Re:RFC 1178 – Choosing a name for your computer (1990)
by tonyarkles on Monday April 02, 2018 @10:48PM
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Me too on the periodic table names, but with a bit of creativity related to the machine too:
- Helium - my Surface 3, because it's light
- Lead - my heavy Linux laptop
- Lithium - the Mac Mini I bought to keep from going crazy using a decade old Macbook Pro for iOS development
- Caesium - my Dell "workstation" Windows laptop, because I bought it to save time (compared to running Windows + Visual Studio in a VM)
- Uranium and Thorium - the beefy Xeon workstations that run a bunch of VMs and things - named because they put out so much heat that they might be radioactive
Re:RFC 1178 – Choosing a name for your computer (1990)
by hashhar on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:07AM
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It's quite funny that we share the host names Helium and Caesium. My Linux machines are radioactive because I tinker with them a lot and am bound to reinstall every few months.
Re:RFC 1178 – Choosing a name for your computer (1990)
by tonyarkles on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @01:18AM
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Heh, yeah, there's that too...
Re:RFC 1178 – Choosing a name for your computer (1990)
by thesephist on Monday April 02, 2018 @10:00PM
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>random IOT devices are radioactive elements.
Scheme-compliant _and_ metaphorically apt. Love it.
Re:RFC 1178 – Choosing a name for your computer (1990)
by andrewflnr on Monday April 02, 2018 @10:33PM
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Please tell me you're using Technetium for something special.
Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Neon, Tungsten, Helium, Sodium, etc
Wifi names are after noble gases.
PC hardware are all stable metals.
iPhone/iPad accessories are all non-metals.
and finally, random IOT devices are radioactive elements.