcoleman.home.mindspring.com/
"I think the US Government has been going about this all wrong. It's not
the DoJ that needs to investigate Microsoft; this is a job for the DEA."
Anthony DeBoer
D. Joseph Creighton
}In article <78o1i2$6...@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com>, "The Mikado"
}<jlo...@earthlink.net> wrote:
}
}> <delurk>
}> [3] Anyone who takes umbrage at my delurking:
}> "Fsck You! We do what we want"[4]
}
}USENET conventions of response placement *and* proper line-formatting. --
}Joe
I think we have an answer right here:
}>X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4
}>X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4
You would think those sufficiently clued would avoid Satanic apps...
- Joe
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D. Joseph Creighton [ESTP] | Programmer Analyst, Database Technologies, IST
Joe_Cr...@UManitoba.CA | University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB, Canada, eh?
Peter Josefson
<78oebu$ia5$1...@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>...
>}>X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4
>}>X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4
>
>You would think those sufficiently clued would avoid Satanic apps...
You are now making me very confused. All these years I have thought I knew
what the H in BOFH meant, but if Satanic apps aren't appropriate, I've
probably been wrong all along... sheesh!
In any case, living on the edge is so much more fun...
/Peter
void
wrote:
>
>You would think those sufficiently clued would avoid Satanic apps...
I'm sure Farmer and Venema would be disappointed to know that you feel
this way.
--
Ben
"You have your mind on computers, it seems."
Peter Williams
>D. Joseph Creighton skrev i meddelandet
><78oebu$ia5$1...@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>...
>>}>X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4
>>}>X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4
>>
>
>what the H in BOFH meant, but if Satanic apps aren't appropriate, I've
>probably been wrong all along... sheesh!
See, the way I look at it, the role of the BOFH is to *inflict* satanic
apps on others, while avoiding using said apps themselves. After all,
where's the fun in being in the ruling circle of Heck (tm) if you're
stuck using tortuous, spawn-of-Satan tools yourself?
Peter Josefson
>See, the way I look at it, the role of the BOFH is to *inflict* satanic
>apps on others, while avoiding using said apps themselves. After all,
>where's the fun in being in the ruling circle of Heck (tm) if you're
>stuck using tortuous, spawn-of-Satan tools yourself?
Hmmm... come to think of it, there is probably only one justification, and
that is being able to say "Well... I dunno what you've done - I mean, it
works fine for me..."
Not much, admittedly, but...
Later,
Peter
Dave Aronson (remove x's to reply)
> where's the fun in being in the ruling circle of Heck (tm)
Is that where you go if you don't believe in Gosh?
BTW, according to some forgotten (at least by me) wag:
Hell is reserved for those who believe in it, and the lowest rungs are
reserved for those who believe in it only because they're afraid they'll
go there if they don't.
--
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cd skogsberg
>pet...@zip.com.au (Peter Williams) writes:
>> where's the fun in being in the ruling circle of Heck (tm)
>Is that where you go if you don't believe in Gosh?
No, it's where you go if you're sorta bad.
>BTW, according to some forgotten (at least by me) wag:
>Hell is reserved for those who believe in it, and the lowest rungs are
>reserved for those who believe in it only because they're afraid they'll
>go there if they don't.
According to my quotefile, it's from the principia discordia[1].
/cd
[1]: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tilt/principia/ - and if this is UI in a non-
recovery sense, I don't want to know...
--
"I hope your rotting heart decides to take an early leave from its
miserable existence, reviled at its own blackened putrescence."
-- Drew Gillmore
Ben Ostrowsky
> >sounding expansion for 'BOFH', in case I decide to try again by
> >backdooring it through the office staff?
> Bachelor of Organisational Finance Harmonisation
Benedictine Order of Friendly Hackers. Explains the monastery bit.
Or "Benevolent", if your fields need a *lot* of fertilizing. Or
"What's your clearance?"
This last works well with the BOFH cap and jacket and navy blue pants.
Ben
The Mikado
Joe Thompson wrote in message ...
>In article <78oebu$ia5$1...@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>,
d...@cc.umanitoba.ca (D.
>Joseph Creighton) wrote:
>
>> Joe Thompson <fbi...@orion-com.com> wrote:
all
>> }USENET conventions of response placement *and* proper
line-formatting. --
>> }Joe
>>
>> I think we have an answer right here:
>>
>> }>X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4
>
Joe
Mea Culpa. Trying to hammer this pos into shape (the only equipment
I'm allowed is a sister companies notebook PC) I forgot about defaults
being set for the clueless cube organisms [1].
I will now return to the shadows and try not to laugh too loudly [2]
The Mikado
(Pretending he's now union)
[1] I've been on "standby" status for almost a month now. The lack of
serious challenge has disabled my bogon filter.
[2] Soda though Nose All Over Monitor. First experienced on ASR some 6
months ago [3]
[3] It was something Rebecca said. I have it here somewhere...
Joe Thompson
<jlo...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Mea Culpa. Trying to hammer this pos into shape (the only equipment
> I'm allowed is a sister companies notebook PC) I forgot about defaults
> being set for the clueless cube organisms [1].
I can live with that. As a penance you must go to an ASR-meet and perform
a striptease for the appreciative females[0]. -- Joe
[0] or males, as the case may be
Ian Dobbie
> Come to think of it, has anyone got any ideas for a professional
> sounding expansion for 'BOFH', in case I decide to try again by
> backdooring it through the office staff?
"Bastard Operator From Hell" seems good enough to me.
Ian
Joe Zeff
>Benedictine Order of Friendly Hackers. Explains the monastery bit.
>Or "Benevolent", if your fields need a *lot* of fertilizing. Or
>"What's your clearance?"
"Ultraviolet, friend Computer."
---
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The Guy With the Sideburns
If you can measure a computer's error rate,
it's too high.
http://www.lasfs.org
The Computer
Joe Zeff <the.guy.with....@lasfs.org> wrote:
>Ben Ostrowsky <ost...@tblc.org> wrote:
>
>> Benedictine Order of Friendly Hackers. Explains the monastery bit.
>> Or "Benevolent", if your fields need a *lot* of fertilizing. Or
>> "What's your clearance?"
>
>"Ultraviolet, friend Computer."
Troubleshooter, you are not wearing the correct colour uniform. You
must put on an Ultraviolet uniform immediately. I have seen to your
needs and ordered one already; it will be here shortly. Please wait
with your back to the wall until it arrives.
--
The Computer
Christian Bauernfeind
Simon Burr <si...@bpfh.net> writes:
>
> When was the last time you saw a year immediately followed by a timezone name ?
> prevent the natural association with the Y2K. Or as "1999/01/30 1900 GMT" :)
There is no such thing as 1900 GMT. A day has 24 hours[1], not several
hundred.
Christian
[1] Give or take a second, sometimes.
--
Christian Bauernfeind
Not speaking for Siemens
Not even working for IBM
e-mail: v2ba...@fishkill.ibm.com
Nile Evil Bastard
: Come to think of it, has anyone got any ideas for a professional
: sounding expansion for 'BOFH', in case I decide to try again by
: backdooring it through the office staff?
"'Brotherhood of Friendly Helpers.' It's the fraternal organisation of
systems administrators. It's the sort of organisation you want at least one
representative of in your company."
--
http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fun/
Benno Rice
"... or else."
--
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XNFP Aries Dark Subculture- oranges are for half-time."
friendly Internet Geek
benno+...@netizen.com.au "Defend your joy"
Christian Bauernfeind
Simon Burr <si...@bpfh.net> writes:
> In <7953em$q9q$2...@news.btv.ibm.com> v2ba...@fishkill.ibm.com (Christian Bauernfeind) writes:
>>There is no such thing as 1900 GMT.
>
> standard notation for the time of day (ISO 8601 section 5.3.1.2)
>
I haven't signed that document.
Christian
Christian Bauernfeind
>
Both in principle, take just happens to not have happened yet.
Dave Aronson (remove x's to reply)
> Christian Bauernfeind <v2ba...@fishkill.ibm.com> wrote:
> > There is no such thing as 1900 GMT. A day has 24 hours[1], not several
> > hundred.
>
> > [1] Give or take a second, sometimes.
>
> Give.
I gave at the orifice.
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Peter Dalgaard BSA
> > > There is no such thing as 1900 GMT. A day has 24 hours[1], not several
> > > hundred.
> >
> > > [1] Give or take a second, sometimes.
> >
> > Give.
>
> I gave at the orifice.
Ouch! I thought that only happened during childbirth, and not usually
to the father.
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Peter Dalgaard BSA
> On 05 Feb 1999 00:20:47 +0100, Peter Dalgaard BSA (p.dal...@biostat.ku.dk)
> imparted to alt.sysadmin.recovery:
> >davea...@xgeocitiesx.com (Dave Aronson (remove x's to reply)) writes:
> >
> >> > > There is no such thing as 1900 GMT. A day has 24 hours[1], not several
> >> > > hundred.
> >> >
> >> > > [1] Give or take a second, sometimes.
> >> >
> >> > Give.
> >>
> >> I gave at the orifice.
> >
> >Ouch! I thought that only happened during childbirth, and not usually
> >to the father.
>
> Well, the father must have given at the orifice approximately
> 40 weeks earlier.
Actually, I was thinking of "give" in a somewhat more radical meaning:
Can you say anal sphincter rupture?
Hey, have you noticed that that abbreviates to A#"¤%¤¤NO CARRIER
Chris Adams
>>> I gave at the orifice.
>>
>>Ouch! I thought that only happened during childbirth, and not usually
>>to the father.
>
>Well, the father must have given at the orifice approximately
>40 weeks earlier.
Either that or "I imagine there'd be at least a Nobel for them." (STR)
Georg Bauer
(Christian Bauernfeind) wrote:
>I haven't signed that document.
Yeah. And these laws of nature. Show me the court where you can enfource
them. I know _I_ never signed them and I feel suppressed by them!
bye, Georg
Stephen Harris
: Well, the father must have given at the orifice approximately
: 40 weeks earlier.
: HTH. HAND.
He gave by hand?????!
--
rgds
Stephen