RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990)

Re:RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990) by gspr on Sunday February 07, 2021 @09:03AM (#26055082)

I use animals, mostly. Except any ARM-based device must be named after a limb or a part of a limb that is not an arm. It must.

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Re:RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990) by xtiansimon on Sunday February 07, 2021 @09:38AM (#26055303)

I use food. Abstract, but also memorable.

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Re:RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990) by logifail on Sunday February 07, 2021 @02:48PM (#26057602)

Back at Uni we got four new workstations so obviously I named them 'death', 'war', 'famine' and 'pestilence'. Then shortly after we added a fifth, it ended up being 'mayhem'.*

Some time later we got two more boxen and the female members of our research group were given the job of naming them, and we ended up with 'itchy' and 'scratchy'...

* for the Pratchett readers I was wrong, it should of course have been 'Kaos'...

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Re:RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990) by kps on Sunday February 07, 2021 @10:08AM (#26055501)

Personally — since we're all chiming in — I use elements. My fallback DNS is a periodic table.

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Re:RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990) by salamander014 on Sunday February 07, 2021 @12:00PM (#26056274)

Please tell me you assign IP addresses based on atomic weight!

This might be the coolest thing I've read all year...

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Re:RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990) by kps on Sunday February 07, 2021 @10:45PM (#26060554)

Atomic number, yes. And of course every machine has a one or two-letter alias.

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