1BOFH excuse #1: 2 3clock speed 4% 5BOFH excuse #2: 6 7solar flares 8% 9BOFH excuse #3: 10 11electromagnetic radiation from satellite debris 12% 13BOFH excuse #4: 14 15static from nylon underwear 16% 17BOFH excuse #5: 18 19static from plastic slide rules 20% 21BOFH excuse #6: 22 23global warming 24% 25BOFH excuse #7: 26 27poor power conditioning 28% 29BOFH excuse #8: 30 31static buildup 32% 33BOFH excuse #9: 34 35doppler effect 36% 37BOFH excuse #10: 38 39hardware stress fractures 40% 41BOFH excuse #11: 42 43magnetic interference from money/credit cards 44% 45BOFH excuse #12: 46 47dry joints on cable plug 48% 49BOFH excuse #13: 50 51we're waiting for [the phone company] to fix that line 52% 53BOFH excuse #14: 54 55sounds like a Windows problem, try calling Microsoft support 56% 57BOFH excuse #15: 58 59temporary routing anomaly 60% 61BOFH excuse #16: 62 63somebody was calculating pi on the server 64% 65BOFH excuse #17: 66 67fat electrons in the lines 68% 69BOFH excuse #18: 70 71excess surge protection 72% 73BOFH excuse #19: 74 75floating point processor overflow 76% 77BOFH excuse #20: 78 79divide-by-zero error 80% 81BOFH excuse #21: 82 83POSIX compliance problem 84% 85BOFH excuse #22: 86 87monitor resolution too high 88% 89BOFH excuse #23: 90 91improperly oriented keyboard 92% 93BOFH excuse #24: 94 95network packets travelling uphill (use a carrier pigeon) 96% 97BOFH excuse #25: 98 99Decreasing electron flux 100% 101BOFH excuse #26: 102 103first Saturday after first full moon in Winter 104% 105BOFH excuse #27: 106 107radiosity depletion 108% 109BOFH excuse #28: 110 111CPU radiator broken 112% 113BOFH excuse #29: 114 115It works the way the Wang did, what's the problem 116% 117BOFH excuse #30: 118 119positron router malfunction 120% 121BOFH excuse #31: 122 123cellular telephone interference 124% 125BOFH excuse #32: 126 127techtonic stress 128% 129BOFH excuse #33: 130 131piezo-electric interference 132% 133BOFH excuse #34: 134 135(l)user error 136% 137BOFH excuse #35: 138 139working as designed 140% 141BOFH excuse #36: 142 143dynamic software linking table corrupted 144% 145BOFH excuse #37: 146 147heavy gravity fluctuation, move computer to floor rapidly 148% 149BOFH excuse #38: 150 151secretary plugged hairdryer into UPS 152% 153BOFH excuse #39: 154 155terrorist activities 156% 157BOFH excuse #40: 158 159not enough memory, go get system upgrade 160% 161BOFH excuse #41: 162 163interrupt configuration error 164% 165BOFH excuse #42: 166 167spaghetti cable cause packet failure 168% 169BOFH excuse #43: 170 171boss forgot system password 172% 173BOFH excuse #44: 174 175bank holiday - system operating credits not recharged 176% 177BOFH excuse #45: 178 179virus attack, luser responsible 180% 181BOFH excuse #46: 182 183waste water tank overflowed onto computer 184% 185BOFH excuse #47: 186 187Complete Transient Lockout 188% 189BOFH excuse #48: 190 191bad ether in the cables 192% 193BOFH excuse #49: 194 195Bogon emissions 196% 197BOFH excuse #50: 198 199Change in Earth's rotational speed 200% 201BOFH excuse #51: 202 203Cosmic ray particles crashed through the hard disk platter 204% 205BOFH excuse #52: 206 207Smell from unhygienic janitorial staff wrecked the tape heads 208% 209BOFH excuse #53: 210 211Little hamster in running wheel had coronary; waiting for replacement to be Fedexed from Wyoming 212% 213BOFH excuse #54: 214 215Evil dogs hypnotised the night shift 216% 217BOFH excuse #55: 218 219Plumber mistook routing panel for decorative wall fixture 220% 221BOFH excuse #56: 222 223Electricians made popcorn in the power supply 224% 225BOFH excuse #57: 226 227Groundskeepers stole the root password 228% 229BOFH excuse #58: 230 231high pressure system failure 232% 233BOFH excuse #59: 234 235failed trials, system needs redesigning 236% 237BOFH excuse #60: 238 239system has been recalled 240% 241BOFH excuse #61: 242 243not approved by the FCC 244% 245BOFH excuse #62: 246 247need to wrap system in aluminum foil to fix problem 248% 249BOFH excuse #63: 250 251not properly grounded, please bury computer 252% 253BOFH excuse #64: 254 255CPU needs recalibration 256% 257BOFH excuse #65: 258 259system needs to be rebooted 260% 261BOFH excuse #66: 262 263bit bucket overflow 264% 265BOFH excuse #67: 266 267descramble code needed from software company 268% 269BOFH excuse #68: 270 271only available on a need to know basis 272% 273BOFH excuse #69: 274 275knot in cables caused data stream to become twisted and kinked 276% 277BOFH excuse #70: 278 279nesting roaches shorted out the ether cable 280% 281BOFH excuse #71: 282 283The file system is full of it 284% 285BOFH excuse #72: 286 287Satan did it 288% 289BOFH excuse #73: 290 291Daemons did it 292% 293BOFH excuse #74: 294 295You're out of memory 296% 297BOFH excuse #75: 298 299There isn't any problem 300% 301BOFH excuse #76: 302 303Unoptimized hard drive 304% 305BOFH excuse #77: 306 307Typo in the code 308% 309BOFH excuse #78: 310 311Yes, yes, its called a design limitation 312% 313BOFH excuse #79: 314 315Look, buddy: Windows 3.1 IS A General Protection Fault. 316% 317BOFH excuse #80: 318 319That's a great computer you have there; have you considered how it would work as a BSD machine? 320% 321BOFH excuse #81: 322 323Please excuse me, I have to circuit an AC line through my head to get this database working 324% 325BOFH excuse #82: 326 327Yeah, yo mama dresses you funny and you need a mouse to delete files 328% 329BOFH excuse #83: 330 331Support staff hung over, send aspirin and come back LATER 332% 333BOFH excuse #84: 334 335Someone is standing on the ethernet cable, causing a kink in the cable 336% 337BOFH excuse #85: 338 339Windows 95 undocumented "feature" 340% 341BOFH excuse #86: 342 343Runt packets 344% 345BOFH excuse #87: 346 347Password is too complex to decrypt 348% 349BOFH excuse #88: 350 351Boss' kid fucked up the machine 352% 353BOFH excuse #89: 354 355Electromagnetic energy loss 356% 357BOFH excuse #90: 358 359Budget cuts 360% 361BOFH excuse #91: 362 363Mouse chewed through power cable 364% 365BOFH excuse #92: 366 367Stale file handle (next time use Tupperware(tm)!) 368% 369BOFH excuse #93: 370 371Feature not yet implemented 372% 373BOFH excuse #94: 374 375Internet outage 376% 377BOFH excuse #95: 378 379Pentium FDIV bug 380% 381BOFH excuse #96: 382 383Vendor no longer supports the product 384% 385BOFH excuse #97: 386 387Small animal kamikaze attack on power supplies 388% 389BOFH excuse #98: 390 391The vendor put the bug there 392% 393BOFH excuse #99: 394 395SIMM crosstalk 396% 397BOFH excuse #100: 398 399IRQ dropout 400% 401BOFH excuse #101: 402 403Collapsed Backbone 404% 405BOFH excuse #102: 406 407Power company testing new voltage spike (creation) equipment 408% 409BOFH excuse #103: 410 411operators on strike due to broken coffee machine 412% 413BOFH excuse #104: 414 415backup tape overwritten with copy of system manager's favourite CD 416% 417BOFH excuse #105: 418 419UPS interrupted the server's power 420% 421BOFH excuse #106: 422 423The electrician didn't know what the yellow cable was so he yanked the ethernet out 424% 425BOFH excuse #107: 426 427The keyboard isn't plugged in 428% 429BOFH excuse #108: 430 431The air conditioning water supply pipe ruptured over the machine room 432% 433BOFH excuse #109: 434 435The electricity substation in the car park blew up 436% 437BOFH excuse #110: 438 439The rolling stones concert down the road caused a brown out 440% 441BOFH excuse #111: 442 443The salesman drove over the CPU board 444% 445BOFH excuse #112: 446 447The monitor is plugged into the serial port 448% 449BOFH excuse #113: 450 451Root nameservers are out of sync 452% 453BOFH excuse #114: 454 455electro-magnetic pulses from French above ground nuke testing 456% 457BOFH excuse #115: 458 459your keyboard's space bar is generating spurious keycodes 460% 461BOFH excuse #116: 462 463the real ttys became pseudo ttys and vice-versa 464% 465BOFH excuse #117: 466 467the printer thinks it's a router 468% 469BOFH excuse #118: 470 471the router thinks it's a printer 472% 473BOFH excuse #119: 474 475evil hackers from Serbia 476% 477BOFH excuse #120: 478 479we just switched to FDDI 480% 481BOFH excuse #121: 482 483halon system went off and killed the operators 484% 485BOFH excuse #122: 486 487because Bill Gates is a Jehovah's witness and so nothing can work on St. Swithin's day 488% 489BOFH excuse #123: 490 491user to computer ratio too high 492% 493BOFH excuse #124: 494 495user to computer ratio too low 496% 497BOFH excuse #125: 498 499we just switched to Sprint 500% 501BOFH excuse #126: 502 503it has Intel Inside 504% 505BOFH excuse #127: 506 507Sticky bits on disk 508% 509BOFH excuse #128: 510 511Power Company having EMP problems with their reactor 512% 513BOFH excuse #129: 514 515The ring needs another token 516% 517BOFH excuse #130: 518 519new management 520% 521BOFH excuse #131: 522 523telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused 524% 525BOFH excuse #132: 526 527SCSI Chain overterminated 528% 529BOFH excuse #133: 530 531It's not plugged in 532% 533BOFH excuse #134: 534 535because of network lag due to too many people playing deathmatch 536% 537BOFH excuse #135: 538 539You put the disk in upside down 540% 541BOFH excuse #136: 542 543Daemons loose in system 544% 545BOFH excuse #137: 546 547User was distributing pornography on server; system seized by FBI 548% 549BOFH excuse #138: 550 551BNC (brain not connected) 552% 553BOFH excuse #139: 554 555UBNC (user brain not connected) 556% 557BOFH excuse #140: 558 559LBNC (luser brain not connected) 560% 561BOFH excuse #141: 562 563disks spinning backwards - toggle the hemisphere jumper 564% 565BOFH excuse #142: 566 567new guy cross-connected phone lines with ac power bus 568% 569BOFH excuse #143: 570 571had to use hammer to free stuck disk drive heads 572% 573BOFH excuse #144: 574 575Too few computrons available 576% 577BOFH excuse #145: 578 579Flat tire on station wagon with tapes. ("Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurling down the highway", Andrew S. Tannenbaum) 580% 581BOFH excuse #146: 582 583Communications satellite used by the military for star wars 584% 585BOFH excuse #147: 586 587Party-bug in the Aloha protocol 588% 589BOFH excuse #148: 590 591Insert coin for new game 592% 593BOFH excuse #149: 594 595Dew on the telephone lines 596% 597BOFH excuse #150: 598 599Arcserve crashed the server again 600% 601BOFH excuse #151: 602 603Some one needed the powerstrip, so they pulled the switch plug 604% 605BOFH excuse #152: 606 607My pony-tail hit the on/off switch on the power strip 608% 609BOFH excuse #153: 610 611Big to little endian conversion error 612% 613BOFH excuse #154: 614 615You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish (from most tunefs man pages) 616% 617BOFH excuse #155: 618 619Dumb terminal 620% 621BOFH excuse #156: 622 623Zombie processes haunting the computer 624% 625BOFH excuse #157: 626 627Incorrect time synchronization 628% 629BOFH excuse #158: 630 631Defunct processes 632% 633BOFH excuse #159: 634 635Stubborn processes 636% 637BOFH excuse #160: 638 639non-redundant fan failure 640% 641BOFH excuse #161: 642 643monitor VLF leakage 644% 645BOFH excuse #162: 646 647bugs in the RAID 648% 649BOFH excuse #163: 650 651no "any" key on keyboard 652% 653BOFH excuse #164: 654 655root rot 656% 657BOFH excuse #165: 658 659Backbone Scoliosis 660% 661BOFH excuse #166: 662 663/pub/lunch 664% 665BOFH excuse #167: 666 667excessive collisions & not enough packet ambulances 668% 669BOFH excuse #168: 670 671le0: no carrier: transceiver cable problem? 672% 673BOFH excuse #169: 674 675broadcast packets on wrong frequency 676% 677BOFH excuse #170: 678 679popper unable to process jumbo kernel 680% 681BOFH excuse #171: 682 683NOTICE: alloc: /dev/null: filesystem full 684% 685BOFH excuse #172: 686 687pseudo-user on a pseudo-terminal 688% 689BOFH excuse #173: 690 691Recursive traversal of loopback mount points 692% 693BOFH excuse #174: 694 695Backbone adjustment 696% 697BOFH excuse #175: 698 699OS swapped to disk 700% 701BOFH excuse #176: 702 703vapors from evaporating sticky-note adhesives 704% 705BOFH excuse #177: 706 707sticktion 708% 709BOFH excuse #178: 710 711short leg on process table 712% 713BOFH excuse #179: 714 715multicasts on broken packets 716% 717BOFH excuse #180: 718 719ether leak 720% 721BOFH excuse #181: 722 723Atilla the Hub 724% 725BOFH excuse #182: 726 727endothermal recalibration 728% 729BOFH excuse #183: 730 731filesystem not big enough for Jumbo Kernel Patch 732% 733BOFH excuse #184: 734 735loop found in loop in redundant loopback 736% 737BOFH excuse #185: 738 739system consumed all the paper for paging 740% 741BOFH excuse #186: 742 743permission denied 744% 745BOFH excuse #187: 746 747Reformatting Page. Wait... 748% 749BOFH excuse #188: 750 751..disk or the processor is on fire 752% 753BOFH excuse #189: 754 755SCSI's too wide 756% 757BOFH excuse #190: 758 759Proprietary Information 760% 761BOFH excuse #191: 762 763Just type 'mv * /dev/null' 764% 765BOFH excuse #192: 766 767runaway cat on system 768% 769BOFH excuse #193: 770 771Did you pay the new Support Fee? 772% 773BOFH excuse #194: 774 775We only support a 1200 bps connection 776% 777BOFH excuse #195: 778 779We only support a 28000 bps connection 780% 781BOFH excuse #196: 782 783Me no internet, only janitor, me just wax floors 784% 785BOFH excuse #197: 786 787I'm sorry a pentium wont do, you need an SGI to connect with us 788% 789BOFH excuse #198: 790 791Post-it Note Sludge leaked into the monitor 792% 793BOFH excuse #199: 794 795the curls in your keyboard cord are losing electricity 796% 797BOFH excuse #200: 798 799The monitor needs another box of pixels 800% 801BOFH excuse #201: 802 803RPC_PMAP_FAILURE 804% 805BOFH excuse #202: 806 807kernel panic: write-only-memory (/dev/wom0) capacity exceeded. 808% 809BOFH excuse #203: 810 811Write-only-memory subsystem too slow for this machine, contact your local dealer 812% 813BOFH excuse #204: 814 815Just pick up the phone and give modem connect sounds. "Well you said we should get more lines so we don't have voice lines." 816% 817BOFH excuse #205: 818 819Quantum dynamics are affecting the transistors 820% 821BOFH excuse #206: 822 823Police are examining all internet packets in the search for a narco-net-trafficker 824% 825BOFH excuse #207: 826 827We are currently trying a new concept of using a live mouse. Unfortunately, one has yet to survive being hooked up to the computer.....please bear with us. 828% 829BOFH excuse #208: 830 831Your mail is being routed through Germany... and they're censoring us 832% 833BOFH excuse #209: 834 835Only people with names beginning with 'A' are getting mail this week (a la Microsoft) 836% 837BOFH excuse #210: 838 839We didn't pay the Internet bill and it's been cut off. 840% 841BOFH excuse #211: 842 843Lightning strikes 844% 845BOFH excuse #212: 846 847Of course it doesn't work, we've performed a software upgrade 848% 849BOFH excuse #213: 850 851Change your language to Finnish 852% 853BOFH excuse #214: 854 855Fluorescent lights are generating negative ions. If turning them off doesn't work, take them out and put tin foil on the ends. 856% 857BOFH excuse #215: 858 859High nuclear activity in your area 860% 861BOFH excuse #216: 862 863What office are you in? Oh, that one. Did you know that your building was built over the university's first nuclear research site? And wow, aren't you the lucky one, your office is right over where the core is buried! 864% 865BOFH excuse #217: 866 867The MGs ran out of gas 868% 869BOFH excuse #218: 870 871The UPS doesn't have a battery backup 872% 873BOFH excuse #219: 874 875Recursivity, call back if it happens again 876% 877BOFH excuse #220: 878 879Someone thought The Big Red Button was a light switch 880% 881BOFH excuse #221: 882 883The mainframe needs to rest, it's getting old, you know 884% 885BOFH excuse #222: 886 887I'm not sure, try calling the Internet's head office -- it's in the book 888% 889BOFH excuse #223: 890 891The lines are all busy (busied out, that is -- why let them in to begin with?) 892% 893BOFH excuse #224: 894 895Jan 9 16:41:27 huber su: 'su root' succeeded for .... on /dev/pts/1 896% 897BOFH excuse #225: 898 899It's those computer people in X {city of world}, they keep stuffing things up 900% 901BOFH excuse #226: 902 903A star wars satellite accidently blew up the WAN 904% 905BOFH excuse #227: 906 907Fatal error right in front of screen 908% 909BOFH excuse #228: 910 911That function is not currently supported, but Bill Gates assures us it will be featured in the next upgrade 912% 913BOFH excuse #229: 914 915wrong polarity of neutron flow 916% 917BOFH excuse #230: 918 919Lusers learning curve appears to be fractal 920% 921BOFH excuse #231: 922 923We had to turn off that service to comply with the CDA Bill 924% 925BOFH excuse #232: 926 927Ionization from the air-conditioning 928% 929BOFH excuse #233: 930 931TCP/IP UDP alarm threshold is set too low 932% 933BOFH excuse #234: 934 935Someone is broadcasting pygmy packets and the router doesn't know how to deal with them 936% 937BOFH excuse #235: 938 939The new frame relay network hasn't bedded down the software loop transmitter yet 940% 941BOFH excuse #236: 942 943Fanout dropping voltage too much, try cutting some of those little traces 944% 945BOFH excuse #237: 946 947Plate voltage too low on demodulator tube 948% 949BOFH excuse #238: 950 951You did wha... oh _dear_.... 952% 953BOFH excuse #239: 954 955CPU needs bearings repacked 956% 957BOFH excuse #240: 958 959Too many little pins on CPU confusing it, bend back and forth until 10-20% are neatly removed. Do _not_ leave metal bits visible! 960% 961BOFH excuse #241: 962 963_Rosin_ core solder? But... 964% 965BOFH excuse #242: 966 967Software uses US measurements, but the OS is in metric... 968% 969BOFH excuse #243: 970 971The computer fleetly, mouse and all 972% 973BOFH excuse #244: 974 975Your cat tried to eat the mouse 976% 977BOFH excuse #245: 978 979The Borg tried to assimilate your system, resistance is futile 980% 981BOFH excuse #246: 982 983It must have been the lightning storm we had (yesterday) (last week) (last month) 984% 985BOFH excuse #247: 986 987Due to Federal Budget problems we have been forced to cut back on the number of users able to access the system at one time (namely none allowed....) 988% 989BOFH excuse #248: 990 991Too much radiation coming from the soil 992% 993BOFH excuse #249: 994 995Unfortunately we have run out of bits/bytes/whatever. Don't worry, the next supply will be coming next week. 996% 997BOFH excuse #250: 998 999Program load too heavy for processor to lift 1000% 1001BOFH excuse #251: 1002 1003Processes running slowly due to weak power supply 1004% 1005BOFH excuse #252: 1006 1007Our ISP is having {switching,routing,SMDS,frame relay} problems 1008% 1009BOFH excuse #253: 1010 1011We've run out of licenses 1012% 1013BOFH excuse #254: 1014 1015Interference from lunar radiation 1016% 1017BOFH excuse #255: 1018 1019Standing room only on the bus 1020% 1021BOFH excuse #256: 1022 1023You need to install an RTFM interface 1024% 1025BOFH excuse #257: 1026 1027That would be because the software doesn't work 1028% 1029BOFH excuse #258: 1030 1031That's easy to fix, but I can't be bothered 1032% 1033BOFH excuse #259: 1034 1035Someone's tie is caught in the printer, and if anything else gets printed, he'll be in it too 1036% 1037BOFH excuse #260: 1038 1039We're upgrading /dev/null 1040% 1041BOFH excuse #261: 1042 1043The Usenet news is out of date 1044% 1045BOFH excuse #262: 1046 1047Our POP server was kidnapped by a weasel 1048% 1049BOFH excuse #263: 1050 1051It's stuck in the Web 1052% 1053BOFH excuse #264: 1054 1055Your modem doesn't speak English 1056% 1057BOFH excuse #265: 1058 1059The mouse escaped 1060% 1061BOFH excuse #266: 1062 1063All of the packets are empty 1064% 1065BOFH excuse #267: 1066 1067The UPS is on strike 1068% 1069BOFH excuse #268: 1070 1071Neutrino overload on the nameserver 1072% 1073BOFH excuse #269: 1074 1075Melting hard drives 1076% 1077BOFH excuse #270: 1078 1079Someone has messed up the kernel pointers 1080% 1081BOFH excuse #271: 1082 1083The kernel license has expired 1084% 1085BOFH excuse #272: 1086 1087Netscape has crashed 1088% 1089BOFH excuse #273: 1090 1091The cord jumped over and hit the power switch 1092% 1093BOFH excuse #274: 1094 1095It was OK before you touched it 1096% 1097BOFH excuse #275: 1098 1099Bit rot 1100% 1101BOFH excuse #276: 1102 1103U.S. Postal Service 1104% 1105BOFH excuse #277: 1106 1107Your Flux Capacitor has gone bad 1108% 1109BOFH excuse #278: 1110 1111The Dilithium Crystals need to be rotated 1112% 1113BOFH excuse #279: 1114 1115The static electricity routing is acting up... 1116% 1117BOFH excuse #280: 1118 1119Traceroute says that there is a routing problem in the backbone, it's not our problem 1120% 1121BOFH excuse #281: 1122 1123The co-locator cannot verify the frame-relay gateway to the ISDN server 1124% 1125BOFH excuse #282: 1126 1127High altitude condensation from U.S.A.F prototype aircraft has contaminated the primary subnet mask. Turn off your computer for 9 days to avoid damaging it. 1128% 1129BOFH excuse #283: 1130 1131Lawn mower blade in your fan need sharpening 1132% 1133BOFH excuse #284: 1134 1135Electrons on a bender 1136% 1137BOFH excuse #285: 1138 1139Telecommunications is upgrading 1140% 1141BOFH excuse #286: 1142 1143Telecommunications is downgrading 1144% 1145BOFH excuse #287: 1146 1147Telecommunications is downshifting 1148% 1149BOFH excuse #288: 1150 1151Hard drive sleeping, let it wake up on it's own... 1152% 1153BOFH excuse #289: 1154 1155Interference between the keyboard and the chair 1156% 1157BOFH excuse #290: 1158 1159The CPU has shifted, and become decentralized 1160% 1161BOFH excuse #291: 1162 1163Due to the CDA, we no longer have a root account 1164% 1165BOFH excuse #292: 1166 1167We ran out of dial tone and we're and waiting for the phone company to deliver another bottle 1168% 1169BOFH excuse #293: 1170 1171You must've hit the wrong any key 1172% 1173BOFH excuse #294: 1174 1175PCMCIA slave driver 1176% 1177BOFH excuse #295: 1178 1179The Token fell out of the ring, call us when you find it 1180% 1181BOFH excuse #296: 1182 1183The hardware bus needs a new token 1184% 1185BOFH excuse #297: 1186 1187Too many interrupts 1188% 1189BOFH excuse #298: 1190 1191Not enough interrupts 1192% 1193BOFH excuse #299: 1194 1195The data on your hard drive is out of balance 1196% 1197BOFH excuse #300: 1198 1199Digital Manipulator exceeding velocity parameters 1200% 1201BOFH excuse #301: 1202 1203appears to be a Slow/Narrow SCSI-0 Interface problem 1204% 1205BOFH excuse #302: 1206 1207microelectronic Riemannian curved-space fault in write-only file system 1208% 1209BOFH excuse #303: 1210 1211fractal radiation jamming the backbone 1212% 1213BOFH excuse #304: 1214 1215routing problems on the neural net 1216% 1217BOFH excuse #305: 1218 1219IRQ-problems with the Un-Interruptible-Power-Supply 1220% 1221BOFH excuse #306: 1222 1223CPU-angle has to be adjusted because of vibrations coming from the nearby road 1224% 1225BOFH excuse #307: 1226 1227emissions from GSM-phones 1228% 1229BOFH excuse #308: 1230 1231CD-ROM server needs recalibration 1232% 1233BOFH excuse #309: 1234 1235firewall needs cooling 1236% 1237BOFH excuse #310: 1238 1239asynchronous inode failure 1240% 1241BOFH excuse #311: 1242 1243transient bus protocol violation 1244% 1245BOFH excuse #312: 1246 1247incompatible bit-registration operators 1248% 1249BOFH excuse #313: 1250 1251your process is not ISO 9000 compliant 1252% 1253BOFH excuse #314: 1254 1255You need to upgrade your VESA local bus to a MasterCard local bus 1256% 1257BOFH excuse #315: 1258 1259The recent proliferation of Nuclear Testing 1260% 1261BOFH excuse #316: 1262 1263Elves on strike (Why do they call EMAG Elf Magic?) 1264% 1265BOFH excuse #317: 1266 1267Internet exceeded Luser level, please wait until a luser logs off before attempting to log back on 1268% 1269BOFH excuse #318: 1270 1271Your EMAIL is now being delivered by the USPS 1272% 1273BOFH excuse #319: 1274 1275Your computer hasn't been returning all the bits it gets from the Internet 1276% 1277BOFH excuse #320: 1278 1279You've been infected by the Telescoping Hubble virus 1280% 1281BOFH excuse #321: 1282 1283Scheduled global CPU outage 1284% 1285BOFH excuse #322: 1286 1287Your Pentium has a heating problem - try cooling it with ice cold water (Do not turn off your computer, you do not want to cool down the Pentium Chip while he isn't working, do you?) 1288% 1289BOFH excuse #323: 1290 1291Your processor has processed too many instructions. Turn it off immediately, do not type any commands!! 1292% 1293BOFH excuse #324: 1294 1295Your packets were eaten by the terminator 1296% 1297BOFH excuse #325: 1298 1299Your processor does not develop enough heat 1300% 1301BOFH excuse #326: 1302 1303We need a licensed electrician to replace the light bulbs in the computer room 1304% 1305BOFH excuse #327: 1306 1307The POP server is out of Coke 1308% 1309BOFH excuse #328: 1310 1311Fiber optics caused gas main leak 1312% 1313BOFH excuse #329: 1314 1315Server depressed, needs Prozac 1316% 1317BOFH excuse #330: 1318 1319quantum decoherence 1320% 1321BOFH excuse #331: 1322 1323those damn raccoons! 1324% 1325BOFH excuse #332: 1326 1327suboptimal routing experience 1328% 1329BOFH excuse #333: 1330 1331A plumber is needed, the network drain is clogged 1332% 1333BOFH excuse #334: 1334 133550% of the manual is in .pdf readme files 1336% 1337BOFH excuse #335: 1338 1339the AA battery in the wallclock sends magnetic interference 1340% 1341BOFH excuse #336: 1342 1343the xy axis in the trackball is coordinated with the summer solstice 1344% 1345BOFH excuse #337: 1346 1347the butane lighter causes the pincushioning 1348% 1349BOFH excuse #338: 1350 1351old inkjet cartridges emanate barium-based fumes 1352% 1353BOFH excuse #339: 1354 1355manager in the cable duct 1356% 1357BOFH excuse #340: 1358 1359Well fix that in the next (upgrade, update, patch release, service pack) 1360% 1361BOFH excuse #341: 1362 1363HTTPD Error 666 : BOFH was here 1364% 1365BOFH excuse #342: 1366 1367HTTPD Error 4004 : very old Intel cpu - insufficient processing power 1368% 1369BOFH excuse #343: 1370 1371The ATM board has run out of 10 pound notes. We are having a whip round to refill it, care to contribute? 1372% 1373BOFH excuse #344: 1374 1375Network failure - call NBC 1376% 1377BOFH excuse #345: 1378 1379Having to manually track the satellite 1380% 1381BOFH excuse #346: 1382 1383Your/our computer(s) has/have suffered a memory leak, and we are waiting for them to be topped up 1384% 1385BOFH excuse #347: 1386 1387The rubber band broke 1388% 1389BOFH excuse #348: 1390 1391We're on Token Ring, and it looks like the token got loose 1392% 1393BOFH excuse #349: 1394 1395Stray Alpha Particles from memory packaging caused Hard Memory Error on Server 1396% 1397BOFH excuse #350: 1398 1399paradigm shift...without a clutch 1400% 1401BOFH excuse #351: 1402 1403PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair) 1404% 1405BOFH excuse #352: 1406 1407The cables are not the same length 1408% 1409BOFH excuse #353: 1410 1411Second-system effect 1412% 1413BOFH excuse #354: 1414 1415Chewing gum on /dev/sd3c 1416% 1417BOFH excuse #355: 1418 1419Boredom in the Kernel. 1420% 1421BOFH excuse #356: 1422 1423the daemons! the daemons! the terrible daemons! 1424% 1425BOFH excuse #357: 1426 1427I'd love to help you -- it's just that the Boss won't let me near the computer. 1428% 1429BOFH excuse #358: 1430 1431struck by the Good Times virus 1432% 1433BOFH excuse #359: 1434 1435YOU HAVE AN I/O ERROR -> Incompetent Operator error 1436% 1437BOFH excuse #360: 1438 1439Your parity check is overdrawn and you're out of cache. 1440% 1441BOFH excuse #361: 1442 1443Communist revolutionaries taking over the server room and demanding all the computers in the building or they shoot the sysadmin. Poor misguided fools. 1444% 1445BOFH excuse #362: 1446 1447Plasma conduit breach 1448% 1449BOFH excuse #363: 1450 1451Out of cards on drive D: 1452% 1453BOFH excuse #364: 1454 1455Sand fleas eating the Internet cables 1456% 1457BOFH excuse #365: 1458 1459parallel processors running perpendicular today 1460% 1461BOFH excuse #366: 1462 1463ATM cell has no roaming feature turned on, notebooks can't connect 1464% 1465BOFH excuse #367: 1466 1467Webmasters kidnapped by evil cult 1468% 1469BOFH excuse #368: 1470 1471Failure to adjust for daylight savings time 1472% 1473BOFH excuse #369: 1474 1475Virus transmitted from computer to sysadmins 1476% 1477BOFH excuse #370: 1478 1479Virus due to computers having unsafe sex 1480% 1481BOFH excuse #371: 1482 1483Incorrectly configured static routes on the corerouters 1484% 1485BOFH excuse #372: 1486 1487Forced to support NT servers; sysadmins quit 1488% 1489BOFH excuse #373: 1490 1491Suspicious pointer corrupted virtual machine 1492% 1493BOFH excuse #374: 1494 1495It's the InterNIC's fault 1496% 1497BOFH excuse #375: 1498 1499Root name servers corrupted 1500% 1501BOFH excuse #376: 1502 1503Budget cuts forced us to sell all the power cords for the servers 1504% 1505BOFH excuse #377: 1506 1507Someone hooked the twisted pair wires into the answering machine 1508% 1509BOFH excuse #378: 1510 1511Operators killed by year 2000 bug bite 1512% 1513BOFH excuse #379: 1514 1515We've picked COBOL as the language of choice 1516% 1517BOFH excuse #380: 1518 1519Operators killed when huge stack of backup tapes fell over 1520% 1521BOFH excuse #381: 1522 1523Robotic tape changer mistook operator's tie for a backup tape 1524% 1525BOFH excuse #382: 1526 1527Someone was smoking in the computer room and set off the halon systems 1528% 1529BOFH excuse #383: 1530 1531Your processor has taken a ride to Heaven's Gate on the UFO behind Hale-Bopp's comet 1532% 1533BOFH excuse #384: 1534 1535it's an ID-10-T error 1536% 1537BOFH excuse #385: 1538 1539Dyslexics retyping hosts file on servers 1540% 1541BOFH excuse #386: 1542 1543The Internet is being scanned for viruses 1544% 1545BOFH excuse #387: 1546 1547Your computer's union contract is set to expire at midnight 1548% 1549BOFH excuse #388: 1550 1551Bad user karma 1552% 1553BOFH excuse #389: 1554 1555/dev/clue was linked to /dev/null 1556% 1557BOFH excuse #390: 1558 1559Increased sunspot activity 1560% 1561BOFH excuse #391: 1562 1563We already sent around a notice about that 1564% 1565BOFH excuse #392: 1566 1567It's union rules. There's nothing we can do about it. Sorry. 1568% 1569BOFH excuse #393: 1570 1571Interference from the Van Allen Belt 1572% 1573BOFH excuse #394: 1574 1575Jupiter is aligned with Mars 1576% 1577BOFH excuse #395: 1578 1579Redundant ACLs 1580% 1581BOFH excuse #396: 1582 1583Mail server hit by UniSpammer 1584% 1585BOFH excuse #397: 1586 1587T1's congested due to porn traffic to the news server 1588% 1589BOFH excuse #398: 1590 1591Data for intranet got routed through the extranet and landed on the internet 1592% 1593BOFH excuse #399: 1594 1595We are a 100% Microsoft Shop 1596% 1597BOFH excuse #400: 1598 1599We are Microsoft. What you are experiencing is not a problem; it is an undocumented feature. 1600% 1601BOFH excuse #401: 1602 1603Sales staff sold a product we don't offer 1604% 1605BOFH excuse #402: 1606 1607Secretary sent chain letter to all 5000 employees 1608% 1609BOFH excuse #403: 1610 1611Sysadmin didn't hear pager go off due to loud music from bar-room speakers 1612% 1613BOFH excuse #404: 1614 1615Sysadmin accidentally destroyed pager with a large hammer 1616% 1617BOFH excuse #405: 1618 1619Sysadmins unavailable because they are in a meeting talking about why they are unavailable so much 1620% 1621BOFH excuse #406: 1622 1623Bad cafeteria food landed all the sysadmins in the hospital 1624% 1625BOFH excuse #407: 1626 1627Route flapping at the NAP 1628% 1629BOFH excuse #408: 1630 1631Computers under water due to SYN flooding 1632% 1633BOFH excuse #409: 1634 1635The vulcan-death-grip ping has been applied 1636% 1637BOFH excuse #410: 1638 1639Electrical conduits in machine room are melting 1640% 1641BOFH excuse #411: 1642 1643Traffic jam on the Information Superhighway 1644% 1645BOFH excuse #412: 1646 1647Radial Telemetry Infiltration 1648% 1649BOFH excuse #413: 1650 1651Cow-tippers tipped a cow onto the server 1652% 1653BOFH excuse #414: 1654 1655tachyon emissions overloading the system 1656% 1657BOFH excuse #415: 1658 1659Maintenance window broken 1660% 1661BOFH excuse #416: 1662 1663We're out of slots on the server 1664% 1665BOFH excuse #417: 1666 1667Computer room being moved. Our systems are down for the weekend. 1668% 1669BOFH excuse #418: 1670 1671Sysadmins busy fighting SPAM 1672% 1673BOFH excuse #419: 1674 1675Repeated reboots of the system failed to solve problem 1676% 1677BOFH excuse #420: 1678 1679Feature was not beta tested 1680% 1681BOFH excuse #421: 1682 1683Domain controller not responding 1684% 1685BOFH excuse #422: 1686 1687Someone else stole your IP address, call the Internet detectives! 1688% 1689BOFH excuse #423: 1690 1691It's not RFC-822 compliant 1692% 1693BOFH excuse #424: 1694 1695operation failed because: there is no message for this error (#1014) 1696% 1697BOFH excuse #425: 1698 1699stop bit received 1700% 1701BOFH excuse #426: 1702 1703internet is needed to catch the etherbunny 1704% 1705BOFH excuse #427: 1706 1707network down, IP packets delivered via UPS 1708% 1709BOFH excuse #428: 1710 1711Firmware update in the coffee machine 1712% 1713BOFH excuse #429: 1714 1715Temporal anomaly 1716% 1717BOFH excuse #430: 1718 1719Mouse has out-of-cheese error 1720% 1721BOFH excuse #431: 1722 1723Borg implants are failing 1724% 1725BOFH excuse #432: 1726 1727Borg nanites have infested the server 1728% 1729BOFH excuse #433: 1730 1731error: one bad user found in front of screen 1732% 1733BOFH excuse #434: 1734 1735Please state the nature of the technical emergency 1736% 1737BOFH excuse #435: 1738 1739Internet shut down due to maintenance 1740% 1741BOFH excuse #436: 1742 1743Daemon escaped from pentagram 1744% 1745BOFH excuse #437: 1746 1747crop circles in the corn shell 1748% 1749BOFH excuse #438: 1750 1751sticky bit has come loose 1752% 1753BOFH excuse #439: 1754 1755Hot Java has gone cold 1756% 1757BOFH excuse #440: 1758 1759Cache miss - please take better aim next time 1760% 1761BOFH excuse #441: 1762 1763Hash table has woodworm 1764% 1765BOFH excuse #442: 1766 1767Trojan horse ran out of hay 1768% 1769BOFH excuse #443: 1770 1771Zombie processes detected, machine is haunted 1772% 1773BOFH excuse #444: 1774 1775overflow error in /dev/null 1776% 1777BOFH excuse #445: 1778 1779Browser's cookie is corrupted -- someone's been nibbling on it 1780% 1781BOFH excuse #446: 1782 1783Mailer-daemon is busy burning your message in hell 1784% 1785BOFH excuse #447: 1786 1787According to Microsoft, it's by design 1788% 1789BOFH excuse #448: 1790 1791vi needs to be upgraded to vii 1792% 1793BOFH excuse #449: 1794 1795greenpeace freed the mallocs 1796% 1797BOFH excuse #450: 1798 1799Terrorists crashed an airplane into the server room. 1800% 1801BOFH excuse #451: 1802 1803astropneumatic oscillations in the water-cooling 1804% 1805BOFH excuse #452: 1806 1807Somebody ran the operating system through a spelling checker 1808% 1809