Genius!
Not really sure I need to comment further, nicely :)
BOFH: Budget cuts
Things are dire in Mission Control. Our plans for company IT domination have backfired on us like a baked bean vindaloo with a boiled cabbage chaser followed by a double helping of pickled onion ice-cream. And 10 pints of fizzy lager... "So you're saying that we have no operating budget?" I ask. "None," the head Beancounter …
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Friday 2nd November 2007 14:22 GMT amanfromMars
Credit where Credit is Due
Nice One, Simon. Simple and to the Point.
First Class Plan, Chaps ....... Product Placement/RePlacement .... More of the Same only Beta.
And that should permit a few Poxy Proxies to Kiss up and Massage a few bruised Egos too. Win Win when you Care 42 Dare.
Care 42 Dare Really, Virtually, or is IT a Poxy Proxy Play rather than the Real Thing with Balls and a Brain and a Script which Runs and Runs and Runs and...?
<Run as in Ran>
Another Excellent Friday Therapy Session for the Borderline Psychotic? :-) ..... in Touch and in Touch with the Intricate Delicacy of ITs Manic Addictive Embrace. Sweet Surrender to IT in Sanity.
Such is surely Earthy Earthly Control 2 for Any and All Good Fellas 2?
Bad Lads made Good and Getting Better and SMARTer with Beta? Now that would be an Overwhelming Force with more than a Few Juicy Lucy Tricks up ITs Sleeves/in ITs Intellectual Property Portfolios.
And Legit IT Mate Use of AI Civil NEUKlearer Power? :-)
Quantum BetaTest #XXXX071102 ...... for a Walk on the Wild Side. The Pimpers Yin to a Pompous Yang. An XXXXcursion into the Dark Side.
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Friday 2nd November 2007 14:22 GMT L. W.
@ Anon
1. nobody died...
A trashed iPhone, which the fanbois will be killing each other to try and retrieve
2. nothing was broken / broken into
A Vista install
3. nothing nasty really happened to anyone (bar a flying monitor)...
A workplace trapped with Cisco networking
and.....
A BOFH WITHOUT A LAGER?!?!
Terrifying even by Haloween standards!!!
<Rule 8 invoked!>
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Friday 2nd November 2007 17:13 GMT Anonymous Coward
BOFH is going about it the wrong way
While I'm sure that the BOFH thinks he can replenish his funds from product placement, surely he would do better to accrue significant cost savings from consolidation and virtualisation using the market leading VMWare product, which scales out so very well on a Sun X4600 server, enabling up to 40 legacy blade servers from some tightwad or other firm to go into the AMD based server.
Alternatively, if it just a good supply of shiny toys to play with that he is after, there's always Sun's try-and-sorry-it-got-lost-in-the-post-on-the-way-back programme.
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Friday 2nd November 2007 17:13 GMT Michael Born
A curiuos turn of events for Simon, methinks...
I have to say a little bit on the week side for Simon, but still an experience we can ALL relate to (as soon as BEANCOUNTER was mentioned, most of my keys stopped working in sympathy!) and having no "Operating Budget" can be a right downer this close to the weekend!!!
As for losing an iPhone, crashing a monitor, running out of larger and using Windows VIsta?
Hmmm..The iPhone I can relate to dumping, the monitor probably had it coming, and no larger is bound to make ANYONE do something out of the ordinary, but Windows Vista?
I Use Vista at home, and find it to be ever-so-slightly resourced addicted, but quick to respond and runs Couter-Strike Online without issues, so can't really fault that one!
Have a good weekend people - LAGERS' UP!
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Sunday 4th November 2007 01:25 GMT Ben
Cheers!
I'll glady reward that effort with a case of Australia's finest lager. While enjoying a schooner the other day I couldn't help but take a moment to appreciate the flavour. "Self," I thought, "VB is a full flavoured brew, less malty in character and slightly darker than CUB's traditional lagers. A gentle fruitiness in the aroma complements the sweet malt on the mid-palate balancing perfectly with a robust, hop bitterness."
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Monday 5th November 2007 02:15 GMT |333173|3|_||3
@Cheers!
The humour of your post is probably lost on the non-Aussies here. Just so you all know, VB is the second-worst Australian beer, only trumped by NT Draught. The difference is that VB is sold in stubbies and tastes like fermented cats; piss, whilst NT draught is sold in 2L bottles and is fermented cats' piss
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Monday 5th November 2007 13:25 GMT Anonymous Coward
WTF?
Why has BofH been made to sell out? Or is it part of some cunning plan?
The author seems to have been changed as a couple of weeks ago, the HR drone was given far too much credit in actually going to look for the BofH and PFY and this weeks tale just smacks of toadying to a certain Corp with the initials "S" and "M".
Windows Vista runs nicely on my new PC but has so many incompatibility issues with software that ran quite nicely on my (previous) WinXP box!
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Tuesday 6th November 2007 12:17 GMT Mike Smith
Selling Out
It must be part of some master plan. As any fule kno, the first rule of dealing with budget cuts is to make the cutter suffer.
Head beancounter's nifty little desktop colour laser conked out (due to someone trying to use it to print on sandpaper)? Well, we've no maintenance budget, so we can't fix it, but here's a nice reliable old daisywheel printer you can use. Yes, best put it on the floor so the table won't disintegrate after a week. There should still be a bit of life in the ribbon. Afraid we can't buy any you new ones because we've no budget for consumables, sorry. Ah, no, we don't have any acoustic hoods. Had to dispose of them - no budget for storage, you see.
Head beancounter's laptop died due to an interface overload between the hard disk and a rubber mallet? No, it's not under maintenance. Budget cuts, I'm afraid. We'll have to send it away (to somewhere in Patagonia for a few months) but there is this old 486 laptop. Runs Windows 95 OK-ish, but go easy on the number of spreadsheets you open. One at a time, otherwise it'll hang. Just get one of your staff to save everything you need in Office 97 format. No, we've no spare monitors - no spares budget, sorry.
Head beancounter's nifty desktop phone died due to someone confusing the data lines with the mains? No problem, here's a replacement. It's a classic! Retro candlestick designs are for followers, but a real candlestick phone is for leaders. Yes, I know about all the features your old one had, but we've no budget for replacements.
Head beancounter's lost his mobile? Well, there is this one we bought back in 1986. Bit heavy, but you should still get a good half-hour from the battery.
The beancounters have lost their financials database (shouldn't really have typed COMMIT after doing a DROP USER but it's been a busy day running an IT department on no budget). No problem, we'll get the restore under way right now.... ah. Problem. The tape's got a few read errors. Of course they're three years old! We've no budget to buy new ones! Well, I'm sorry about that and of course I appreciate it's landed the company in trouble, but I don't hold the purse strings.
Not that I've ever done anything like that, you understand. Certainly not.
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Tuesday 6th November 2007 15:23 GMT Luiz Abdala
It is not the end of the world yet...
since BOFH was not installing OS/2. The world is being allowed to live a week longer.
Perhaps he was installing Vista on a 256 megs machine. Although painful, it serves the purpose to replace a machine of some beancounter who complained about Total Cost of Ownership of XP comparing to Vista. When the bloke complains about speed, he will claim "we can´t afford to upgrade our machines, now that we had to buy 1200 official Vista licenses in order to reduce our TCO, specially after our severe budget cut."
While he utters the TCO acronym, he is charging the cattleprod hidden in his back, muffled by the 'buzzword alarm' in the wall. Wait and you´ll see.
Budget cut means revenge. it means Vista installed on 128 megs machines...
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Wednesday 7th November 2007 10:04 GMT Mike Smith
Resurrecting Blackadder
>Then I thought that a new modern day
>blackadder series based on the
>BOFH would be bloody great.
>Does anyone else think this is a >good idea ?
Nope - I think it's a bloody BRILLIANT idea. Wish I'd thought of it (seriously). Simon - you really should look into this. You've got all the characters ready made. Straight from Blackadder Goes Forth:
BOFH - Blackadder
PFY - Adrian Edmondson
The Boss - Hugh Laurie
CEO - Stephen Fry
Head Beancounter - Tim McInnerny.
Just need to find a place for Tony Robinson's Baldrick.
Give it some thought, Simon. we already have The IT Crowd, but a BOFH series would just blow it away like the feeble tripe it is.
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