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Post #157,600
by JayMehaffey
5/29/04 4:51:32 PM
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New Theme names
One big company we did work for at my last job had theme names. Each cluster of computers had a theme and each computer was named to match the theme.

The servers we maintained where "North Pole" and had computers named Rudolf, Blitzen, Dancer and Dasher. There was also a group called "Pet Farm" which had cow, pig, goat.

Following their pattern, we named our development computers Hades, Tartarus and Pluto.

Jay
Post #157,603
by Andrew Grygus
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5/29/04 5:14:18 PM
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New I've always cautioned to be careful with names.
For instance "Beaver" is restricted to server appliances that will never become workstation assigned to the boss's snazzy young daughter, just hired.

At one place, one of the girls was in some kind of accident and both her eyes were black and blue. From that point on nobody ever forgot that "Raccoon" was her workstation.
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Post #157,666
by deSitter
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5/30/04 2:18:00 AM
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New Re: I've always cautioned to be careful with names.
At one former job the DB programmers adopted STNG as their theme. One guy annoyed me to no end so I punk'd him. I patched his COMMAND.COM to call my own batch file instead of AUTOEXEC.BAT. My file edited his WfW machine name, so that at each boot he came up as "WESLEY". He'd change it and back it'd go the next day.

My batch file would chain AUTOEXEC.BAT so changes made there would still work. Needless to say, he was perplexed.
-drl
     Computer naming schemes. - (Silverlock) - (38) - May 28, 2004, 10:05:44 AM EDT
         having worked in large scale enterprises just a couple of - (boxley) - May 28, 2004, 11:30:15 AM EDT
         I named them the MAC address. - (folkert) - (21) - May 28, 2004, 07:27:24 PM EDT
             I like that idea. - (Silverlock) - (20) - May 28, 2004, 09:11:45 PM EDT
                 I don't - (deSitter) - (19) - May 29, 2004, 10:39:05 AM EDT
                     Agree with Ross. -NT - (jbrabeck) - May 29, 2004, 12:41:06 PM EDT
                     Concur. - (pwhysall) - (6) - May 29, 2004, 01:54:09 PM EDT
                         Which is Exactly why I used the MAC address. - (folkert) - (5) - May 29, 2004, 03:16:55 PM EDT
                             Seems overengineered to me., - (pwhysall) - (3) - May 29, 2004, 03:41:52 PM EDT
                                 Yeap... - (folkert) - (2) - May 29, 2004, 05:57:25 PM EDT
                                     My case 15k winders boxen nationwide - (boxley) - May 29, 2004, 06:42:36 PM EDT
                                     Re: Yeap... - (pwhysall) - May 30, 2004, 03:49:01 AM EDT
                             O peanut, I thee sledge -NT - (deSitter) - May 29, 2004, 03:54:48 PM EDT
                     I never name them after users or jobs. - (Andrew Grygus) - (5) - May 29, 2004, 03:04:56 PM EDT
                         Re: I never name them after users or jobs. - (deSitter) - May 29, 2004, 04:00:11 PM EDT
                         Heh. - (mmoffitt) - May 29, 2004, 04:03:44 PM EDT
                         Theme names - (JayMehaffey) - (2) - May 29, 2004, 04:51:32 PM EDT
                             I've always cautioned to be careful with names. - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - May 29, 2004, 05:14:18 PM EDT
                                 Re: I've always cautioned to be careful with names. - (deSitter) - May 30, 2004, 02:18:00 AM EDT
                     Sure... good reason TO use it. Thanks. - (folkert) - (2) - May 29, 2004, 03:27:01 PM EDT
                         Re: Sure... good reason TO use it. Thanks. - (deSitter) - (1) - May 29, 2004, 04:02:57 PM EDT
                             I don't want to get into a pissing war. - (folkert) - May 29, 2004, 06:00:22 PM EDT
                     Re: MAC address conveys no new information. - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - May 29, 2004, 04:08:06 PM EDT
                         Sure, like FCC ID -NT - (deSitter) - May 29, 2004, 04:44:50 PM EDT
         When I named computers - (orion) - May 29, 2004, 04:35:29 PM EDT
         Planets, car names, table of elements, movie and book chars - (lister) - (13) - June 7, 2004, 03:45:57 PM EDT
             Ineptium? -NT - (Another Scott) - (1) - June 7, 2004, 03:52:02 PM EDT
                 I only used the real element names, no made up ones -NT - (lister) - June 7, 2004, 04:23:54 PM EDT
             Dubnium? Bohrium? -NT - (drewk) - June 7, 2004, 03:54:10 PM EDT
             Boron? -NT - (imric) - (9) - June 7, 2004, 04:51:59 PM EDT
                 DING! -NT - (lister) - June 7, 2004, 05:01:45 PM EDT
                 That IS "Bohrium", kinda, AFAIK: It's named for Niels Bohr. -NT - (CRConrad) - (7) - June 8, 2004, 05:35:22 AM EDT
                     .......... - (imric) - (6) - June 8, 2004, 06:38:28 AM EDT
                         This is why.... - (pwhysall) - June 8, 2004, 07:12:55 AM EDT
                         Re: .......... - (deSitter) - (2) - June 8, 2004, 07:20:27 AM EDT
                             Nononono. - (pwhysall) - June 8, 2004, 07:22:37 AM EDT
                             ROFL! -NT - (imric) - June 8, 2004, 09:48:38 AM EDT
                         Oh - then WTF is boron named for? - (CRConrad) - (1) - June 8, 2004, 08:24:28 AM EDT
                             But you must admit bohrium would be more dense. :) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - June 8, 2004, 07:50:06 PM EDT

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