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Change are in the air

By Davide Bianchi, Updated 29/11/2024 07:55, 1 message
No, not that type of changes...

Creative work

By Davide Bianchi, Updated 16/09/2024 08:01, 6 messages
...ehuu... don't sit there...

It's 2024, where is my e-Transalp?

By Davide Bianchi, Updated 10/09/2024 13:29, 19 messages
..wasn't that a jetpack?

You again?

By Davide Bianchi, Updated 08/08/2024 10:14, 7 messages
Somebody goes... somebody came back...

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.
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...you wanna WHAT?? to do WHAT??

You can get a .zip file with the whole shebang as a .pdf or .epub in the Archive, NOTE: some tales have no english translation.

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 who sent me so many that I've put on a special section for. Note that Gabriele stopped writing several years ago, so things are no longer updated.

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'...

I Racconti dell'Open Space

By Davide Bianchi, Updated 30/08/2021 12:24, No messages
I Racconti dell'Open Space... in PDF!

The end (of Evangelion) the Conslutants?

By Matteo Jurman, Updated 18/09/2012 11:58, 8 messages
Non c'e' mai un "End"...

Revenge of the Pisquani en

By BabboMatteo, Updated 25/04/2012 10:37, 7 messages
Poche principesse da quelle parti eh?

Sempre la stessa storia... en

By BabboMatteo, Updated 27/03/2012 13:27, 9 messages
Sempre la stessa storia

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.

Barbara Pennacchi keeps a technical blog: http://blog.cyberdeaf.org/ (the site seems no longer updated since half-2020)

MK66: http://lestoriedimk66.blogspot.com/ (the site seems abandoned since 2019)


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