Ask HN: Do you name your devices?

Re:Ask HN: Do you name your devices? by noonespecial on Monday March 25, 2013 @07:55PM (#5440490)

Mine name themselves:

ifconfig eth0 | awk '/HWaddr/ { gsub(/:/,""); print "LTS-"$5}'

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Re:Ask HN: Do you name your devices? by eksith on Monday March 25, 2013 @08:23PM (#5440611)

That's actually clever. There should be a similar method for babies. Alas, I fear too many parents flock to People Magazine than gsub.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you name your devices? by noonespecial on Monday March 25, 2013 @08:43PM (#5440694)

Well it would have saved us from that tsunami of Jennifers the 70's laid on us. Not sure what Tommy Tutone would have done though....

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