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- bofh #6
- Stick Head #1 @2059
- Sat Jan 23 09:31:04 1993
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- BASTARD OPERATOR FROM HELL #6
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-
- It's friday, so I get into work early, before lunch even. The phone rings.
- Shit!
-
- I turn the page on the excuse sheet. "SOLAR FLARES" stares out at me. I'd
- better read up on that. Two minutes later I'm ready to answer the phone.
-
- "Hello?" I say.
-
- "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET YOU ALL MORNING?!"
-
- I hate it when they shout at me early in the morning. It always puts me in a
- bad mood. You know what I mean.
-
- "Ah, yes. Well, there's been some solar activity this morning, it always
- disrupts electronics..." I say, sweet as a sugar pie.
-
- "Huh? But I could get through to my friends?!"
-
- "Yes, that's entirely possible, solar activity is very unpredictable in it's
- effects. Why last week, we had some files just dissappear from a guys account
- while he was working on it!"
-
- "Really?"
-
- "Straight Up! Hey, do you want me to check your account?"
-
- "Yes please, I've got some important stuff in there!"
-
- "Ok, what's your username..."
-
- He tells me. Honestly, it's like shooting a fish in a barrel. Twice. With an
- Elephant Gun. At point blank range. In the head.
-
- (Do I really need to tell you the clicky clicky bit?.. I think not)
-
- "How many files are in your account?" I ask
-
- "Um, well there should be about 20 in my thesis writeup, 10 or so with the
- data for it, and another 20 or so in a book that I'm writing"
-
- "Hmmm. Well, I think we caught it just in time. You've still got 2 files
- left... .cshrc and .login"
-
- "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaggggggggghhhh!"
-
- He sobs into the receiver a bit - it really turns my stomach.
-
- "What can I do?" he sniffs
-
- "Ok, do you have any of your stuff backed up on floppy?"
-
- "Some, but it's weeks old!"
-
- I fire up the bulk eraser.
-
- "Ok" I say "How about I come out and load all that data onto your account
- pronto so you can get some work done?"
-
- "That'd be great, but it's all at home" he wimpers. "I spose I'll just load it
- all in myself tonight"
-
- "Sure. But remember what I said, solar flares are bad for disks and machines.
- Protect your disks from solar activity to prevent them losing their data"
-
- "How do I do that? Wrap them in tin-foil?"
-
- "NO! TIN FOIL'S THE WORST THING! YOU KNOW WHAT TIN FOIL DOES IN A MICROWAVE
- DON'T YOU?!"
-
- "Yes.."
-
- "Then don't use it. There's only one thing that protects disks from solar
- activity.."
-
- "What's that?"
-
- "MAGNETS! Wrap your disks up in a pillow case with lots of magnets - Solar
- Flares hate that"
-
- "Wow! Thanks"
-
- "No worries at all..."
-
- Shit I'm good!