Machine name themes - what do you use?
Alan Gauton
>
> Hi peoples,
>
> Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
> local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
> fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
> about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
PCs are named by the users. Solaris machines are named by the lecturers
purchasing the machines or the current system admin - the 4 bought last
year are named after mathematicians, the 2 so far this year are name
after characters from the Magic Roundabout.
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Stuart Summerville
Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
Stu.
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Robert Barnette
You could go with some of these...
The Simpsons Characters.
The Little Rascals Characters.
The Crayola Colors (Burnt Umber???).
Biblical Heroes.
Mythological Characters.
The Planets.
Past Presidents.
Written Numbers (One, Two, Three) - Could correspond to IP's on small LAN.
Tropical Fishes.
Rocky and Bullwinkle Characters.
Rocks (granite, sandstone, etc.).
The Frat Bros. from Animal House.
The Elements.
Later,
Robert
Stuart Summerville <st...@netspace.net.au> wrote in article
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Adam Thompson
Ian Payne
>local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
>fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
>about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
We used to use the Aurthurian legends, Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin,
etc.. When we started running out of names we started using the American
"Camelot", i.e. the Kennedy Administration, Kennedy, Jackie, Marilyn, Warren
and Ruby.
Now of course we're good little corporate zombies and use the proscribed
naming conventions for everything. And it's so easy to remember a printer
name like 84-20.1-42.
Michael D. Ober
first place.
Mike Ober.
Andrew
> Now of course we're good little corporate zombies and use the proscribed
> naming conventions for everything. And it's so easy to remember a printer
> name like 84-20.1-42.
Well, it's not like you called your planes Rocketing Gosling or anything.
I sure can't remember the difference between a 727 and a 737. :-)
We name our machines after Nadsat words from Clockwork Orange (vellocet,
drencrom, synthemesc, mozg, moloko, etc.). One of our machines is quite
aptly named gromky (which means "loud") because it has a noisy hard drive.
=)
--
Andrew O. Smith - <a...@insync.net>
Sysadmin, Insync Internet Services
Houston, Texas, USA
Jay D Ribak
names
of Star Trek ships or ship classes...for example: enterprise, excelsior,
valiant, intrepid, reliant, miranda, defiant, voyager, ds9, stargazer,
endeavor, etc.
Stuart Summerville wrote in message
<36cb58cb...@news.netspace.net.au>...
>Hi peoples,
>
>Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
>local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
>fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
>about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
>
Christopher K Davis
Stuart Summerville <st...@netspace.net.au> writes:
> Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
> local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
> fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
> about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
Possibly the most important feature of a naming theme is that it be
highly extensible. Even a fairly "large" fixed set like the 100+
elements of the periodic table is likely to run out eventually (most
sites can buy computers faster than physicists can name new transuranic
elements) and using the Seven Dwarves is just *asking* for your boss to
tell you to buy machine #8 (which might be a feature ;-).
Some themes I've seen used:
- Stars. Don't use planets; you'll run out really fast. Even if you
include moons. There are LOTS of named stars.
- Planets, as long as you use *fictional* ones. First, the collective
output of all those SF writers has a many year head start; second,
there are new ones being invented regularly. Fictional stars work
too. Fictional places in general, actually, work quite well. (With
only a few machines, you might even get away with using only one
author's books, at least for a while.)
- Fictional characters. Again, for small groups you can use one author
or one series; for larger ones, you'll have to branch out. This
leaves some room to match character personality with machine
"personality", though. Fictional AIs/robots is a common theme.
- Fictional (or legendary) ships (either waterborne or space; the latter
may overlap with fictional AIs). Again, though real ships are an
option (and often provided the names for fictional ships anyway) your
computing budget is probably going to be spent on more units than the
USN's shipbuilding budget is....
(For those who haven't seen it yet, RFC 1178/FYI 5 covers the naming
topic fairly well, but *doesn't* have much suggestion for what themes to
use--just that they're a Really Good Idea.)
--
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Put location information in your DNS! <URL:http://www.ckdhr.com/dns-loc/>
Brent Borg
Brent
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 11:52:03 GMT, st...@netspace.net.au (Stuart
Summerville) wrote:
>Hi peoples,
>
>Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
>local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
>fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
>about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
>
Richard J. Sexton
Jay D Ribak <jri...@1tac.com.NOSPAM> wrote:
>Well, this is a bit off-topic for the unix www servers group, but I use
>names
>of Star Trek ships or ship classes...for example: enterprise, excelsior,
>valiant, intrepid, reliant, miranda, defiant, voyager, ds9, stargazer,
>endeavor, etc.
Do you have one called "get-a-life" ?
--
Richard Sexton ric...@mbz.org Bannockburn, Ontario, Canada
70, 72 280SE; 83 300SD http://www.mbz.org
Kyler Jones
Tolkien names: gandalf, frodo, etc.. Networks are named after
Tolkien forests: Fangorn, Mirkwood, Lorien, etc..
Kyler Jones.
Brad Benson
] Hi peoples,
]
] Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
] local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
] fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
] about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
Star Trek: our primary server is named picard, our RS/6000 is spock,
etc.
Cheers,
Brad
replace "spamtrap" with "benson" in my reply address
Erik P. Power
(pardon my MS-ism), and obscure Norsk mythology figures for the other.
Stuart Summerville wrote in message
<36cb58cb...@news.netspace.net.au>...
>Hi peoples,
>
>Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
>local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
>fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
>about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
>
Ron Klatchko
> Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
> local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
> fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
> about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
At the CKM I finally managed to get a group of computers named after Dr
Seuss characters (samiam, catinthehat, grinch, lorax, yertle, sneetch,
mayzie, etc.)
moo
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UCSF Library and Center for Knowledge Management
r...@library.ucsf.edu
Michael Paci
Sexton) wrote:
>Do you have one called "get-a-life" ?
It wouldn't be a good choice. They're weren't that many named characters
in that show. ;) (You know, the short-lived FOX show with Chris Elliot and
his father of Bob & Ray fame that had that REM song "Stand" as its theme
song?)
--Mike
logan...@yahoo.com
st...@netspace.net.au wrote:
> Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
> local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
> fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
> about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
Pick something everyone can relate to: food. There are numerous
subcategories that can be used for different classes of machine
and/or different teams within the organization. Plus, just about
everyone can think of a food they like.
For instance, servers are things you need to get things going, so
name them after breakfast foods: wheaties, hashbrowns, omelette,
poptart, supersugarcrisp, etc. X-terminals can be named after snack
foods. Various teams can choose their own subcategory (Mexican food,
Italian food, etc.). I'm not sure what to name network printers,
but I'm sure there's got to be some sort of tie-in.
- Logan
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Kurt J. Lanza
>
> In article <7ac4q5$hu5$1...@remarQ.com>,
> Jay D Ribak <jri...@1tac.com.NOSPAM> wrote:
> >Well, this is a bit off-topic for the unix www servers group, but I use
> >names
> >of Star Trek ships or ship classes...for example: enterprise, excelsior,
> >valiant, intrepid, reliant, miranda, defiant, voyager, ds9, stargazer,
> >endeavor, etc.
>
>
Dhar...@yahoo.com
> Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
> local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
> fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
> about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
I usually start with the names of Santa's reindeer in honor of my first
Unix admin job where my personal workstation was "blitzen". The
look on new persons's face when you name their computer "vixen" or
"donner" is highly amusing.
Noal McDonald
Unix Sys Admin
Data-Core Systems, Inc.
--
"Excuse me. Are you a yuppie?"
-woman at a gas station in Detroit
Thomas H Jones II
Alan Gauton <agauton...@usa.net> did thusly spew forth:
>> Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
>> local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
>> fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
>> about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
>
>purchasing the machines or the current system admin - the 4 bought last
>year are named after mathematicians, the 2 so far this year are name
>after characters from the Magic Roundabout.
euw... what about having a consistent naming convention. ick. any way, that
yuckiness aside...
At the last job that I had adminning, the two of the domains i had set up
used demonic names taken from a table in levey's satanic bible (get it,
unix machines use daemons) and another domain used comic book characters
found in the gothier publications (eg. Dark Horse). For my personal systems,
ive named them after water events (bog, undertow, tsunami, waterspout, etc.).
*shrug*
Frankly, im one of those whos gotten tired of seeing every other system
named copernicus, apollo, or bart (as mathmaticians/scientists, mythical
characters and tv cartoon characters seem to be the most popular choices.)
So, why be completely ordinary. :)
-tom
Francois Luneau
bigger servers come around and we are out of planet names, we use star
names) and I used to have the workstations named after mountains (now, that
you can find a lot of...)
But as I noticed the workstations needed so much rework when I needed to
pass them to a new user, I decided to named them after the user. Simpler
for them to understand, but less ethically correct ;)
Otherwise, I friend of mine had a cool idea, or so I think, to use names of
different pasta. You can find a nice repertoire at the following site:
http://www.kaydara.com/pasta.htm.
Ciao!
Richard J. Sexton
Tele-tubbies.
Barney.
The Spice Girls.
People who can't laugh at themselves.
Dennis Clarke
My pizza is simply slid under the door. Girls laugh at me behind my back. My
parents say I was dropped at birth. Approaching people cross the street to
avoid me. I was dead for 45 seconds once. I hurt small animals. My computers
are named after school teachers that mocked me in school.
Dennis 'has-a-life' Clarke
: )
"Richard J. Sexton" wrote:
> In article <36C9C0...@inforonics.com>,
> Kurt J. Lanza <k...@inforonics.com> wrote:
> >Richard J. Sexton wrote:
> >>
> >> In article <7ac4q5$hu5$1...@remarQ.com>,
> >> Jay D Ribak <jri...@1tac.com.NOSPAM> wrote:
> >> >Well, this is a bit off-topic for the unix www servers group, but I use
> >> >names
> >> >of Star Trek ships or ship classes...for example: enterprise, excelsior,
> >> >valiant, intrepid, reliant, miranda, defiant, voyager, ds9, stargazer,
> >> >endeavor, etc.
> >>
> >> Do you have one called "get-a-life" ?
> >>
> >What other varieties of harmless fun can't you stomach?
>
> Tele-tubbies.
> Barney.
> The Spice Girls.
> People who can't laugh at themselves.
> --
> Richard Sexton ric...@mbz.org Bannockburn, Ontario, Canada
> 70, 72 280SE; 83 300SD http://www.mbz.org
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We use city names here, rome, madrid, hamburg, etc,etc
> Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
> local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
> fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
> about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
> ----------------------------------------------
Andrew Gabriel
a lot of machines. When someone asks for a new machine,
I say yes sure, when you've thought of a new fruit name
we havn't used. Sometimes, they never come back :-)
Another office is full of keen train spotters, and their
machines are named after trains. I would never have
drempt there were so many different trains mind you :-(
One office I delt with had Snowwhite as the fileserver
and clients were from the 7 dwaf names. That could be
a problem if you're a growing company but they were
shrinking so it was OK. Strange thing was when they
got down to just one machine left, it was one of the
dwafs...
In the early days of the X.500 directory, it was
traditional to name your directory after an endangered
species. I remember a number of occasions where
university computing departments spent some time trying
to persaude the registrar's office to let them have all
the staff/student info to load into their X.500 DSA's.
Having finally convinced them this was a serious
exercise, the registrar's office would then discover
the DSA was called 'Three toed sloath' or somesuch,
decide they'd made a mistake and it was just some post-
grads pissing around, and refuse to supply the data.
--
Andrew Gabriel
Consultant Software Engineer
Richard J. Sexton
Dennis Clarke <dcl...@interlog.com> wrote:
>I live in a server room. I have no life. Management pumps sunlight in for me.
>My pizza is simply slid under the door. Girls laugh at me behind my back. My
>parents say I was dropped at birth. Approaching people cross the street to
>avoid me. I was dead for 45 seconds once. I hurt small animals. My computers
>are named after school teachers that mocked me in school.
>
>Dennis 'has-a-life' Clarke
You're hired. I know talent when I see it.
Andrew C. Ohnstad
> >>Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
> >>local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
> >>fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
> >>about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
My main hobby, besides computer stuff, is car stereo. Henceforth:
headunit, frontstage, rearstage, subwoofer, tweeter. Any more machines
and I'll have to get creative. I also have a "cleo," which is named
after the owner's cat as a joke, and a "poof," for a certain machine
which seems to require major work (on the level of a format and reinstall
occasionally) on an almost monthly basis.
=-=Andrew
nospam...@tabi.org
>Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your local
>networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals, fruits,
>alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What about you?
>I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
I used the names of various planets and moons in our solar system, with
an eye toward their history meaning.
My cable modem gateway/router - Janus
My big OS/2 system - Ganymede
My wife's Mac - Callisto
My test machine - Proteus
--
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OS/2 page: http://www.os2ss.com/Information/Newusers/index.html OS/2
Programming page: http://www.edm2.com/common/links.html Looking for the
best OS/2 soundcard? http://www.tabi.org/timur/crystalos2.html
Jeff Moore
ds9 for my gateway
borg for my pieced together RS6000
etc.
At work we use island or tropical place names
oahu
tripoli
mikonos
mazatlan
martinique
cabo
lanai
long
stthomas
stcroix
thousand
gilligans
etc..
Stuart Summerville wrote:
> Hi peoples,
>
> Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
> local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
> fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
> about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
>
Glenn & Sherry Butcher
carol, ted and alice
Glenn Butcher
Tillman in Texas
Fathom. Fireball, etc. Odd, yes, but it makes it immediately apparent
when an "unauthorized" server pops up.
Tillman
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 11:52:03 GMT, st...@netspace.net.au (Stuart
Spencer Harvey
one is HOLLY (Red Dwarf). This might explain why it crashed all the time!!
Alan Gauton wrote in message <36C95E84...@usa.net>...
Carl Taylor
so each server has a 3 part name consisting of Country&City, Role & a
number, ie:
AUSYDSRV05
Meaning Australia Sydney General Server No.5
AUBRIPRN04
Meaning Australia Brisbane Print Server No.4
--
Carl Taylor
IT Manager Australia
Crown Worldwide Movers
Opinions expressed are personal and in
no way reflect upon my employer.
Richard J. Sexton <ric...@ns1.vrx.net> wrote in article
<7ad6e2$jfu$1...@ns1.vrx.net>...
James Dale
Austrailian animals Goanna,Numbat,Bilby,Mosquito,Blowfly (1 to 4),Dingo,Emu
Wombat,Numbat,etc,etc the exeption is Melanoma (it's a sun, as are most
of the others)
Til...@Strahan.org (Tillman in Texas) writes:
>We use classic pinball game names: Centaur, Xenon, Vector, Flash,
>Fathom. Fireball, etc. Odd, yes, but it makes it immediately apparent
>when an "unauthorized" server pops up.
>Tillman
>On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 11:52:03 GMT, st...@netspace.net.au (Stuart
>Summerville) wrote:
>>Hi peoples,
>>
>>Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
>>local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
>>fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
>>about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
>>
Miguel Cruz
> Otherwise, I friend of mine had a cool idea, or so I think, to use names of
> different pasta. You can find a nice repertoire at the following site:
> http://www.kaydara.com/pasta.htm.
This site fails to resolve the question that has been troubling me for
years: What is the difference between rigatoni and cannelloni?
miguel
John Hascall
}We use ISO standard naming conventions:
}so each server has a 3 part name consisting of Country&City, Role & a
}number, ie:
}
}AUSYDSRV05 Meaning Australia Sydney General Server No.5
}AUBRIPRN04 Meaning Australia Brisbane Print Server No.4
}
Do you count the strawberries too? Geez!
We let our user's name their machines any darn thing they like.
The machines for my current project (a Y2K time machine lab) are
named _______ly.bogus.iastate.edu :
aimlessly.bogus.iastate.edu
alphabetically.bogus.iastate.edu
amusingly.bogus.iastate.edu
completely.bogus.iastate.edu
genuinely.bogus.iastate.edu
graphically.bogus.iastate.edu
insanely.bogus.iastate.edu
millennialy.bogus.iastate.edu
ornately.bogus.iastate.edu
sadly.bogus.iastate.edu
The GIS lab is named for cities and things (beijing, kiev,
vostok, kashmir, urup, sydney, madagascar, ...)
And, of course, the workstation farm is named for crops
(alfalfa,beans,corn,oats,rice,wheat,etc). Until, that is,
I named our newest parallel machine 'kudzu' and a normally
sane manager grew pointy hair and re-christened it 'combine'
(duh, that's like not a crop, dude).
John
--
John Hascall, Software Engr. Shut up, be happy. The conveniences you
ISU Computation Center demanded are now mandatory. -Jello Biafra
mailto:jo...@iastate.edu
http://www.cc.iastate.edu/staff/systems/john/index.html <=- the usual crud
Gregory G. Woodbury
>Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
>local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
>fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
>about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
See if anyone can figure this one out. ;-)
aliceb
gertie
ellend
pablo
marcel
martina (its a server!)
Hint: Think happy thoughts Tinky-Winky.
Other machines have more mundane names like the user, or a particular
hero or fictional character. E.g. 'vonneumann' 'jabba' 'cassie' 'dukcds'
Actually, that last one is old enough that it was the UUCP name for the
first *nix box at work.
--
Gregory G. "Wolfe" Woodbury `-_-' Owner/Admin: wolves.durham.nc.us
ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us U Errant co-moderator of:
soc.religion.unitarian-univ
"The Line Eater is a boojum snark." Hug your wolf. (Thanks Peter.)
logan...@yahoo.com
"Carl Taylor" <ctaylo...@crownworldwide.com> wrote:
> We use ISO standard naming conventions:
>
> so each server has a 3 part name consisting of Country&City, Role & a
> number, ie:
>
> AUSYDSRV05
>
> Meaning Australia Sydney General Server No.5
>
> AUBRIPRN04
>
> Meaning Australia Brisbane Print Server No.4
One of the great thing about words and language is that you can use
them to distinguish one thing from another. That is why most languages
have more than one word in them, and it's also why those words sound
different from each other. Otherwise, we could simplify language a great
deal by having only one word such as "ugh" which could be used on all
occasions and for all purposes.
So, while naming your three servers "bacon", "eggs", and "grits" might
be a little arbitrary and not as uniform as "server001", "server002", and
"server003", it is handy because when someone says or writes "bacon",
you can very easily discern that they're not talking about "eggs".
There are more differing characters (if written) or syllables (if spoken)
that act as cues as to which one is being named.
Imagine you had a chart of performance factors of three fictitious
servers. With arbitrary, non-uniform names, you have:
uptime idle time disk response
------ --------- -------------
best bacon bacon grits
middle eggs grits bacon
worst grits eggs eggs
With nice uniform names, how easy is it to read?
uptime idle time disk response
------ --------- -------------
best server001 server001 server003
middle server002 server003 server001
worst server003 server002 server002
Actually, people may be interested in the Internet RFC on this subject,
RFC1178. (A copy is at http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1178.html ).
The whole thing distilled (read: butchered) into two paragraphs:
Don't overload other terms already in common use. Don't choose
a name after a project unique to that machine. Don't use your
own name. Don't use long names. Avoid alternate spellings.
Avoid domain names. Avoid domain-like names. Don't use
antagonistic or otherwise embarrassing names. Don't use digits
at the beginning of the name. Don't use non-alphanumeric
characters in a name. Don't expect case to be preserved.
Use words/names that are rarely used. Use theme names. Use
real words. Don't worry about reusing someone else's
hostname. There is always room for an exception.
Personally, I find it to be good advice. But this is just my own opinion,
plus I am guilty of breaking the advice since I once named a computer
"perelandra", which I quickly found that nobody could spell.
There was one bright spot, though. A co-worker complained to a contact at
another site about it. To his surprise, that person also had a co-worker
who had coincidentally named his computer "perelandra". They were a
little confused and wondered if maybe they were missing something.
- Logan "Hi, I'm Larry. This is my server, daryl,
and this is my other server, darryl." Shaw
Jim Reid
> > In article <36C9C0...@inforonics.com>, Kurt J. Lanza <k...@inforonics.com> wrote:
> >What other varieties of harmless fun can't you stomach?
> Tele-tubbies.
Well according to Jerry Falwell the Teletubbies are not harmless....
Alan Gauton
>
> In article <36C95E84...@usa.net>,
> Alan Gauton <agauton...@usa.net> did thusly spew forth:
> >Stuart Summerville wrote:
> >> local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
> >> fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
> >> about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
> >
> >purchasing the machines or the current system admin - the 4 bought last
> >year are named after mathematicians, the 2 so far this year are name
> >after characters from the Magic Roundabout.
>
> euw... what about having a consistent naming convention. ick. any way, that
> yuckiness aside...
There are a couple of reasons for this - there are actually three or
four people deciding names of workstations in the dept. where I work,
with separate groups (Comms, SPD, Power, etc.) Secondly, we never have
system admins long enough to establish a pattern as we usually use PhD
students to give them additional experience. I'm actually the first
staff member to be asked to look after our system in years.
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with Urananus.
Stuart Summerville
Stu.
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Stuart Summerville
Summerville) wrote:
>Hi peoples,
>
>Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
>local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
>fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
>about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
Myself & a co-worker setup a small two server network, with names
Thelma & Louise. Quite appropriate I thought...
Not really a theme as such, but the right effect nonetheless.
Stu.
Volker Borchert
|> This site fails to resolve the question that has been troubling me for
|> years: What is the difference between rigatoni and cannelloni?
Size.
Rigatoni are about 1 1/2 to 2 inches long and about 1/2 inch diameter,
Canneloni are about 3 to 4 inches long and about 3/4 inch diameter.
Canneloni are intended to be filled with bolognese sauce, covered with
cheese and then baked "al forno".
--
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"I'm a mechanic, not a doctor." Volker Borchert <b...@teknon.de>
John Horne
>> local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
>> fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
>> about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
>
for our Sun systems - eros, pandora, vulcan, etc. The network people
started using characters from the Hobbit - gandalf, etc. Then they
moved to composers - chopin, liszt, etc. The last batch we had was
'rudolph' - installed at Xmas and we were going to use the reindeer
names. The very last was renamed (from apollo) 'mabel' (??) - I don't
know why but was told by one of the managers to rename the system to
mabel.
Our Y2K network has 'games'! - kerplunk, buckeroo, yoyo and the like :-)
John.
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heh
Summerville) wrote:
>Hi peoples,
>
>Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
>local networks.
I use rather large prime numbers.
;-}
Paul Boyer
ten-thousand-dollars-bill.mit.edu is an exemple.
Also, I use some pasta cooking recipies for some of the machines, and
cigars brands for an other one.
Paul
John Horne <J.H...@plymouth.ac.uk> wrote in article
<36caa...@palantir.pbs.plym.ac.uk>...
> In article <7accum$lj5$3...@news.servint.com>,
> vl...@doom.net writes:
> >
> > We use city names here, rome, madrid, hamburg, etc,etc
> >
> >> Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
Michael D. Ober
one morning after I had done that and said "Sicko". My response was "You
knew which machine it was" and he said "You're right".
Mike Ober.
impish
Summerville) wrote:
>Hi peoples,
>
>Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
>local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
>fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
>about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
>
>Stu.
>
I just keep stealing them from Dantes Inferno
Limbo
Dis
Minos
A never ending supply.
Impish
Ignore the header, please respond in the newsgroup or
to the following e-mail address:
pdean96 at zdnetmail dot com
Shaun Conrad
Castor & Pollux. There's quite a few mythological characters, so you
probably won't run out too fast.
Shaun
Stuart Summerville wrote in message
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>Hi peoples,
>
>Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
>local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
>fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
>about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
>
>Stu.
>
>
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st...@netspace.net.au (Stuart Summerville) writes:
> Hi peoples,
>
> Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
> local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
> fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
> about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
>
all the new machines. We went though a phase of using body parts and
organs for machine names. One user got "colon" -- we had to tell him
we were naming machines after punctuation marks ...
One of my colleagues named an AIX system pita (it's an acronym -- she
din't like AIX at all).
> Stu.
>
--
Arthur Green
Allan Hawdon
: On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 11:52:03 GMT, st...@netspace.net.au (Stuart
: Summerville) wrote:
: >Hi peoples,
: >
: >Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
: >local networks.
: I use rather large prime numbers.
Or go the whole hog and use NSAPS.
The last place I worked used Norse Gods/Goddesses. Users generally
assumed they were obscure DECNet terms.
Here we use trees (boring). I've managed to introduce reptiles and such
like, mainly due to misunderstanding on my part when involved in an X500
project a while back. Nobody ever gets axolotl right, which has set me
to thinking about using mesoamerican deities or Mexican place names. That
should keep the systems nice and lightly loaded.
Michael
If that doesn't fix it, try wiping it and starting again?
--
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NT Workstation - Nick McGrath
Thursday 18th February at 4pm GMT
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dar...@abcol.ac.uk wrote in message <7aecq4$r34$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>If real planets are used the eventually a user will ask if there is a
problem
>with Urananus.
>
>
>
Craig J Copi
t...@birch.palni.eduNOSPAM (Tom Metzger) writes:
> We started with tree names (hickory, ash, oak, chestnut) and have since
> moved on to Star Trek names on one of our domains (spock, data, crusher,
> worf, etc) and Disney names for our NT (ugh) machines (Bugs, Daffy,
^^^^ ^^^^^
Well, at least these two are appropriate.
> Warner).
Craig
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cj...@po.cwru.edu (Craig J Copi) wrote:
> In article <MPG.1134a7bc3...@news.ind.net>,
> t...@birch.palni.eduNOSPAM (Tom Metzger) writes:
> > We started with tree names (hickory, ash, oak, chestnut) and have since
> > moved on to Star Trek names on one of our domains (spock, data, crusher,
> > worf, etc) and Disney names for our NT (ugh) machines (Bugs, Daffy,
> ^^^^ ^^^^^
> Well, at least these two are appropriate.
>
> > Warner).
Yeah, but since when do Bugs & Daffy work for Disney?
Kurt
Roman Visintine
hours of re-constructing the PDC it had a new name...Uranus. People weren't
too fond of the name so we changed it to Mercury when we brought our new PDC
on-line. As for the names of client machines in the network... one of the
guys here like to name them after rocks and minerals.
--Roman
Michael wrote:
> You mean Uranus keeps dumping so we need to boot it?
> If that doesn't fix it, try wiping it and starting again?
> --
> Michael.
>
> Windows NT Chat with the Microsoft NT product team
> NT Server - Frances Reay/Mark Tennant
> NT Workstation - Nick McGrath
> Thursday 18th February at 4pm GMT
> See http://msn.co.uk/chat for more details
>
> dar...@abcol.ac.uk wrote in message <7aecq4$r34$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
> >If real planets are used the eventually a user will ask if there is a
> problem
> >with Urananus.
> >
> >
> >
logan...@yahoo.com
dar...@abcol.ac.uk wrote:
> If real planets are used the eventually a user will ask if there is a problem
> with Urananus.
Oh boy. I once had a user name a computer simply "b". Actually, this
made sense since the next part of the fully-qualified name was "arc".
At least, he told me this made it make sense in light of some science
fiction I hadn't read. At any rate, it wasn't hard to remember "b".
- Logan
John E. Adams
No dwarfs, no themes.
--
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Chip Campbell
basis that they were too little, too late.
Chip
>> Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
>> local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
>> fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
>> about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
>> ----------------------------------------------
Michael Paci
Conrad" <sco...@ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>There's quite a few mythological characters, so you
>probably won't run out too fast.
Here's another mythical character: missioncriticalNTbox
I'm laughing if nobody else is...
mike paci
Thomas H Jones II
<dar...@abcol.ac.uk> did thusly spew forth:
>with Urananus.
likely, you mean "Uranus".
and, like any good conversation, the topic eventually turned to 'ass'...
-tom
Dennis Clarke
stability problems with their DEC Alpha based NT boxes. I asked them
what the uptime was like and they kinda shrugged and said about six to
seven hours at a time. No kidding. I suggested scrapping them and
putting in Solaris based Sun boxes and they looked at each other and
then said - "We can't administer unix".
I said "What could be worse, a set of servers that crash three times a
day - OR - a server that you look at once every week and then
call in someone to do administration for you - remotely. Meanwhile your
users and management are happy cause your email system hasn't stopped
working. You have uptime measured in months?"
You can guess the answer. People are learning - slowly - but they are
learning.
Dennis
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rickets
cholera
etc...
I've always wanted to try famous porn stars, but haven't got the guts.
Otherwise, we generally use nuclear reactor names, rock bands, disney
and the like.
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Administrator
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Michael
Richard Ashton <{R}@sunshine.tm> wrote in message
<919272688s...@sunshine.tm>...
>Don't quote the whole post, sunshine.
Are Demon finding it difficult to find enough storage space for his quotes
and your headers? <g>
Malcolm Dunnett
>
> I'm giggling. I spent the afternoon at a company that is having
> stability problems with their DEC Alpha based NT boxes. I asked them
> what the uptime was like and they kinda shrugged and said about six to
> seven hours at a time. No kidding. I suggested scrapping them and
> putting in Solaris based Sun boxes and they looked at each other and
> then said - "We can't administer unix".
>
Why would you suggest they scrap their hardware when they can already
run multiple flavours of Unix ( "OSF1/Digital Unix/Tru64 Unix" or linux )
or ( even better ) VMS on the existing hardware?
> I said "What could be worse, a set of servers that crash three times a
> day - OR - a server that you look at once every week and then
> call in someone to do administration for you - remotely. Meanwhile your
> users and management are happy cause your email system hasn't stopped
> working. You have uptime measured in months?"
>
> You can guess the answer. People are learning - slowly - but they are
> learning.
>
Yep, now if some other folks could learn Solaris isn't the only
alternative to NT :-) <-- look, I'm smiling, keep the flames on low please!
--
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Computer Services Nanaimo, B.C. CANADA V9R 5S5 Tel: (250)755-8738
"OpenVMS is today what Microsoft wants Windows NT v8.0 to be!"
posted on www.openvms.digital.com on or about Sep 22,1998
Quashed on Sep 23,1998
Ken
>
> We started with tree names (hickory, ash, oak, chestnut) and have since
> moved on to Star Trek names on one of our domains (spock, data, crusher,
> worf, etc) and Disney names for our NT (ugh) machines (Bugs, Daffy,
When we brought up our company engineering LAN around 1989, my boss
wanted Yoda, so I just followed the Star Wars theme for everything else
and used characters and ships. There are enough minor characters, esp.
when you include books and comic books, to name a few hands of machines.
The office subnet (mostly NT) uses star names.
--
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+AD4- cjc5+AEA-po.cwru.edu (Craig J Copi) wrote:
+AD4APg- In article +ADw-MPG.1134a7bc303f3e4f989726+AEA-news.ind.net+AD4-,
+AD4APg- tom+AEA-birch.palni.eduNOSPAM (Tom Metzger) writes:
+AD4APg- +AD4- We started with tree names (hickory, ash, oak, chestnut) and have since
+AD4APg- +AD4- moved on to Star Trek names on one of our domains (spock, data,
crusher,
+AD4APg- +AD4- worf, etc) and Disney names for our NT (ugh) machines (Bugs, Daffy,
Warner).
+AD4APg- +AF4AXgBeAF4- +AF4AXgBeAF4AXg-
+AD4APg- Well, at least these two are appropriate.
+AD4APg-
+AD4APg- +AD4- Warner).
+AD4-
+AD4-Yeah, but since when do Bugs +ACY- Daffy work for Disney?
+AD4-
+AD4-Kurt
+AD4-
They started when the Warner Brothers did.
joca...@my-dejanews.com
Our allegedly high-availability system that really crashes all the time is
known as titanic.
joca...@my-dejanews.com
>
> Here we use trees (boring). I've managed to introduce reptiles and such
> like, mainly due to misunderstanding on my part when involved in an X500
> project a while back. Nobody ever gets axolotl right, which has set me
> to thinking about using mesoamerican deities or Mexican place names. That
> should keep the systems nice and lightly loaded.
The Windows NT (Yuck!) system in my office is Aristophanes. That didn't
bother me at first since it doesn't have e-mail or any other services on
it, but I always question my sanity when I'm using the X-Windows emulator
and have to set my DISPLAY variable to point back to my machine....
--
John
steveT
too! The Scandanavians are shit hot at this stuff... It's those long winters
I reakon.
Dennis Clarke wrote:
> I'm giggling. I spent the afternoon at a company that is having
> stability problems with their DEC Alpha based NT boxes. I asked them
> what the uptime was like and they kinda shrugged and said about six to
> seven hours at a time. No kidding. I suggested scrapping them and
> putting in Solaris based Sun boxes and they looked at each other and
> then said - "We can't administer unix".
>
> I said "What could be worse, a set of servers that crash three times a
> day - OR - a server that you look at once every week and then
> call in someone to do administration for you - remotely. Meanwhile your
> users and management are happy cause your email system hasn't stopped
> working. You have uptime measured in months?"
>
> You can guess the answer. People are learning - slowly - but they are
> learning.
>
> Dennis
>
> Michael Paci wrote:
>
> > In article <ejYGuOoW#GA....@uppssnewspub04.moswest.msn.net>, "Shaun
> > Conrad" <sco...@ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> >
> > >There's quite a few mythological characters, so you
> > >probably won't run out too fast.
> >
> > Here's another mythical character: missioncriticalNTbox
> >
> > I'm laughing if nobody else is...
> >
> > mike paci
>
> --
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> Go to http://www.distributed.net/ for the fastest computer on earth!
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> We use ISO standard naming conventions:
>
> so each server has a 3 part name consisting of Country&City, Role & a
> number, ie:
>
> AUSYDSRV05
>
> Meaning Australia Sydney General Server No.5
>
> AUBRIPRN04
>
> Meaning Australia Brisbane Print Server No.4
So how the fuck long does it take you to work out where to
telnet or rlogin to? And bloody uppercase as well! They
aren't PCs are they?
-am
dar...@abcol.ac.uk
thats good for 200 odd servers, then you could do the same for co-stars.
Daz
Anthony Mandic
> Oh boy. I once had a user name a computer simply "b". Actually, this
> made sense since the next part of the fully-qualified name was "arc".
> At least, he told me this made it make sense in light of some science
> fiction I hadn't read. At any rate, it wasn't hard to remember "b".
Ah, yes. I like them short too. But you're one sounds good.
Do you have one named "d" or maybe "f"?
I wonder what I can do with the "agd" domain I have? But currently
I'm using sun-related themes - noon, moon, dawn and, of course,
dusk, sunset and twilight (but this is more to do with my
crepuscular interests than anything to do with Sun).
-am
ar...@my-dejanews.com
But the best name I ever saw was nugapac
You must know Russian to appreciate it...
-- arig
In article <z7gy2.1345$Kk2.362@insync>,
Andrew <a...@vellocet.insync.net> wrote:
<...>
>
> We name our machines after Nadsat words from Clockwork Orange (vellocet,
> drencrom, synthemesc, mozg, moloko, etc.). One of our machines is quite
> aptly named gromky (which means "loud") because it has a noisy hard drive.
> =)
>
> --
> Andrew O. Smith - <a...@insync.net>
> Sysadmin, Insync Internet Services
> Houston, Texas, USA
Flemming S. Johansen
> [snip]
> Currently we mainly use Greek/Roman gods, titans, mythical characters
> for our Sun systems - eros, pandora, vulcan, etc. The network people
> started using characters from the Hobbit - gandalf, etc. Then they
> moved to composers - chopin, liszt, etc. The last batch we had was
> 'rudolph' - installed at Xmas and we were going to use the reindeer
> names. The very last was renamed (from apollo) 'mabel' (??) - I don't
> know why but was told by one of the managers to rename the system to
> mabel.
>
> Our Y2K network has 'games'! - kerplunk, buckeroo, yoyo and the like :-)
Our Sun Ultra workstations have names like heaven, nirvana, olympus,
etc.
Conversely, the first Ultra server we got was promptly named hell - that
way I could tell my users where to go to when they wanted more cycles
;-)
Our Linux boxes are generally named after roman emperors: Nero,
augustus,
etc. This began with the first Linux box "officially" installed. Its
sole
task is to host a CD-ROM recorder. And by calling it nero I could make
an awful pun about it in danish (sorry, it doesn't translate).
Back in the old days when I admin'ed a bunch of AIX boxes, the main
server
was called 'sol' (latin for sun), and the clients were named after
planets.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Flemming S. Johansen
f...@terma.com
Dennis Clarke
the best choice for stability while NT is the best choice for cost.
Dennis
Malcolm Dunnett wrote:
> In article <36CB4315...@sympatico.ca>,
> Dennis Clarke <d.cl...@sympatico.ca> writes:
> >
> > I'm giggling. I spent the afternoon at a company that is having
> > stability problems with their DEC Alpha based NT boxes. I asked them
> > what the uptime was like and they kinda shrugged and said about six to
> > seven hours at a time. No kidding. I suggested scrapping them and
> > putting in Solaris based Sun boxes and they looked at each other and
> > then said - "We can't administer unix".
> >
>
> Why would you suggest they scrap their hardware when they can already
> run multiple flavours of Unix ( "OSF1/Digital Unix/Tru64 Unix" or linux )
> or ( even better ) VMS on the existing hardware?
>
> > I said "What could be worse, a set of servers that crash three times a
> > day - OR - a server that you look at once every week and then
> > call in someone to do administration for you - remotely. Meanwhile your
> > users and management are happy cause your email system hasn't stopped
> > working. You have uptime measured in months?"
> >
> > You can guess the answer. People are learning - slowly - but they are
> > learning.
> >
>
> Yep, now if some other folks could learn Solaris isn't the only
> alternative to NT :-) <-- look, I'm smiling, keep the flames on low please!
>
> --
> =============================================================================
> Malcolm Dunnett Malaspina University-College Email: dun...@mala.bc.ca
> Computer Services Nanaimo, B.C. CANADA V9R 5S5 Tel: (250)755-8738
>
> "OpenVMS is today what Microsoft wants Windows NT v8.0 to be!"
> posted on www.openvms.digital.com on or about Sep 22,1998
> Quashed on Sep 23,1998
--
Allan Hawdon
: In article <7aecq4$r34$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
: dar...@abcol.ac.uk wrote:
: > If real planets are used the eventually a user will ask if there is a problem
: > with Urananus.
: Oh boy. I once had a user name a computer simply "b". Actually, this
: made sense since the next part of the fully-qualified name was "arc".
: At least, he told me this made it make sense in light of some science
: fiction I hadn't read. At any rate, it wasn't hard to remember "b".
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Michael
>I'm glad people are getting wise to MS. I'm glad Linus makes Bill Nervous
>too! The Scandanavians are shit hot at this stuff... It's those long
winters
>I reakon.
Perhaps we should get Ulrika Johnson to write the next version then? <g>
I think the success of Linux has more to do with the input from thousands of
people worldwide rather than one guy.
Ironic given the amount of text on open source how we still want a single
person to identify the product with.
All MS bugs are Bill Gates fault all Linux bugs are Linus' fault?
an U.S.A. (Unix Sys Admin)
> heh (h...@heh.heh) wrote:
> : On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 11:52:03 GMT, st...@netspace.net.au (Stuart
> : Summerville) wrote:
>
> : >Hi peoples,
> : >
> : >Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
> : >local networks.
>
> : I use rather large prime numbers.
>
> Or go the whole hog and use NSAPS.
>
> The last place I worked used Norse Gods/Goddesses. Users generally
> assumed they were obscure DECNet terms.
>
> Here we use trees (boring). I've managed to introduce reptiles and such
> like, mainly due to misunderstanding on my part when involved in an X500
> project a while back. Nobody ever gets axolotl right, which has set me
> to thinking about using mesoamerican deities or Mexican place names. That
> should keep the systems nice and lightly loaded.
>
I have done that!
A few examples:
tenoch, quetzalcoatl, ollin, tlaloc. Then our hindu boss got his and
named it Krishna! The russian guys were going nuts!
CHeers
>
>
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We had used Quarks for our internal office: charm, strange, up, down
(a Windows ;), but we've moved to arabian/farsi male names: ali,
aladdin, zamir, ibrahim, abdul... due to an affinity of our
PC-supporteress for arabian guys ;)
At home, we have Characters from books (tigger, schnuddel) and
erisian prophets (malaclypse, zarathud, omar...) plus some misbehaving
NT named hal9000.
Peter
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-- Lao Tse
Frederic Goudal
> I knew a guy who used disease names:
> rickets
> cholera
> etc...
>
> I've always wanted to try famous porn stars, but haven't got the guts.
I've named mine... hardcore !!
But that's an exception. Last series
were : colors (15 at a time) previous one were french writers, we have
had painters, scultors, marxbrothers, photogtaphers, mountain, Rome
hills, 7 dwarves...
Our server are named after the carthago heroes, and the Salammbô novel by
Flaubert. (But the funiest is that one of our server is named salambo
like my daughter, with the same error (one m instead of 2) , but I
joined this job after by daughter was born, it's just a very strange coincidence...
f.g.
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Jens Haug
We call our server ILikeToCrossPostToAHundredNewsGroups.
The clients are called MeToo, MeThree, F'up2 and *plonk*.
Jens
Arto V. Viitanen
Stuart> Hi peoples, Just curious to know what themes you use for machine
Stuart> names on your local networks. I've heard of or used some of the
Stuart> following: animals, fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie
Stuart> stars, & musicians. What about you? I'm sure there's some birarre
Stuart> ones being used out there....
I've been using Isaac Asimov's planet names, mainly from his Foundation
series. I have had (either as my workstation, home PC, or as server I have
been administrated):
aurora
terminus
anacreon
askone
kalgan
siwenna
Trantor is too obvious.
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University of Tampere, Department of Computer Science
Tampere, Finland http://www.cs.uta.fi/~av/
sven the hairy
You'll never run out of names, plus often you can match the spice to the
machine-user's personality.
For a linux box, my favorite name is Sparky, i.e. Tom Tommorrow's Sparky the
Wonder Penguin.
Stuart Summerville wrote in message
<36cb58cb...@news.netspace.net.au>...
>Hi peoples,
>
>Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
>local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
>fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
>about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
>
>Stu.
>
>
>----------------------------------------------
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Thomas H Jones II
<joca...@my-dejanews.com> did thusly spew forth:
>known as titanic.
Had an HA-pair whose heartbeat interfaces i gave the names "crash" and
"burn" to. Noone else thought it was funny.
-tom
Jeff McWilliams
><36cb58cb...@news.netspace.net.au>...
>>Hi peoples,
>>
>>Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
>>local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
>>fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
>>about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
>>
>>Stu.
Characters in Greek or Roman mythology are good, or just the names
of planets and moons in our solar system.
Another good set is heroes and namaes of the Valar out of
J.R.R. Tolkien's books, especially the Silmarillion.
Where I work they started out using cartoon character names,
so I'm stuck with them. My desktop is "Brain" while my
laptop is "Pinky". One NT box is "Snowball" also from the Pinky & the Brain
animation series. One of our Linux boxes is "Homer".
Bleah - I liked the Middle Earth names at my previous
job better.
there was nothing better than telnet'ing to Nargothrond...
:-)
Jeff
Rod MacBain
>Spices: Mint, thyme, Curry, Dil, Basil, etc...
>
>>Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
>>local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
>>fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
>>about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
>>
>>Stu.
>>
>>
How come nobody uses penguin names - it seems a natural for linux
boxes. You know - King, Emperor, Gentoo, Rockhopper, Adele.
Rod
Stephen Turner
>
> How come nobody uses penguin names - it seems a natural for linux
> boxes. You know - King, Emperor, Gentoo, Rockhopper, Adele.
>
I have a box with two copies of Linux on different partitions, the main one
called adelie, and a very small one for testing called littleblue. I also
have webspace (albeit unused) at www.adelie.freeserve.co.uk.
--
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Statistical Laboratory, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB, England
"Ad infinitum, if not ad nauseam." (Interviewee, BBC Radio 4)
Steve Trask
"BORG" (it assimilates everything), and "ENTERPRISE" as its the main server.
Steve
Rod MacBain wrote in message <36cf4655...@allnews.nbnet.nb.ca>...
>"sven the hairy" <ji...@anti-social.com> spake thusly:
>
>>Spices: Mint, thyme, Curry, Dil, Basil, etc...
>>
>>>Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
>>>local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
>>>fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
>>>about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
>>>
>>>Stu.
>>>
>>>
>
>How come nobody uses penguin names - it seems a natural for linux
>boxes. You know - King, Emperor, Gentoo, Rockhopper, Adele.
>
>Rod
>
>
Mladen Gogala
"an U.S.A. (Unix Sys Admin)" <sali...@nospam.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Allan Hawdon wrote:
>
> > heh (h...@heh.heh) wrote:
> > : On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 11:52:03 GMT, st...@netspace.net.au (Stuart
> > : Summerville) wrote:
> >
> > : >Hi peoples,
> > : >
> > : >local networks.
> >
> > : I use rather large prime numbers.
> >
> > Or go the whole hog and use NSAPS.
> >
> > The last place I worked used Norse Gods/Goddesses. Users generally
> > assumed they were obscure DECNet terms.
> >
> > Here we use trees (boring). I've managed to introduce reptiles and such
> > like, mainly due to misunderstanding on my part when involved in an X500
> > project a while back. Nobody ever gets axolotl right, which has set me
> > to thinking about using mesoamerican deities or Mexican place names. That
> > should keep the systems nice and lightly loaded.
> >
>
> I have done that!
>
> A few examples:
>
> tenoch, quetzalcoatl, ollin, tlaloc. Then our hindu boss got his and
> named it Krishna! The russian guys were going nuts!
>
> CHeers
>
> >
> >
>
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newt,trent and hillary. I think I can guess where did they get their naming
scheme and I think they want run out of names any time soon.
Mladen Gogala
Barry Keeney
: Hi peoples,
: Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
: local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
: fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
: about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
How about 70's porn stars :^)
--
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Chaos Consulting
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Scott Harrington
> Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
> local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
> fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
> about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
Islands (alcatraz, oahu, laputa, manhattan, sumatra, ...)
Rivers (amazon, nile, columbia, mackenzie, ganges, volga, danube, ...)
Mountains:
cascade volcanoes (rainier, adams, mazama, hood, shasta, baker, ...)
appalachia (mitchell, marcy, katahdin, rogers, ...)
Our admin in Bermuda named our two Xyplex terminal servers "codfish" and
"potatoes" after the local dish.
jrgu...@my-dejanews.com
professional sports teams.
In article <36C95E84...@usa.net>,
agauton...@usa.net wrote:
> Stuart Summerville wrote:
> >
> > Hi peoples,
> >
> > Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
> > local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
> > fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
> > about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
>
> PCs are named by the users. Solaris machines are named by the lecturers
> purchasing the machines or the current system admin - the 4 bought last
> year are named after mathematicians, the 2 so far this year are name
> after characters from the Magic Roundabout.
>
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Planet names. You can even find JPGs to use as a background (on NASA's
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> Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
> local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
> fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
> about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
I've started to use "things you can buy at a hardware store". So there's
hammer, grommet, drillbit, 2x4, yardstick, and so on. Every once in a while
I have to go out to Home Depot for more ideas.
miguel
Anton
Ahhh... so thats why the servers were crashing ;-)
Carl Taylor
they set them up. I have an NT server which has been up for 256 days
currently and the last time it was taken was to do a memory upgrade, not
for a crash.
--
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IT Manager Australia
Crown Worldwide Movers
Opinions expressed are personal and in
no way reflect upon my employer.
Dennis Clarke <d.cl...@sympatico.ca> wrote in article
<36CB4315...@sympatico.ca>...
> I'm giggling. I spent the afternoon at a company that is having
> stability problems with their DEC Alpha based NT boxes. I asked them
> what the uptime was like and they kinda shrugged and said about six to
> seven hours at a time. No kidding. I suggested scrapping them and
> putting in Solaris based Sun boxes and they looked at each other and
> then said - "We can't administer unix".
>
> I said "What could be worse, a set of servers that crash three times a
> day - OR - a server that you look at once every week and then
> call in someone to do administration for you - remotely. Meanwhile your
> users and management are happy cause your email system hasn't stopped
> working. You have uptime measured in months?"
>
> You can guess the answer. People are learning - slowly - but they are
> learning.
>
> Dennis
>
> Michael Paci wrote:
>
> > In article <ejYGuOoW#GA....@uppssnewspub04.moswest.msn.net>, "Shaun
> > Conrad" <sco...@ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> >
> > >There's quite a few mythological characters, so you
> > >probably won't run out too fast.
> >
> > Here's another mythical character: missioncriticalNTbox
> >
> > I'm laughing if nobody else is...
> >
> > mike paci
Carl Taylor
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Steve Trask <tr...@tstonramp.com> wrote in article
<7ahnrb$ot5$1...@remarQ.com>...
> We have used Star Trek names on a few systems. We have a file server
named
> "BORG" (it assimilates everything), and "ENTERPRISE" as its the main
server.
>
> Steve
>
> Rod MacBain wrote in message <36cf4655...@allnews.nbnet.nb.ca>...
> >"sven the hairy" <ji...@anti-social.com> spake thusly:
> >
> >>Spices: Mint, thyme, Curry, Dil, Basil, etc...
> >>
> >>>Just curious to know what themes you use for machine names on your
> >>>local networks. I've heard of or used some of the following: animals,
> >>>fruits, alcoholic beverages, artists, movie stars, & musicians. What
> >>>about you? I'm sure there's some birarre ones being used out there....
> >>>