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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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− | Choosing a name for a server is an important task. | + | Choosing a name for a server is both an important and non-trivial task. |
It is non-trivial enough that there are official communications on how to choose a good name and why many ideas are bad, for example [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1178.txt RFC 1178 Name Your Computer]. | It is non-trivial enough that there are official communications on how to choose a good name and why many ideas are bad, for example [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1178.txt RFC 1178 Name Your Computer]. | ||
− | It is important to pick a good name because changing it is costly once | + | It is important to pick a good name because changing it is costly once many reference to the existing name are widespread. For example, RFC 1178 states: |
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− | + | So [[Cueball]] wants to make sure that he chooses a great ''permanent'' name, that he can give to the server he is running. | |
− | In the title text Cueball mentions that he thinks that it is easier to change a person's name than to change the hostname of a server because of the number of changes that would need to be made to each of the machines that would have saved the old name of the server. It seems | + | When [[Megan]] quips on how quickly Cueball named their daughter Caroline (a living being - that is, the type of entity that would give the server purpose), Cueball reminds Megan that he had to choose a name quickly on account of Megan's wishes to name said daughter "Epidural", in honor of {{w|epidural|the painkiller drugs that were being injected into her spine at the time}}. Megan tries to justify this by explaining that those were very good drugs, but thus also confirms Cueball in that she was drugged and not in her right mind - wishing to name her daughter after the drug she was taking. |
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+ | In the title text Cueball mentions that he thinks that it is easier to change a person's name than to change the hostname of a server because of the number of changes that would need to be made to each of the machines that would have saved the old name of the server. It seems, however, that Cueball has never had to wait in line at the Social Security Administration office or at the Department of Motor Vehicles, as both of those events typically take excruciatingly long amounts of time. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:Megan: And yet you settled on "Caroline" for our daughter in like 15 seconds. | :Megan: And yet you settled on "Caroline" for our daughter in like 15 seconds. | ||
:Cueball: But this is a ''server!'' | :Cueball: But this is a ''server!'' | ||
− | + | :Besides, I had to—you were trying to name her "epidural." | |
:Megan: Those ''were'' good drugs. | :Megan: Those ''were'' good drugs. | ||
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[[Category:Comics with color]] | [[Category:Comics with color]] | ||
[[Category:Linux]] | [[Category:Linux]] | ||
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