Naming Computers [ was: Re: A Momentous Decision ]

Might as well throw in my two cents on server names. I always figured machines were happier when they had real names, so I've always been opposed to names like 'mblv002' or 'mail'. That's what CNAME records are for. I like postindustrial consumer icons, though I've got a few other parallel namespaces going in my lab at home. - wingnut, umbrella, potentiometer, wurlitzer, eightball, eggo, - synthemesc, rapidograph, boesendorfer, diesel, sunroof... For a while I had a bunch of NEXTSTEP systems named for characters in the Asterix comic. - asterix, obelix, dogmatix, geriatrix, getafix, cacophonix, - vitalstatistix I started out with European political figures on compact Macintoshes. - Napoleon, Churchill, Bismarck, Preminger Later on I moved to Richard Scarry, when bigger Macs started coming in. - Bugdozer, Tillie, Pig Won't, Lowly Worm I have a low opinion of Linux zealots, so I named those systems appropriately. - booger, drool, epsilon-minus, malibu-barbie I have a Yiddish lexicon of PS/2s - yeshiva, nudnik, nudzh, shmedrick I'd better stop there, I think that's more than 2 cents. I never had the nerve to do this, but there's a treasure trove of hostnames in the Sami names for Swedish mountain peaks. You can start off lightly and work up from there. keb, akka, nammatj, sjnjerek, sjnjuftjutis ok r.