2 Feb
2017
2 Feb
'17
4:11 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 05:06:38PM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
But I'm sad to say, Intel seems to have little
sense of humor with regards
to what name I might set the system too locally. I can set to anything I
want, but the moment I connect it to the internal network, the IT network
gods rename in the form: {WWUSERNAME}-{SYSTEMTYPE}{GENERATION#} - no
exceptions. My new system due in a sometime this spring will named:
ctcole-mac05
Intel was a major customer of ours for years and I can vouch for their lack
of sense of humor. I visited Portland and Santa Clara and I have never
seen a more grey cubicle farm in my life.
So an arp on my home network shows all these
interesting names, then one
really, boring one ... and its mine. sigh.... so, so, sad....
Indeed. Though bigtit might have been a step too far :)
--lm