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- nkassis 16y agoI think this is enough for me to switch from protoss to zerg. Just the idea that I'm playing a Mac race is going to affect my psyche enough for me to stay in bronze forever ;p
- flexd 16y agoI've previously gone with various fun things (the main server at my previous job was named mainframe for ages), currently it's star wars characters as a friend of mine insists. Mine are all just named for their purpose. Laptop being playworkschool, my older server is called beast (hosting a civilization 5 replay generator). I don't like the idea of StarCraft though, but perhaps i'm just not such a big fan? I remember playing the first game a lot but i'm not a huge fan.
- marcamillion 16y agoThis is brilliant!! The only issue I will have now is trying to convince my wife that SC2 is a healthy addiction - especially now that her iMac will be renamed 'Archon'.
- arjunnarayan 16y agoOnly works if you cannibalized that iMac from two other Macs.
- wdewind 16y agoalso macbook air = dark templar? i think youd have to make an imac 30 out of two of those to make a dark archon.
- elliottcarlson 16y ago"A partitioned box with unix and windows. Windows OS named Marine, Unix OS named Infested Marine" This just seems to be the wrong way around...
- slifty 16y agoJust remember that Infested Marines are (stat-wise) more powerful ;)
- roc 16y agoAgreed. In general I'm not sure how you could think the battle-worn/old-tech/modular visual style of the Terran race applies more to Windows than Unix. Whereas terrifyingly-impressive testament to the brutal domination of an evolutionary niche and subsequent uncontrolled (uncontrollable?) growth seems like such a more-natural analogue for Windows. And that's without even touching the gross, slimy, infested allusions. ;)
- slifty 16y agoWhat sold me on unix being zerg was the concept of the swarm. Open source == powered by the hive mind. Also I think it is safe to say that most everyday folk relate more to windows; same way most would relate more towards the human faction. That said, you have good points!
- roc 16y agoWell, yeah. I'm sure the average person with 4 windows boxes at home wouldn't be wild about the idea of the creep seeping between the boxes... Whereas unix folks are more likely to be nerdier and like that sort of thing ;) Oh, and awesome scheme overall.
- slifty 16y agoAnother attractive reason for Windows being Zerg is it would make Ballmer Queen Bitch of the Universe (Gates would be the now-dead Overmind).
- wtracy 16y agoBuy box from Dell w/ Windows pre-installed: Marine. Install Ubuntu partition: Infested Marine. Works for me.
- wulczer 16y agoSounds fun if you do it for your home network, but profesionally you'll quickly appreciate embracing a more dull pattern of calling database machines db01, db02, etc, preproduction machines preprod01, preprod02, etc. And the sysadmin that will come after you will appreciate it even more.
- davidu 16y agoYep, you are basically making a new requirement that hires have to be Starcraft experts; and if not, then your naming scheme is totally unintuitive and overly verbose. I'm a big fan of the function###.IATA (or ICAO) code. So like db1.pao, web3.sfo, m22.sin... I don't do the 01 02 thing because that falls down at 99. :-)
- wulczer 16y agoYeah, now that I think of it I can't remember why I'm doing the 01 thing. Must be residual from my previous job where we used this pattern. I remember reading through the Bind file and seeing # >10k machines? NEVER! streamer0001.xxx...
- barrkel 16y agoThe primary reason for using 01 vs 1 etc. is because it sorts better without having to use fiddly sort options.
- elliottcarlson 16y agoWe (correction, I) keep dual names on all our machines. First the descriptive name lb01, websrv01, db01, etc. The second is the informal name all based on constellations and other space based entities like earth, star, taurus, corvus, leo, etc. Via Puppet[1], the MOTD of each server is generated with figlet[2] and other information so that the machine can be identified using all of it's names. Most likely it's overkill - but I do like my pretty names as well. [1] http://www.puppetlabs.com/ http://www.puppetlabs.com/ [2] http://www.figlet.org/ http://www.figlet.org/
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- zach 16y agoThis is pretty clever. Reminds me of an article a few years ago about printer names -- YouTube named theirs after Wu-Tang members; Google, after Transformers: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/07/the-wu-tang-sag.html http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/07/the-wu-ta... Regrettably, I must report that at Blizzard, printers have boring but functional names. And even though the campus is laid out with three buildings positioned similarly to the current WoW map, they're merely Buildings 1, 2, and 3. At least the meeting rooms all have lore names, however.
- electromagnetic 16y agoThat's actually depressingly boring for one of the worlds most recognizable games companies. It makes me feel like throwing out my lucky charms and eat cheerios for breakfast. (FYI I'm in my 20's, but shitty North America doesn't have good breakfast cereals like the UK)
- alanfalcon 16y agoEh, if it makes you feel any better, [many of] the servers themselves have wonderful names. Plus, you have to love going to a three o'clock meeting in the Spawning Pool.
- khafra 16y agoMan, if there were some way to get Marks and Spencer cereals affordably in the US, I'd be a weekly subscriber.
- leif 16y agoGoogle had some simpsons character printers in my building, IIRC.
- TheSOB88 16y agoThis is very intellectually unfulfilling. Second place? HN is approaching chain emails...
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- benkulbertis 16y agoI love starcraft...but honestly this is stupid. I mean seriously...you could waste your time in so many better ways .
- jarin 16y agoWell, butter my biscuits.
- UrLicht 16y agoMy home network is based on the Batman universe: My shiny new power tower (Windows 7): Batman Same tower booted into ubuntu: TwoFace NAS: arkham Content Filter: gordon Wifi SSID: TheRiddler etc, etc
- rapind 16y agoI'm ashamed to admit I'm using Jersey Shore names for my home network. "Situation", "Snooky", "Jwow", "Paulyd", etc.
- cpeterso 16y agoI recall Hotmail's servers were revealed to have some funny names, including rotate-the-shield-harmonics.hotmail.com.
- epynonymous 16y agoi was expecting to read something about scalability of battle.net...
- jcurbo 16y agoI was hoping this would be about Blizzard or battle.net, oh well. My own network machines are all named after space probes: pioneer, skylab, mercury, surveyor, gemini, apollo, voyager, etc. The university I went to (www.hsu.edu) named all their machines after trees (cyprus, pine, etc) - the school alma mater was about the pine trees that grew throughout the area, so a tree based naming scheme made sense.
- prawn 16y ago"Here are some examples: you might use the planets in the solar system (I would never do this; who wants to have to wait for the discovery of new planets to buy your 9th computer?)" For this reason, I use moons of our solar system in naming external hard drives at home. Figure it will last me a little longer, and saves me having to say to my wife in front of friends "Can you put the wedding photos on x?" and "Is x now full?" for certain instances of x towards the outer reaches of the system.
- leif 16y agoit's pronounced "urine us"
- gcb 16y agoi like the unimaginative names. www28.fe2.us.example.com one huge portal used writers, philosophers and poets. try to spell Nietzsche to the operator during an outage. Another job, they used star trek ship names. with the occasional klingon vessel here and there.
- tomrod 16y agoAm I the only one who thinks that Windows, with malware, worms, and trojans, are more akin to the zerg? Whereas Linux, with its post-humanism, is akin to Terrans?
- biotech 16y agoHere is the my naming convention: 1. Desktop computers are any land animal 2. Laptops are birds 3. Virtual machines and servers are any water dwelling creature I try to progress through the alphabet. For example, "Buck" is an old, now defunct computer - "Gila" has only recently been retired.
- sliverstorm 16y agoI just name mine after motorcycles I've owned. Crazily enough, I go through motorcycles faster than I go through computers, so it works.
- mashmac2 16y agoServer names at my university's CS department (and at least 2 other universities I know of) are biblical characters- Matthew, Mark, John, Gabriel, Mary, Martha, etc... And, of course, Saul is a alias for Paul.
- jacques_chester 16y ago> And, of course, Saul is a alias for Paul. Does it require you to login via Damascus?