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By Davide Bianchi, Updated 11/03/2010 09:45, 17 messages
Rispondiamo a qualche commento che non ha meritato pubblicazione

By Davide Bianchi, Updated 05/03/2010 14:05, 12 messages
Was it worth it?

By Davide Bianchi, Updated 01/03/2010 15:03, 14 messages
Spoiler alert!

By Davide Bianchi, Updated 25/02/2010 10:09, 12 messages
How the fsck can you... no, wait, don't tell me.

Once upon a time, while I was really bored, I started writing down what's going on in my office, removing names of course, and posting it on the it.comp.os.linux.sys group. The 'tales' where well-received, so I decided to preserve them for posterity.

One thing: all the tales are real.

You wanna send your own tales? Ok, fine, but first read the instructions.

Jargon:

CL - Clueless Luser: tipical low-range user, he doesn't really have a clue but he think he knows better.
UL - UberLuser: project leader or middle-manager, not more clued than a CL but his paycheck is bigger.
SL - SuperLuser: manager
HR - Someone working in Human Resources

This is me, when someone came to ask for something.
what 2009-07-17 17:47:00
...you wanna WHAT?? to do WHAT??

 

Before 1/1/2003
Tales from 2003
Tales from 2004
Tales from 2005
Tales from 2006
Tales from 2007
Tales from 2008
Tales from 2009

You can get a .zip file with the whole shebang in the Archive.

RSS Feed for all the tales.

Not everything in here have been translated.

Am I ever wrong? The Fuck-up Fairy

The SysAdmin's Library
A simple martketing-bofh vocabulary

SysAdmin's song #1 (The Other Side)
SysAdmin's song #2 (Teorema)
SysAdmin's song #3 (The Lusers Are Too Strong)
SysAdmin's song #4 (Everybody Wants To Run Exchange)

Contributed by my readers:

Dieci Piccoli Pinguini (di Cris Carampa)
La Ballata del Programmatore e Alla Fiera di Enrico Colombini Note: the link takes you to Colombini's web site and there is also a sung version: http://www.derelitti.com/ballata_del_programmatore.
Azzurro (di Claudio Brazzale)
Windows To The Ground (di Marco Bonetti)
"Dale Harding" send the link to the Bofh's ballade note: the link takes you to Bitchx's site.

Ten things I hate

Are you a (l)user?
Are you a (potential) SysAdmin?
Are you a (l)user (version #2)?
Are you a good developer?
Are you a good IT manager?

Once I began writing, other peoples decided to send me theirs tales, so I decided to open a "guest" side. Here you'll find their tales, with the exception of Gabriele Niccolini, whom sent me so many of them that I've put them in a special section.

Other tales, divided by author.

This is a short list of the latest visitors' tales.

WARNING! the tales belows are the tales that have been modified in any way in the past days, so if someone send a note that a link is broken in an old tale, and I fix it, it will automagically appear here even if it is 3 year old. Got it? So don't send me mail or comment about the fact that 'this tale is 3 year old'...

By Luca Bertoncello, Updated 25/02/2010 11:17, 9 messages
... si avvicina a grandi passi...

By Luca Bertoncello, Updated 18/02/2010 17:19, 11 messages
Il dipendente ha bisogno di un grosso martello...

By Luca Bertoncello, Updated 15/02/2010 15:17, 13 messages
E vai che si prosegue (come un gambero!)

By Golan Trevize, Updated 30/09/2009 13:42, 15 messages
Perche' 2.0 e' meglio che 1.1 no?

Warning: if you send me the link to your "blog" or your site, try to keep it up and running, if I don't see any changes for a while, first I put it as "dead" and then I get rid of the link.

Warning #2: the simple fact that you send me the link doesn't mean that I'm going to add it here, especially if I look at your site and see a lot of swearing and nothing else.

"Folies" wrote: Obviously, I consider you responsible and solely guilty for the existence of my b-log. What the... you'll find it on http://folies.splinder.com.

Dario has collected some "sniversity" related tales on his site that (he says) is copied from mine (so it's always my fault): http://liuct.altervista.org/.

Barbara Pennacchi keeps a technical blog: http://blog.cyberdeaf.org/

Alessandro Porcu is telling us about his misadventures in a big italians hospital (no, he is not a patient there... not yet): http://capnemo.homelinux.org/blog/.

Ansaloni Mauro: http://www.progettoatena.it/index2.html

MK66: http://lestoriedimk66.blogspot.com/

BitMover sent his own blog address: http://ioegliutonti.blogspot.com/ where he is collecting his own tales.


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