Re: Metrical Stress, Feet, Syllables, Genders, Email Servers etc.
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 12, 2004, 2:03 |
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 12:12:43PM -0500, jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM wrote:
> For that matter, naming a computer "up" was a bad idea in the first place:
> it leads to silly-sounding sentences like "Is up down?" and "Boot up up."
Yes, but the machine in question was a Mac used only occasionaly for
compatiblity testing, and never accessed over the network - so the name
was incidental.
I've read the RFCs. About 5 years ago we had a lengthy debate on how to
name server computers at my work, with the main dividing lines being
drawn over whether to include the location or function in the name. My
vote was for neither, so as to avoid having to rename machines when they
*changed* location or function (but otherwise didn't change their
identity; that is, they weren't reloaded from scratch), which at the
time tended to happen frequently. We ended up including the location
and not the function, which as with most such compromises made
approximately nobody happy, and led to snotty remarks from certain
sarcastic coworkers for an IMHO unjustifiably long period of time
thereafter. :) ("Well, apparently atlcn123 is down. What's it do? I
have no idea, but by God I know it's in Atlanta in building C in the
north tower!")
-Mark