Naming schemes

Oh what the heck, why not do my bit to congest the network... Can't tell who wrote: I picked crash.com in the Great Internet Domain Name Land Grab back in early 1994. Hard to believe what wasn't taken back then. As to why, well, what do computers do at the least convenient times? What logically followed (to me) was a series of names based on Unix signals. abort.crash.com Desktop buserr.crash.com Desktop fpe.crash.com Web server hup.crash.com Current firewall int.crash.com temporary, new machines io.crash.com File server segv.crash.com Old firewall term.crash.com Livingston Portmaster They've all been different machines at different times, as these are role-based names as much as anything else. And of course they have CNAMEs/aliases of the proper format: SIGHUP, SIGINT, etc. Other naming schemes in use are predictable. The Sun's are Egyptian gods (Ra Sparc 10/52, Thoth Sparc 20/92 (yes, 90MHz), Horus and Osiris are Ultra 30's, the Sun-4/260, 3/50 & 3/60 haven't been revived yet). The DEC MIPS and Alphas are Indian gods (Kali 5000/260, Hanuman a 3000/300lx, Siva a 600MHz PC164LX rack, new AS1200 and AS4000 haven't been named yet). The VAXen don't conform to this, I can't recall the name given to the uVAX 3400, the VS3100m38 only went far enough to confirm that it worked, and the 4000/500 is OMEGA. If I get the 11/730 running, I'll worry about a name then. The big problem there is what to do for mass storage, as I don't have a Unibus SCSI card and don't want to use a second backplane. OTOH, it might be faster to boot diskless and run over the net than hook up an R80... . The DG Aviions aren't really part of the network, and their names are stopgaps. An AV410 is "lilav", and the AV530's are Edson and Webo. I can't recall what name was given to the AV5500 just now. The cluster project was named arg.crash.com. The individual nodes (Soyo dual Slot 1 mobo's with Celerons on slockets - gives you an idea of timeframe!) were arg0, arg1, arg2, etc. I was tempted to rename the whole cluster argv, but... Laptops have been Slim (DEC HiNote Ultra), Slate (ThinkPad 600X), and now Folly (a ThinkPad T23 1400x1050 that I shouldn't have put the money into). Network attached HP LaserJet 4+ is Hardcopy.