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[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Also, can somebody explain this to sysadmins when it comes to naming computers?

I mean programmers can have some weird naming conventions, but I've never met an adult professional programmer who named all his variables after planets or Harry Potter characters or just called everything stuff like ADMUTIL6 or PBLAB03T1 or PBPCD1602.

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pros use computer names like

Server
newerserver
newnewerserver
latestserver
Newlatestserver

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

My home lab took that personally, how dare

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

My SSID's are still listed as Testnet and Testnet5 after years. Had to test something at one point, it worked and never cared to go back and update things. 🤷‍♂️

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
  • Totally
  • Everlasting
  • SSID
  • Title
  • net
  • the 5th
[-] meekah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
  • Totally
  • Everlasting
  • SSID
  • Title
  • never
  • ever
  • transformed
  • the 5th

fixed it for you :) acronyms with full words in the middle of them are not acronyms

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

You are correct, however 5 is actually short for 5725 ...

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I once worked in a company that named theirs servers server1, server2, server3, etc.

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

That atleast makes them (hopefully) chronological and easy to refer to.

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unfortunately no. The servers were set up when needed for whatever was needed. server2 was the AD, server1 had a business application running, server3 had backup and time tracking … it was a whole mess.

Edit: the the memories come back. Nothing was virtualized. server2 was an old Dell tower computer running Windows 2000 on the bare metal and server1 was manually installed Debian with kernel 2.6.*something*.

[-] meekah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

but easy to mix up

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