Hostnames and machine names (was Re: Dave's walls)

Dave McGuire wrote: Nice.. I have yet to find a religion that worships a chinchilla god, though. Little known fact about me: I have four pet chinchillas (two male kits, one male adult, one female adult), and have bred them in the past -- I'm probably more a dog/cat lover than a chinchilla lover, but that doesn't stop them being damn fun to play with... though they're less fun when they escape and have to be recaptured! Photos are on flickr if anyone's interested (www.flickr.com/philpem). Hostnames on my LAN are pretty standard.. - wolf: Firewall - cheetah: Desktop PC (this hostname follows my current fastest PC) - cougar: Eee PC netbook - stargate: ADSL modem / Ethernet bridge - pandora: Brother's Windows 7 PC. (*spit*). The name is (according to him) from the planet in the movie "Avatar". Although I'd like to think it's more because installing Win7 on the thing was like opening Pandora's Box. "You have no idea of the terror you hath wrought..." and all that. - wreckgar: Old K6-III box with a broken CMOS chip (won't store settings even with a fresh battery). Guess where the name comes from. After that things get a lot more plain... - wireless: WLAN access point. - laserprint: Whadd'ya know, a laser printer. (Kyocera FS-C5200dn) - mum-laptop: Take a wild guess. - dad-laptop: Take an even wilder guess. My webhosting server is called Daedalus, after the warship in Stargate SG-1. Previously I've been root on amun, serenity and executor, but those were all servers owned by a friend. I named "serenity" (after the ship in the TV series Firefly and in hope that it would have less hardware issues than amun and executor); the other two were named by the aforementioned friend. I do know someone who named his servers after curse words. Two DNS servers: "f*ck" and "sh*t", an email server called "bullsh*t" and a web server called "jacksh*t". He was a strange guy... And then there was the guy who called a server "qwertyuiop". His reason: "well it's easy to remember, and even easier to type!" Didn't quite work out when his DNS server fell over and he had to remember the IP address :) -- Phil. classiccmp at philpem.me.uk http://www.philpem.me.uk/