[CLUG] Machine names

Peter Flynn peter at silmaril.ie
Wed Jun 18 23:03:19 IST 2008


Conor O'Callaghan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Yet again this afternoon I had to come up with yet another new server name,
> so this one got its name from one of the CSI cities, how do you choose
> yours? planets? cartoon characters? book characters?
> 
> Or do you just use proper names only like site-web001 or something?

My local hosts are currently all old Irish feasts (imbolc, oimelc,
lughnasadh, etc) but the current penchant elsewhere seems to be for
names out of classical mythology (so damn many of them :-)  There was a
vogue last year for obscene phrases in obscure foreign languages :-)

///Peter


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