Acronym, Bastard Operator From Hell.
A system administrator with absolutely
no tolerance for lusers. "You say you need
more filespace? (..massive-global-delete..) Seems
to me you have plenty left..." Many BOFHs (and
others who would be BOFHs if they could get away
with it) hang out in the newsgroup alt.sysadmin.recovery,
although there has also been created a top-level
newsgroup hierarchy (bofh.*) of their own.
Several people have written stories about BOFHs.
The set usually considered canonical is by Simon
Travaglia and may be found at
the Bastard Home Page.
BOFHs and BOFH wannabes hang out on
scary devil monastery and wield LARTs.