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Anon works in cybersecurity (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 21 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Meh, I like cute names like the next nerd, but I've never seen any in practice. It's all TV model number like codes.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I’ve seen cute names at a couple of smaller companies

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, if we had a small start-up sized network, for sure. But as soon as you go into dozens of servers it becomes unmanageable :/ I need to know at a glance what the function of a given server is, my colleagues in sysadmin need to know what rack, what layer in our archi, what os, is it prod, etc. Hence TV model style names. Don't roll off the back of the tongue, but at least we all know what we're dealing with without knowing an encyclopedia knowledge of anime / star wars / etc trivia.

    I compensate by making fun (for me) jpeg to ASCII welcome messages when I connect to remote servers :P

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    The most annoying usage I've seen was a smaller company that used stars wars names for email distribution lists.

    "Why did you forward this networking ticket to Chewbacca group? It's supposed to go to BobaFett."

    Gee, I dunno, maybe because you use cutesy, non-descriptive names for email groups instead of just networkingsupport@company.com.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I just want a nice, useful address book I can actually search. But those morons don't even have that, so instead we have abominable emails like did.ssi-sii and such. Sure it all means something, if you can just remember what fucking letter soup the department you're looking for is. You want the service desk? did.dsi-sdk Rolls off the fucking tongue, doesn't it.

    What's the point of this piece of shit Outlook if we can't even search for team addresses?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    Our servers are named after comic book/cartoon villains, and it's really fucking stupid. I have no idea what any of them are because systems doesn't keep a list that's accessible to other departments.

    Makes it real hard to make SSPs without having to drag info out of the sysadmins. And we're an enterprise environment.

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