Service as normal has resumed. I did think they were going a bit easy on him...!

I love a happy ending.

BOfH & PFY happy and the Boss's carreer ending.

Anyone notice that episodes 19 and 21 are missing from the list. They aren't missing from the server, just the list...... the PFY at work again.... LOL

The fact that the users, when told they are losing their *personal* printers, will riot.

Not a previous BOFH tale as far as I remember, but it's practically what happened at our place when we rolled out MFDs....

"Jenkins from the directorate - I remember him...moaning about not having a printer on his desk any more....

...he deserved to die.

They *all* deserve to die..."

I used to run a printing/copying/graphic processing center for a large, faceless corporation.

Management ordered something like a year and a half of toner for some printers that were due to be replaced (also by their edict) in less than a month.

When I told them about it, they just said "Toss them out"... such a waste of money. After a couple of weeks I onsold them to another company for pennies to the dollar, which actually worked out to a nice bit of unreported income for me.

Pity I couldn't figure out a way to do it that would have also gotten some hack manager fired and arrested at the same time though.

I do hope that the unmentioned part of the story was them taking and selling the cartridges for their own profit!

Or I'd think he's getting soft ;]

Why would someone like the BOFH recommend replacing laser printers with MFDs? Now he's going to get three times more calls!

"I can't print!"

"I can't scan!"

"I can't copy!"

"I can't get coffee to come out of it!"

More like you cant stop coffee coming out of it.

There are more that just those episodes missing, 13 and 1 are also ... misplaced

I can't get my printer to print this page - can someone help me?

The complete BOFH from day dot to now (in pure text) is now at 2.744 meg?

...and not one single episode missing.

See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/01/22/register_tariff/

I wonder if authors get discounted rates?

The "missing" episodes can be found by following the "Earlier Stories..." link at the bottom of the page.

Still no word as to why certain episodes (1, 13, 19, 21) are mitigated there as opposed to a more natural progression (1, then 2, then 3, etc.)

-M.Duszynski