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Everyone here is talking about creative machine naming schemes, but almost every org in the world names machines with random strings, like what Windows OOBE gen
by clnq 3y ago
Everyone here is talking about creative machine naming schemes, but almost every org in the world names machines with random strings, like what Windows OOBE generates by default. Sometimes the names are pre-OOBEd with scripts that generate images for new machines, but they are still mostly random. I have never seen a creative machine name in an academic or business setting. It's interesting how different HN is from most orgs.
Honestly, even most home machines are randomly named, I think.
- dmurray 3y agoMy 2000-person employer (in finance!) names desktop machines with dictionary words and a short seemingly random suffix. So you could be GIRAFFE84F, there won't typically be other giraffes. Servers get names that are concatenations of meaningful abbreviations that are meaningless to an outsider, you might be on nycfithro603. Actually I can't think of any org I've worked for that had random strings for its physical machines. Cloud VMs, yes (though not always).
- clnq 3y agoMy experience is completely different. Having worked in companies between 15 and 15k employees, I've never seen anything other than random strings. A while ago I wrote a script that uses GPT to generate some machine names and then check them for collisions with existing ones. So no suffixes needed. I thought I was innovating, hahaha. Very interesting.