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Suitable Naming Conventions For Workstations?
spectre_240sx writes "We've discussed server naming a fair amount in the past, but I haven't seen much about workstations. Where I currently work, we embed a lot of information in our workstation names: site, warranty end date, machine type, etc. I'm of the opinion that this is too much information to overload in the machine name when it can more suitably be stored in the computer description. I'd love to hear how others are naming their workstations and some pros and cons for different naming schemes. Should computers be logically tied to the person that they're currently assigned to, or does that just cause unnecessary work when a machine changes hands? Do the management tools in use make a difference in how workstations are named?"
zombie-pron-server-1 ... ... ...
zombie-pron-server-2
zombie-pron-server-3
zombie-pron-server-4
zombie-pron-server-5
Name them after Star Trek ships, races, planets and character names. You are obviously not a true CIS geek.
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Agreed. spectre_240sx, your question was bad and you should FEEL bad.
He insisted that all names came from Alice in Wonderland. Very annoying. And not practical.
i.e. gla-hub-04a-001
or here's a off the wall idea...
Number them as: City(or location)+machines static IP address within the internal network.
i.e. Glasgow-10-10-11-124
simples....
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My first workstation was named tangent (after myself!)
My second workstation was named sine, followed by cosine, secant, cosecant and cotangent.
I got stuck for a while before I decided to go with arctangent, arcsine, etc but that didn't last
So out came hyperbolictangent... and I promptly gave up and now I name them after hot young female movie stars.
Morale of the story: Make sure your naming convention has room for expansion.
imagine the horror of walking into a lab where all the workstations are named OMG-David-Caruso-01, ...
OMG-David-Caruso-02,
*shudders*
...after all the boring low power beige posters who think your question sucks.
You can use my name for the zooty new multi-core with the blue leds.
We used to name our machines after Lovecraftian deities but some of the sysadmins got grumpy when they couldn't pronounce the name >
This is my computer Darrel, and this is my other computer Darrel.
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I named the computer lab's windows 98 box (for legacy software) "Kathleen Fent" since it's dirty, it's got viruses, and it goes down several times a day.
Just name each machine with an ID and put the information in a spreadsheet somewhere. It's not a complicated problem.
Too much work. I just call all my machines "Bob".
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Always consult a standard. For instance, ISO 10992a states that a machine name should be constructed by combining the name, age, sex, and favorite sexual position of each user on the computer, combining into a Unicode string, and taking the md5 checksum of said Unicode string. The resulting hex string shall be used as the workstation name. In the event of a collision, the sexual position of every user shall be replaced by their next favorite position until the collision is resolved.
You are correct. You should instead name computers based on your optimism for its role in the company, such as:
WasteOfMoney
SureToBeHacked
WorthlessAsset
ClearlyUnderpowered
SpiderSolitair
For "special" machines, you can name them based on your prediction on what part will fail first:
BadPowerSupply
WorstMotherboardEver
NoisyFan
"His name was James Damore."
Every engineering cluster had a theme. That meant that you knew what lab the machine was in but it still kept the names interesting. It also made it easy to remember that the dolts who killed remote jobs always used the NBA team machines because their prof told them to use that lab and how to kill processes.
The best theme? Rain, Snow, Hail, Leaf, Meteor, Skylab, etc. "Things that fall from the sky."
Name them after porn stars. That way when you say "Sylvia went down on me yesterday", people will think you actually have a life.
We simply use UserName_SocialSecurityNumber_Room#_DayOfWeek For example: JaneDoe_123456789_314A_Thursday Since the day of the week tends to change, we have simple startup scripts which fix the workstation name each morning, assuming they shut down the previous evening.
PEBKAC_0001...
That's a bit like how we name our workstations, only we use a concatenation of person's full name, SSN, date of birth, mother's maiden name, person's present address and phone number, medical history, plus a single random digit for security reasons.
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Well, I guess it won't work too well if they speak about how they removed Barbara, took her apart and used some parts to upgrade Alice ...
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I'd advise against it. I told my workmates that RonJeremy went down on me yesterday, and they moved my office to the broom closet.
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