[thechat] Naming Conventions (was: Re: OT - Seeking Laptop Advice)

William Anderson neuro at well.com
Wed Aug 4 13:59:29 CDT 2004


Luther, Ron wrote:
> [snip]
> 
> However, I still think there is room for additional creative abuse, 
> especially in a reporting sense:
> 
> * 'The_Mice_R' ... running at 80% capacity.
> 
> * 'The_Diaper' is 96% full. (We'll have to clean that out!)
> 
> * 'The_Plague' is replicating nicely to our branch offices!
> 
> [other strange machine name confusion fun snippage]

Hence why the concept is to give arbitrary but not potentially confusing 
names to machines, so that you talk about rebooting intrepid, or shutting 
down albatross, and not something that can cause confusion.

fwiw, my kit names are at http://neuro.me.uk/tech/ , pure geek that i am!

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