[Wylug-discuss] What Do you Call your Machine??

[RichardA]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 13:00:44 GMT, Smylers <Smylers at stripey.com> wrote:
> RichardA writes:
>
> > On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:01:33 +0000, Richard Waite
> > <Richard at matrixmonkey.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > What Do you call your machine?
> >
> > I name mine for Serbian rivers. All five letters, all starting with
> > a'D' (so that they look neat in a list). For instance: Drava, Drina,
> > Dunav...
> >
> > Doesn't everyone?
>
> No!  A naming scheme like that severely reduces the ability to
> Tab-complete computer names when using ssh and scp and so on.  My
> compyters have names starting with different letters of the alphabet,
> and that's something I'm planning on continuing doing (and, no, I
> can't foresee myself getting to having 27 of the things).
>
> Smylers

Tab-complete works just fine, I just have to type a couple more
letters.

I did this because I thought it would be easier to recognise machine
names in log files and other typographically interesting output, not
just to keep /etc/hosts neat.

That said, you have a good point.