Comments on: Mistakes we made when naming our computers

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:16:51 +0000

At my university we have, among others that I can’t remember, a Simpsons lab, a Bob lab (with names like Barker, Hope, etc), a Bone lab, a River lab and the servers are seas.

By: Gabe

Gabe — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:06:38 +0000

I give all my machines hyphenless GUIDs. The global uniqueness means there’s never any confusion.

Some examples:

“Hey Dan. Can you go run memtest on 9441d2694f3942c4b8657633b40aae05? Thanks.”

“Drat. The patch didn’t take properly on a08c9b8fd7c94d45941f9565e3d74497,
f958b7e6aaa94084b126ff8096411f0c, or 15c30e28a8604169af3061222ed5d477.”

“e80d5547e36d47bea79097e258ebe498 isn’t responding on 22. Can you go check it out?”

They’re make great identifiers!

By: rouli

rouli — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:50:36 +0000

I’m just surprised no one mentioned names that have a nice ring when you ping them.
My first company had pong and floyd, and also elvis (ping elvis –> elvis is alive).

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:41:53 +0000

It started out with Firefly ladies: zoe, saffron, kaylee, and then river. From there we went to a river theme: jordan, amazon, and inlet.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:51:18 +0000

I’ve always been a fan of collective nouns: flock, drift, murder … its limitless!

By: Joe Lock

Joe Lock — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:39:01 +0000

We used to name Windows boxes as ground based rocks – rock diamond, granite etc. The unix boxes were air based rocks – comet, asteroid etc. Worked very nicely..

By: Giorgio Sironi

Giorgio Sironi — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:11:30 +0000

I use name from movies heroes: Marty (McFly), Indy, Tony (D’Amato)…