Myths, gods, and titanic disasters: How servers really get their names
Last month we looked into the practice of naming servers, half expecting to discover it was a quirky, geeky thing to do -- and nothing more. To our surprise, readers flooded the story with comments, chiming in about their own naming schemes. Want a server to last forever? Name it Belgarath. Feel like tempting fate? Name it Hindenberg or Titanic. Looking for a suitable name for a mail server? Try Pegasus, Newman, or Norman Mailer.
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If you name your main file server after a depressive alcoholic playwright can you really expect it to be anything other than problematic?
Long listings for the ps command
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Working around problems caused by usernames with more than eight characters is generally easy, but isn't it time we stop having to abide by limitations created 40 years ago?
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Would a server by any other name be as functional?
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