From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 14:11:12 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] Names of famous, historical UNIX machines? In-Reply-To: References: <20170201212040.C273118C0DD@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: <20170201221112.GI880@mcvoy.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