Timeline for Trying to determine where to ask this quesiton and not sure if this site (or any site) covers it
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| Apr 22, 2016 at 17:32 | comment | added | Ramhound | @Scott - Its more of a judgment call honestly. Its the difference between asking, why Microsoft choose Ubuntu for the baseline for the Windows Subsystem for Linux instead of another distribution, versus the reason that WPA is no longer secure. One of those questions can be answered the other question cannot. | |
| Apr 22, 2016 at 17:26 | comment | added | Scott - Слава Україні | @Ramhound: You say, "Questions seeking why something was done (unless there is a technical reason for it) almost always make horrible questions for a Q&A website." I agree. Is this just your personal opinion, or can you point to a reference like a Stack Exchange help page, or even a statement by a moderator? | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 18:50 | comment | added | fixer1234 | My guess: the developer was a fan of the Calvin and Hobbs comic strip. | |
| Apr 20, 2016 at 14:01 | history | edited | Nifle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 19, 2016 at 21:52 | comment | added | IT_User | @Ramhound Thank you, I believe I have received the answer I expected to receive from Ben. He summed up my extremely long-winded story into a single understandable question. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 21:50 | history | edited | IT_User | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 19, 2016 at 21:47 | vote | accept | IT_User | ||
| Apr 19, 2016 at 21:42 | answer | added | Ben N | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 21:42 | comment | added | Ramhound | @bluerojo - Don't delete your question, there is no reason to do that, removing questions yourself is in bad taste on a Q&A website. You can do what you want, but I can tell you, this question isn't on topic here at Superuser. So don't ask it at Superuser. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 21:37 | comment | added | IT_User | @Ramhound It does not seem you understand mine. Do you know that this is just a randomly chosen default password and is not an It acronym or term that you are just not familiar with? If so then that is the answer I am looking for. But if you are not sure then I want to continue digging until someone can tell me if this is just some random chosen string or that there is IT meaning behind it. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 21:35 | comment | added | IT_User | @Ramhound If my reasoning is flawed and "calvin" doesn't hold meaning to the IT realm/world and there is no meaning outside of some random developer chose this, then cool. I will go ahead and delete my answer. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 21:35 | comment | added | Ramhound | Good luck! It doesn't seem like you understand my reasons. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 21:33 | comment | added | IT_User | @Ramhound Well if it stood for something in the IT realm that I was unaware of...I would expect a percentage of a group of programmers and administrators to know. Exaple being MPEG, listserv, nntp, etc. Or "Trojan horse" having duel meanings. I figured the password was of that sort of name that had a meaning to the IT community I was unaware of. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 21:24 | comment | added | Ramhound | How are we suppose to know what it stands for? Programmers in general are known for having their ego, they put their name on more stuff, then Donald J Trump does. It could be somebody's (name, dog, son, cat, bird, pet alligator, pet pigeon, father, mother, daughter, nickname for body part, or even a bear). | |
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| Apr 19, 2016 at 21:04 | comment | added | IT_User | @Ramhound My reasoning behind this question was that maybe "calvin" stood for something I did not know about in the IT field. I figured maybe there was some acronym or technical jargon for "calvin" that I just did not know/understand and I did not think a random engineer chose this because he liked the name. I figured an IT community would know the meaning behind "calvin" (granted, if there was one), that I may just not understand as I am newer in the IT field compared to people here. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 20:52 | comment | added | Ramhound | (continued). If you are wondering the reason its tough to answer those questions, a good question often has a practical problem associated with it, knowing the reason a specific default password was chosen isn't really a practical problem. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 20:48 | comment | added | Ramhound | "A lot of users know the default Dell password of "calvin" for iDRAC, yet no one seems to know where it came from (as this is a pretty weird default password)." - I stopped reading your question at this point. We are not a group of Dell Engineers, only the Dell Engineer(s) who decided upon this password, would know the reason this password was picked. Questions seeking why something was done (unless there is a technical reason for it) almost always make horrible questions for a Q&A website. Even the questions seeking the technical reason are tough to write and even answer. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 20:47 | comment | added | DavidPostill Mod | Up to you. You never know, you might get an answer if you leave it a while ;) | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 20:47 | comment | added | IT_User | @DavidPostill Should I just go ahead and delete my question now then? | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 20:38 | comment | added | DavidPostill Mod | Off-topic everywhere on the SE network is my guess. | |
| Apr 19, 2016 at 20:27 | history | asked | IT_User | CC BY-SA 3.0 |