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WCDT: 2515-2519 (August 19-23, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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TimO:
Regarding May's name, presumably in AI/AnthroPC space, they communicate using their own "internal" naming / designation system.  This could quite possibly something as simple as an IPv6 address, but it doesn't necessarily need to be human readable (OK, we can read IPv6 IPs, but they're not very friendly).

If May hadn't had much to do with human's previously, she may not have needed a name which humans could easily use, so her interactions with Dale may have been her first significant human to non-human communication, and that necessitated a name.

I quite liked May, she had an appropriately "what the fuck" attitude, so hopefully we'll see her again, further downstream.

Since we have a lot of machines at work (I'm not sure how many, certainly tens of thousands), but only one Windows domain, and thanks to Microsoft's forethought, a flat namespace, every machine has to be uniquely identifiable via it's name alone (even though the FQDN allows them to be recognised through the hierarchical structure of the DNS system).  Locally, through random historical chance, we've ended up giving all our lab's servers names relating to horses, so they've become more and more cryptic.  The early ones were Unicorn and Pegasus, but in more recent times we've had to resort to names like Xanthus and Balius!

pwhodges:

--- Quote from: TimO on 20 Aug 2013, 08:50 ---thanks to Microsoft's forethought, a flat namespace, every machine has to be uniquely identifiable via it's name alone (even though the FQDN allows them to be recognised through the hierarchical structure of the DNS system).
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This is why my machines at work all have (had, it's changed recently) names starting with clph- and ending with the last digits of their IP address (and some coded letters in between).

However, note that it's no longer necessary to use NetBIOS/WINS in a domain, so the flat namespace can be history.


In my previous job, the naming "scheme" was that any new machine, server or desktop, had to have a name that was as completely unconnected with any other name on the network as could be thought of; that's how I ended up with a desktop called "Bread".

KOK:
The server names at work are named using a scheeme that is frequently changed. We have

Animals of prey
Asterix characters
Scientist
Nordic mythology

depending more on when the server was named than what it is or what is does. The most recent scheme is  strings of letters and digits that seem emminently logical to the infrastructure people, but utterly random to everybody else.

ankhtahr:
For my stuff the naming scheme is Nordic Mythology as well.

My Android has the hostname "ratatoskur".

FuryoftheStars:
Our work servers are named... not very originally.  First couple letters are the site designation followed by what it hosts (ie, DC for Domain Controller, FP for File & Print, NOTES for our old Lotus Notes mail server, etc) and a numeric if needed.  Regular PCs are either the user's last name first initial with the PC model tacked on the end, or site initials and station location.  It works, though.

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