Mac OS X Lion Terminal I have a question about my terminal. When I started out working with Rails on my Mac terminal, I would have lines that looked like this as the route for my $:

Nicholass-MacBook-Pro:sample_app nbkincaid$ rails console


But now, I get lines that look like this:

pal-nat184-103-166:desktop nbkincaid$


I'm pretty sure that I didn't change anything, so why does it give me the pal-nat....$ instead of the Nicholas...$?
The string "pal-nat184-103-166" is your computer's hostname, which can be changed dynamically by routers or other network devices through DHCP.

If you want to set it to a static string, you can do so by adding the following line to /etc/hostconfig

HOSTNAME=Nicholass-MacBook-Pro