[Gllug] Government collecting comms data

[Juergen Schinker]

John Hearns wrote:
> 2009/2/18 Juergen Schinker <ba1020 at homie.homelinux.net>:
>> i named my servers after Comedians
>>
>> last one 'izzard'
>>
> 
> Regarding server naming, I've been through this one in several jobs.
> I worked at the PET Centre at Guys/Tommies (nothing to do with pets I
> assure you - it stands for Positron Emission Tomography). We named
> servers after rodents - starting with gerbil etc. Eventually we got to
> 'coypu'.
> Naming schemes like that always sound a great idea, when when you
> expand you run out of short, easy to type names and it becomes a pain
> to type (say) betelguese if you use (say) star names.
> 
> My heartfelt advice - use functional names which describer either the
> function or machine type, then add a numeral.
> A good for instance - at Framestore we had inferno1 inferno2 etc. -
> which describes the piece of software the machine runs. New inferno
> suite is ordered up by t' management - easy. inferno3

and when all servers are from HP or Dell

or all are Xen based and have virtual guest with different functions

which can and will  bee moved around...

well i started with xhost-1 etc.

J
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