Posted Friday 6th June 2008 11:56 GMT
Had one of those RPITA in recently, just wish I had dealt as effectively with him. Ah well, theres always next time....
Posted Friday 6th June 2008 11:56 GMT
Cool stuff. The description of the RPITA Engineer rocked!
Posted Friday 6th June 2008 12:43 GMT
Who got zapped? I thought the engineer left with the designer? I'm coming over a bit Paris!
Posted Friday 6th June 2008 12:47 GMT
I'm just wondering what happens when the remains of the guy sent upstairs (remains? Yeah. After he's dealt with Mac people for a while, his brains will be mush) come downstairs again. What suitable demise will be arranged for him?
Posted Friday 6th June 2008 15:11 GMT
Here I sit working from home, a ciggie one side a large mug of 'tea' on the other and reading Simon's latest offering. Bliss!
@Tim The IT director go zapped by the way
AC for obvious reasons
Posted Friday 6th June 2008 15:11 GMT
The IT director.
P.S. Why don't the BOFH articles show in the RSS feed? Did the PFY hide them so the boss won't find out?
Posted Friday 6th June 2008 15:18 GMT
Loving the RPITA, perhaps that should be a new accreditation.
Stuart Pid RPITA ACDT CCNA
Posted Friday 6th June 2008 15:18 GMT
I was concerned that Simon was taking a holiday or something, I had to go to the BOFH section to find this story.
Why wasn't it on the front page where it belongs?
Are you trying to censor the BOFH? Well Fu <Slam>
Alien head because they tried to hide the aliens, but we found them too...
Posted Friday 6th June 2008 15:18 GMT
It wasn't the engineer who got zapped -- it was the IT Director!
Posted Friday 6th June 2008 15:18 GMT
The Bastard Developer From Hell.
Who should be given the job of writing the Mac OS for beatnik central.
Heh heh heh.
Posted Friday 6th June 2008 16:23 GMT
I was starting to miss electrocutions already.
Posted Friday 6th June 2008 18:40 GMT
Just to start some good ole commentary wars----> This is the BEST BOFH ever!!!! The Mac put downs are the only reason that Billy has achieved sanctity:-) I would like to see some more Linux zealousy in PFY just for fun so I could walk the penguin instead:-) -There needs to be a goods rude synonym about walking the penguin- put PFY on it stat:-)
once again - the best!!!- c'mon beat up on ole Stuey 'ere I'll even stand still for ya:-)
Posted Friday 6th June 2008 18:40 GMT
"Sounds like there's an opening for the BDFH"
Aren't they all working for "Saint Jobs" already?
I'm sure I saw something about that some place.............
Posted Friday 6th June 2008 19:48 GMT
Of a long time ago in another life when I was a contractor testing my company's equipment in a phone exchange which had mains all earthed together but the mains earth didn't go anywhere so was floating. And an item of my test equipment had an earth leak so half a dozen rack mains earths went to 240V. And the joy of remembering the clerk of works jumping 3 feet into the air when he touched my metal trolley with rubber wheels !
Posted Saturday 7th June 2008 00:19 GMT
It's a twofold upset for the PFY and myself...
should be
It's a twofold upset for the PFY and me...
For ghod's sake, if the English can't our common grammar right, we're all doomed.
Signed,
an American
Posted Saturday 7th June 2008 00:19 GMT
"and maybe they should have turned the power off first..."
Liked that one... :-D
Posted Saturday 7th June 2008 00:19 GMT
I am LOVING this relocation plot, it has some fantastic opportunities!
Posted Sunday 8th June 2008 01:47 GMT
All the feed that you'll ever need... http://search.theregister.co.uk/?q=bofh
Posted Sunday 8th June 2008 01:47 GMT
Simon apparently asked el reg to remove bofh from the rss feeds some time ago... No idea why.
Posted Sunday 8th June 2008 01:47 GMT
Genius, RPITA engineers are a bind nice dispatch, So what's going to happen to the "remains" of the now ex-IT director and the RPITA? Now didn't Simon put in some "live" flooring next to the design team for random fun - "web cam linked" :> oh wait maybe not but that would be fun - a new meaning to the word remote desking..
Posted Sunday 8th June 2008 22:08 GMT
I'm sure one of those designers can come up with a reason for needing OS/2 installed as dual-boot on his Mac. If they can do it with Windows, why not another x86 operating system?
Posted Sunday 8th June 2008 22:08 GMT
I'm just waiting to see what our pimply friend will do about the beatnik brigade. A fake phone filter and a RPITA engineer just doesn't seem like enough, and the PFY has a genius tag to live up to!
Posted Monday 9th June 2008 09:21 GMT
... for this line -- "I mean who the hell sharpens the blades on a bloody cooling fan!" -- alone (coffeesplatter 1, keyboard 0). The fact that RPITA looks like it should be pronounced "repeata'" (i.e., 'repeater' with whatever accent loses terminal R's) in keeping with the definition is bonus gravy.
Posted Monday 9th June 2008 09:21 GMT
like the power on (or the lead in) but these damm new boxes (atx ) have to cheat with a dummy lead with only the earth/ground connected.
Posted Monday 9th June 2008 10:35 GMT
if only one could get away with such things in real life.....(cackles)
Another masterpiece, keep up the good work Simon.
Posted Monday 9th June 2008 15:00 GMT
"They're quite prepared to lift the cover on something, pull the memory out, hold the memory in their mouth while they bend a couple of heatsinks out of the way looking for a loose wire, shove the memory back in the slot, reseat it with a small amount of pressure, a medium amount of pressure, a large amount of pressure, then realise it's in the wrong way and repeat the pressure install method, shut the cover then realise they've been working on the wrong machine the whole time - and maybe they should have turned the power off first..."
Sounds very familiar - like me on a bad day!
Still, you've got to have a go, haven't you!
Still upset about the Mac dissing. After all, it runs Unix natively, that's got to be good for some brownie points.
Mutter, mumble, grumble. Must get the dither valve re-aligned...
Posted Wednesday 11th June 2008 12:09 GMT
Ahem... "It's a twofold upset for the PFY and me..."
Negative on that red leader. The correct grammar is actually "It's a twofold upset for the PFY and I."
I love it when people correcting people are wrong, don't you?
Posted Wednesday 11th June 2008 12:51 GMT
Everyone gets their fair turn at being dissed. A few issues back, it was the RISC OS folk. I don't see why we should get all the crap!
Posted Wednesday 11th June 2008 16:17 GMT
Any chance of hotlinking some of these acronyms ie : BOFH, PFY, RPITA to an explanation, i mean WTF does KZZZERT mean......
Posted Wednesday 11th June 2008 18:50 GMT
Kzzzzzert is the noise you get when you hold a live power cable wire in one hand whilst standing in a bucket of water.
Go on, try it.
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