Reply to: Do you name your tech?

[suityou01]

a development instance

How utterly poo. Thanks for sharing though.

[nomadd]

Nah.

Those were the operators.

The PMs and Testers in my place.

[nomadd]

A place I worked called stuff birds names, such as swan, heron, goldfinch, gerbil, nuthatch, treecreeper, etc.


It was mildly amusing in those far off days.

No Tits or Boobies?

[eek]

A place where I worked previously named their servers after Thomas the Tank Engine engines.

Current client co have a very confusing system which is logical but took me a year to work out. Dev machines have an 'adi' inserted in the middle of their name - still not worked out what that's supposed to stand for, and not helped when the iis server is called .....adiiss instead of ....adiiis

a development instance

[mudskipper]

A place where I worked previously named their servers after Thomas the Tank Engine engines.

Current client co have a very confusing system which is logical but took me a year to work out. Dev machines have an 'adi' inserted in the middle of their name - still not worked out what that's supposed to stand for, and not helped when the iis server is called .....adiiss instead of ....adiiis

[stek]

A place I worked called stuff birds names, such as swan, heron, goldfinch, gerbil, nuthatch, treecreeper, etc.


It was mildly amusing in those far off days.

Flying Gerbils?

[stek]

Functional and descriptive naming schemes only - I look down on anything else with the disdain that they deserve.

What, you mean like 'pornserver1' and 'bankdetailserver2'?

[nomadd]

Minor Discworld characters for most of mine.

"Am I dead?"

"YES."

"Really?"

"YES."

"Bugger."

"IF YOU'D CARE TO FOLLOW ME..."

[suityou01]

I have to identify the kit on the network in some way. Systematic names take all the fun out of it. My kit are named after flowers - daisy, rose, hyacinth, rhododendron, fuchsia etc.

I knew it!!!! You own and use cruet set don't you!

[NotAllThere]

I have to identify the kit on the network in some way. Systematic names take all the fun out of it. My kit are named after flowers - daisy, rose, hyacinth, rhododendron, fuchsia etc.

[SpontaneousOrder]

most companies i've worked for/with name their hardware. Aspirational cars, LoTR characters, etc.

[doodab]

Functional and descriptive naming schemes only - I look down on anything else with the disdain that they deserve.

Do you rename things when you repurpose them?

[DaveB]

Minor Discworld characters for most of mine.

This is being typed on Hex. Phone is Errol, iPad is Binky. Old iMac is Gaspode.

In my long ago sys admin days I ran a University research dept. where all the servers were given one word band names. Pulp, Suede, Elastica etc.

[doodab]

You mostly have to name it. My phones tablets etc are 'doodabs htc one', 'doodabs tablet' etc but real machines get named after solar system objects, except a sun t2000 which i decided to call terminator.

[nomadd]

I call all my tech ^$^%£*!&$*"($*_")!(!*(")&%_)*!"&_%*)&_!*^!^%!)%&+! )"&%

It's catchy and easy to remember.