Date   : Fri, 10 Mar 2006 12:02:28 +0100
From   : Annihilannic <annihilannic@...>
Subject: Re: Them pesky case stickers (was 1MHZ SCSI/ATA board.)

Philip Pemberton wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, does anyone else name their machines? How do you pick
> them? I've been using a "wild animals" theme of sorts:

At work we had a theme of Irish waterways going for a while, which was 
pleasant.  Then it became all standardised and unpronouncable based on 
machine locations, application names and sequence numbers.  There have 
also been some good names for clusters though... the ones that cometo 
mind are "blood, sweat and tears" and "jekyll and hyde".

At home our systems all have silly first names beginning with 'p', but 
I'm moving over to a theme of Shakespeare characters.  Starting with the 
ones beginning with 'p' to make the migration smoother.  :-)

One dilemma I had though was when I migrated my Linux installation to a 
faster system... where does a computer's identity actually reside?  It 
had to go in a new case, but the name moved with the copy of the OS... 
so now the system looks completely different and I don't recognise it so 
readily any more.  Can I still trust it to be itself??  I mean, it's got 
a whole new brain!  Apart from the memories...

-- 
Annihilannic