That grumpy BSD guy: Elvis is alive! How 'AI' stunts modern mythmaking
Field notes and occasional musings by Peter on Stuff that happens, from a free software perspective, mainly OpenBSD, FreeBSD.
Sometimes LinkedIn discussions run much like informal office banter. Earlier this week, Niall Murphy posted there, saying
Best joke hostnames? I'll go first: "switchen" - network equipment close to the fridge "madwoman" - storage server somewhere up high (guess how high) "wutheringbytes" - storage server in rural surroundings
Never forget that it is required for any network with Solaris boxes to have one host called elvis
This comes from a fairly widely known and respected part of geek culture, based on the Solaris operating system's implementation of the ping(8) command.
Note: This piece is also available without trackers but classic formatting only here. If you're a Unix person, you will get the joke immediately after following the link to the ping(8) manual page and reading the first three lines of the DESCRIPTION part.
