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> Don't use long names. There was a computer lab at my school where all the servers were named after rivers. "li" was very popular, while "euphrates" rarely h
by pimlottc 3y ago
> Don't use long names.
There was a computer lab at my school where all the servers were named after rivers. "li" was very popular, while "euphrates" rarely had anyone else on it.
- ronsor 3y agoProbably because no one could remember how to spell it.
- pvg 3y agoMine had a wombatinfestation, named as a riff on the Berkeley OCF 'natural disaster' hostnames (lightning, earthquake, plague, etc).
- scbrg 3y agoDid everyone skip class the day they taught about the tab key? Every computer, every directory, every file, every command, every option and argument is maximum three keystrokes long: the first character, the second character and the tab key :-)
- dewey 3y agoUsually you don’t have auto-complete for remote hostnames which is what the parent comment is about.
- scbrg 3y agoI would say that usually you do. But in hindsight, that's a behavior that came with SSH (via known_hosts and ssh/config). So back in the rlogin days, yeah, autocomplete of hostnames was not common.
- duggan 3y agoI've been using ssh for a long time and somehow it's never occurred to me that hostnames would autocomplete, hah. Every day is a school day.