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u@who$

by Rob Friesel

Couple of recent, fairly random conversations recently have me snickering and/or pondering at what our machine host names are and what they say about us. What conventions have we adopted? Scorned? How are our values or senses of humor reflected in the couple of characters before the $ prompt? What face fo you put on for your network (even if it is just a loopback)?

A friend is: [nameWithheld]@slattern$

I am: rob@ketelone$

What about you?

About Rob Friesel

Software engineer by day. Science fiction writer by night. Weekend homebrewer, beer educator at Black Flannel, and Certified Cicerone. Author of The PhantomJS Cookbook and a short story in Please Do Not Remove. View all posts by Rob Friesel →

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