From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 23 15:32:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA21114 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:32:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA21108 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:32:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14891(10)>; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:32:13 PST Received: by crevenia.parc.xerox.com id <177479>; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:32:12 -0800 From: Bill Fenner To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hostnames Message-Id: <96Feb23.153212pst.177479@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:32:05 PST Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk When DEC donated a bunch of personal DECstations to PSU for their undergrad workstation lab, of course they had to come up with names for them all. Someone had the bright idea of buying a box of 64 Crayola Crayons, and wrote out all of the names of the crayons and picked names from there. The servers were named Binney and Smith, the makers of Crayola Crayons. This allows cute stunts such as creating X colors that are similar to the crayon colors. One of the lab workers actually spent a night doing this and configured XDM on each machine to have the appropriate background color. Unfortunately, they take the machine's color into account when placing them (in fact, placement was relative to length of name, what a computer-person thing to have done) so it wasn't as eye-pleasing as it could have been. Bill