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RFC 1178 is Choosing a Name for Your Computer. RFC stands for Request For Comment.

If you so believe a computer name ought to be perfect (or maybe even standardized within your organization), consider reading the document:

Read RFC 1178.

Status of this Memo

This FYI RFC is a republication of a Communications of the ACM article on guidelines on what to do and what not to do when naming your computer. This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify any standard.

Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Abstract

In order to easily distinguish between multiple computers, we give them names. Experience has taught us that it is as easy to choose bad names as it is to choose good ones. This essay presents guidelines for deciding what makes a name good or bad.

Keywords: domain name system, naming conventions, computer administration, computer network management

Choosing names of computers are quite important. My netbook used to be called AspireOne and every time I use the school network, there’s someone with the same name. Then there’ll be this annoying pop up box informing me someone is already using that name.

Today, my netbook’s name is “IMTHE1ANDONLY”. Don’t copy cat.

Take a look at all the wires around my computer. I have wires for the modem, the router, the computer, the netbook, the external hard disk, the iPod, the cable television thingy and all my other computer peripherals:

At one point of time I actually wanted to wireless most of my computer set up. I started with the keyboard and mouse set up. I bought one of those wireless desktop set from Microsoft. It worked but not all the time.

There was this slight lag when typing, probably a 0.1 second lag but it’s there and I feel it. It’s enough to make to prefer wires. I talked to Uzyn that time he encountered a similar problem too. Once in a while, the mouse wouldn’t really response and that ticks me off greatly (when I couldn’t click and hold to select my units on the screen successfully).

As you can see much of my computer table is made of metal and that probably affected the wireless to some extend. Today I live with the wires. Things are really messy but at least they work. Wireless? No thanks.

[By the way, the elongated cylindric thing is a CD holder and does not contain beer.]

This irks me a little, my computer sometimes show p.m. instead of a.m. and a.m. instead of p.m. It’s just strange. The time and everything is correct. I use the 12-hour clock instead of the 24-hour. (You are an army freak if you use the 24-hour clock.)

So two in the afternoons would be 2 p.m. instead of 14:00. Anyway, my computer would switch to 2 a.m. when it’s 2 p.m. sometimes. It might be something to do with Ubuntu settings. It didn’t seem to occur until I use Ubuntu and revert to Windows Vista. Something just messed up my clock somehow.

Anyway, did you know that a.m. and p.m. stands for ante meridiem (a.m., Latin “before noon”) and post meridiem (p.m., “after noon”) respectively? I remember asking my primary school teacher before and he couldn’t answer. We didn’t have Wikipedia that time, hahaa…

My computer’s a little cranky these days. I can’t pin point to any device that might have been the cause of such faults. I turn on my computer and had this waiting waiting circular mouse cursor telling me to wait. I can’t do a thing even the legendary control-alternate-delete didn’t work.

It went okay after that with everything coming up at the same time. Just two minutes ago, I clicked on Eclipse PHP and it just launch. I thought these things supposed to be instantaneous. Okay, at least near.

But the worst thing is perhaps with random Windows Explorer crashes and Safari crashes. I understand why Safari crashes, the animals probably ran wild but why Explorer. I am beginning to suspect TortoiseSVN or some shell integration software.

I’m thinking of reinstalling my computer now. And I just reinstall it 3 weeks ago. Yes I’m using Windows Vista. Yes I know I know. Get a Mac right? Yeah yeah…

This came in rather recent and I was kinda shock when I see this. Our bills rise up to 300SGD. That’s quite a high amount. Our bills hover around 200SGD and never really rise that high.

I’m aware that the money suckers tweaked the charges yet again citing rising costs and blah blah. We just pay it I guess. I am surprised yet a little guilty. This month, I almost didn’t switch off my computer at all.

I had this strange computer problem that gives me a Primary Master Hard Disk Error each time I turn on the computer and I had to switch on and off several times before the Hard Disk can be correctly read. That always kinda scared me so I didn’t dare switch off my computer with the fear that I never get to turn it on back. It is especially at such times when I need my computer that I switched it on twenty-four seven. On best record, it went on for 22 days and 3 hours without a single restart. No, I am not operating a server, thank you. (more…)

I used to have these pencils when I was in primary school. During my time, Chung Hwa pencils are for paper.

Today, Chung Hwa pencils are also for computer. Pentel can sell erasers for computers soon.

Never really had a good way of managing my wires. There’s the printer, there’s the speakers. It’s just messy.

Wireless power anyone?