Re:RFC 1178: Choosing a name for your computer (1990)
by anarcat on Sunday February 07, 2021 @08:42PM
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oh and forgot to mention.. at my current job, there was this practice of naming servers after onions (I'll let you guess where that is).
I had no idea how many kinds of onions there were turns out there are many, especially if you start to take in Latin names and translations...
But then I need to learn how to spell colchicifolium, and neriniflorum, and no, those two are not related (or are they) and what does meronense do again? and oh yeah corsicum is the replica of one of those...
Those naming conventions are cool until you start to document your stuff properly and start being serious about training and including new people. Then you should focus on meaningful, easy to remember, type, and generate, names.
I had no idea how many kinds of onions there were turns out there are many, especially if you start to take in Latin names and translations...
But then I need to learn how to spell colchicifolium, and neriniflorum, and no, those two are not related (or are they) and what does meronense do again? and oh yeah corsicum is the replica of one of those...
Those naming conventions are cool until you start to document your stuff properly and start being serious about training and including new people. Then you should focus on meaningful, easy to remember, type, and generate, names.