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For servers I use for my roommates and I (Jellyfin and the like), we name them after the quirky students that go to our university that we appreciate.
Use anime character names. That way you have an excuse to collect cute artwork for these machines.
For personal stuff (and even early machines for some companies which blurred the lines) I always chose the names of forests in the Magic: the Gathering multiverse. I try and help keep this page updated purely for that purpose: https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Forest These days, for work, it’s just boring unambiguous stuff. I think with more cloud infrastructure and the rarity of shared unix servers with home directories f…
I use the wordlist from Oren Tirosh’s mnemonic encoding project: http://web.archive.org/web/20090918202746/http://tothink.com... I can't find the post that linked it, but it had a very nice scheme. EDIT: found it: https://mnx.io/blog/a-proper-server-naming-scheme/ EDIT2: one-liner to get a random word from the file: cat wordlist.txt | tail -n +2 | sed -E 's/\s*(\w+)\s+/\1\n/g' | sed -E '/^$/d' | shuf -n 1 i.e. | | |…
I use animals, mostly. Except any ARM-based device must be named after a limb or a part of a limb that is not an arm. It must.
I was expecting this to be a April Fools RFC [0]. I was disappointed when I checked the date. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for...
[1] The Naming of Servers https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2100
- Device size and computing power maps roughly to the ship size: my desktop is named after a battleship, while my Kindle is named after a destroyer.
- Servers are always named after carriers. It just made sense to me somehow.
- Like the warships, the names can eventually get reused as the devices are replaced.
I was expecting this to be a April Fools RFC [0]. I was disappointed when I checked the date. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use animals, mostly. Except any ARM-based device must be named after a limb or a part of a limb that is not an arm. It must.
I use food. Abstract, but also memorable.
I use the wordlist from Oren Tirosh’s mnemonic encoding project: http://web.archive.org/web/20090918202746/http://tothink.com... I can't find the post that linked it, but it had a very nice scheme. EDIT: found it: https://mnx.io/blog/a-proper-server-naming-scheme/ EDIT2: one-liner to get a random word from the file: cat wordlist.txt | tail -n +2 | sed -E 's/\s*(\w+)\s+/\1\n/g' | sed -E '/^$/d' | shuf -n 1 i.e. | | |…
For personal stuff (and even early machines for some companies which blurred the lines) I always chose the names of forests in the Magic: the Gathering multiverse. I try and help keep this page updated purely for that purpose: https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Forest These days, for work, it’s just boring unambiguous stuff. I think with more cloud infrastructure and the rarity of shared unix servers with home directories f…
To date, Dryad Arbor is still one of the coolest cards in MtG, simply because of both the simplicity and the universality of its quote. When it came out, I was very surprised by the idea that a land could also be a creature. These days we have way wonkier mechanics, but that novelty along with the quote has a special place in my heart.