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Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? 1397

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 02, 2009 @07:20PM from the just-no-more-muppets-please dept.

jfruhlinger writes "If you use a Unix machine, it probably has a funny name. And if you work in an environment where there are multiple Unix machines, they probably have funny names that are variations on a theme. No, you're not the only one! This article explores the phenomenon, showing that even the CIA uses a whimsical server naming scheme." What are some of your best (worst?) naming schemes?

Birth of a New African Ocean 261

Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 05, 2008 @02:53PM from the interesting-times-interesting-places dept.

Khemisty writes "Formation of an ocean is a rare event, one no scientist has ever witnessed. Yet this geophysical nativity is unfolding today in one of the hottest and most inhospitable corners of the globe. Africa is splitting apart at the seams. From the southern tip of the Red Sea southward through Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique, the continent is coming unstitched along a zone called the East African Rift." This stretching of the earth's crust has been going on for 20 million years, and within another 10 million the Red Sea will have broken through to create a new sea.

Comment Verbix? (Score 1) 382

by __aanekd3853 on Wednesday September 06, 2006 @03:26AM (#16050476) Attached to: Microsoft [to patent] Verb Conjugation

I am not a patent expert, but Verbix seems to be a good prior art candidate. So is this, and a score of other results of a simple search for "verb conjugation". I hope the application is thrown out.

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