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Last one was called Hal9000 and my current is called Glados.
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When I worked at Kellogg Canada in the late '80s and early '90s, the VAX/VMS systems were named after Kellogg characters: Tony, Toucan, Diggem, Pop, Snap
Now, servers are named differently depending on the controlling organization:
corporate - more likely to have some site significance
(MARPI - Marshall, BUCKCTPI - Buck CT, ALLENPI - Allen)
infrastructure - more likely to have general area significance
(CIN6AWTPIP1 - Cincy, Room 6A, CLTTVDPIP1 - Charlotte - Toddville area)
Desktops and laptops? The serial number... 2441CQ7R9Y...
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I have it easy... I name all of my computers (And some other devices too) after characters and places in my novels. Plenty of source material, as I have way too many characters.
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At my previous job, we used Norse mythological figures. Heimdall, Loki, Thor, etc...
At my current job, we have a rather unimaginative scheme: aaa-bbb-ccc-xxx-vm (dashes added so you can see the various parts), where aaa is the first 3 letters of the domain, bbb is a 3 letter code indicating the facility the server is housed at, ccc is a 2 or 3 letter code indicating what type of server it is (ad, sql, tfs, web, etc...) xxx is the current server number, zero-padded, new servers get the next number in sequence. The vm part means virutal, we used to have ph (physical) servers as well, but those are all gone now.
At home I use Caesar names. Current gaming rig/desktop is Titus, NAS is Augustus. VM that houses dev servers is Julius.
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Alll my personal PCs, laptops, and tablets are named after characters in the POGO comics:
POGO, ALBERT, HOWLAND, HEPZIBA, CHURCHY, etc
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I've been beating my head against a wall trying to run a simple watchface app in the Tizen Web IDE and it's really doing me in.
You would think that if you open a sample app from a template then you'd be able to just hit "Run" and have it build and run in the emulator. Oh no. Way too easy.
If you have a device connected via USB then you need to have a certificate installed. So you request a CSR. Then a CRT from the CSR, but first you need to register with Samsung so it can email you the CRT. Then a device profile certificate using the device ID. The IDE is connected to the device and can get the IDE, but it won't: you need to run something like SMD in a terminal window then copy and paste, then the cert is emailed to you with the password. Then you register it and... who knows, really. Certainly following what the IDE says to do won't help, because if you right click the device and say "Permit to install apps" it will complain there's no certificate.
OK, I'll disconnect the device and run the sample app on the emulator. Hit "run" and it complains there is no target to launch, please select and emulator in Connection Explorer. So you go to the connection manager and there's not a lot to do. Emulator manager allows you to manage emulators, but there's no obvious way to connect to the emulator once you've set one up.
On it goes. Dark, thick brambles and twisty turning tunnels every which way. And I haven't yet written a single line of code. This is for a pre-packaged sample.
I still can't get it running and it blows my mind that in 2015 it's so difficult. I can only assume either I'm missing a silly, basic step that I'll work out in another 2 hrs, or something wasn't installed correctly.
[Update: The trick with the emulator is you need to click the little "play" arrow in the image of the emulator. It's small. It looks like it's just part of the emulator picture. However you need to click it. How about a "Start Emulator" button, given the massive amounts of screen space wasted in the app? Anyway, start the emulator, then go to the IDE and choose one of the 3 start buttons (I kid you not). Two won't work. The other one? That one will cause a blue screen.
/slams head on desk]
cheers
Chris Maunder
modified 5-Jun-15 4:02am.
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Tizen or not Tizen, my opinion is this new "must" of creating apps for mobiles is getting us crazy.
Even without any certificate...
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Writing iOS apps in XCode used to be a similar headache, even if you are just trying to renew a license. The latest released I worked with before moving had a lot of this automated though. It's almost the these companies want makes it as difficult as possible for developers to suggest their devices.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL ALIKE
veni bibi saltavi
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XYZZY
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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NOTHING HAPPENS
veni bibi saltavi
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What, just like today's WSO CCC (hint, hint)?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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STILL NOTHING HAPPENS
veni bibi saltavi
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It's fair to say that I loathe Tizen too. It's just so unintuitive, and the features that are available are poorly documented if there's any documentation at all.
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Far too much sugar (and suspicious colourings).. 
http://tizer.co.uk/[^]
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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i drink to that *heaves glass* 
Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it!
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So you guys call it pop, do you, not "soft drink"? Here I was thinking pop was a North American thing.
Well there you go.
And I wish I was dealing with that instead of Tizen.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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There's no way you can call Irn Bru a "soft drink".. it's made from girders!
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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If you add several hours with someone from IT sitting next to you messaging back and forth with the firewall administrator you'd begin to get the feeling for how setting up an BB10 environment to make a proof of concept app was. You'd still be missing the fun of having 3 different passwords and not knowing which to use where except via trial and error: Dingleberry World (set by corporate IT), Phone Password (set by corporate IT, different from the former), and my Developer Key password (picked by me). And after all of that hell was over I was still using a bastardized fork of eclipse and writing for a phone platform that no one outside of certain govt entities actually wants. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Firing off 300 fireworks at once[^]
Were these guys mad?!?!?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Missile Command 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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