[plug] OT - Machine naming schemes

Shayne O'Neill shayne at guild.murdoch.edu.au
Sun Jun 12 17:35:10 WST 2005


We had at work a bizare "duck" naming scheme witha "duckmonster" and
client machines with names like "starduck" "duckchild" "duckpack" and
things like that. I think the scheme was concieved down the pub.

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On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Quintin Lette wrote:

> at home I use animals (mythical and real) (phoenix and dragon for my
> Sun Netras and dingo, dugite, wombat for SUSE desktops & laptop,
> scorpion for debian server)
>
> at work I use a logical system (usually location/service
> provided/number) ie PERLNX1 for 1st Linux server at Perth site. (for
> multiple locations in Perth I'd exchange PER for $SITE)
>
> On 6/12/05, simon <simon at plumtek.com> wrote:
> > Matthew Lambie (mlambie at thefrontiergroup.com.au) wrote:
> > >
> > > Evening all,
> > >
> > > A quick poll: What do people name their machines after?
> >
> > Futurama here - Im currently typing on Leela, Fry is my gateway, Kif is my
> > file/print server while bender is my apache/mysql/postgresql development box.
> > Oh, and Amy is the Mac in the corner :)
> >
> > --
> > =================
> > Simon Scott
> > simon at plumtek.com
> > mob: 0409113359
> > =================
> >
> >
> >
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