Comments on: Perceived Productivity

By: Flashback: DNS names for internal hosts | Standalone Sysadmin

Flashback: DNS names for internal hosts | Standalone Sysadmin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 03:37:19 +0000

[...] Plankers, over at The Lone Sysadmin wrote a couple days ago about getting busted while reading the wiki page on X-Men. He tried to cover it up by claiming to be researching future [...]

By: Rudi

Rudi — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:38:31 +0000

A client of ours has a server called uranus which was doing some strange stuff.

This led to the following questions being asked:

When was the last time you connected to uranus?
When last were client’s able to browse websites on uranus?
Are you the only one with access to uranus?

I think uranus has been compromised…

By: vsnine

vsnine — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:33:02 +0000

A friend and I tend to use the names of planets from the Star Wars Galaxy. A nice thing is that there are tons of planets to be used.

By: Jason Young

Jason Young — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:10:03 +0000

My co-workers seem to tolerate, and even accept that I name physical servers after baseball players.

They get slightly mystified at the fact that I name virtual machines after U.S. National Parks.

And they totally think it is over the top when I target virtual hosts and services toward the “personality” of the given physical servers, or the topography of the given national park virtual machine.

Come to think of it, the first few times I caught myself doing the latter, I thought I had completely gone nuts too.

By: Matt Simmons

Matt Simmons — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:54:36 +0000

Bob Plankers, over at The Lone Sysadmin wrote a couple days ago about getting busted while reading the wiki page on X-Men. He tried to cover it up by claiming to be researching future host names. Quick thinking, Bob. Good job! ;-)