From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Names of famous, historical UNIX machines?
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 14:11:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170201221112.GI880@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2NwRz6wo7WBwTy6hBCF9RZXrJ4s83yL+5TeMZUXVHEyoQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 05:06:38PM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
> But I'm sad to say, Intel seems to have little sense of humor with regards
> to what name I might set the system too locally. I can set to anything I
> want, but the moment I connect it to the internal network, the IT network
> gods rename in the form: {WWUSERNAME}-{SYSTEMTYPE}{GENERATION#} - no
> exceptions. My new system due in a sometime this spring will named:
> ctcole-mac05
Intel was a major customer of ours for years and I can vouch for their lack
of sense of humor. I visited Portland and Santa Clara and I have never
seen a more grey cubicle farm in my life.
> So an arp on my home network shows all these interesting names, then one
> really, boring one ... and its mine. sigh.... so, so, sad....
Indeed. Though bigtit might have been a step too far :)
--lm
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-01 20:43 Michael Kjörling
2017-02-01 20:46 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-01 20:50 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-01 21:11 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-02-01 21:20 ` Noel Chiappa
2017-02-01 21:42 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-02-01 21:43 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-02-01 22:16 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-02-01 21:50 ` William Pechter
2017-02-01 22:06 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-01 22:11 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2017-02-01 22:21 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-01 22:28 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-01 22:44 ` William Pechter
2017-02-02 1:14 ` Rico Pajarola
2017-02-02 1:34 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-02 1:18 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-02 1:29 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-02 13:11 ` arnold
2017-02-04 3:46 ` Steve Johnson
2017-02-04 3:56 ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-04 22:48 ` Nemo
2017-02-01 22:26 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-02-02 7:38 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-02-01 21:33 ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-01 21:57 ` Clem Cole
2017-02-01 22:08 ` Larry McVoy
2017-02-01 22:20 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-02-03 1:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-01 22:54 ` Jacob Goense
2017-02-03 12:59 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-02-03 14:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-03 14:11 ` Jacob Goense
2017-02-03 15:12 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-02-06 5:41 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-02-03 5:50 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-02-01 22:16 Noel Chiappa
2017-02-01 22:27 Berny Goodheart
2017-02-02 9:59 Rudi Blom
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