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This doesn't exactly abide by the RFC but I name all my computers after dead rockstars e.g. "david-bowie", "george-harrison", "jimi-hendrix", "elvis-presley" It
by relyks 9y ago
This doesn't exactly abide by the RFC but I name all my computers after dead rockstars e.g. "david-bowie", "george-harrison", "jimi-hendrix", "elvis-presley" It's become a tradition of mine :)
The lab computers at Rutgers use design patterns, unix commands, and programming languages for the names: https://report.cs.rutgers.edu/nagiosnotes/iLab-machines.html https://report.cs.rutgers.edu/nagiosnotes/iLab-machines.html
- ScottBurson 9y agoI think dead rockstars were used for Lisp machines at the MIT AI Lab back in the 1980s. So you're in good company :-) Personally, I've always been fond of pagan deities.
- fiatjaf 9y agoI use dead Austrian economists: "mises", "menger", "hayek", "lachmann", "kirzner".
- cat199 9y ago... but what if supply can't keep up with demand??
- fuball63 9y agoI use names from the 2003 Cincinnati Bengals roster. I can't wait until I need to use t-j-houshmandzadeh. My cloud hosting account uses players on the active roster; my little hobby home servers use players from the practice squad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Cincinnati_Bengals_season#Roster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Cincinnati_Bengals_season...
- hcs 9y agoA few years ago Rutgers had labs with machines named after breakfast cereals, soups, and pasta: https://web.archive.org/web/20081228003151/http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/resources/systems/ilab/ https://web.archive.org/web/20081228003151/http://www.cs.rut... Also iirc there was a set of servers named after arcade games, zaxxon.cs is still resolving at least.