17 Jul
2016
17 Jul
'16
2:06 p.m.
One gets used to login names. In the 80ish I got 'rubl' and I'm still using
it.
Of course in this age of the World Wild Web that may make me easily
trackable. Nothing to hide though :-)
17 Jul
17 Jul
2:16 p.m.
New subject: Of login names
On Sunday, 17 July 2016 at 15:06:46 +0700, Rudi Blom wrote:
One gets used to login names. In the 80ish I got
'rubl' and I'm still using it.
And I wanted greg@, but it was taken. So I ended up with grog@, and
I've had that for nearly 30 years. More background at
http://www.lemis.com/grog/grog.php
Greg
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5:42 p.m.
New subject: Of login names
I always thought Jay Lepreau’s use of just “j” was the perfect minimalism.
I endeavored to be just “ron” at any place I worked. In the early Windows domain days
it turned out you couldn’t have a user and a machine with the same name. My machine was
just “R”.
18 Jul
18 Jul
4:59 a.m.
New subject: Of login names
On Sunday, 17 July 2016 at 7:42:56 -0400, Ronald Natalie wrote:
I always thought Jay Lepreau???s use of just ???j???
was the perfect minimalism.
My favourite was Dmitry Kohmanyuk of the Ukrainian TLD (at least 20
years ago): d@ua. I can't see any way of getting less than that.
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6:37 a.m.
New subject: Of login names
Tom Duff suggested to me that, when I discovered "bwc" was taken at Bell Labs, I
should use "b". I was "brantley" instead. Should have listened to TD.
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On Jul 17, 2016, at 6:59 PM, Greg 'groggy'
Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
On Sunday, 17 July 2016 at 7:42:56 -0400, Ronald
Natalie wrote:
I always thought Jay Lepreau???s use of just ???j??? was the perfect minimalism.
My favourite was Dmitry Kohmanyuk of the Ukrainian TLD (at least 20
years ago): d@ua. I can't see any way of getting less than that.
Greg
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4:51 p.m.
New subject: Of login names
Rob Pike and Dave Presotto arrived at Google well after its founding, and had to choose
login names.
They chose “r” and “p”. The Googlers were concerned about bugs, and r and p said they
would fix any
that were found. Apparently there were about three bugs that needed repair.
On 17Jul 2016, at 8:37 PM, Brantley Coile
<brantleycoile(a)me.com> wrote:
Tom Duff suggested to me that, when I discovered "bwc" was taken at Bell Labs,
I should use "b". I was "brantley" instead. Should have listened to
TD.
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