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Re: Hostnames

#91

Post by Vektorweg » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 10:34 PM UTC

(Sid Meier's) Alpha Centauri character and city names.

Re: Hostnames

#92

Post by sneak » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 10:47 PM UTC

Both runes and letters of the tengwar were patterns that I recall Pair Networks used in the 90s, and I always thought those were cool.

I do love the idea of elements though, with their atomic symbols as CNAMEs.

Re: Hostnames

#93

Post by NDT » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 10:49 PM UTC

mstrem wrote: post #88

Amazing! At my company: For machines where usually you should NOT log in we use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distilleries_in_Scotlan... That is because they are so hard to spell! You really need to put the effort into it (e.g. Bruichladdich) For the ones you should be logging into we use the most popular out of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Home_appliance_brands Which also fits in well with what the…

Ha! Brilliant.

Re: Hostnames

#94

Post by scarlson » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 10:49 PM UTC

lost-theory wrote: post #65

binarymax wrote: post #16

Sweet list. Phonetic Alphabet is a good one - it has the typing superpower of striking first letter then for instant autocomplete.

Until you have 27 hostnames.

That's when we go Greek, say hello to α.

Re: Hostnames

#95

Post by Falling3 » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 10:51 PM UTC

doughj3 wrote: post #83

nostromo wrote: post #24

We use Pokemon. There's something super memorable about Blastoise, Slowbro, Squirtle, Ninetales, Jigglypuff... I also color my tabs the color of the Pokemon for fast reference.

RPI does this with many of their dynamic hostnames, search Pikachu to find that section. ftp://ftp.rpi.edu/etc/hosts

I graduated in '08 and had no idea. Thanks!

Re: Hostnames

#96

Post by dschulz » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 10:52 PM UTC

`kill -l` gives a nice list. I'm writing this from sigsegv.

Re: Hostnames

#97

Post by aristus » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 10:55 PM UTC

First rule of running a farm: don't name your animals. You'll get too emotionally attached when it comes time to put them down. Yes it's funny and cool et cetera. But, and I say this with love and twenty years' experience, for fucksake: take the time to plan a sensible ontology and stick with it. Hostnames should describe the purpose, capabilities, and disposition of your assets. Nothing more and nothing less.

Re: Hostnames

#98

Post by johndoeee » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 11:00 PM UTC

nostromo wrote: post #24

We use Pokemon. There's something super memorable about Blastoise, Slowbro, Squirtle, Ninetales, Jigglypuff... I also color my tabs the color of the Pokemon for fast reference.

We're using pokemon ascii art[0] as welcome banners on our servers, makes it easier to notice if you logged into the wrong server.

[0] http://www.angelfire.com/mn/Maija/pokemon/pokepack.zip

Re: Hostnames

#99

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 11:12 PM UTC

sdfjkl wrote: post #73

I've used roman emperors (caligula, augustus, nero, otho, etc.). Also notable is that of my ISP - they use words ending in “less”, for example: “priceless” is the accounting system, “thankless” the support ticket system and “clueless” the customer login.

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Re: Hostnames

#100

Post by shioyama » Sat, Oct 12, 2013, 11:19 PM UTC

I've been using names from the Mr. Men series of books, so e.g. tickle, grumpy, topsyturvy, daydream. Easy to remember because the characters are each so unique and different, and gives each machine its own personality: "Oh crap, grumpy is acting up again", etc.