[MACEP] Printer DNS Names

[radams at lane.k12.or.us]

I remember back in the old days of main frames with "terminals" when the
terminals used to be named for those early data miners:

Dopey, Sneezy, Doc, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy, Grumpy

and those others you always came up with when you couldn't remember miner #7:

Sleezy, Snorrey, Wishful, Snoopy, Droopy, Spot . . . . .

;-)

Richard Adams
Pleasant Hill High School
(I started teaching a class in programming using a time-shared system at PHHS
in 1974)


> Jamie Lists wrote:
>> For example an hp2100 in room 409 at Newberg High School would be
>> called NHS-RM409-HP2100
>>
>> The problem with this set up is if the printer gets moved the location
>> is wrong.
>
> We handle our printer naming exactly this way, building-room-model. And
> yes, the downside is having to rename them if they get moved, but it
> sure beats everyone having to remember where Printer1 is. Also, as has
> been mentioned, printers tend to stay put most of the time.
>
> If you do have a situation where the printers get moved around a lot it
> might be worth going with NHS1, etc. In that case you'd probably want to
>   have each printer prominently labeled so people can tell which printer
> to choose :)
>
> -Ben
>
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> Ben Mabbott
> North Clackamas School District
> mabbottb at nlack.k12.or.us
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