Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are... - Simon Travaglia Quotes

The Bastard Operator From Hell is a fictional character, a rogue system administrator who takes out his anger on users , colleagues, bosses, and anyone else who pesters him with their pitiful user created "problems". Several people have written stories about BOFHs, but the canonical one is created by Simon Travaglia. 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 since 2000 they have been published regularly in The Register. Several books of the stories have also been released. ...