Simon Travaglia’s hostile operator takes on printers, backups, passwords, users, and management with technically informed exaggeration. The stories freeze a world of shared Unix systems, tape backups, and operators with frightening informal power. The hardware changed; apparently people still call the computer room at the worst possible moment.
BOFH archive: http://bofh.bjash.com/bofh/bofh1.html
Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-the-bastard-operator-from-hell-is-still-the-sysadmin-story-everyone-remembers/
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BOFH archive: http://bofh.bjash.com/bofh/bofh1.html
Full Switchboard article: https://switchboardtechservices.com/articles/ancient-web-the-bastard-operator-from-hell-is-still-the-sysadmin-story-everyone-remembers/
#ancientweb #sysadmin #unix #webhumor
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Categories: Ancient Web & Internet History [c23]