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The Bastard Operator from Hell

by norcalkc on 10/14/23, 3:58 PM with 2 comments

  • by h2odragon on 10/14/23, 4:16 PM

    https://bofh.bjash.com/bofh/tradeshow.html

    > "Okay, let's see what we can see" he says, and presses the power-on switch on my "portable" The 31 hefty nicad batteries that make up almost the entire inside of my "laptop" pour grunt into a tripling inverter which in turn supplies RICH, CHUNKY VOLTS to alternate pins on the "SCSI" bus, whilst emitting a dull "uuurk" sound.

  • by clubm8 on 10/14/23, 4:42 PM

    This author had quite the effect on my literary voice, thanks for resurfacing this.

    Another great source of quotes is bash.org (I get the impression the similar names are a coincidence):

    <Cthon98> hey, if you type in your pw, it will show as stars <Cthon98> ***** see! <AzureDiamond> hunter2 <AzureDiamond> doesnt look like stars to me <Cthon98> <AzureDiamond> **** <Cthon98> thats what I see <AzureDiamond> oh, really? <Cthon98> Absolutely <AzureDiamond> you can go hunter2 my hunter2-ing hunter2 <AzureDiamond> haha, does that look funny to you? <Cthon98> lol, yes. See, when YOU type hunter2, it shows to us as **** <AzureDiamond> thats neat, I didnt know IRC did that <Cthon98> yep, no matter how many times you type hunter2, it will show to us as **** <AzureDiamond> awesome! <AzureDiamond> wait, how do you know my pw? <Cthon98> er, I just copy pasted YOUR ***'s and it appears to YOU as hunter2 cause its your pw <AzureDiamond> oh, ok.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20230710221245/http://bash.org/?...

    (Can't tell if the issue is Tor or the site is down hence the wayback link)