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We use Pokemon. There's something super memorable about Blastoise, Slowbro, Squirtle, Ninetales, Jigglypuff... I also color my tabs the color of the Pokemon f

We use Pokemon. There's something super memorable about Blastoise, Slowbro, Squirtle, Ninetales, Jigglypuff... I also color my tabs the color of the Pokemon for fast reference.

whalesalad 13y ago
This is freaking brilliant. I grew up with that game and never even considered using them for hostnames.
- yamaneko 13y ago
  Considering the first generation, we would have enough names for 151 machines.
- pantalaimon 13y ago
  I always had the idea, but never enough machines to name.
  - KatherineJMoses 13y ago
    uptil I looked at the receipt which had said $9272, I didn't believe that my mom in-law woz realie bringing in money in there spare time on there computar.. there friends cousin haz done this 4 only about eighteen months and recently cleard the mortgage on their place and bourt a great opel. additional info ========================== http://WWW.WORKS23.COM http://WWW.WORKS23.COM
njbooher 13y ago
We do as well. The NAS is Snorlax, the GPU server is Pikachu, and the workstations are Eevee and Vulpix. I would have named the printer Ditto but apparently IT has a policy on printer names.
GuiA 13y ago
This comment is interesting (as well as the other 2 children saying they also use Pokemon for host names), as there has been a study about how kids had fantastic abilities at recognizing Pokemon, but could not achieve the same levels of memorization with flora and fauna: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11924673 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11924673 This inspired a researcher to create a card game similar to Pokemon, but for our biosphere: http://phylogame.org/ http://phylogame.org/
doughj3 13y ago
RPI does this with many of their dynamic hostnames, search Pikachu to find that section. ftp://ftp.rpi.edu/etc/hosts
- Falling3 13y ago
  I graduated in '08 and had no idea. Thanks!
johndoeee 13y ago
We're using pokemon ascii art[0] as welcome banners on our servers, makes it easier to notice if you logged into the wrong server. [0] http://www.angelfire.com/mn/Maija/pokemon/pokepack.zip http://www.angelfire.com/mn/Maija/pokemon/pokepack.zip
- pantalaimon 13y ago
  those are only 120
baxter001 13y ago
The old UK dial-up service Freeserve used to use these too.
codfrantic 13y ago
My old department at the UvA did the same in the past, new sysadmin changed it to European capitol cities. (I'll never lose muscle memory for typing sandshrew and farfetch.) Come to think of it, the DNS server should've been called PokeDex... (btw, the mail infra consisted only of carebears... I'm looking at YOU J.P.!)

We use Pokemon. There's something super memorable about Blastoise, Slowbro, Squirtle, Ninetales, Jigglypuff... I also color my tabs the color of the Pokemon for fast reference.

whalesalad 13y ago

This is freaking brilliant. I grew up with that game and never even considered using them for hostnames.

yamaneko 13y ago
Considering the first generation, we would have enough names for 151 machines.
pantalaimon 13y ago
I always had the idea, but never enough machines to name.
- KatherineJMoses 13y ago
  uptil I looked at the receipt which had said $9272, I didn't believe that my mom in-law woz realie bringing in money in there spare time on there computar.. there friends cousin haz done this 4 only about eighteen months and recently cleard the mortgage on their place and bourt a great opel. additional info ========================== http://WWW.WORKS23.COM http://WWW.WORKS23.COM

njbooher 13y ago

We do as well. The NAS is Snorlax, the GPU server is Pikachu, and the workstations are Eevee and Vulpix. I would have named the printer Ditto but apparently IT has a policy on printer names.

GuiA 13y ago

This comment is interesting (as well as the other 2 children saying they also use Pokemon for host names), as there has been a study about how kids had fantastic abilities at recognizing Pokemon, but could not achieve the same levels of memorization with flora and fauna: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11924673 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11924673 This inspired a researcher to create a card game similar to Pokemon, but for our biosphere: http://phylogame.org/ http://phylogame.org/

doughj3 13y ago

RPI does this with many of their dynamic hostnames, search Pikachu to find that section. ftp://ftp.rpi.edu/etc/hosts

Falling3 13y ago
I graduated in '08 and had no idea. Thanks!

johndoeee 13y ago

We're using pokemon ascii art[0] as welcome banners on our servers, makes it easier to notice if you logged into the wrong server. [0] http://www.angelfire.com/mn/Maija/pokemon/pokepack.zip http://www.angelfire.com/mn/Maija/pokemon/pokepack.zip

pantalaimon 13y ago
those are only 120

baxter001 13y ago

The old UK dial-up service Freeserve used to use these too.

codfrantic 13y ago

My old department at the UvA did the same in the past, new sysadmin changed it to European capitol cities. (I'll never lose muscle memory for typing sandshrew and farfetch.) Come to think of it, the DNS server should've been called PokeDex... (btw, the mail infra consisted only of carebears... I'm looking at YOU J.P.!)