/prog/ - Machine naming

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-15 13:15

I'm typing on Ptolemy and over there, Delphium is playing music.
What do you name your computers? Do you stick to a theme?

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-15 20:11

>>40
Hostnames that are also valid IP addresses are the best idea in the world.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-15 20:21

>>41
Those aren't valid IP addresses.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-15 21:58

>>42
Yes they are. They're 0.0.0.1, 0.0.0.2, 0.0.0.3, and 0.0.0.4 in decimal notation, which is a perfectly valid, widely understood notation for IP addresses.
The 0/8 block is special-use, but they're valid addresses.

Read your RFCs.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-15 23:14

web1 web2 webn
db1 db2 dbn
worker1 worker2 workern
cache1 cache2 cachen

because I'm not a ``faggot''

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-15 23:33

>>43
A value of zero in the network field means this network. This is only used in certain ICMP messages.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-15 23:35

>>42
I'm going to blow your mind:

Type ``3432565928'' into your browser's address bar and hit Go.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-15 23:36

alpha, beta, gamma, delta.

I bet I am the first person to think of this.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-15 23:37

>>46
It opens a Google search page?

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-15 23:39

>>46
413518646 is better.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-17 6:55

I name mine after Jazz musicians. Thelonious, Zappa, Coltrane, etc.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-17 11:30

>>50
Back to /r/ruby, please.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-17 13:54

>>39
No, fuck you!

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-17 16:38

I used to name my machines by cool-sounding words:
franz, neumann, crocetin, macron

Now I've started using witches:
sycorax, circe, karres

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-17 16:43

not naming your desktop Lain

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-17 16:44

Lain!

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-17 16:47

>>54
Well, my wifi is named `wairudo'.

Name: Anonymous 2012-11-17 19:23

Mai Waifi

Machine naming

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