[geeks] Is it too much to be pissed...

[Kris Kirby]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, alex j avriette wrote:
> its the little things :)
>
> when i got to work all our server boxes were named XYZxx where "XYZ" is
> department abbreviation and "xx" is the last octet of the machine's ip.
> i was actually the first person in our department to start asking for
> "creative" hostnames, and its remarkable how much developers like
> working on a box that has (inferred) personality from its hostname. i'm
> all for it.

Yeah, but when `Kickme' is so renamed because of it's inability to remain
running for more than 24 hours (machine just randomly rebooted or had
SIG11s).... A new kernel did wonders.

Kickme's kernel, IIRC, has outlasted one of it's hard drives. And a power
supply fan.

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