[plug] OT - Machine naming schemes

[Craig Foster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au 
> [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf Of Matthew Lambie
> Sent: Sunday, 12 June 2005 12:31 AM
> To: PLUG
> Subject: [plug] OT - Machine naming schemes
> 
> Evening all,
> 
> A quick poll: What do people name their machines after? I saw 
> the other day that there was a Dilbert network, and when I 
> was at Vianet all the machines were named after dead rock 
> stars. The SGI lab at Curtin used to have Star Trek names and 
> at home I use GI Joe characters (I'm on Stormshadow now, and 
> have Duke, Falcon, Lifeline, Destro - the shiny silver 
> wizard, Snakeeyes, Dialtone - the Asterisk server, and others ;)
> 
> Part two: What was your favourite Transformer character, 
> that's not Prime or Jazz, we have them already. Or Prowl, 
> because that's one of the new boxes. We have two more servers 
> to name and we want short hosts if possible. While 
> omegasupreme.thefrontiergroup.com.au might sound cool, It'll 
> be a bitch to type all the time ;) I personally think 
> Grimlock might be a winner.

Omega works well.

I'm guessing yours was Optimus Prime, since it's the fallback page for
hosted sites... 

> Enjoy your Saturday nights!
> -- 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matthew Lambie
> Technical Director
> 
> THE FRONTIER GROUP, PTY. LTD.
> Suite 17/44 Kings Park Road
> West Perth, WA  6005
> Australia

Craig Foster
RedHat Certified Engineer
craig at fostware.net
(S/MIME Available)