18 Oct
2002
18 Oct
'02
7:05 p.m.
Just out of curiousity, how many other people here
name their classic
computers (for reasons other than giving them a network address)
-tony
Personally the only computers I give names to are ones on my network (of
course basically every system I have setup is networked). I've reached the
point though where the name is likely to simply reflect what kind of hardware
the host is. Other times the name might be what it was prior to my getting
it.
Zane
19 Oct
19 Oct
9:36 a.m.
All my machines get named after famous TV/movie computers. My laptop is
Ziggy (Quantum Leap), the big PC is Wopr (Wargames), another is Hal
(2001:ASO), one with lots of spinning fans is Maximilian (The Black Hole),
etc.
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Jeffrey Sharp
20 Oct
20 Oct
8:58 a.m.
Most of my systems are network connected so they get names allocated, but
sometimes the names reflect their usage. So the first network gateway box
is called kerberos but the other gateway is adslgw. When I'm thinking about
them I tend to say "I'm off to work on the Windows box, the Linux box, the
VAX (even though it's an alpha whose host name is nimrod) and so on.
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)kerberos.davies.net.au
| "If God had wanted soccer played in the
| air, the sky would be painted green"
7:23 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Huw Davies once stated:
Most of my systems are network connected so they get names allocated, but
sometimes the names reflect their usage. So the first network gateway box
is called kerberos but the other gateway is adslgw. When I'm thinking about
them I tend to say "I'm off to work on the Windows box, the Linux box, the
VAX (even though it's an alpha whose host name is nimrod) and so on.
The names I give are often puns or relect what I think of the machine in
some way. The two identical HPs I have (HP/Apollos 425) are tweedledee and
tweedledum. The two VAXs I've named (or will, once I get an OS installed
and running one of these days) HOOVER (a pun on the Vaxes made in England if
I remember---nothing sucks like them) and JEDGAR (since the other one is
HOOVE 8-)
Then there's linus, my primary linux development system, and janet, the
firewall (named after the Janet airlines that serves Area-51, which is what
I originally named the firewall, but renamed when I decided to play around
with TLD in DNS and set up (internally) .area51) and tower, my colocated
server (since it's an NCR, and for whatever reason, when I think of NCR, I
think of an NCR Tower).
-spc (And my Windows box is killjoy ... 8-P
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