[plug] OT - Machine naming schemes

[Mark Dixon]

Matthew asked: "quick poll: What do people name their machines after?"

I'm the Dilbert fan that names all of my machines (9 of them in my home 
network) after Dilbert characters.  At the Economics & Commerce faculty 
in UWA (where I am a student) the servers are named after units of 
currency, for example: Dollar, Cent, Pound, Yen, Mark, Franc, Kyat, 
Kroner, ... (lots more).  I thought that was appropriate.  A lot of the 
general UWA servers are named after classical greek stuff, eg. Cyllene, 
Styx, ... the student server is called Tartarus (greek for Hell as I 
understand it - another good call).

 > Part two: What was your favourite Transformer character

Sorry, I'm too old to have a favourite transformer, my kids watched that 
on TV when they were little but I didn't relate closely enough to the 
show take it on - mostly because what the kids really liked was Pokemon 
(now there's a naming convention for machines - there's hundreds of 
them).  Has anyone ever hear the "Pokemon Polka" by Weird Al Yankovich - 
it's a hoot. (http://www.schultzs.org/pokeminmin/Polkamon.mp3 - 1.9MBytes)

Cheers, Mark.


Matthew Lambie wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Enjoy your Saturday nights!