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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?"
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.
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.
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You can use my name for the zooty new multi-core with the blue leds.
That's close to our system. We use adult toy names. It's pretty good, but you have to be careful not to use something obvious like "vibrator".
Arab, Bead, Tickler, Butterfly, MagicWand, Swing, Clamp, JackRabbit, etc... no one's caught on yet.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
This is my computer Darrel, and this is my other computer Darrel.
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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.
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."
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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.
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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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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