Basically, everyone complaining about what appears to be esoteric naming schemes in computers just needs to remember one thing: If you don't manage every PC in the company, your opinion matters about nothing. Nobody in IT wants to make their lives a living hell figuring where computer X or Y is because someone wanted to be cute with their naming scheme.
Let employees create internal DNS records!
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My computers are Moonshine, Moonknight, Spectre, Janus, and Julius. If my babies are stripped of their names and given some barcode assed identifier I’ll be very sad and also have to carry around a slip of paper for remoting to them from labs.
Thematic names are the worst.
Imagine if a programmer named his functions in his code "moonshine()" and "spectre()" and you had to go back and debug that shit
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
My computers are Moonshine, Moonknight, Spectre, Janus, and Julius. If my babies are stripped of their names and given some barcode assed identifier I’ll be very sad and also have to carry around a slip of paper for remoting to them from labs.
You're a horrible person.
Hey, IT picked Moonshine, Moonknight, and Julius, presumably out of some sort of list. Then the IT director was let go... ok yes this is starting to come together.
Yeah jesus christ, we had a client at my old job that named their servers after Disney characters and another that named them after presidents and when they got old and started shitting the bed it took 5 hours of straightening a plate of spaghetti to get an idea of their architecture.
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jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
Basically, everyone complaining about what appears to be esoteric naming schemes in computers just needs to remember one thing: If you don't manage every PC in the company, your opinion matters about nothing. Nobody in IT wants to make their lives a living hell figuring where computer X or Y is because someone wanted to be cute with their naming scheme.
Nothing like having a computer call "Samantha-RN-front" and samantha the rn hasn't worked in your office in 15 years. And what the hell does front mean?
My computers are Moonshine, Moonknight, Spectre, Janus, and Julius. If my babies are stripped of their names and given some barcode assed identifier I’ll be very sad and also have to carry around a slip of paper for remoting to them from labs.
Thematic names are the worst.
Imagine if a programmer named his functions in his code "moonshine()" and "spectre()" and you had to go back and debug that shit
Yeah that might be bad but you know what would be worse?
If they were called “USNA-3462-6839()” and “USNA-8745-1044()”
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My computers are Moonshine, Moonknight, Spectre, Janus, and Julius. If my babies are stripped of their names and given some barcode assed identifier I’ll be very sad and also have to carry around a slip of paper for remoting to them from labs.
Thematic names are the worst.
Imagine if a programmer named his functions in his code "moonshine()" and "spectre()" and you had to go back and debug that shit
Idk what if im trying to exorcise ghosts? Makes sense to me
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BethrynUnhappiness is MandatoryRegistered Userregular
Yes but then frontofficepc01 gets sent to stores during a remodel and never changed so Bowen can wander around a week trying to find it.
Also our IT puts stickers on our computers with OT asset# and help desk phone number, then pretends they don't own the calls for that machine if you call the number.
My computers are Moonshine, Moonknight, Spectre, Janus, and Julius. If my babies are stripped of their names and given some barcode assed identifier I’ll be very sad and also have to carry around a slip of paper for remoting to them from labs.
Thematic names are the worst.
Imagine if a programmer named his functions in his code "moonshine()" and "spectre()" and you had to go back and debug that shit
Yeah that might be bad but you know what would be worse?
If they were called “USNA-3462-6839()” and “USNA-8745-1044()”
We have no IT. People just come over to the dev team's desk and ask for help when they have a computer problem, or are just smart enough to use a computer.
My computers are Moonshine, Moonknight, Spectre, Janus, and Julius. If my babies are stripped of their names and given some barcode assed identifier I’ll be very sad and also have to carry around a slip of paper for remoting to them from labs.
Thematic names are the worst.
Imagine if a programmer named his functions in his code "moonshine()" and "spectre()" and you had to go back and debug that shit
In college doing a I think it was some weird regression homework or something I named everything after vampires and thralls.
The vampire functions would eat the thrall functions.
It made the rather boring assignment much more entertaining. I got a 100 on it too.
My computers are Moonshine, Moonknight, Spectre, Janus, and Julius. If my babies are stripped of their names and given some barcode assed identifier I’ll be very sad and also have to carry around a slip of paper for remoting to them from labs.
Thematic names are the worst.
Imagine if a programmer named his functions in his code "moonshine()" and "spectre()" and you had to go back and debug that shit
Yeah that might be bad but you know what would be worse?
If they were called “USNA-3462-6839()” and “USNA-8745-1044()”
True but this gets into the naming convention holy war
(I don't see any good reason to put a MAC address in a computer name)
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
Our primary high end printer is named Kevin and we're on Kevin III with nost machines still having the first two kevins registered
Sounds like you need to talk about Kevin
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Powerpuppiesdrinking coffee in themountain cabinRegistered Userregular
You can have as much text as you want in my computer name, but no numbers and nothing unpronounceable. You'll have to make a chart if you need more than that
Basically, everyone complaining about what appears to be esoteric naming schemes in computers just needs to remember one thing: If you don't manage every PC in the company, your opinion matters about nothing. Nobody in IT wants to make their lives a living hell figuring where computer X or Y is because someone wanted to be cute with their naming scheme.
Let employees create internal DNS records!
DK you're giving me an ulcer.
You’re right, that would be hard to manage. I’ll create a name server and then propagate it to my machines with a rogue DHCP server. I think I have a few old routers around here somewhere...
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The only reason to use MAC address in device names that I can think of is when you use switch port locking.
MAC filtering is a big complicated nothingburger that regulatory agencies love because they're stupid and their security guidelines are written by stupid people
It's the easiest info to gather from a network and the easiest thing to spoof
every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.
Yeah I'd be kosher letting someone do some DNS rejiggering so they can find their pcs easier as long as I can asset tag them better than like "moonshine".
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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jungleroomxIt's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovelsRegistered Userregular
Yeah I'd be kosher letting someone do some DNS rejiggering so they can find their pcs easier as long as I can asset tag them better than like "moonshine".
Make all of them very common Chinese names.
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Donkey KongPutting Nintendo out of business with AI nipsRegistered Userregular
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I think part of the garbage name thing is to discourage employees from running network services of any kind on their machines, so I doubt this will get any traction.
Like they didn’t come out and say it but it seems more and more obvious as I think about it.
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Let employees create internal DNS records!
Thematic names are the worst.
Imagine if a programmer named his functions in his code "moonshine()" and "spectre()" and you had to go back and debug that shit
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Yeah jesus christ, we had a client at my old job that named their servers after Disney characters and another that named them after presidents and when they got old and started shitting the bed it took 5 hours of straightening a plate of spaghetti to get an idea of their architecture.
DK you're giving me an ulcer.
I’m envisioning some sort of IT cask of amontillado.
Where is Samantha Bowen???? What did you do
Yeah that might be bad but you know what would be worse?
If they were called “USNA-3462-6839()” and “USNA-8745-1044()”
Idk what if im trying to exorcise ghosts? Makes sense to me
Also our IT puts stickers on our computers with OT asset# and help desk phone number, then pretends they don't own the calls for that machine if you call the number.
because those characters mean something!
In college doing a I think it was some weird regression homework or something I named everything after vampires and thralls.
The vampire functions would eat the thrall functions.
It made the rather boring assignment much more entertaining. I got a 100 on it too.
I name all my computers starting with '); DROP TABLE Computers;
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
True but this gets into the naming convention holy war
(I don't see any good reason to put a MAC address in a computer name)
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Sounds like you need to talk about Kevin
Do not bring the eye of the fates in your direction with unconsidered talk.
Home Alone 1 and 2 were all right.
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You’re right, that would be hard to manage. I’ll create a name server and then propagate it to my machines with a rogue DHCP server. I think I have a few old routers around here somewhere...
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MAC filtering is a big complicated nothingburger that regulatory agencies love because they're stupid and their security guidelines are written by stupid people
It's the easiest info to gather from a network and the easiest thing to spoof
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
donkey-kong-pc -> usna-numericvomit
That could solve a lot of problems
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
We need to apply some immutable devops here.
New UUID assigned on each boot.
Honestly, it was a real suggestion. I would be fine with dumb machine names if I could register and manage cnames.
I named my Wifi SSID "Ordinary Wifi"
It wouldn't be that hard to put it on its own subdomain and give employees access to create records in that subdomain
Basically your own DNS sandbox
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the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Also: Stars, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tegan and Sara, Shiny Toy Guns, and the Naked and Famous
Make all of them very common Chinese names.
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Like they didn’t come out and say it but it seems more and more obvious as I think about it.