dave
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not in ohio | reply to nixen
Re: server naming convention advice
I prefer 'cutesie' - I can remember bob, carol, ted, alice better than I can remember ussrv01a, ussrv512, ukeng21, etc. |
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nixen
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Alexandria, VA
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| said by dave  :I prefer 'cutesie' - I can remember bob, carol, ted, alice better than I can remember ussrv01a, ussrv512, ukeng21, etc. Likewise. People just tend to look askew at the names I chose. Our old DMZ web servers were "crash" and "burn". Used to have a development host at my previous job that I named "coredump". I named a four-node cluster after The Young Ones.
-tom
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jmirabella
Joe Mirabella
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join:2003-10-20
Lanham, MD
clubs: | we try to keep some comical, so if a service dies at 4am and our noc calls us, we can laugh while trying to wake up when told ' dhcp is down on yourmom ' |
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nixen
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| said by jmirabella :we try to keep some comical, so if a service dies at 4am and our noc calls us, we can laugh while trying to wake up when told ' dhcp is down on yourmom ' No, that would be "yourmom went down again", or, "dang, yourmom goes down more than a $15 whore".
-tom
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"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." -Louis D Brandeis |
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benyto
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Chico, CA
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said by nixen :I named a four-node cluster after The Young Ones. Nice. Not many fans out there. |
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FLea973
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join:2001-02-27
Morristown, NJ
clubs:
| said by benyto :said by nixen :I named a four-node cluster after The Young Ones. Nice. Not many fans out there. My thoughts exactly - obscure but good choice!
Neil: "Open up.... its the pigs." |
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