Date : Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:31:53 +0000
From : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Them pesky case stickers (was 1MHZ SCSI/ATA board.)
Philip Pemberton wrote:
> In message <e131121bj1hrcmv33ns6894femjjau90bu@...>
> John Kortink <kortink@...> wrote:
>
>> I think it's generally agreed that it's one of the initial
>> stages of madness, isn't it ? ;-)
>
> Mmm, true, except I was thinking more along the lines of NetBIOS names and
> such... It's a total pain finding the machine you saved your file on when all
> of them are named "Q3P9ZTUA" and suchlike.
Doesn't always help anyway - I remember us losing a machine at an old
workplace. We knew the hostname, could ping it, but had absolutely no clue
where it was physically located in the building :-)