OT Re: Naming Computers (strategy, and WHY)

From: Stan Pietkiewicz <pietstan_at_rogers.com>
Date: Wed Oct 23 21:58:00 2002

At work we have one area where they named all their servers after
Simpsons characters (homer, lisa (the DB server), bart, etc...) Another
area picked Lord of the Rings characters (they had real problems with
sauron, but sam and frodo were reliable!!) Other areas just use an
acronym of the machine's purpose.... My machines at home are named after
  Sesame Street characters, since I had young kids when I started
collecting. The MicroVax 3400 is bigbird, the NoName alpha I had great
frustrations setting up is oscar, my SETI number-cruncher is thecount.....

I guess even with a fictitious-character theme, the machine's name
sometime reflects their function or "personality" (machinality??)

Stan

Ron Hudson wrote:

>
> At my last job, we never named a machine for who used it or what it did,
> When we setup the machine for the customs group, we made the mistake of
> naming it "customs", then when we moved the transportation group onto it
> the customs group put up a big stink :^)
>
> We had names like:
> Pandora, Indigo, Mozart, Electra, Jetset
>
>
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