From: werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,news.newusers.questions Subject: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Hello, everyone. About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for thematically-linked names of UNIX machines. Here is the summary of posts in answer to my question. I gratefully acknowledge the following persons for their help: aross@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Andrew M. Ross) mike@meiko.com (Mike Stok) mark-r@spec0.electrical-engineering.manchester.ac.uk (Mark Robinson) bell@cs.tamu.edu (Will Bell) adrian@cs.williams.edu (Adrian Alcala) bentson@CS.ColoState.EDU (Randolph Bentson) mgfrank@eribus.com (Marc G. Frank) *** Thematic Names *** * various villains (Q, Desslock, Jabba the Hut), Gojira, Zuul * nuclear particles (Truth, Beauty, Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange, Charmed) * pizza toppings (oregano, pepperoni, pineapple, ham, cheese) * the Seven Deadly Sins (lust, sloth, envy, pride, etc.) * various weather patterns in the Berkeley area (windstorm, tornado, lightning) * Simpsons' names * Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (and items contained in the story, e.g., poisoned apple) * characters in _The Hobbit_ (Gollum, Sauron, Bagend, etc.) * characters in _Batman_ (Batman, Penguin, Joker, Catwoman) * the planets * Greek letters (sigma, summa, theta, alpha, beta, etc.) * breeds of cows * composers and their compositions * mountains in Colorado * breakfast foods/cereals Please post follow-ups to alt.folklore.computers. Craig Werner From: ab401@freenet.carleton.ca (Paul Tomblin) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) writes: >About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for >thematically-linked names of UNIX machines. Here is the summary of > GeoVision used to have a lot of machines, and at various times in the past various projects tried to have some sort of theme. My first project there was an ice-mapping system, so both machines involved had Inuit names: ookpik and nanook Other themes: Composers and painters: mozart, rembrandt, vangogh, chopin, bach Root vegetables: beet, radish, turnip, pumpkin (not quite a root veg, I know), pickle Gulf war: patriot, scud Fighter aircraft: harrier, hornet, falcon, eagle, spitfire HHGTHG: marvin, traal, zaphod (zaphod was a uVax GPX with two heads) -- Paul Tomblin - formerly {pt{omblin},news}@{geovision.}gvc.com "Cyclists have a right to the road too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate maniacs! I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!" - Calvin's dad. From: zevans@nyx.cs.du.edu (Zack Evans) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <1993Jun27.033236.25946@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> gothick@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Gothick) writes: >And proably quite a few more *grin* What did you do, cat etc/hosts ? :) Anyway, our SPARCs at Lancaster Uni are named after mountains in the UK, preceded by dcl for Dept Of Computing at Lancs, thus we have dcl-snowdon, dcl-scafell, dcl-nevis, etc The colour Xterms are after big cats - panther, lynx, cheetah. The oldest colour X terminal is called berttwo - this was a pun on one of the system programmer's consoles, which he called Bertone after the Italian artist. The mono xterms are all latin words - abundantia, accidenti, hypothesi, etc The Macs in the Mac lab are all named ater footballers...banks, moore, bcharlton... The HPs in Physics are named after Physicists funnily enough - kelvin, faraday, plank, etc etc Everything else is either department, location, or user related - mathssun4, csmac1, or pcraven for instance. -- Zack Evans pyc081@cent1.lancs.ac.uk or zevans@nyx.cs.du.edu (Internet) pyc081@uk.ac.lancs.cent1 (JANET) Watch yer bass bins lads, I'm tellin' yer... From: buckley@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (BUCKLEY CHARLES RAY) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) writes: > >Hello, everyone. > >About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for >thematically-linked names of UNIX machines. Here is the summary of >posts in answer to my question. I gratefully acknowledge the >following persons for their help: > >aross@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Andrew M. Ross) >mike@meiko.com (Mike Stok) >mark-r@spec0.electrical-engineering.manchester.ac.uk (Mark Robinson) >bell@cs.tamu.edu (Will Bell) >adrian@cs.williams.edu (Adrian Alcala) >bentson@CS.ColoState.EDU (Randolph Bentson) >mgfrank@eribus.com (Marc G. Frank) > > *** Thematic Names *** > >* various villains (Q, Desslock, Jabba the >Hut), Gojira, Zuul >* nuclear particles (Truth, Beauty, Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange, >Charmed) >* pizza toppings (oregano, pepperoni, pineapple, ham, cheese) >* the Seven Deadly Sins (lust, sloth, envy, pride, etc.) >* various weather patterns in the Berkeley area (windstorm, tornado, >lightning) >* Simpsons' names >* Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (and items contained in the story, >e.g., poisoned apple) >* characters in _The Hobbit_ (Gollum, Sauron, Bagend, etc.) >* characters in _Batman_ (Batman, Penguin, Joker, Catwoman) >* the planets >* Greek letters (sigma, summa, theta, alpha, beta, etc.) >* breeds of cows >* composers and their compositions >* mountains in Colorado >* breakfast foods/cereals > Well, at good old CU, they have the astronaut section (Scirra, Onizuka, Young, Crippen, etc). (the aerospace department of course). the EE's have Faraday, Edison, etc, etc. The system I am on now is rintintin. The others are spot and tramp. These are the basic CS systems. (I'm surprised that there is no lassie). the geology department has people famous in geology (don't ask me who - I'm not a geologist). >Please post follow-ups to alt.folklore.computers. > >Craig Werner -- Charles Buckley buckley@ucsu.colorado.edu It's turtles all the way down. Just another West Virginia exile in the land of make believe. Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris. From: stevev@miser.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites acsu.buffalo.edu has several machines with names derived from characters, items, or titles in Gene Wolfe's _Book of the New Sun_ series -- torturer (_The Shadow of the Torturer_), claw (_The Claw of the Conciliator), lictor (_The Sword of the Lictor_), autarch (_The Citadel of the Autarch_), terminus-est (the name of Severian's ritual execution sword), fuligin (the color of Severian's cloak), talos (from Dr. Talos, a character). On further investigation I found that other machines in that domain are named after other authors or composers. The pattern of names first struck me because I'm a big fan of Gene Wolfe -- if you haven't read his stuff, teleport to your local bookstore and pick up the books. When at the University of Oregon we renamed one of our machines to greylady (submariners reputedly call their submarines Grey Ladies). When requesting some other system names, we used a submarine theme: grayback wahoo gudgeon (names of US attack submarines) titanic (one of our people wanted this because it is effectively a submarine now :-) ) dosboot (a DOS machine and a reference to _Das Boot_) Unfortunately the theme was broken when grayback was renamed to miser. It is probably one of the more obscure themes I've seen -- you'd just about have to be one of the U of O Chemstores crew to recognize it. -- Steve VanDevender stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu "Bipedalism--an unrecognized disease affecting over 99% of the population. Symptoms include lack of traffic sense, slow rate of travel, and the classic, easily recognized behavior known as walking." From: gothick@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Gothick) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) writes: >Hello, everyone. > >About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for >thematically-linked names of UNIX machines. Here is the summary of >posts in answer to my question. I gratefully acknowledge the >following persons for their help: We have (at Computer Science): stones:diamond zircon stone jet garnet onyx flint rocky slate marble granite quartz pumice -ind endings: bookbind woodwind upwind tamarind rescind behind headwind downwind -le endings (for the NCDs): fizzle bubble piffle ripple curdle trifle gargle (and at CSV): flowers: poppy orchid clover lily violet lupin crocus herbs(IPCs): tansy borage basil sage thyme parsley chive oregano comfrey fenugreek dill chervil yarrow fennel cumin cayenne nutmeg garlic mace paprika saffron caraway anise ginger meats(IPXs): ham mutton spam bacon haggis tripe pork beef lamb veal scientists(Non-linear Systems Lab): newton fermat gauss poincare lyapunov vanderpol bowen darwin weyl Planets(Maths?): mercury venus mars jupiter saturn uranus neptune pluto Vegetables(Staff DOS PCs): carrot cabbage sprout leek onion lettuce parsnip chilli bean pepper aubergine redstone pea potato radish marrow mushroom asparagus Animals(SUN-3/80s): fox badger stoat shrew squirrel otter mole rabbit Body Parts(!)(Tektronix X-terminals): arm elbow wrist hand thumb knuckle leg thigh knee shin ankle foot toe tendon hip waist chest neck head ear eye nose tongue nostril chin cheek skull tooth spine heart lung liver kidney limb throat stomach bone skin vein artery gullet brow spleen mouth Fruits(Staff Training Facility): banana cherry damson grape lemon lime mango melon orange pawpaw peach pear plum Plants(?)(Theoretical Physics): weed triffid hemlock bogwort Birds(Engineering): eagle falcon hawk owl kestrel osprey harrier condor heron quail kite merlin griffon raven snipe swallow finch magpie puffin phoenix pigeon pelican sunbird albatross anns grebe curlew tern petrel plover jay dunlin linnet dipper liatach pipit And proably quite a few more *grin* Cheers, Matt -- Matthew B. M. Gibson: gothick@dcs.warwick.ac.uk - mgibson@nyx.cs.du.edu - csudo@csv.warwick.ac.uk "Great. I'm a million miles from home, about to be killed, with a gung-ho iguana who tells me to relax" From: avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article jfh@netcom.com (Jack F. Hamilton) writes: >A local company uses the names of natural disasters: Chernoble, Yep. Human stupidity *is* the natural disaster :-) --vadim From: jfh@netcom.com (Jack F. Hamilton) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) wrote: > >About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for >thematically-linked names of UNIX machines. Here is the summary of >posts in answer to my question. A local company uses the names of natural disasters: Chernoble, Anita-Bryant, etc. I believe that Elizabeth Zwicky from SRI wrote a paper about site names which was published in one of the Internet newsletters distributed at the last InterOp. I suspect that a fair amount of research has been done on this by various people with time on their hands. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jack Hamilton jfh@netcom.com kd6ttl@n0ary.#nocal.ca.us.na (AMPR) Post Office Box Box 281107 San Francisco, California 94128 USA From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites > >Please post follow-ups to alt.folklore.computers. * Where I work, every Sparc is named after an element (which means there are nice, short abbreviations available). In recent months, things have gotten lax; there are now "admantium", "unobtanium", and "abusium" sites. * At Yale, there were two different Sun rooms connected by a hallway. One was the "zoo" (Sparcs named "lion", "tiger", "rhino"...) and one was the "aquarium" ("shark", "whale", "squid"...) * U.C. Berkeley's Open Computing Facility (OCF) has machines named after disasters ("locusts", "tornado", "earthquake", "headcrash", "hurricane"...) * UCB's "Bard" cluster has Sparcs named after Shakespeare characters. I thought this was a bad idea. If you're working on "Cordelia", or "Hamlet", or "Romeo", it's just *bound* to die when you need it. -- Andrew Solovay "But that was in another country; and besides, the wench is dead." ---Marlowe From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) writes: > thematically-linked names of UNIX machines. VUW lets each department choose their own names, with the only requirement being that they choose some sort of theme. Here's a sample... CSC: NZ native trees & shrubs: kauri, matai, rata, koromiko ... Comp Sci: Wellington places & things: kaukau, circa, cable-car, ... Mathematics: Mathematicians: hilbert, poincare, cantor, galois, cayley ... Central Services: Jet fighters: thunderchief, flogger, tiger, intruder... English Language Institute: couldhave, maybe, willdo, mustdo, hasbeen... Sociology: Small(ish) plants: camelia, hogweed, azalea, basil, heather... Vice Chancellor's Office: Dwarves: grumpy, sneezy, sleepy, dopey, doc... Earth Sciences: (Mostly) NZ mountains: mitre, aorangi, hector, oyster*... (I'm not sure if there is a Mt Oyster, but mountain oysters are something of a delicacy on high country sheep stations.) Geophysics: Latin things: avernus, erebus, eridanus, tartarus, cirrus... Geography: Narcotics: morphine, hashish, ecstasy, opium, heroin, cocaine... Architecture: Bits of buildings: brick, dwang, purlin, rafter, facia... Cartoon characters: huey, mickey, mini, pluto, snoopy Electron Microscope Facility: popeye, olive... Law: Lawyers: jeffries, holland, thorp, gallen, cooke... Biological Sciences: transposon, phylloglossum Chemistry: Elements: cobalt, titanium, silicon, copper, zinc... Psychology: wundt, fechner, titchner Statistics: Colours: cyan, beige, ivory... Maori numbers: tahi, rua, toru, wha, rima, ono... (Things came unstuck when they reached tekau (10)...) -- Don Stokes, CSC Network Manager, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Ph+64 4 495-5052 Fax+64 4 471-5386 Work:don@vuw.ac.nz Home:don@zl2tnm.gen.nz From: john@gu.uwa.edu.au (John West) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites I suppose I have to join in. Due to extremely obscure historical reasons (that I refuse to explain), our unix boxen have names of fish, all starting with 'm'. So far we've had mullet, minnow, marlin, and mackerel. The name-choosers are hoping we never get another box. John West From: pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites How about the most boring, unimaginative machine names? We have: Computer Science: cs1, cs2, cs3, cs4, cs5, cs6, cs7, cs8, cs9, cs10, cs11, cs12, cs13, cs14, cs15 (can anyone see the pattern yet?), cs16, cs17, cs18 Commerce: comu1, comu2, comu3, comu4 Computer Centre: ccu1, ccu2, ccu3 Well, you get the idea.... the rest of the aukuni machines follow the pattern too AFAIK. Peter. -- pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz||p_gutmann@cs.aukuni.ac.nz||gutmann_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz peterg@kcbbs.gen.nz||peter@nacjack.gen.nz||peter@phlarnschlorpht.nacjack.gen.nz (In order of preference - one of 'em's bound to work) -- I haven't lost my mind, it's right here in this jar -- From: rgg@sys.uea.ac.uk (Roger Goldsmith) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <1993Jun27.082536.21065@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>, pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) wrote: > > How about the most boring, unimaginative machine names? We have: > > Computer Science: > > cs1, cs2, cs3, cs4, cs5, cs6, cs7, cs8, cs9, cs10, cs11, cs12, cs13, cs14, > cs15 (can anyone see the pattern yet?), cs16, cs17, cs18 I think I can top that. At UEA, the Sun machines used to be called s1, s2 s3 etc. The new ones are named after gases (radon, oxygen...) We also have a Sun 3 called Orac, which I think is a bit of an over-estimation. When I was at the university of Kent at Canterbury, some machines were named after birds of prey e.g. hawk, raven, osprey, eagle etc. Also, since there where a lot of HLH Orions at Kent, some of them where named after stars in the constellation of Orion e.g. Betelguese. roger. Roger Goldsmith rgg@sys.uea.ac.uk Declarative Systems Project U.E.A Norwich, UK. From: esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites My theme is comic mythical creatures. My 386 mail machine is `snark', from Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting Of The Snark". My 486 box is `boojum' from the same poem. The portable I'm having reconditioned for me will be `golux', from James Thurber's "The 13 Clocks", and if I get a fourth machine it will become `hurkle', from Theodore Sturgeon's "The Hurkle Is A Happy Beast". -- Eric S. Raymond Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay) writes: >* Where I work, every Sparc is named after an element (which means > there are nice, short abbreviations available). In recent months, > things have gotten lax; there are now "admantium", "unobtanium", and > "abusium" sites. H'mmm...I hope you don't have anyone trying to name a Sparc system "Alabamine" or "Virginium". If so, I would quickly start looking for a cracker on your net... (For readers who never heard of Alabamine or Virginium, go to your library and read up on the history of science under the heading of "hoaxes". The two names made it (I'm told) into the CRC Handbook, but only with an editor's note expressing strong skepticism. If anyone can cite the edition in which the names and editorial comment appeared, I would like to know.) On a slightly different issue: how many of the thematic naming conventions we're seeing reported in this thread are mandated by organization policy, and how many of them are just common practice? Joe Morris / MITRE From: rdd@access.digex.net (Robert D. Davis) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article ab401@freenet.carleton.ca writes: >werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) writes: >>About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for >>thematically-linked names of UNIX machines. Here is the summary of A few observations and comments... >Gulf war: patriot, scud Why limit "patriot" to the Gulf War? Granted, it is the name of a missile used in that war, but the word patriot means much more than the name of a type of missile. >Fighter aircraft: harrier, hornet, falcon, eagle, spitfire Some of these are also the names of car models: the AMC Hornet, the Ford Falcoln, the Jeep Eagle and, if not mistaken, wasn't Spitfire the name of one of the models of a small English sports car? -- Robert D. Davis rdd@access.digex.com ...uunet!mystica!rdd 1-410-744-7964 From: grant@cs.uct.ac.za (Grant Wyatt) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In our Humble CS dept here in Cape Town, we have the following: SUN stations: sun-1, sun-2, ... I am told these are going to be renamed soon to moons in our solar system... Then we got a single SGI indigo, and it was called "inky" The idea was to name the next SGI's pinky, blinky, sue (after the ghosts in pacman). However, we also had a single NeXT station, called "ikura" I never knew what this was at all. Then we got two more SGI's and our (MSc's) naming convention was over-ruled and they were called toro and tekka. I have recently been told that ikura, toro, and tekka are all Japanese names or words for "fish". Anyone help me on this one? Then we have a mixture of DOS PC's, individually named: Chardonnay, Falcon, etc, etc, all trying to start their own system, no-one accepting anyone else's system. Finally, we have X-stations named after Starwars characters: luke, leia, etc (we have no darthvader yet...) What a complete mess-up of names! Grant -- | __o __o For God has not given us a spirit of fear, | | _ -\<,_ _`\<,_ but a spirit of love, of power and a sound | | (_)|/-(_) (*)/ (*) mind. 2 Tim 1:7 Phone : +27 21 650 4057 | \__________________________________________________________________/ From: haley@husc10.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In the lab I was working for, They were going to name the machine after SnowWhite et al, but I pointed out that the director's intention was to add machines as soon as possible, bringing the total past 8. My suggestion was to name the server BigCheese and the others after cheeses. The Sys Admin doing the installation like the idea, but made one small but very amusing change: (see .sig) -- If you love your fun... |[{(<=--=>)}]|David Charles Todd, tHE mAN wITH tHREE fIRST nAMES|[{(<=--=>)}]| |||||||||||||||||||||||||hacksaw@headcheese.daa.uc.edu|||||||||||||||||||||||| ...Die for it! From: wollman@trantor.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Here we tend to let people choose their own names. As a result, we don't tend to have these kinds of thematic names. However, there are a few notable exceptions: - The former director's cats: newton, griffin, kira, tucker, emily - All the important servers end in -al: hal, sal, lal, xal (the next one will be `cal') - The CS/EE department has a few SF and mythological motifs: elron, dwarf, tana, rowan, flash, tsornin (my pc), oly, isis - All laser printers end in -laz: embalaz, 246laz, cslaz, emlaz, emplaz, dsplaz, siplaz, balaz, 332laz, xyzlaz, optlaz, dumlaz, matlaz, statlaz, melaz, and more. These are all named after the original laz, a DEC LN01 that was thrown out two years ago after somebody insisted that we clean out our section of the basement. - PC servers: calvin, hobbes. (Formerly thundar, paladin, ranger.) Of course, we also have some functional names, too, like `mbone'. We also have monstrosities like `embamac4'. The AIX machines are aix[1-6] and wildthing (the latter not being in a public lab), and are served by `trantor'. (I wanted to name the lab machines after the kingdoms and planets in /Foundation/: terminus, anacreon, smyrno, loris, siwenna, etc., but nobody was listening to me.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant From: ab401@freenet.carleton.ca (Paul Tomblin) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites rdd@access.digex.net (Robert D. Davis) writes: >In article ab401@freenet.carleton.ca writes: >A few observations and comments... >>Gulf war: patriot, scud >Why limit "patriot" to the Gulf War? Granted, it is the name of a >missile used in that war, but the word patriot means much more than >the name of a type of missile. Because the machines were installed _during_ the gulf war, and scud was an Xterminal that booted off patriot. (And kept crashing it, too) (Besides: Canadians are allergic to the word "patriot" - it sounds too American) >>Fighter aircraft: harrier, hornet, falcon, eagle, spitfire >Some of these are also the names of car models: the AMC Hornet, the >Ford Falcoln, the Jeep Eagle and, if not mistaken, wasn't Spitfire the >name of one of the models of a small English sports car? Because I'm one of the people who named them, I'm the person who collected and/or designed the ascii art for the /etc/motd, and I'm the person who collected the GIF files that we used as the root window. So I think that when I say they were named after fighter aircraft, I know what I'm talking about. For example: \ / \ _ / ----/_\---- x--------------( . )--------------x x|x | |_|\_/|_| | x|x x x x x CF-18 Hornet -- Paul Tomblin - formerly {pt{omblin},news}@{geovision.}gvc.com "Cyclists have a right to the road too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate maniacs! I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!" - Calvin's dad. From: dpotlur@hubcap.clemson.edu (Dora Potluri) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Hello, Here at clemson we named some of our DEC servers as sacredcow, sparerib, roast, ribeye. These are all related to cows. Potluri -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dora Potluri Information Systems Lab| Voice | E-Mail 213, McAdams Hall, | (803)-656-4048(O)| dpotlur@sparerib.clemson.edu From: avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Somebody is just bound to come up with kibo.something as the name for NNTP server of a large LAN :-) --vadim From: raphael@research.canon.oz.au (Andrew Raphael) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites When CISRA started we were shown Canon's corporate video, where it described Canon's first camera model, the Kwanon. So we named our Sun 4/260 kwanon. Favourable comment from visiting executives followed. :-) When we traded kwanon in on a 670MP, we jumped 60 million cameras & named it eos. This leaves us with lots of camera names for servers, like epoca, sure shot joy, autoboy, etc. On the other hand, we name workstations after dead musicians: thain, stiv, sonny, pigpen, patsy, mydland, mama, liberace, kaye, john, jaco, ian, hoagie, freddie, fatha, django, dizzy, del, byron, bing, astaire, radics, nico, hillel, garland, ethel, duane, dolphy, dinah, darroch, bopper, allen, ricky, otis, nigel, minnie, marc, keith, karen, janis, elvis, denis, buddy, bon, stevie, ritchie, ron, & james. Which lets me: $ ping elvis elvis is alive Just like in the Sun manuals, of course. ;-) -- Andrew Raphael "Bartender! A schooner of the best milk, please." From: zowie@daedalus.stanford.edu (Craig "Powderkeg" DeForest) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <20ji0n$2hb@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> john@gu.uwa.edu.au (John West) writes: I suppose I have to join in. Due to extremely obscure historical reasons (that I refuse to explain), our unix boxen have names of fish, all starting with 'm'. So far we've had mullet, minnow, marlin, and mackerel. The name-choosers are hoping we never get another box. Try manta, menhaden, monkfish, and mollie. If you get desperate, there's also mermaid and mollusk. Or they could buy a fish guide book... -- DON'T DRINK SOAP! DILUTE DILUTE! OK! From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Well of course this goes back way before Unix, such as the British National Physical Lab machines: pilot ACE, ACE, and DEUCE (and I don't think they got any further than that) and there was the Ferranti Pegasus and maybe some others named for other mythological characters. (Atlas and Zeus, but I think that was a different company.) There were punnish acronyms such as MOBIDIC. There was Whirlwind. U.C. Davis had Unix machines named for the Marx Bros. -- haynes@cats.ucsc.edu haynes@cats.bitnet "Ya can talk all ya wanna, but it's dif'rent than it was!" "No it aint! But ya gotta know the territory!" Meredith Willson: "The Music Man" From: james@nmt.edu (James Robnett) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) writes: > >Hello, everyone. > >About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for >thematically-linked names of UNIX machines. Here is the summary of >posts in answer to my question. I gratefully acknowledge the >following persons for their help: [List of thematic names deleted] >Craig Werner We used a rather generic planet(servers) stars(clients) theme for part of our system. (seems backwards but there's simply not enough planets for clients.) When we added 15+ machines last fall we switched to Crayola(tm) colors, (azure, black, cyan, dunn etc) we even had 'flesh' since we try to follow an alphabetic scheme. There of course was the obligitory discussion about the political correctness of using it. After Crayola came out with the 128 colors collection it gave us new hope of having enough names (like we'll get 128 machines :)). The various other schemes around campus are: birds: peackock, wren, kestrel, opus and woodstock(ringers), etc., Egyptian gods: Set, Osiris, Ra, Anubis, etc., demons: Baal, Asmion, Errtu, Alzoll, etc., sea's: coral, caspian, agean, etc., salad dressings: french, italian lobster, ranch, crab, this one got strectched rather severely, needed 13 of them. My favorite though was the scheme for the Macintosh's the humanities dept. forced us to buy. We named them mac1, mac2, mac3 all the way to 10. James Robnett NMT Computer Center james@nmt.edu From: dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu (Doug Siebert) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites The Iowa Student Computer Association ran a sort of contest a couple years ago to think up a naming scheme for our machines. We got hundreds of suggestions, the eventual winner was to use 'blender speeds' as the scheme. So our three main machines are grind, whip, and chop, and we've had at various times also beat, stir, and pulse. I added 'off' to the naming server as well for an 286 based Trailing Edge PC that isn't on the net :-) We've still got stir, mix, frappe, and liquify left to use. If the machine we get next fall/spring is fast enough, liquify would be a good name for it. Anyone want to donate an HP 735 to us to justify a name that fast? ;-) -- Doug Siebert | "I don't have to take this abuse Internet: dsiebert@isca.uiowa.edu | from you - I've got hundreds of NeXTMail: dsiebert@chop.isca.uiowa.edu | people waiting in line to abuse ICBM: 41d 39m 55s N, 91d 30m 43s W | me!" Bill Murray, Ghostbusters From: mathias@solomon.technet.sg (Mathias Koerber) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In (<1993Jun27.075714.4572@nmt.edu>) James Robnett (james@nmt.edu) wrote: | In article werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) writes: | > | >Hello, everyone. | > | >About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for | >thematically-linked names of UNIX machines. Here is the summary of | >posts in answer to my question. I gratefully acknowledge the | >following persons for their help: My company's name being short for 'Scientia Whitehorse', we have named out machines after horses (unicorn, pegasus). Just now we got three Suns on loan, two dickless and one with a 1.2GB disk The dickless are 'gelding' and 'pony', the server is 'stud'. In my ex-company we named our machines after beer-brand (German, or if appropriate the owner's favourite). Thus we had: andechs,flens,tiger(from Singapore),... Mathias From: dnichols@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) writes: > >Hello, everyone. > >About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for >thematically-linked names of UNIX machines. Here is the summary of [ ... ] > *** Thematic Names *** > >* various villains (Q, Desslock, Jabba the >Hut), Gojira, Zuul >* nuclear particles (Truth, Beauty, Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange, >Charmed) [ ... many deleted ... ] >Please post follow-ups to alt.folklore.computers. O.K. ================================================== My home systems have the theme of various languages` terms for parties, and party-related systems: ceilidh faisdodo feis fiesta hoolie pinata shindig and, two un-related systems (from the early days before the system went in). hijo teacat ================================================== At work we have a cartoon/funnypaper character theme (with one of the servers named disney), plus some other groupings of machines with no apparent theme that came in as the net spread and joined other nets. Aside from disney, some of the machine names are: (Yosemite) sam, goofy, bugs, mickey, minnie, sparkle (plenty), bc, and several others that I can't remember. The xterms have names like dumbo, (indicative of no great CPU power.) Now off to read the rest of the articles in this thread. DoN. -- Email: | ...!uunet!ceilidh!dnichols Donald Nichols (DoN.) | Voice (Days): (703) 704-2280 (Eves): (703) 938-4564 --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- From: dp@world.std.com (Jeff DelPapa) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <20lj0vINN61m@darkstar.ucsc.edu> haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes) writes: > >Well of course this goes back way before Unix, such as the British >National Physical Lab machines: pilot ACE, ACE, and DEUCE (and I >don't think they got any further than that) and there was the Well I remeber stringing my first LAN (it was the then brand new 10mhz ether instead of the older 3mhz stuff) We were even putting workstations on it -- anyhow a naming scheme was much debated, and we settled on the wives of henry VIII, with henry in reserve for a server. some years later, A mew site, and again time for a naming convention -- like many it seems, I took to the periodic table for the non colliding abbreviations therein... January -- another new site -- This time I am using Tokyo subway stations, as there are >1000 to choose from. From: davidb@nero.ce.washington.edu (David W. Barts) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <1993Jun27.075714.4572@nmt.edu>, james@nmt.edu (James Robnett) writes: > [edited] > My favorite though was the scheme for the Macintosh's the humanities > dept. forced us to buy. We named them mac1, mac2, mac3 all the way to 10. Well, *our* department's Macs all have names of the form beth, arthur, kinac, kinaw, rame, gyver, kerel, and so on. One professor (who does hydrogeologic research) had his research cluster machines named hydro1, hydro2, etc. (yawwwn, boooooring!). More recent additions have been named electric, thermal, phobia, and so on. Our X-terminals are all named after characters from the _Pogo_ comic strip; an obvious choice since the first order of the beasts was a matched set of three (which were christened bewitched, bewildered, and bothered). I was going to name DOS boxes after pathogens (bacillus, yersinia, clostridium, HIV, etc.) but I decided not to press my luck on that one. I got the head of the computer committee pissed off enough with the X terminal names... -- David Barts N5JRN UW Civil Engineering, FX-10 davidb@ce.washington.edu Seattle, WA 98195 From: Phil.Burg@anu.edu.au (Phil Burg) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites raphael@research.canon.oz.au (Andrew Raphael) writes: >On the other hand, we name workstations after dead musicians: thain, >stiv, sonny, pigpen, patsy, mydland, mama, liberace, kaye, john, jaco, >ian, hoagie, freddie, fatha, django, dizzy, del, byron, bing, astaire, >radics, nico, hillel, garland, ethel, duane, dolphy, dinah, darroch, >bopper, allen, ricky, otis, nigel, minnie, marc, keith, karen, janis, >elvis, denis, buddy, bon, stevie, ritchie, ron, & james. ^^^ someone who remembers :-) Here in my Division, we name Suns after dead scientists (katz, eccles). PCs get named a little more imaginatively - I'm telnetting from mbb7, with mbb6 sitting on my colleague's desk, and mbb17 next door. In my student days, the computer science department had two student networks, one named after actors (chaplin, garbo, flynn, etc) and one named after tennis players (graf, cash, navratilova, and so on). Both used a machine called boris as a server - so named "because Boris is a powerful server" (cringe). Rumour has it there was a network here on campus, once, with machines named after the teams in the PC game Speedball... Phil ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Burg John Curtin School of Medical Research, ANU Australia "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" From: bellaire@cs.tulane.edu (TV's St. Steve) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article zowie@daedalus.stanford.edu (Craig "Powderkeg" DeForest) writes: >In article <20ji0n$2hb@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> john@gu.uwa.edu.au (John West) writes: > I suppose I have to join in. Due to extremely obscure historical reasons Me too! Our machine are named after Mardi Gras parades (rex,comus,venus,tucks, ashanti,babylon,etc) and the server is rex (The "King" of Mardi Gras parades) >-- >DON'T DRINK SOAP! DILUTE DILUTE! OK! Dr. Bronner Lives! -- Pour me a cab, I just can't drink no more. | St. Steve --Tom Waits | bellaire@cs.tulane.edu | It's a southern thing, you wouldn't understand.| Shoes for Industry! From: Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites At the university once I had to take a course which involved working on a whole bunch of NeXT cubes... the original 68030 ones that made you wait just to display the little twirling "waiting" icon, and then wait some more... The incredibly boring CS teaching staff at UBC decided to name them all after Canadian cities (yawn) so we ended up using machines named regina, vancouver, calgary... I had fun with moosejaw though. One thing about these machines, you could confuse people by sending them email from one of these machines... they would think you were in another city or something. It was also fun to send myself NeXTmail when I didn't have a NeXT at home... trying to see how mangled I could make the original text. (sigh) (The (course) was ((in (Scheme)) (a language) ((((which (I try) ((to forget) but) simply (can not)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))).... -- .------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Jeremy Reimer "Those that can't synthesize, criticize" - N-Man | | aka The Jaguar [Insert sword, Enterprise, Amiga check, OS/2 logo, | | New Sig-Lite(tm) F-18 Hornet, cow, Kilroy, bat and BUAF here...] | `------------------------------------------------------------------------' From: buckley@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (BUCKLEY CHARLES RAY) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <1993Jun27.082536.21065@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes: >How about the most boring, unimaginative machine names? We have: > >Computer Science: > >cs1, cs2, cs3, cs4, cs5, cs6, cs7, cs8, cs9, cs10, cs11, cs12, cs13, cs14, > cs15 (can anyone see the pattern yet?), cs16, cs17, cs18 > >Commerce: > >comu1, comu2, comu3, comu4 > >Computer Centre: > >ccu1, ccu2, ccu3 > >Well, you get the idea.... the rest of the aukuni machines follow the pattern >too AFAIK. > Let me guess, at your school cc stands for COBOL compile. >Peter. >-- -- Charles Buckley buckley@ucsu.colorado.edu It's turtles all the way down. Just another West Virginia exile in the land of make believe. Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris. From: ab401@freenet.carleton.ca (Paul Tomblin) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer) writes: >calgary... I had fun with moosejaw though. One thing about these machines, Ah, moosejaw. The only city named after our (now ex-)prime-minister. -- Paul Tomblin - formerly {pt{omblin},news}@{geovision.}gvc.com "Cyclists have a right to the road too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate maniacs! I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!" - Calvin's dad. From: jsc@doc.ic.ac.uk (Stephen Crane) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <20lj0vINN61m@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes) writes: Jim> U.C. Davis had Unix machines named for the Marx Bros. Here at dse.doc.ic.ac.uk things started off the same way: the first five sun3's were "gummo", "chico", "harpo", "groucho" and "zeppo". "karl" was a fairly obvious next step but the big breakthrough came with the advent of our sun4's. Now we have "bench", "dirty", "deutsch", "water", "skid", "scorch" and no sign of running out. In fact, I think we have had more that 255 suggestions. We only have one PC called, pathetically, "andspencer". I suppose if we ever get another we can call it "andengels". Steve -- Stephen Crane, Dept of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 180 Queen's Gate, London sw7 2bz, UK:jsc@{doc.ic.ac.uk, icdoc.uucp} "If it works, it's obsolete." -- Marshall McLuhan. From: jsc@doc.ic.ac.uk (Stephen Crane) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <20lj0vINN61m@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes) writes: Jim> U.C. Davis had Unix machines named for the Marx Bros. Here at dse.doc.ic.ac.uk things started off the same way: the first five sun3's were "gummo", "chico", "harpo", "groucho" and "zeppo". "karl" was a fairly obvious next step but the big breakthrough came with the advent of our sun4's. Now we have "bench", "dirty", "deutsch", "water", "skid", "scorch" and no sign of running out. In fact, I think we have had more that 255 suggestions. We only have one PC called, pathetically, "andspencer". I suppose if we ever get another we can call it "andengels". Steve -- Stephen Crane, Dept of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 180 Queen's Gate, London sw7 2bz, UK:jsc@{doc.ic.ac.uk, icdoc.uucp} "If it works, it's obsolete." -- Marshall McLuhan. From: pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In <1993Jun28.083338.15931@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> buckley@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (BUCKLEY CHARLES RAY) writes: >In article <1993Jun27.082536.21065@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes: >>Computer Centre: >> >>ccu1, ccu2, ccu3 >> >Let me guess, at your school cc stands for COBOL compile. Computer Centre. cc = computer centre, cs = compsci, com = commerce, mat = maths, phys = physics, yruph = chemistry, en(?) = engineering yruph?!?!? How do you derive 'Chemistry' from that??? (I've just checked and yruph1 and yruph2 don't exist any more. God knows how those names came about). Peter. -- pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz||p_gutmann@cs.aukuni.ac.nz||gutmann_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz peterg@kcbbs.gen.nz||peter@nacjack.gen.nz||peter@phlarnschlorpht.nacjack.gen.nz (In order of preference - one of 'em's bound to work) -- Man-year: 730 people working feverishly until lunchtime -- From: pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In <1993Jun28.112817.2623@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes: >Computer Centre. cc = computer centre, cs = compsci, com = commerce, >mat = maths, phys = physics, yruph = chemistry, en(?) = engineering > yruph?!?!? How do you derive 'Chemistry' from that??? >(I've just checked and yruph1 and yruph2 don't exist any more. God knows how > those names came about). At last, one breath of sanity in the entire university: There's a gyro.gearloose somewhere over in engineering. Everything else follows the above pattern. Peter. From: ins559n@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Bulhak) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,megabozo.weenie.andrew-bulhak,alt.religion.kibology Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Vadim Antonov (avg@rodan.UU.NET) wrote: : Somebody is just bound to come up with kibo.something as the name : for NNTP server of a large LAN :-) That's right: as soon as I get my Internet feed (not at any time in the near future :-( ), I will name my news machine kibo.tristero.org.au. Other machines will be named after Cthulhu Mythos figures (e.g., if I get a really snazzy NeXTstep-based notebook, it will most likely be named "nyarlathotep"), with the possible exception of a Linux box named discordia (it is at the moment a Windows box with no name :-) ) and perhaps machines named zippy, shergold, bob, etc. (If I buy a second-hand Commodore 64, it will, of course, be named B1FF.) : --vadim +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Andrew Bulhak | "You see not the mystery, for an elephant | | acb@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au | is a poem written in tons rather | | Monash Uni, Clayton, | than words." | | Victoria, Australia | | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: dcowan@manitou.cse.dnd.ca (Darin Cowan) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) writes: >About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for >thematically-linked names of UNIX machines. Here is the summary of >posts in answer to my question. I gratefully acknowledge the >following persons for their help: > *** Thematic Names *** > In our domain, we name after conifers, thus: balsam.pinetree.org scotch.pinetree.org xmas.pinetree.org etc. From: jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,megabozo.weenie.andrew-bulhak,alt.religion.kibology Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <1993Jun28.143723.15109@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> ins559n@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Bulhak) writes: >Vadim Antonov (avg@rodan.UU.NET) wrote: >: Somebody is just bound to come up with kibo.something as the name >: for NNTP server of a large LAN :-) > >That's right: as soon as I get my Internet feed (not at any time in the near >future :-( ), I will name my news machine kibo.tristero.org.au. >Other machines will be named after Cthulhu Mythos figures (e.g., >if I get a really snazzy NeXTstep-based notebook, it will most >likely be named "nyarlathotep") Naming your system "nyarlathotep" is probably one of the best security measures known - who the heck is going to be able to type "nyarlathotep.tristero.org.au" (except me, of course, but then I'm a professional). -- John Switzer | In honor of this season's STTNG cliffhanger: | "I know the shirt is yellow, but I'm still not CompuServe: 74076,1250 | stupid, I'm still not expendable, and I'm Internet: jrs@netcom.com | STILL not beaming down!" From: zowie@daedalus.stanford.edu (Craig "Powderkeg" DeForest) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article zowie@daedalus.stanford.edu (I) write: Try manta, menhaden, monkfish, and mollie. If you get desperate, there's also mermaid and mollusk. Or they could buy a fish guide book... Oops -- forgot the best one, mudskipper! -- DON'T DRINK SOAP! DILUTE DILUTE! OK! From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes) writes: [in a passing comment about naming computers BU (Before UNIX)] > There was Whirlwind. And don't forget the system at Oak Ridge National Labs: ORACLE OTOH, in the days of Whirlwind and ORACLE nobody had to worry about thinking up thematic schemes for naming computers: the phrase "the computer" was unambiguous at all but the biggest, most well-financed facilities. Joe Morris / MITRE (where, alas, most of the people who actually worked on Whirlwind have retired by now...) From: Mark 'Mark' Sachs Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites The names tend to be fairly ordinary here at Penn State: the new DECstation cluster, root name Crayola, has servers Binney and Smith (founders of the Crayola company) and 64 machines named after the sixty-four colors in yer average Crayola box. It is an improvement on the old RT cluster, though, which had root name Endor and all the machines incomprehensible LotR names. Other UNIXen here are named after computer languages (for the compsci lab) or classical musicians (one of the sciences labs.) A while ago we (a small committee I'm on, that is) were planning a new small workstation lab in one of the dorms. We settled on "wwwa" as the domain name, and Kei, Yuri, Mughi, Shasti, and Deidre as names for individual machines. (All are characters from the Japanese anime series and/or American comic book, The Dirty Pair.) Pity the actual workstations never came through; it'd be particularily fun setting up graphics for the login screens. :) "It's my generals who need lessons, Kript." [Your blood pressure just went up.] Mark Sachs IS: mbs110@psuvm.psu.edu DISCLAIMER: I could care less about opinions. I'm going to SIGGRAPH 93! Yay! From: jka@boole.uucp (John Ahlstrom) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Thematically named machines The Marx Brothers (and their parents Mina and Sam) of course followed by the L*n sisters J Ahlstrom Boole & Babbage Sunnyvale CA 94086 From: jjohnsto@unixg.ubc.ca (Jeff Johnston) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article ab401@freenet.carleton.ca writes: >werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) writes: >>About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for >>thematically-linked names of UNIX machines. Here is the summary of >> > >GeoVision used to have a lot of machines, and at various times in the past >various projects tried to have some sort of theme. [thematic names deleted] Hi there... I didn't see your original post so I don't know if this is what you're looking for or if you still need these, but these are groups I've come across just at UBC here... - Cheeses (colby, cheddar, etc... University Computing Services) - Chocolate Bars (snickers, mars, etc... Electrical Engineering) - Physicists (maxwell, dirac, bohr, etc... Physics) - Trees (aspen, poplar, larch, etc...) - Gulf Islands (bowen, keats, gambier, etc... Computer Science) (islands close to Vancouver) - Beers (watneys*, toby, guinness, shaftbury [sic], etc... Computer Science) (all of them ales, too.... hmmmm...) (whoops scratch that last comment... I just checked and there's also Foster's and Rainier, so I guess they have lagers, too... :) ) - Marx Brothers (groucho, harpo, chico, etc... Computer Science) - Mathematicians (fourier, cauchy, riemann, etc... Math) * Beer Trivia: What Monty Python sketch was this beer (Watney's Red Barrel) mentioned in (multiple times)? Hope these are what you were looking for... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Johnston jjohnsto@unixg.ubc.ca "Quick, Robin! The Bacardi Bat Device!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jimf@centerline.com (Jim Frost) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Boston University's bu-pub cluster had some of the most inventive cluster-naming I've ever seen. It started out fairly standard -- they called the net beer-net and every machine wore the name of a beer, eg "Bass," "Corona," "Colt45," and "Grizzly." As the machines multiplied they built (or were planning to build) new nets using the existing machines as gateways, and here they got unique. "Grizzly" was used as the gateway between beer-net and bear-net (containing machines such as "polar"). "Bass" was to be used as the gateway between beer-net and fish-net, although I don't know if they ever actually implemented fish-net. Ya gotta love it. jim frost jimf@centerline.com From: regebro@linnea-grind.stacken.kth.se (Lennart Regebro) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <1993Jun27.082536.21065@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes: >How about the most boring, unimaginative machine names? We have: > >Computer Science: >cs1, cs2, cs3, cs4, cs5, cs6, cs7, cs8, cs9, cs10, cs11, cs12, cs13, cs14, > cs15 (can anyone see the pattern yet?), cs16, cs17, cs18 > >Commerce: >comu1, comu2, comu3, comu4 > >Computer Centre: >ccu1, ccu2, ccu3 Figure out what this means if you can: RSTD01 Yeah, thats right. Roche, STockholm, Digital, first. The Digital means: This is a VAX. INteresting way og naming computers. RSTN011 means Roche, STockholm, Netware, net one, server one. Booring! -- Lennart Regebro, Stacken Computer Club regebro@stacken.kth.se Any Opinion expressed above is (c) Rent-An-Opinion(tm). It is not an Opinion of either Lennart Regebro or the Stacken Computer Club. Now you also can get an Opinion. Call Welcome To Reality(tm) +1 (800) NO-CLUES. From: cs92njc@brunel.ac.uk (Nik Clayton) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes: >haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes) writes: > >[in a passing comment about naming computers BU (Before UNIX)] > >> There was Whirlwind. > >And don't forget the system at Oak Ridge National Labs: ORACLE I believe Aston Uni (where I almost went) name their machines after characters in old Trek. So the science department have "Spock" as their server, Biology get "McCoy", all News and e-mail goes through "Uhura" (communications) and the chief server is called "Kirk". There may be others. A site in Ireland (whose ID I forget for the moment) name their machines after beers. Rgds, nik From: rosenaue@mpr.ca (Dennis Rosenauer) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Humm.... nobody uses our local naming convention for the Suns and PCs on the Microwave net. We name ours after Philosophers. The server is Plato and various workstations are Kant, Engels, Seneca etc. The PC's are named after "lesser" philosophers Leary, Hoffman etc. Dennis Rosenauer VE7BPE rosenaue@mprgate.mpr.ca MPR Teltech Ltd. Radio & Satellite Network Development "For every vision there is an Burnaby, B. C. equal and opposite revision" From: isca@icaen.uiowa.edu (Iowa Student Computer Assoc) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu (Doug Siebert) writes: >The Iowa Student Computer Association ran a sort of contest a couple years ago >to think up a naming scheme for our machines. We got hundreds of suggestions, >the eventual winner was to use 'blender speeds' as the scheme. One of the loosing schemes was condom names. With only 2 machines initially, we probably could have gotten away with it (starting with trojan, ramses, then adding gold coin, shiek, lifestyles, etc) Another good one here at the U of Iowa is the high tech cluster in the library and called it the Information Arcade, with a base domain name of arcade.uiowa.edu. In this lab are 10 NeXTstations - all with arcade names. So we have pinball (server), donkey-kong, dig-dug, frogger, spy-hunter, pac-man, centipede, etc. - dave ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | David Lacey, M.D. |"But soon, soon, soon... the world will| | Resident, Radiology, Univ of Iowa |be a better place, with meadows and | | President, Iowa Student Comptr Assn|bunnies and fiber optics in every home"| | David-Lacey@uiowa.edu (NeXTmail OK)| - Tom Dowdy, Apple Computer | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) writes: >In article <1993Jun28.143723.15109@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> ins559n@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Bulhak) writes: >>Vadim Antonov (avg@rodan.UU.NET) wrote: >>: Somebody is just bound to come up with kibo.something as the name >>: for NNTP server of a large LAN :-) >> >>That's right: as soon as I get my Internet feed (not at any time in the near >>future :-( ), I will name my news machine kibo.tristero.org.au. >>Other machines will be named after Cthulhu Mythos figures (e.g., >>if I get a really snazzy NeXTstep-based notebook, it will most >>likely be named "nyarlathotep") >Naming your system "nyarlathotep" is probably one of the best security >measures known - who the heck is going to be able to type >"nyarlathotep.tristero.org.au" (except me, of course, but then I'm >a professional). One of my email nodes is called "phlarnschlorpht" (well, it says "Choose a unique name", you can't get more unique than "phlarnschlorpht" :-). Peter, peter@phlarnschlorpht.nacjack.gen.nz -- pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz||p_gutmann@cs.aukuni.ac.nz||gutmann_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz peterg@kcbbs.gen.nz||peter@nacjack.gen.nz||peter@phlarnschlorpht.nacjack.gen.nz (In order of preference - one of 'em's bound to work) -- Balls to cubism -- From: ig25@fg30.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Don't think anyone has mentioned the, aeh, imaginative scheme for BITNET nodes as yet, at least most of the German ones. They go: - D - for Germany (Deutschland, same as the nationality sign on cars) - two letters, corresponding to the licence plate number of the town the machine is in. For Example, Karlsruhe is KA. If the license plate number only contains one letter, you add a 0 (Berlin gets B0, for example). - three letters denoting the organization, for example UNI for university. - one number denoting the kind of operating system / net software. Ugh... 1 is VM, 2 is MVS and JES2, 3 is MVS and JES3, 4 for Siemens/Fujitsu vector machines running MSP (Fujitsu's MVS clone), 5 for VAXes running VMS and the JNET networking software (which actually emulates VM), 6 for Unix boxes and 8 for Siemens Boxes running BS2000. Does anoboby know what 7 stands for? - one optional letter or digit, which usually denotes a sequence number, but might also refer to the special type of machine (say, a V for a vector machine). So, for example, DKAUNI2 refers to the sole machine running MVS and JES2 at the University of Karlsuhe (its internet adress is ibm3090.rz.uni-karlsuhe.de). -- Thomas Koenig, ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. From: esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In <1993Jun27.182746.17728@uvm.edu> Garrett Wollman wrote: > (I wanted to name the lab machines after the > kingdoms and planets in /Foundation/: terminus, anacreon, smyrno, > loris, siwenna, etc., but nobody was listening to me.) Good idea! But don't forget kalgan, helicon, and sayshell (OK, so the last two are from later books). -- Eric S. Raymond From: g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk (Jonathan Naylor) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Well, Nottingham University started off by naming their machines after Robin Hood characters ie Robin, Marian, Tuck, Sheriff. But with the advent of lots of Sun workstations this seems to have broken down, and most modern machines appear to be named at random. Where I work (not Internet connected alas) we have some ridiculous names, however one department has three machines names Bill, Ben and Weed. To non UK readers these names may not mean much, but they were the principal characters of one of the finest childrens TV programmes from the 50s, The Flowerpot Men. Jonathan +-------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ | Internet: g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk | The three branches of Government: | | Amprnet: g4klx@g4klx.ampr.org | Money, Television and Bullshit. | | BBS: G4KLX @ GB7HMZ.GBR.EU | P.J.O'Rourke | +-------------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ From: hdavies@rx.xerox.com (Hugh JE Davies) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article 2hb@uniwa.uwa.edu.au, john@gu.uwa.edu.au (John West) writes: >I suppose I have to join in. Due to extremely obscure historical reasons >(that I refuse to explain), our unix boxen have names of fish, all starting >with 'm'. So far we've had mullet, minnow, marlin, and mackerel. The >name-choosers are hoping we never get another box. Bingo! We use fish. It started after one user wanted "kipper" for his machine, so we continued with fish. Once our brains started to wear out, we allowed any aquatic thing, puns, etc. Hence; kipper haddock cod pilchard whiting gurney shark manta whale herring flounder sole turbot salmon trout koi carp goldfish eel sardine mackerel anchovy tuna dolphin porpoise bloater babel perch barracuda roach pike bream gudgeon stickleback monkfish plaice guppy grouper binney barb crab octopus prawn shrimp mussel oyster lobster cuttlefish This is the only theme. My machine is called "kzin" after the race of sentient cats in Larry Niven's stories. I started using words from Niven's stories as machine names but everyone complained they were unpronounceable. >John West Are you serious? In the UK this is a popular brand of canned fish. Regards, Hugh. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Huge.wgc1@rx.xerox.com Rank Xerox Technical Centre, WGC, UK. I don't speak for Xerox, nor they for me. "Insert the bearing into the hub. This is best done on a flat surface. Light tapping with a hammer & a block of wood is acceptable if necessary." (Vauxhall Chevette 1977 - 1984) From: rloper@mksol.dseg.ti.com (robert l loper) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites How about gemstone names (agate, amber, jasper, onyx, opal, ruby, diamond, topaz, amethyst, chrysoberyl, olivine, spinel, jade, sapphire, hematite, malachite, azurite, emerald, quartz, pearl, alexandrite, lapis, aquamarine, coral, ...)? or colors (red, blue, green, yellow, azure, crimson, cyan, turquoise(also above) umber, navy, midnight, chartruse(?), magenta, mauve, lavender, purple, violet, indigo, orange, ...)? Get a jewelry catalog or a box of crayons, and you could name a pretty large network. I prefer the gemstone names myself. * Robert L. Loper * - Infinity is a notion best contemplated * * ROBERTLL@FLOPN2.dseg.ti.com * in a warm bed. * * Texas Instruments, Inc. * - My opinions are my own, not TI's. * From: swaim@owlnet.rice.edu (Michael Parks Swaim) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) writes: >Please post follow-ups to alt.folklore.computers. On the undergraduate CS network here, the servers are owls, the Sun 3 X terminals are fish, and the IBM X terminals are spices (I think). I've also seen cars and shells used as themes at Shell. -- Mike Swaim |"Can she suck a golfball through a garden hose?" swaim@owlnet.rice.edu |"No, but she can stick her tongue up my nose." Disclamer: I need a hole in my head. From: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers In article jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes: >On a slightly different issue: how many of the thematic naming conventions >we're seeing reported in this thread are mandated by organization policy, >and how many of them are just common practice? Well, I sit across from our network administrator and this means that we get to suggest and/or veto the names of any machines that want to connect. Cars were chosen a while ago and we've kept that going. Does anyone else make value judgements about the machines before giving names? Although of course we give users quite a lot of choice too. For example: RS6000s ferrari, alfa, porsche Xterm jaguar Fast PCs lotus, aston, mustang, tuscan Slow PCs telstar, chariot, calais Very slow PC trabant Altos 1000 skoda, yugo It makes naming the new machines quite fun. Thomas Beagle | thomas@datamark.co.nz Work: 64 4 233 8186 Technical Writer | Animals are meant to be eaten, otherwise Wellington, NZ | they wouldn't taste so good. From: tecdah1@sdc.boeing.com (Dave Hough,55095) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites A friend of mine had a clump of com servers at Georgia Tech in the 70s: anchovie, blowfish, cat, dog, eagle, fox and (I think) gerbil. After I met him, he worked on another com project at Martin Marietta in Denver and (because the data center director thought it would be funny) ended up calling it the 'fish net': anchovie and blowfish, plus expansion nodes chub, dolphin, eel and (I think) gar. /dave hough From: panissec@nms.otc.com.au (Colin Panisset) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Naming conventions from two sites I've worked at: The School of Computing Sciences at UTS started off with a 3/260 called ultima, a companion machine ultimo (cute, since that's the name of the suburb the machine is located in) and a bunch of 3/50's and 3/60's named after various Greek mythological characters: amalthea, leda, adastrea, himalia, lysithea, chiron, io, europa, etc. The third Sun server to arrive in the machine room had, of course, to be named appropriately -- after much headbashing and ignoring other people's preferences, it was named 'syzygy' (spoiler at the bottom). Following that, a set of SLC's were named for animals beginning with 'a': aardvark, agouti, alligator, albatross, amoeba, etc.. And now: Nowadays, at Telstra (used to be called OTC, just to confuse you), most machines have tedious names -- operational network, and all that. Within Network Management Systems, though, there are three main threads: 1. Thunderbirds: virgil, tracy, brains, tbird1, tbird2, penelope, gerry, alan, jeff (and more) 2. Tolkienesque: mirkwood, mordor, balrog, bag_end (my box), frodo, gollum, sauron etc. 3. Australian marsupials: platypus, bandicoot, wombat, kanga, quoll etc. Hmmm. I think I'll start the next naming sequence from pooh. Spoiler: a syzygy is a colinear arrangement of three or more celestial bodies. syzygy was the third Sun in the row in the machine room. :^) Colin Panisset *:^) +61 2 339 3938 | "It is impossible to travel faster than {panissec|colinp}@nms.otc.com.au | light, and certainly not desirable, as So There. Fax: +61 2 339 3818 | one's hat keeps blowing off." From: akiy@diva.cs.titech.ac.jp (Jun Akiyama) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article grant@cs.uct.ac.za (Grant Wyatt) writes: > However, we also had a single NeXT station, called "ikura" > I never knew what this was at all. > Then we got two more SGI's and our (MSc's) naming convention was > over-ruled and they were called toro and tekka. I have recently > been told that ikura, toro, and tekka are all Japanese names > or words for "fish". Anyone help me on this one? Haven't you ever been down to a sushi bar/parlor? All the above names are names of sushi pieces. toro the fatty part of tuna tekka toro wrapped in rice covered by seaweed (better known as "tekka-maki") ikura fish eggs (forget which fish), looks like a bunch of quarter-inch transparent orange balls. (Why a NeXT would be named THAT is beyond me.) The machines here in our lab are named after mythological gods (siva, vishnu, brahma). (I also remember some of the machines in the UCLA School for Engineering and Applied Sciences were named after famous scientists (e.g. watson, pasteur), and that some of the UC Berkeley machines were named after characters in the Glass Family in the Salinger novels (e.g. zooey, seymour, franny).) -- akiy@cs.titech.ac.jp [] "Our education is always and only equal UCLA undergrad (abroad) [] to our capacity for enjoyment." Tokyo Inst. of Technology [] --Thomas Mann, Natural Language Processing [] "Little Herr Friedemann" From: crosby@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Matthew Crosby) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <1993Jun27.025735.10738@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> buckley@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (BUCKLEY CHARLES RAY) writes: >In article werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) writes: >> >>Hello, everyone. >> >>About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for >>thematically-linked names of UNIX machines. Here is the summary of ... >> >Well, at good old CU, they have the astronaut section (Scirra, Onizuka, Young, >Crippen, etc). (the aerospace department of course). >the EE's have Faraday, Edison, etc, etc. >The system I am on now is rintintin. The others are spot and tramp. These are >the basic CS systems. (I'm surprised that there is no lassie). There are also snoopy, rover, fido, rastro, scooby and several others. The story I heard was that this was the last revenge of the VMS folks--They managed to get the first Unix machines named after "The dogs they were". Way before my time, of course, so it may not be true. >the geology department has people famous in geology (don't ask me who - I'm not >a geologist). We just installed some new X-terminals in our CS lab that we named after Onomatopea (sp?)--we have wham, bam, snap, crackle, pop, splash, crash (of course) and various others. We also have some named after toys--frisbee, aerobie, gyro, etc. Once, at a place I was working (not CU) we got some new PC's, which we connected to out net. Being workstation bigots, we named them "slow", "junk", "kludge", "ugly", etc... -Matt crosby@cs.colorado.edu Mere anarchy is loosed upon the net! From: mol@loglady.df.lth.se (Magnus Olsson) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites We at Yacc (== "Yet Another Computer Club") are naming our computers after Twin Pekas characters: So far, we have Bob, Windom, Leland, Leo, Loglady, Lucy and Josie. (Josie is an HP2108 mid-70's mini and _not_ a Unix system, but that doesn't matter, does it?). Magnus Olsson | \e+ /_ yacc - the Computer Society at LU and LTH | \ Z / q Lund, Sweden | >----< magnus@thep.lu.se, mol@loglady.df.lth.se | / \===== g PGP key available via finger or on request | /e- \q From: s.telford@ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <1993Jun28.234945.9652@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, rloper@mksol.dseg.ti.com (robert l loper) writes: > How about gemstone names (agate, amber, jasper, onyx, opal, ruby, diamond, > topaz, amethyst, chrysoberyl, olivine, spinel, jade, sapphire, hematite, > malachite, azurite, emerald, quartz, pearl, alexandrite, lapis, aquamarine, > coral, ...)? > That's what we (epcc.ed.ac.uk) have for our staff workstations/ servers. We started off with gemstones, (diamond, onyx, emerald, garnet, topaz etc.) then had to resort to minerals in general (last three I named were pyrite, mica and realgar). In fact we've got all of the above list except spinel, hematite and alexandrite. Only name that is really appropriate to the machine is "azurite" - it's our sole Iris Indigo. Other schemes I've seen are : Heriot-Watt Uni CS Dept: deities, sometimes with significant initials (Eg the four HLH Orions were odin, oberon, osiris, ormazd). The first bunch of Suns were named after Sun gods (helios, aurora, ra etc) but once they started getting large number of workstations they had to resort to kinda obscure deities (iphinoe, balder, dazhbog - not even sure that really is a deity!). Ed Uni Physics: operas (aida, carmen, tosca...) Ed Uni CS Dept: Currently Scottish islands (also used by the AI dept, confusingly). Since they have >200 workstation/Xterminals now, they're using some pretty odd names (eg. gloup, gigalum, faither, daaey). Their CS1 lab Sun 3 Xterminals were named after Scottish whiskies and the machines that used to form the CS3/4/MSc lab were named after notable Edinburgh pubs: names like peartree, blackbull, maltshovel, nickytams. Apparently the students used to organise pub crawls to take in as many of the named pubs as possible (only problem was that there were 30 of them 8-) Ed Uni Computing Services: Service machines have names which make sense if you prefix them with "Edinburgh" (probably due to back-to-front JANET addresses, ie. uk.ac.edinburgh.foo): castle, festival, fringe (as in "Edinburgh Festival Fringe") and waverley (Edinburgh Waverley railway station). Spider Systems: Non-development machines were named after species of spiders, predictably. Eg (black) widow, orbweb, tarantula. But would you be happy using a computer called redrump? 8-) Scott Telford, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Rd, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK. (+44 31 650 5978) ------- Rollin' over like a big, big cloud, Walkin' out in the Big Sky! ------- From: dave@gilly.UUCP Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes: >My theme is comic mythical creatures. My 386 mail machine is `snark', from >Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting Of The Snark". My 486 box is `boojum' from the >same poem. The portable I'm having reconditioned for me will be `golux', from >James Thurber's "The 13 Clocks", and if I get a fourth machine it will become >`hurkle', from Theodore Sturgeon's "The Hurkle Is A Happy Beast". I started my home LAN off as "The Spiders From Mars Net" - naming the machines after the members of the fictional rock band Bowie created (not to be confused with the members of the band (which was also refered to as "The Spiders From Mars" (thanks guys)) that played their parts...) - weird and gilly. However, my third machine ended up being scorch1, from Bakshi's flick "Wizards". (I follow the "consistancy is a cop-out" school of thought, of course.) I suppose I'll have a node ziggy at some point. ------------------------ uunet!quack!gilly!dave ------------------------ ================= Dave Fischer - Nature's Perfect Food ================= ----------------------- dave%gilly@speedway.net ------------------------ From: koos@kzdoos.hacktic.nl (Koos van den Hout) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) writes: >About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for >thematically-linked names of UNIX machines. At the site I (used to help) administrate, the names where bird names, in which the bird name had some connection to the machine. raaf (raven in English) : a very black NeXT cube. moa and dodo (2 extinct birds) : 2 very old Plessey mantra Unix systems. snip and snap (snip is a bird, snip and snap are a famous duo) : 2 exact alike 486 systems (running Linux offcourse). ostrich : A rack-mounted very modified/hacked Macintosh with ethernet over SCSI. Grtx. KH /-- Koos van den Hout ----------------------------------------------- Sysop --\ | Student Computer Science (AKA HIO) BBS Koos z'n Doos (+31-3402-36647) | | Inter-: koos@kzdoos.hacktic.nl 300..14400 MNP2-5,10,V42bis) | | net : koos@hut.nl | PGP key by finger | Fido: Sysop @ 2:500/101.11012 | | Schurftnet : KILL !!! | koos@hacktic.nl | Give us a call !! | | Will administrate Unix sites or E-mail setups for food. | From: dagbrown@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Brown) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <9443@fury.BOEING.COM> tecdah1@sdc.boeing.com writes: > >A friend of mine had a clump of com servers at Georgia Tech in the 70s: >anchovie, blowfish, cat, dog, eagle, fox and (I think) gerbil. After I met >him, he worked on another com project at Martin Marietta in Denver and >(because the data center director thought it would be funny) ended up >calling it the 'fish net': anchovie and blowfish, plus expansion nodes >chub, dolphin, eel and (I think) gar. At the University of Waterloo, there's a large LAN of PC's, and they have insect names. Or names of various insectoid creatures. Hence: figwasp mudwasp honeybee masonbee hivebee wasp sandwasp ostracod tadpole barnacle copepoda amphipod crayfish isopod tapeworm milliped centiped scud sowbug scorpion arachnid tick cricket viceroy stonefly mayfly junefly earwigs cokroach nymph lorax aphid hopper fishflies thrip parasite shrimp moth fireant firebrat clubtail grayback skimtydid sandfly mothfly leafbug boatman toadbug shorebug treebug And hundreds and hundreds more.... Dave Brown -- dagbrown@napier.uwaterloo.ca -- (416) 669-5370 "It takes insects to scare me. And lizards. Not humans." --Amy Fong From: edward.rice@his.com (Edward Rice) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Message-ID: <741386675.AA07817@Clone.his.com> DC> From: dcowan@manitou.cse.dnd.ca (Darin Cowan) DC> In our domain, we name after conifers, thus: DC> DC> balsam.pinetree.org scotch.pinetree.org xmas.pinetree.org etc. Off UNIX boxen for a moment, one large corporation named the laser-printers on their Mac network after national forests in the area, each one seeming destined to consume one. In sympathy, I direct my own (non-LAN) printjobs to Shenandoah, my LaserWriter Plus. From: jsc@monolith.mit.edu (Jin S Choi) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites >>>>> On 29 Jun 93 14:01:23 GMT, andyh@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Andy Holyer) said: Andy> Scott Telford (s.telford@ed.ac.uk) wrote: Andy> : Other schemes I've seen are : [...] Andy> And what scheme do we use, I hear you ask? Sussex is dead boring. Andy> We're not allowed interesting names (hence the fact that I'm posting Andy> from syma (a Sequent Symmetry), my NSF host is rsuna (guess...) and my Andy> W/s is csri. The only clever one I know of is our Meiko Computing Andy> Surface which is called the mekon. However if we bought another one, I Andy> bet we'd have to call it mekon2 :-) Talk about boring, MIT's Athena system uses location based names, generally the room of the cluster with a number appended, so you get machines named w20-575-75 and m4-035-6. As distributed as Athena is, it's nice to know where each machine is, but I think it's boring. The different computer laboratories have more interesting systems. A large section of the AI lab is known as Switzerland, and have names like geneva, martigny, aarau, and timex. A section of the Laboratory for Computer science has fish names. The part of the Media Lab I work for has classical composer names: mozart, chopin, haydn.... Jin Choi jsc@athena.mit.edu From: malloy@crash.cts.com (Sean Malloy) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites >In article jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes: >On a slightly different issue: how many of the thematic naming conventions >we're seeing reported in this thread are mandated by organization policy, >and how many of them are just common practice? Well, originally at NPRDC, where I work, the standard naming convention had the systems named after oceans and seas: aegean pacific Then, when we started getting Suns, they were named after psychologists: lashley james hull thorndike watson stevens However, a researcher got a bunch of Suns for a project unconnected to anything else that was going on at the time, and named his systems after Navy weapons, aircraft, and the like: harpoon tomcat intruder topgun viking orion phantom Then the original 'aegean' went away, to be replaced by a Sun, and we got more Suns and some 3B2s in the computer center, which went back to bodies of water: atlantic (the replacement for aegean) java coral kara bering arctic tasman Then, we got the 'warships' machines, for a group of systems for another researcher (the precedent having been established that the prime investigator got to choose the 'topic' for the names given to systems purchased as part of his project): intrepid enterprise newjersey hornet saratoga missouri iowa america midway vinson constitution ranger nimitz At this point, the computing facility more or less lost control over the names given to systems (since at this point the IBM PC systems started getting connected to the LAN, and we needed lots of names), and we got cars: nash yugo mustang lotus ferrari Cartoon characters: calvin hobbes darkwing morgana Virtues: faith hope charity honesty duty fortitude purity integrity The Seven Dwarves (everybody _does_ know them, right?), women's names, and a host of other random names. -- random sig #55: Sean Malloy Navy Personnel R&D Center | If there is anything in the San Diego, CA 92152-6800 | universe more important than my malloy@nprdc.navy.mil < different | ego, I want it taken out and crash!malloy@nosc.navy.mil < systems | shot immediately. From: johnvl@zen.et.tudelft.nl (J.C.M. van Leeuwen) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article , werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) writes: > Please post follow-ups to alt.folklore.computers. We (our group) has two themes: - Names of ships and computers in sci-fi tv-series: enterprise, logic, orac, navigator, tardis, liberator, zen, hal, thunderbird, red-dwarf and voyager. - Names of scientists: einstein, voltaire, socrates, leonardo and erasmus Also, with other groups in this building these themes are used: - Rivers: donau, olt, rijn, oder, warga, eufraat, schelde, etc. - Names of cities in Friesland (Dutch province): marrum, ljouwert, warns, etc. John van Leeuwen (johnvl@duteca.et.tudelft.nl) From: mike@dgim.doc.ca (Mike Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Just toss in my contribution along these lines, in our office our Sparc's are named: Surf Sand Lagoon Palm Breeze Toucan Parrot These are the opinions of the person two doors to the right of me. From: ddmiller@austin.ibm.com (David D. Miller) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Don't forget mahi-mahi (sp?) On a related note, when I was still in school (cs.utexas.edu) we had a bunch of Suns named after small towns in Texas (grit, latexo, etc.). We also had a bunch of HP's with middle-eastern (arabian?) sounding names - the significance of which always eluded me. In a previous dept., which happened to be populated by staff from Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, the machines were all named after international cities (well, they were starting that when I left). Previous schemes had included forms of music (rock, punk, jazz) and characters from Tolkien (gandalf, frodo, etc). My current dept. has a bunch of machines from Douglas Adam's _Hitchhiker's Guide_ (arthurd, fordp, etc). -- David D. Miller ddmiller@austin.ibm.com _ IBM AWSD Information Development Austin, Republic of TX _| ~-. #include \, *_} \( From: regebro@linnea-grind.stacken.kth.se (Lennart Regebro) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <741298274snz@g4klx.demon.co.uk> g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk writes: >Well, Nottingham University started off by naming their machines after Robin >Hood characters ie Robin, Marian, Tuck, Sheriff. But with the advent of lots >Where I work (not Internet connected alas) we have some ridiculous names, >however one department has three machines names Bill, Ben and Weed. To non UK >readers these names may not mean much, but they were the principal characters >of one of the finest childrens TV programmes from the 50s, The Flowerpot Men. At stacken computer club we have a Sun called Sune (which is a swedish name, generally thought to be kinda nerdy). When we got some sun workstations connected somebody remembered King Sune, king over the Mosebacke monarchy. Mosebacke monarchy was a swedish radio/tv program that was very popular when it was sent ( late 60ies to early 70ies? ). We of course named the workstations after characters in the series, Helmer Bryd, pianist; Rigmor Mortis, Nurse (what else); Melvyn Slacke (don't remember what he was) and the Sun station with color monitor was of course named after the artist Salvador Dahlberg. :) When another server was installed we had great problems finding a name for it. Nobody could remember a queen or another royalty from the series. We called the swedish radio to see if they had any archives of the material that we could look through, no luck... Finally somebody actually called Hans Alfredsson, one of the writers and asked. (Which is something you really don't do. This man is viewed as a semi-god in Sweden, since he really has a god like gift for being funny.) No, there were no more royalties, but there were a president, Linnea Grind, which he suggested. And, voila, here I now am writing from linnea.stacken.- kth.se. -- Lennart Regebro, Stacken Computer Club regebro@stacken.kth.se Any Opinion expressed above is (c) Rent-An-Opinion(tm). It is not an Opinion of either Lennart Regebro or the Stacken Computer Club. Now you also can get an Opinion. Call Welcome To Reality(tm) +1 (800) NO-CLUES. From: regebro@linnea-grind.stacken.kth.se (Lennart Regebro) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article akiy@diva.cs.titech.ac.jp (Jun Akiyama) writes: >The machines here in our lab are named after mythological gods (siva, >vishnu, brahma). In scandinavia a popular scheme is Viking Gods. Oden, Tor, Freja... Used in several places. Lennart Regebro, Stacken Computer Club regebro@stacken.kth.se Any Opinion expressed above is (c) Rent-An-Opinion(tm). It is not an Opinion of either Lennart Regebro or the Stacken Computer Club. Now you also can get an Opinion. Call Welcome To Reality(tm) +1 (800) NO-CLUES. From: guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article , werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) writes: > > Hello, everyone. > > About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for > thematically-linked names of UNIX machines. Here is the summary of > posts in answer to my question. I gratefully acknowledge the > following persons for their help: [ list of names deleted ] In 1986 I was involved in setting up a coach reservation system on DEC VAXen ( running VMS ). The machine had been configured and given the name 'DRIVER' before we arrived. The system suffered the usual hitches during the cut over phase, nothing dramatic. The test users kept refering to the computer as that $*#%ing box etc. Meanwhile... I decided that DRIVER was a boring name and that it should be changed. Being a lover of the classics I chose the Muppets as the source of my name. Driver became Fozzie. All of a sudden p'off users stopped complaining about the $*#%ing box and started asking if Fozzie was fealing unwell! The change in user attitudes towards the system was AMAZING! We went on to add Kermit, Piggie and Gonzo. ( This was in a VAX cluster with two HSC70 disk controllers which were called Henson and Oz ). Guy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guy Dawson - Hoskyns Group Plc. guyd@hoskyns.co.uk Tel Hoskyns UK - 71 251 2128 guyd@austin.ibm.com Tel IBM Austin USA - 512 838 2334 From: guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites The Instruction Set ( now part of Hoskyns ) has a set of machines ending in set - sunset moonset dorset ( county in the UK ) teaset trainset ( used in classes ) There are others I forget. Guy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guy Dawson - Hoskyns Group Plc. guyd@hoskyns.co.uk Tel Hoskyns UK - 71 251 2128 guyd@austin.ibm.com Tel IBM Austin USA - 512 838 2334 From: baumann@mycroft.llumc.edu (Michael Baumann) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites We (well, I, anyway) have a number of themes: The particles (proton,muon,meson.....) Greek Alphabet (Alpha,beta,....) Self-Aware Computers (mycroft,jevex,visar,zorac,harlie,...) Odds and ends of Heilein and Niven (scudder, kizn, nessus, bussard....) Vices and Virtues... Michael Baumann Electus Technology Inc. Linda Universtiy Medical Center San Bernardino, California. (909)799-8308 |Internet: baumann@llumc.edu From: foobar@dist.dist.unige.it (Maurizio Vitale) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Here at DIST (University of Genoa, Italy) a lab is using porno stars' names as names for their machines. A theme I'd like to use is the name of famous latin writers (Catullus, Cicero, Tertullianum etc). Maurizio Vitale _______________ | _ |\ e-mail: foobar@dist.unige.it | How many times can | /|/| '_) | ) | | voice: +39 55 4378831 (Mon-Fri) | a man turn his head, | | | |_(_|_|/ | | +39 55 6812511 (Mon-Thu) | and pretend that he |_______________| | +39 10 397369 (Fri-Sun) | just doesn't see ? \_______________\| fax: +39 55 416996 (att:Vitale) | - Bob Dylan From: isaackuo@chaos.berkeley.edu (Isaac Kuo) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites cassidy@elan.rowan.edu (Kyle Cassidy) writes: >werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) writes: >>* various weather patterns in the Berkeley area (windstorm, tornado, >>lightning >but from where do they get 'headcrash' then? surely the local anchor man >doesn't get on and say 'expect violent headcrashes around 10pm, best park >your drives.... There are hundreds upon hundreds of *.berkeley.edu workstations, and there are more "themes" than you can count, really. However, the one which includes sandstorm, tornado, headcrash, tsunami, locusts, lightning, planecrash, etc... is the OCF.berkeley.edu cluster. Clearly the theme for the OCF Apollo workstations is disasters in general, not weather patterns. (I am posting from the math.berkeley.edu cluster, which has several "themes" itself...) -- /["o"]|8 Isaac Kuo (isaackuo@math.berkeley.edu) ,^-----^==_ "Most mammals, whether elephant or elephant shrew, /___________\ average the same number of heartbeats in their \=\>----- no idea what a huia is Mike Hardie University of Canterbury mike@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz Christchurch New Zealand From: mark-r@ee.man.ac.uk (Mark Robinson) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <1993Jun29.105930.17096@crash> malloy@crash.cts.com (Sean Malloy) writes: > >The Seven Dwarves (everybody _does_ know them, right?), > No, but I have a nice way to find out... black_crow[mark-r]: ypcat hosts 192.84.79.13 giggs spec15 192.84.79.12 robson spec14 192.84.79.11 alex eesuna spec13 130.88.14.38 d12 gold_mine 130.88.14.36 d07 pipe_organ 130.88.14.30 poison_apple spec11 130.88.14.29 black_crow spec12 130.88.14.27 woodchopper spec10 130.88.14.26 magic_mirror spec9 130.88.14.25 wicked_witch spec8 130.88.14.24 prince_charming spec7 130.88.14.23 grumpy spec6 130.88.14.22 bashful spec5 lphost 130.88.14.21 dopey spec4 130.88.14.19 happy spec2 130.88.14.18 sneezy spec1 lwhost lw1host 130.88.14.17 spec0 snow_white loghost datehost dumphost 130.88.16.1 bridge1 130.88.14.8 fergie doc eesun 127.0.0.1 localhost All the dwarves except sleepy are there (he's sick at the moment) fergie, alex, giggs, robson are Manchester United football players, gold_mine, poison_apple, black_crow, woodchopper, magic_mirror, wicked_witch, prince_charming are names we chose when we ran out of dwarves and pipe_organ is a 286 PC, names because it grinds along in a room full of Sparcs, so the person using it becaime known as the organ grinder. Mark ______________________________________________________________________ Multimedia Information Systems Lab | I'm a slug and I'm alright Dept. Of Electrical Engineering | That's 'cos I'm hermaphrodite University of Manchester | It bothers me not that I have no Dover St. Manchester. M13 9PL | friends England | 'Cos I have fun with both my ends From: aph016@cch.coventry.ac.uk (ozzy) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <20nc98INNgn5@skeena.ucs.ubc.ca> jjohnsto@unixg.ubc.ca (Jeff Johnston) writes: >- Cheeses (colby, cheddar, etc... University Computing Services) >- Chocolate Bars (snickers, mars, etc... Electrical Engineering) >- Physicists (maxwell, dirac, bohr, etc... Physics) >- Trees (aspen, poplar, larch, etc...) >- Gulf Islands (bowen, keats, gambier, etc... Computer Science) > (islands close to Vancouver) >- Beers (watneys*, toby, guinness, shaftbury [sic], etc... Computer Science) > (all of them ales, too.... hmmmm...) > (whoops scratch that last comment... I just checked and there's also > Foster's and Rainier, so I guess they have lagers, too... :) ) >- Marx Brothers (groucho, harpo, chico, etc... Computer Science) >- Mathematicians (fourier, cauchy, riemann, etc... Math) Wonder why UNIX sites havent been named after internal organs, like spleen, kidneys etc, or after famous animals like flipper.mit.edu? :-} oz thumbhere------------[ozzy/lucien: aph016@cch.cov.ac.uk]-------------thumbhere ****** Place your thumbs on the asterisks, close your eyes, ****** ******** breathe deeply, count to 10, then open them again. ******** ****** Let all that stress flow out..........:-) (NeXT mail welcome) ****** From: cchd@lucifer.latrobe.edu.au (Huw Davies) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Just to add some more to the theme theme: We have an unofficial policy that our node names should start with LU (for La Trobe University). In addition, when we started to get Unix based systems we decided that they should start with LUX (we weren't thinking of getting many of them :-). We also wanted our node names to reflect (if possible) the nodes usage. Here is a list of our current nodes. We have the following VMS nodes: LURE - La Trobe University REsearch LUAU - Administration Use LUGE - GEneral Use LUMS - Management Systems LUST - Student Teaching LUTE - Testing Environment LUPIN - ???? Can't remember what this stands for :-) Unix LUX - our first Unix node LUXURY - a 'spare' RS6000 LUXOR - our main RS6000 LUXAND - batch backend to LUXOR (shows that there aren't too many real LUX... words :-) My personal workstation is Lucifer (at least it starts with LU :-) and my home A/UX system is Hades (could this be the start of a new theme). We did have a policy about PC and Mac names, but it just fell apart due to the large number of them. Huw Davies | Huw.Davies@latrobe.edu.au Computing Services | Phone: +61 3 479 1500 Fax: +61 3 479 1999 La Trobe University | I own an Alfa to keep me poor in a monetary Melbourne Australia | sense, but rich in so many other ways From: kells@daimi.aau.dk (Kell S|nnichsen) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites This is an old story dating dated far before I came to the department so don't blame me if it isn't correct (well, blame me if you like, I don't care :-). The mail and news server here at the Computer Science Department was a Sun. Then naturally the file-servers in the LAN were given planet names, e.g. Jupiter, Saturn etc. The workstations in each cluster were given moon names, e.g. Io, Europe etc. (I'm not quite sure whether the moons of a cluster had to belong to the file server. If so, the fileserver Earth could only have Moon in the cluster). When the Mac's got names they were named after spacecrafts and satellites, e.g. Voyager, Discovery and Astra. Unfortunately the number of machines has now become so great that this (meta)theme don't hold any longer. We have now other themes: funny girl names, french cities (rlogin is _hard_), cars, and now we get flowers (in latin!). /Kell. -- _/ Kell S|nnichsen _/_/_/_/ The two most abundant things in _/ _/ Computer Science Dept. _/_/_/_/ the Universe are Hydrogen and _/ _/ University of Aarhus, Denmark _/_/_/_/ stupidity. _/ _/ email: kells@daimi.aau.dk _/_/_/_/ -- Harlan Ellison. _/ From: D.J.Miller@newcastle.ac.uk (Dave Miller) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites we've got some nice names here in Newcastle University. There's a room full of VAX stations named after villages in Northumberland (not too enterprising). But the computing service names its servers (SUNs) after the Bishops of Lindisfarne (or Holy Island) which is a small island off the coast of Northumberland. They are currently 'Tuda' and 'Eata'. The computing department names its mainframes after mathematical types currently 'Newton' and 'Turing'. dave /\|||||/\ __. ( o o ) _/ / +-------------------------------ooO--(_)--Ooo------------------------/ /----+ | / d.j.miller@newcastle.ac.uk | Program complexity grows > < | | ___/___ ___ | exponentially until it exeeds\ \<-ME| | / /___// //__// / HOME (+44 91) | the capacity of the progr- ._> \_ | |(__/(__<<__/(__ (__/ VOICE 266 1330 | -ammer who must complete it > ) | +------------------/------------------+-----------------------------_> _<--+ (_/ <_.---._> From: alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz (Ross Smith) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <20oi56$3vd@bag_end.pad.otc.com.au> panissec@nms.otc.com.au (Colin Panisset) writes: >Naming conventions from two sites I've worked at: > > The School of Computing Sciences at UTS started off with a 3/260 called > ultima, a companion machine ultimo (cute, since that's the name of the > suburb the machine is located in) and a bunch of 3/50's and 3/60's named > after various Greek mythological characters: amalthea, leda, adastrea, > himalia, lysithea, chiron, io, europa, etc. Sounds more like they were named after the moons of Jupiter. [ ... lotsa stuff gone to the great /dev/null in the sky ... ] > 3. Australian marsupials: platypus, bandicoot, wombat, kanga, quoll etc. Someone from Oz will probably point this out first, but a platypus isn't a marsupial... ... Ross Smith (Wanganui, New Zealand) ... alien@acheron.amigans.gen.nz ... Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals Everybody happy as the dead come home Big black Nemesis, parthenogenesis No one move a muscle as the dead come home (Shriekback) From: rhurwitz@mstuux.uucp (Roger Hurwitz) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Not terribly imaginative, but thematic nontheless, our UNIX boxes are named by concatenating our departmental acronym (mst) with three letter UNIX command names. For example: mstuux, mstftp, mstcat, mstcsh, ... From: Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Best site names (was: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites) Okay... for a twist, what are the *BEST* site names you have come across? Tops on my list would have to go to freudian.slip.uiuc.edu. After that: deadhost.cso.uiuc.edu (sure enough, 100% packet loss =) armageddon.slip.uiuc.edu (reminds me of the reagan-pushed the button by accident jokes of the 80's) clumsy.slip.uiuc.edu kill.animal.uiuc.edu (it's on the uiuc-meatlab net) dum[1-10].grad.uiuc.edu (self comment by the alumni association? =) 22many.cso.uiuc.edu 4play.cso.uiuc.edu Ok.. who's next? =) -- Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (ASCII mail) THIS IS _NOT_ CCSO'S OPINION!!! jar42733@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (NeXT mail) If It were, It would've had a wi.6580@n7kbt.rain.com (anon) more important name on it. =) From: faught@convex.com (Danny R. Faught) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article ddmiller@austin.ibm.com (David D. Miller) writes: >On a related note, when I was still in school (cs.utexas.edu) we had a bunch >of Suns named after small towns in Texas (grit, latexo, etc.). At the University of *North* Texas, the csci dept. does the same thing (terlingua, argyle, justin, luckenbach, krum, etc.) My account was on ponder, named after Ponder, TX. I always thought that was pretty cool. When things got really boring in Denton, you could take I35W south until you saw the sign that says "Ponder, 1 mile". For the next mile, of course, you had to ponder something. -- Danny Faught -- Convex rookie -- MPP OS Test Development "Everything is deeply intertwingled." (Ted Nelson, _Computer Lib_) From: davidb@nero.ce.washington.edu (David W. Barts) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Best site names (was: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites) In article <20qpc0$c2t@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall) writes: > > Okay... for a twist, what are the *BEST* site names you have come across? > > Tops on my list would have to go to freudian.slip.uiuc.edu. > [edited] post.its.mcw.edu -- David Barts N5JRN UW Civil Engineering, FX-10 davidb@ce.washington.edu Seattle, WA 98195 From: warren@mccarthy.uwo.ca (A Warren Pratten) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites I thought this was an interesting thread so I investigated the naming here in the computer science department at Western. Here is what I found: THEME NAMES ~~~~~ ~~~~~ betty: betty, grabel, ford, rubble, boop, crocker norse gods: loki, baldur, thor, odin, tiw, frei charlie: charlie, chaplin, chan, mccarthy gaul: asterix, obelix, getafix, dynamic, lyric, epitaf, rhetoric, autograf, cenotaf, fotograf, metric, caraf, choleric, telegraf, electric, prolix, euphoric, satiric, nescaf ...etc food: kimchi, sushi, hotdog, spud, banana video games: pacman, sue, pinky, inky, mspacman, mario -- A Warren Pratten Email: Warren@csd.uwo.ca From: jjohnsto@unixg.ubc.ca (Jeff Johnston) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Just out of curiousity, has anyone ever set up a small network with machines named after famous (real or fictitious) cross-dressers? ie. divine, tootsie, victor, victoria, etc... The network could be called... of course... DragNet. (wince) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Johnston jjohnsto@unixg.ubc.ca "Quick, Robin! The Bacardi Bat Device!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: thacher@renbourn.unx.sas.com (Clarke Thacher) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites One of my favorite groups of machines in our group here is a bunch of boxes from NEC named: necing, neckid, neclace, necro, nectie, nonec and rednec We're getting some new machines from DG, the first is named IKE, guess what the theme is going to be? Browsing through our /etc/hosts, I find some other themes: cold places: alps, lkplacid, siberia, alaska, stowe rivers: nile, potomac, seine, danube, indus a couple of our testing servers are named sat, and gre We also have a lot of the other themes that have already been mentioned. I have my own names for the AIX boxes that I have to work on. Clarke Thacher OSRD/HIP Software Developer SAS Institute, Inc. thacher@unx.sas.com (919) 677-8000 SAS Campus Drive, Cary, NC 27513 "N is for Neville who died of ennui." - Edward Gorey From: dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu (Doug Siebert) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Best site names (was: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites) Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall) writes: > Okay... for a twist, what are the *BEST* site names you have come across? > Tops on my list would have to go to freudian.slip.uiuc.edu. I was doing a traceroute and stumbled across ciscokid.oit.unc.edu. Doug Siebert | "I don't have to take this abuse Internet: dsiebert@isca.uiowa.edu | from you - I've got hundreds of NeXTMail: dsiebert@chop.isca.uiowa.edu | people waiting in line to abuse ICBM: 41d 39m 55s N, 91d 30m 43s W | me!" Bill Murray, Ghostbusters From: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites raphael@research.canon.oz.au (Andrew Raphael) writes: >On the other hand, we name workstations after dead musicians: thain, >stiv, sonny, pigpen, patsy, mydland, mama, liberace, kaye, john, jaco, >ian, hoagie, freddie, fatha, django, dizzy, del, byron, bing, astaire, >radics, nico, hillel, garland, ethel, duane, dolphy, dinah, darroch, >bopper, allen, ricky, otis, nigel, minnie, marc, keith, karen, janis, >elvis, denis, buddy, bon, stevie, ritchie, ron, & james. What Andrew doesn't mention is that all the NeXT machines are named after black musicians. And a rather slim HP/Apollo after Karen Carpenter. Also two of the names were friends of people who work here (James Darroch RIP). Andy Newman (andy@research.canon.oz.au) From: daveb@jaws (David Breneman) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Jim Frost (jimf@centerline.com) wrote: : Boston University's bu-pub cluster had some of the most inventive : cluster-naming I've ever seen. : : It started out fairly standard -- they called the net beer-net and : every machine wore the name of a beer, eg "Bass," "Corona," "Colt45," : and "Grizzly." : : As the machines multiplied they built (or were planning to build) new : nets using the existing machines as gateways, and here they got : unique. "Grizzly" was used as the gateway between beer-net and : bear-net (containing machines such as "polar"). "Bass" was to be used : as the gateway between beer-net and fish-net, although I don't know if : they ever actually implemented fish-net. : This could go on, though, through countless iterations. Colt45 could be the gateway to gun-net, containing Beretta, the gateway to car-net, containing Corsair, the gateway to plane-net, containing 747, the gateway to hp-net, containing Apollo, the gateway to space-net, containing Mercury, (a second bridge to car-net), containing Shuttle, a gateway to loom-net, containing Jacquard, a gateway to... David Breneman Email: daveb@jaws.engineering.dgtl.com System Administrator, Software Engineering Services Digital Systems International, Inc. Voice: 206 881-7544 Fax: 206 556-8033 From: dpl@aber.ac.uk (Dave Langstaff) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <1993Jun28.114051.2740@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes: >At last, one breath of sanity in the entire university: There's a >gyro.gearloose somewhere over in engineering. Everything else follows >the above pattern. > >Peter. Luckily we named our sun cluster before the computer unit people decided on a totally boring naming scheme. They've gone for the "cspcmaca", "cspcmacb", type of scheme, (ComputerSciencePersonalComputer_in_the_MicroElectronicsAnd Computing_lab_A), they justified this by quoting NRS naming conventions but I remain to be convinced. Anyway, our suns are called Wanda, Tudor, Freda with PCs Ford & Fido hooked on the same bit of ether net. Dave Langstaff | Janet:dpl@uk.ac.aber Any views expressed are those of the author alone. | Phone:(0970)622838 After-life, After-shave, don't hold with any of it, bleugh! - Sir Henry From: frostmd@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Matthew Frost) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Here at Aston we have quite a few thematic names: Star Trek: Spock, Kirk (Vaxen) Uhura (sequent) Picard, Riker (Sun I think) Khan (Micro Vax) Troi, Photon, Electron, Data (dunno) Black Adder: Edmund, Percy, Baldrick, Melchett (Suns) Rainbow: George, Zippy, Bungle (Sun classics) The rest of our machines (well in cs anyway) are just called sparc classic ipc support and xxxxx-server Oh yes and we have some Novel servers: Eldorado (failed uk soap) and Chaucer and some others that don't spring to mind. Matt -- Matthew Frost Email: frostmd@uhura.aston.ac.uk Amiga 4000/030 68882 25MHz Computer Science, or: frostmd@cs.aston.ac.uk Amiga 500 / Amiga CDTV Aston University, // "Some sheep are black, some sheep are white, therefore United Kingdom. \X/ if something is a cat then it is a cat!" From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Edmund Blackadder) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Here at UIUC, absolutely no creativity is used in naming. The large machines are ux[1234ach] for Unix systems, VMC and VMD for VMS machines. Workstations have names like ih-nxt01 thru ih-nxt07, suna0, suna1, ee-hp1 to ee-hp?? (HP workstations in Elect. Engineering building). My department's 486's are a1 thru a4, b1 thru b4, etc. and similar names can be found elsewhere for PCs (iu-pc01 thru iu-pc10). File servers fare somewhat better - the NeXT cubes are Sumter, Antietam, and Bull Run. My Novell servers are Zebra and T2 (Terminator 2). Most other machines on campus, including servers, are named after the building they're in. *yawn* SICKNESS IS HEALTH | hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu | DEL C:\WINDOWS\*.* MADNESS IS WISDOM | Valhalla BBS 217-352-3682 - 1:233/14 DRINKING IS STRENGTH | WWIVNet 1@2750 WWIVLink 1@12754 From: markw@phaedrus.ncstt.jcu.edu.au (Mark White) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Well, for what it's worth we're a Tourism Research Org, so in keeping with the territory I elected to name the machines after travellers, both fictional and non-fictional. I got "phaedrus" from Robert Pirsig's book, and "kerouac" after Jack K, the beat writer of the 50's and 60's, famous for (amongst other works) his "On the Road" travelogue. On a humourous note, another machine earned the moniker "twoflower", after the Discworld's first tourist in Terry Pratchett's "The Colour of Magic". Further attempts at creativity came to a screaming halt, however, when a secretary insisted that her PC be named in honour of her AA Milne fetish. Yup, there's a machine on my LAN called poohbear...... Mark White National Centre for Studies in Travel and Tourism | Phone: +61 7 870 9212 James Cook University | Fax: +61 7 371 8485 P.O. Box 705 Indooroopilly QLD 4068 AUSTRALIA | Home: +61 7 870 3373 From: jmalcolm@cthulhu.sura.net (Joseph Malcolm) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <1993Jun29.015150.24016@uvm.edu> wollman@trantor.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) writes: >In article <1993Jun28.164357.17189@spectrum.xerox.com> hdavies@rx.xerox.com writes: >>This is the only theme. My machine is called "kzin" after the race >>of sentient cats in Larry Niven's stories. I started using words >>from Niven's stories as machine names but everyone complained they >>were unpronounceable. > >Hey, so you have the same problem as I do! My PC is called `tsornin' >(Robin McKinley fans will recognize the joke), and everybody around >here just calls it ``wollman's PC'' since they can't pronounce it. (I >half considered calling the Sun-3 that I found `isfahel', but there's >only so far you can go...) Well, a while ago I decided it would be cool if the systems machines at SURAnet were named after various things from Lovecraft, so we've had cthulhu and azathoth for a while. Lately, we've also imtermittently had yog-sothoth, nodens, and nyarlathotep. (Only the last really raised any significant protest.) We also had cnames for some of these machines, as the other members of the systems staff didn't really share my appreciation for Lovecraft. Most of the aliases were pretty unimaginative (e.g. "compile"), but I was mightily amused when my boss suggested "blob" as an alias for azathoth... Joseph Malcolm jmalcolm@sura.net SURAnet Operations +1 301 982 4600 From: macros@pecan.cns.udel.edu (Frank Morgan) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites heres a few more for yah banana.cns.udel.edu strawberry.cns.udel.edu pecan.cns.udel.edu toffee.cns.udel.edu pineapple.cns.udel.edu tuttifrutti.cns.udel.edu mocha.cns.udel.edu cherry.cns.udel.edu maplenut.cns.udel.edu fudge.cns.udel.edu The freezer flavors of ice cream peppermint.cns.udel.edu pistachio.cns.udel.edu vanilla.cns.udel.edu butterscotch.cns.udel.edu chocolate.cns.udel.edu lime.cns.udel.edu lemon.cns.udel.edu ravel.udel.edu bach.udel.edu chopin.udel.edu The composers brahms.udel.edu mudskipper.rayst.udel.edu Muddy :) From: cae@cae.ny.jpmorgan.com (Caleb Epstein) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites To extend an already-too-long thread, in a department related to min here at JP Morgan we have a major server named "Atlantic"; all of its clients (well, most) are named after islands: jersey (gurnesey?), nantucket, rhode, padres (padre?), etc. I thought this was kind of clever. In my department we just use the primary user's initials, thus mine is cae. [ cae@jpmorgan.com ][ Caleb Epstein ][ JP Morgan Securities ][ NYC, NY ] From: sepulv_r@anion.epita.fr (Rodrigo A. SEPULVEDA SCHULZ) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article , jfh@netcom.com (Jack F. Hamilton) writes: |> werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) wrote: |> > |> >About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for |> >thematically-linked names of UNIX machines. Here is the summary of |> >posts in answer to my question. Here at EPITA, our computers are named after their brands, i.e.: Sony: execl, lstat, wait, fork, getfn, sbrk, ptrace ... Mips: ion, xenon, cation, meson, pluton, boson, anion, krypton, positron, neutron, proton, photon, freon, neon, torion, ... Sun : ahtena, neptune, minos, eos, cyrcee, vulcain, diane ... DG : rafale, f15, mirage, tomcat, mig, concorde (Aviion) CRAY: cray (a small one!) Has anyone edited all these names and compiled them into a text file? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rodrigo A. SEPULVEDA SCHULZ E.P.I.T.A., Paris, FRANCE (++)(33-1) 40.09.70.23 / 40.38.05.81 Email: sepulv_r@epita.fr ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: asjlf@acad2.alaska.edu Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites raphael@research.canon.oz.au (Andrew Raphael) writes: >On the other hand, we name workstations after dead musicians: thain, >stiv, sonny, pigpen, patsy, mydland, mama, liberace, kaye, john, jaco, >ian, hoagie, freddie, fatha, django, dizzy, del, byron, bing, astaire, >radics, nico, hillel, garland, ethel, duane, dolphy, dinah, darroch, >bopper, allen, ricky, otis, nigel, minnie, marc, keith, karen, janis, >elvis, denis, buddy, bon, stevie, ritchie, ron, & james. What, no jimi? John Friese asjlf@acad2.alaska.edu From: maa017@lancaster.ac.uk (Barry Rowlingson) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <1993Jun27.042940.24496@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, zevans@nyx.cs.du.edu (Zack Evans) writes: (about names at Lancaster) |> |> The mono xterms are all latin words - abundantia, accidenti, hypothesi, etc This is true, but what the systems people did was to look up latin phrases beginning 'ex-' in a dictionary. Later machines were added that were also prefixable by 'ex' - such as 'it' (which is a good name in itself) and 'ample', and 'port'. |> |> The Macs in the Mac lab are all named after footballers...banks, moore, |> bcharlton... |> Soccer players, specifically the 11 players who beat West Germany in the 1966 world soccer cup, plus the manager. We had 12 machines to name, and originally thought of doing 7 dwarves and then making up 5 fake dwarves - nosey, smelly, nobby, etc etc, then figured 12 machines was a good number for signs of the zodiac. We thought this was boring and came up with the soccer players. We dont get many German students using that lab for some reason.... Anyway, skimming thru the /etc/hosts file today I noticed someone has added something to the soccer players: 148.88.11.63 jcharlton pb4 148.88.11.64 moore pb5 # RIP 24/2/93 :-( 148.88.11.65 peters pb6 Because Bobby Moore (England captain) died in February! Also, we have machines in geography names after continents - asia, europe, africa, america and if we get to many new machines we'll run out.... Baz From: sbg@socs.uts.EDU.AU (Stephen Boyd Gowing) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites panissec@nms.otc.com.au (Colin Panisset) writes: >Naming conventions from two sites I've worked at: > The School of Computing Sciences at UTS started off with a 3/260 called > ultima, a companion machine ultimo (cute, since that's the name of the > suburb the machine is located in) and a bunch of 3/50's and 3/60's named > after various Greek mythological characters: amalthea, leda, adastrea, > himalia, lysithea, chiron, io, europa, etc. > The third Sun server to arrive in the machine room had, of course, to > be named appropriately -- after much headbashing and ignoring other > people's preferences, it was named 'syzygy' (spoiler at the bottom). > Following that, a set of SLC's were named for animals beginning with > 'a': aardvark, agouti, alligator, albatross, amoeba, etc.. But don't forget the Egyptian gods: ra, amun, isis... The authors: shakespeare, byron, pratchett... The animals begining with `P': panda, phoenix, pelican... The collection of birds: seagull, eagle, starling, ... The subterainian monster collection: kobold, goblin, gremlin, svart... I still want to use pizza toppings. Dr Zeus titles. Obscure Shakespeare characters. And different names for the one colour (I think I've still got a list of 20 different words for white). Stephen Boyd Gowing | sbg@fox-in.socs.uts.edu.au | Sanity is the last refuge Systems Programmer | ++61 2 330 1685 | of the unimaginative. From: ins559n@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Bulhak) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,,alt.religion.kibology,alt.horror.cthulhu Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Peter Gutmann (pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz) wrote: : In raphael@research.canon.oz.au (Andrew Raphael) writes: : >jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) writes: : : >>Naming your system "nyarlathotep" is probably one of the best security : >>measures known - who the heck is going to be able to type : >>"nyarlathotep.tristero.org.au" : : >Surely nyarlathotep should be the name of a busy gateway? : >"There is no peace at the gateway"... Actually, Nyarlathotep will be the name of a really flash notebook running something like NeXTstep; the fact that it would be a portable machine hs some bearing about it being named after the messenger of the Old Ones. (This is, of course, rather speculative, as I do not yet have an Internet connection and probably won't have one for some years to come.) : Nope, Yog-Sothoth would be the name of the gateway. "Yog-Sothoth knows the : gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate". Good idea. However, the news machine will remain kibo. It can be connected to the gateway through three machines called armenia, perl and mason. :-> : Peter. : -- : pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz||p_gutmann@cs.aukuni.ac.nz||gutmann_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz : peterg@kcbbs.gen.nz||peter@nacjack.gen.nz||peter@phlarnschlorpht.nacjack.gen.nz : (In order of preference - one of 'em's bound to work) : -- Why get a new PM when you can settle for an Old One? VOTE CTHULHU!! -- ^^^^^ K00L! This is the second time I have been quoted in someone's .sig; However, I think it should be "Why settle for a new PM when you can have an Old One?" +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Andrew Bulhak | | | acb@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au | "Yow! Am I on EVENT LOOPS of the | | Monash Uni, Clayton, | RICH AND FAMOUS?" | | Victoria, Australia | -- Zippy goes X programming | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ From: muckenho@math.rutgers.edu (Ben Muckenhoupt) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Back at Oberlin, we had five Suns that the system mangler saw fit to name fred, wilma, barney, betty, and dino. There was an immediate grass-roots effort to name them after something cooler. My favorite suggestion (my own) was to name them after the five discordian epochs: chaos, discord, confusion, bureaucracy, and aftermath. I think another suggestion was the five horsemen of the apocalypse: the traditional four plus ctilburg (the aforementioned sysadmin). None of the suggestions were adopted. Eventually, two lesser Suns were moved in, and named stan and ollie, despite the fact that the obvious extension of the theme was to call them pebbles and bam-bam. I have no idea what state things are in now. Carl Muckenhoupt From: aminzade@moose.uvm.edu (Russell Aminzade) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Thematics Names of Pre-UNIX Sites I just learned from the wonderful "Chronology of Digital Computing to 1952" (Posted here on alt.folklore.computers by Mark Brader) this wonderful tidbit about teh wartime "Heath Robinson" machine, a cipher-breaking computer from England. I quote: Heath Robinson is the name of a British cartoonist known for drawings of comical machines, like the American Rube Goldberg. Two later machines in the series will be named for London stores with "Robinson" in their names. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose! From: jonesm2@alum01.its.rpi.edu (Michael David Jones) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Best site names (was: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites) mbfarah@isluga.puc.cl (Miguel Farah F.) writes: >Fred Clift (cliftf@alaska.et.byu.edu) wrote: >>I've personally always having any machine named elvis around so I can use the >>BSD version of ping and find: >>elvis is alive >So, I always wanted to find a computer called "pong", so I could do >"ping pong" :-D. Back in days when UUCP was more common and bang paths were often heard I wanted to name a systemd "youredead". Mike Jones | jonesm2@rpi.edu Typographic design is a craft that takes years to master. Authors with no training in design often make elementary formatting errors. - Leslie Lamport, LaTeX From: haha@vipunen.hut.fi (Harri Haanp{{) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Best site names (was: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites) In <20qpc0$c2t@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall) writes: >Okay... for a twist, what are the *BEST* site names you have come across? >Tops on my list would have to go to freudian.slip.uiuc.edu. Here at HUT we have pizza.hut.fi. As aliases for alpha, beta, gamma and delta.hut.fi we have monty, python, flying, circus. (HUT stands for Helsinki University of Technology) Harri H. From: johny@cogs.susx.ac.uk (Lord Yak Da Hairy) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Best site names Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall) writes: >Okay... for a twist, what are the *BEST* site names you have come across? >Tops on my list would have to go to freudian.slip.uiuc.edu. I remember seeing uncle-bens.rice.edu once... -- John Yeates (Lord Yak Da Hairy) --------------- johny@cogs.susx.ac.uk -- -- "Now ogging... THAT'S quality violence." -------------- Jeff Coleburn -- From: patrick@is.rice.edu (Patrick L Humphrey) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Best site names In article <1993Jul2.143817.15249@syma.sussex.ac.uk> johny@cogs.susx.ac.uk (Lord Yak Da Hairy) writes: >Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall) writes: >>Okay... for a twist, what are the *BEST* site names you have come across? >>Tops on my list would have to go to freudian.slip.uiuc.edu. > >I remember seeing uncle-bens.rice.edu once... No kidding -- that was my home machine for a while back in '89 and '90. Unfortunately, uncle-bens was upgraded to a SPARC 1+ in 1990 (or early '91) and renamed sparky -- and then SunLab was merged into the Rice Unix Facility last year, and since the new subdomain name was "ruf.rice.edu", the machines were all named after dogs, so now the original uncle-bens is known as greyhound.ruf.rice.edu. (Meanwhile, the machines in is.rice.edu are supposed to be named after Texas rivers -- hence I'm on brazos -- but one of the Owlnet gurus has a machined named this.is.rice.edu...:-) --PLH, right up the walk from elvis.rice.edu -- and elvis is alive From: mgb@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk (Martin Beckett) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites The chemisrty dept got their first machine and some child of the 60s named it Dillon, intending to call later ones Hendrix, Bowie etc.. Unfortunately the next system manager was a 70s person and called the rest Dougle, Zebbedee etc. ( Note to Americans and other aliens - Dillon, Dougle ,Zeb etc were characters in a 70s childrens cartoon series in the UK ) Here the first 5 machines were named CAST0,1,2,3,4,5 the next ones CASSA,B,C,D the IOAS07,08,09,10,11,12 (but no 00-06 !) then the next RGOSA,B,C,D Then they said we couldn't have real names because it would be too confusing ! Martin Beckett , Institute of Astronomy , University of Cambridge , UK From: eigenstr@cs.rose-hulman.edu (Todd R. Eigenschink) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <1993Jul3.181253.17538@infodev.cam.ac.uk> mgb@mail.ast.cam.ac.uk (Martin Beckett) writes: >The chemisrty dept got their first machine and some child of the 60s named it >Dillon, intending to call later ones Hendrix, Bowie etc.. Here, all the machines in the CS department are Dr. Who companions. Zoe, K9, Leela, Romana, etc. I don't think we'll have the problem with some yutz changing the scheme, but I'm not sure what we're going to do when we run out of names... Todd Eigenschink (eigenstr@CS.Rose-Hulman.Edu) From: dnichols@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <20vfso$rg8@boson.epita.fr> sepulv_r@anion.epita.fr (Rodrigo A. SEPULVEDA SCHULZ) writes: >In article , jfh@netcom.com (Jack F. Hamilton) writes: >|> werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) wrote: >|> > >|> >About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for >|> >thematically-linked names of UNIX machines. Here is the summary of >|> >posts in answer to my question. > > Here at EPITA, our computers are named after their brands, i.e.: [ ... ] >CRAY: cray (a small one!) This makes me want to find a cray small enough to add to my net at home. (Good luck shrinking one that much. :-) The machine-name to be: crawdad (crayfish) of course. :-) -- Email: | ...!uunet!ceilidh!dnichols Donald Nichols (DoN.) | Voice (Days): (703) 704-2280 (Eves): (703) 938-4564 --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- From: rorschak@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper Lauridsen) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes: >cs1, cs2, cs3, cs4, cs5, cs6, cs7, cs8, cs9, cs10, cs11, cs12, cs13, cs14, > cs15 (can anyone see the pattern yet?), cs16, cs17, cs18 Fits in well with the assingment of user names. -- Jesper Lauridsen | I am a computer scientist rorschak@daimi.aau.dk | I science computers From: dagbrown@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Brown) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <1993Jul5.013458.9964@daimi.aau.dk> rorschak@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper Lauridsen) writes: >ddmiller@austin.ibm.com (David D. Miller) writes: > >>In a previous dept., which happened to be populated by staff from Europe, >>the Middle East, and Africa, the machines were all named after international >>cities > >I have tried to name any international cities, but the only one I could >think of was Berlin when the Wall was still there. Could you mention >which names they used? Well, you're being pedantic :-), but the only other international city I can think of is Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan/Ontaio. That'd be quite the hostname..."telnet sault-sainte-marie" :-) . -- Dave Brown -- dagbrown@napier.uwaterloo.ca -- (416) 669-5370 "Your mother told you that you're not supposed to talk to strangers, Look in the mirror, tell me, do you think your life's in danger?" --Ozzy Osbourne From: userDHAL@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (David Halliwell) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites dagbrown@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Dave Brown) writes: >Well, you're being pedantic :-), but the only other international city >I can think of is Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan/Ontaio. That'd be >quite the hostname..."telnet sault-sainte-marie" :-) . ...but you'd never be able to telnet to it unless you set up an alias for the locals...."telnet the-soo" Dave Halliwell Department of Geography University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta From: rog (Roger Peppe) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites My favourite site/machine names, from the site of a friend (who had the idea) : the machine names: vampire phantom shade wraith zombie spook spectre spirit skeleton shadow ghoul ghast ghost lich the netgroup is `undead' the domain (obviously) is `limbo' at my current site, the theme is scotch whiskies - the only problem being spelling! (try spelling `teaninich' on a bad day!) it's a good excuse to try some of the more obscure whiskies though... rog. From: wilson@inf.ufrgs.br (Wilson Roberto Afonso) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites Well, this thread has grown a lot. Time for my $.02. When we moved to our new building, there was a poll to decide on the new names to the (many) new machines. The result was: - stones and thing like that: quartz, crystal, pearl etc. - stars a.t.l.t.: procyon, sirius, vega etc. - Brazilian animals: urutu , owl, tucan etc. - local geographic landmarks - local (state) talk [of course the names are in Portuguese: quartzo, cristal, perola etc.] The supercomputer center now has scientists names (Gauss, Darwin etc. [the director's name is Kepler]), and the professors' Macs & PCs have Lord of The Rigs-based names (written in the alphabet which is used in the book). The undergrads' PCs have Egyptian gods names (with drawings). The machines at the DP center have 'single' names, like Vortex, Asterix & Sbu (don't ask about this last one). Almost forgot: the Physics dept. uses cities names: Moscow, Berlin etc. -Wilson -- Wilson Roberto Afonso |"Oh, no! We're in the hands of engineers wilson@inf.ufrgs.br | now!" (Jurassic Park) Instituto de Informatica - UFRGS |"The 1st time it's research; the 2nd it's Porto Alegre - RS - Brasil | just engineering." (Cliff Stoll) From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <1993Jul1.122848.10004@aston.ac.uk> frostmd@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Matthew Frost) writes: >Here at Aston we have quite a few thematic names: While this is not a 'thematic' name, there is a computer in San Diego called bang whose adminstrator is bam It is served by by crash. So to get to the site the path is ..!crash!bang!bam Or to pronounce it . bang crash bang bang bang bam Sort of like the sound effects from a film. Bill Vermillion - bill@bilver.uucp OR bill@bilver.oau.org From: whitem@jester.usask.ca (Matt White) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Here at the University of Saskatchewan, it was initially decided that the names should start with SK. Not really exiting - Skyfox, Skyblu, Skycat and so on. One of the interesting points of working in Computing Services is seeing some of the names that people dream up in the office. One 486 running OS/2 is called Skynet (remember the computer in Terminator?). The PC in our Consulting office is called Insult. Various other machines: Teapot (A DECstation 3100) Earl_Grey (A Mac SE, beside Teapot) Wazzoo and the Mac SE I just registered for the manager here: Fred. I must have looked a bit strange until he explained - F *cking R idiculous E lectronic D evice (well, it IS a Mac...) ;-) -- Matt White | whitem@jester.usask.ca User Support & Training | Matt.White@usask.ca Dept. of Computing Services | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA University of Saskatchewan | My real computer is an Amiga... From: jwbirdsa@picarefy.picarefy.com (James W. Birdsall) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites Here at picarefy.com (my livingroom), half the machines have names from various SF/fantasy universes: picarefy - ship's brain from Jo Clayton's Skeen trilogy talesedrin - a Shin'a'in clan from Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar world macleod - from _Highlander_ and the other half (miriu, horoho, and amharc) are various neat-sounding words found in Enya lyrics. The name of my next machine will probably depend on what it is and what shuffling occurs among my existing machines. There are certain names that I'd rather not give to a tertiary machine that gets turned on once every two months or so. -- James W. Birdsall jwbirdsa@picarefy.picarefy.com Compu$erve: 71261,1731 GEnie: J.BIRDSALL2 "For it is the doom of men that they forget." -- Merlin From: magnasco@research.nj.nec.com (Marcelo Magnasco) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites Weren't the Crays at Los Alamos named after famous communists? (I remember stalin.lanl.gov, lenin.lanl.gov... ) Regards, Marcelo Magnasco marcelo@mjf.rockefeller.edu magnasco@research.nj.nec.com From: thayne@unislc.slc.unisys.com (Thayne Forbes) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites Wilson Roberto Afonso (wilson@inf.ufrgs.br) wrote: : Well, this thread has grown a lot. Time for my $.02. When we moved Well I must be really late then, but we were talking about this last Friday. We have a set of machines in our lab with unusual names. The machines used to belong to the development and support groups, and the Dev guys named theirs after characters on Cheers (Rebecca, Woody, Coach) and the support guys named theirs after mostly obscure gods (Shiva, Ishtar, Astarte, Tyr). When you put them together with the machines from our customer reps (Yellow, and Godzilla) you get a very mixed up theme. My very favorite theme was the 'heads'. Redhead, jughead, bonehead, meathead, deadhead, ..... There must have been 20 of them. From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (DreamyJim) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites I like it when a site uses names out of context... USM's main campus is 75 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. Three machines there are named: seabass, whale, and trout. Here on the USM Gulf Coast campus we are about 250 feet from the Gulf of Mexico. We don't yet have any Unix/AIX computers, but if we get some we will probably name them after some animal or plant known to live far inland... :-) just to be consistent ! Jim Pierce. Disclaimer: Standard. From: cq377@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David C. Williss) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In a previous article, swaim@owlnet.rice.edu (Michael Parks Swaim) says: >In article werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) writes: >> >>Hello, everyone. >> >>About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for >>thematically-linked names of UNIX machines. >[list deleted] > >>Please post follow-ups to alt.folklore.computers. > I find these lists interesting, so I thought I'd add a few At my place of work, all our PCs were named after Peanuts characters (Linus, Lucy, Snoopy, Woodstock, etc). The server was, or course, Shultz. Then we started running out of Peanuts characters and went to Bloom county, calvin & hobbs, etc... When we got sever Unix boxes and started naming them after drinks. At first they were given names that indicated their relative speeds based on the ammount of caffine in the drink. We're saving the name "Espresso" for an SGI Crimson or Onyx or something. (Our SGI Iris Indigo is "jolt"). We also had to have fun with the name for an Apple Macintosh Quadra running AUX -- "cider". -Dave Williss --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from! The opinions stated above are those of a small fish that lives in my ear From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites Our Franklin College of Arts and Sciences (named for Benjamin Franklin, who had a hand in its founding) has, of course ben.franklin.uga.edu and also aretha.franklin.uga.edu. Closer to home, in the AI Lab (which is strongly oriented toward logic programming), I've been wanting to name the machines Aristotle, Boethius, Chrysippus, Diomedes, Epictetus, Frege, Goedel, Hume... but the students insist on aisun1, aisun2, aisun3...6. -- :- Michael A. Covington, Associate Research Scientist : ***** :- Artificial Intelligence Programs mcovingt@ai.uga.edu : ********* :- The University of Georgia phone 706 542-0358 : * * * :- Athens, Georgia 30602-7415 U.S.A. amateur radio N4TMI : ** *** ** <>< From: earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US (Greg Earle) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites In article <20vfso$rg8@boson.epita.fr> sepulv_r@anion.epita.fr (Rodrigo A. SEPULVEDA SCHULZ) writes: >>>About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for >>>thematically-linked names of UNIX machines. Here is the summary of >>>posts in answer to my question. > > Here at EPITA, our computers are named after their brands, i.e.: >... >Sun : ahtena, neptune, minos, eos, cyrcee, vulcain, diane ... At JPL, the first group to have a non-trivial amount of Suns decided that since they were at the JET Propulsion Laboratory and these were SUNs, then therefore they had a JETSUNS network - and thus were named accordingly: elroy judy jane george spacely henry uniblab astro ... Another group is called the Digital Image Animation Lab (DIAL); with a name like "DIAL" they therefore named theirs after brands of soap ... which I haven't seen used here before: tone ivory dove lava spirit shield dial crank zest crystal coast twist ... - Greg Earle Phone: (818) 353-8695 FAX: (818) 353-1877 Internet: earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US UUCP: isolar!earle@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV a.k.a. ...!elroy!isolar!earle From: groot@idca.tds.philips.nl (Henk de Groot) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites In <1993Jul6.225718.21627@unislc.slc.unisys.com> thayne@unislc.slc.unisys.com (Thayne Forbes) writes: >Wilson Roberto Afonso (wilson@inf.ufrgs.br) wrote: >: Well, this thread has grown a lot. Time for my $.02. When we moved >My very favorite theme was the 'heads'. Redhead, jughead, bonehead, >meathead, deadhead, ..... There must have been 20 of them. When we had to choose a name, one of us started with 'Pluto'. The originator wanted to name the whole cluster after Walt-Disney charactres. To his surprise the second machine was named 'Neptune' and so we ended up with 'Mars', 'Venus', 'Saturn', 'Uranus' and 'Jupiter'. We still have space for 'Mercury' and 'Earth'. I'm posting from 'Jupiter' by the way... Henk. / / Henk de Groot | Dep.: IISS-SE (System Management) /---/ __ __ / Loc: V2/A05 | Mail: groot@idca.tds.philips.nl / / (-_ / / /( Tel: +31 55 432104 | Digital Equipment Corporation From: faught@berserk.ssc.gov (Ed Faught) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites From the controls department hosts database: ( these are but a few ) 143.202.24.10 egomaniac egomaniac.ssc.gov # Raj Patil 143.202.24.11 klepto klepto.ssc.gov # L. Mullins DEC 5000/120 143.202.24.12 paranoia paranoia.ssc.gov # Keng L. - DEC 143.202.24.13 stress stress.ssc.gov # Ellen H. - DEC 143.202.24.14 berserk berserk.ssc.gov # Ed F - NeXT 143.202.24.154 dementia dementia.ssc.gov # MVME167 143.202.24.17 neurosis neurosis.ssc.gov # Lynx in CF lab 143.202.24.18 exotic exotic.ssc.gov # NCD Xterm in B211 143.202.24.19 geewhiz geewhiz.ssc.gov # Jim R. - NeXT 143.202.24.20 schizoid schizoid.ssc.gov # Harris 4800 in Comp. Lab 143.202.24.26 freud freud.ssc.gov # Sun Sparc2 File Server 143.202.24.27 dingus dingus.ssc.gov # Butteris J. - NeXT 143.202.24.29 lunatic lunatic.ssc.gov # John H. - NeXT 143.202.24.30 psychosis psychosis.ssc.gov # David W. - DEC 143.202.24.36 manic manic.ssc.gov # Library - DEC 2100 143.202.24.40 chaos chaos.ssc.gov # Nate Barber Sun(sparc2) 143.202.24.41 phobia phobia.ssc.gov # NeXT in user lab 143.202.24.52 dipsomaniac dipsomaniac.ssc.gov # DEC 5000/20 143.202.24.53 bonkers bonkers.ssc.gov # Next w/scanner (YP slave) 143.202.24.56 lucid lucid.ssc.gov # Sharad A. Sun IPC Note that "schizoid" is a dual processor machine. -- Ed_Faught@ssc.gov WA9WDM wouldn't dare to speak for the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory From: nickel@prz.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites At my previous work there had been purchased a uVAX II early 1986. (A sexy machine then!) Since the people were involved in Configuration management, the machine was named coma. Subsequent machine names were chaos (VAXstation 2000), monster (AT clone), desaster (german spelling slips in) and avalanche (both Sun workstations). These are all *.cs.tu-berlin.de. Coma, coming into life when connectivity was something much more exciting than in today's Internet times, is also known as ...!coma and db0tui62.bitnet. At my current work (domain prz.tu-berlin.de) I had the opportunity to suggest the names for our new HP755 workstations. These are now risum, toftum, midlum, bargum, and morsum, names of north frisian villages. North Frisia is a region at the North Sea coast of Germany's most northern state, Schleswig-Holstein. Risum is the villages where my parents live as well as the machine I work with. Juergen Nickelsen From: Wes Bachman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic names of UNIX sites I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but the ISCA machines, here at the University of Iowa, are all named after blender speeds. A machine running a BBS is named whip.isca.uiowa.edu. The local ftp file system is grind.isca. uiowa.edu. Our panda server and client is on chop.isca.uiowa.edu and there is a mud up on thrash.isca.uiowa.edu. ISCA is a student computer association, and the decision was made a few years ago to go with this scheme. Guess it stuck. |=| |=| Wes Bachman (wbachman@chop.isca.uiowa.edu/grind.isca) Panda development, TSCA founder, Kanga author Public PGP key available upon request. |=| |=| From: probertm@nms.otc.com.au (Mark Probert) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites malloy@crash.cts.com (Sean Malloy) writes: >Virtues: > > faith > hope > charity > honesty > duty > fortitude > purity > integrity --> Nit Pick on... The 7 Virtues: Faith, Hope, Charity, Temperance, Constance, Prudence and, ofcourse, Chastity. The 7 Deadly Sins: Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Sloth, Lust, Avarice, and Wroth. -- ===================================================================== Mark PROBERT voice: 61 2 569 3966 Archaeopteryx Systems Pty Ltd fax : snail: 6 Victoria St, Lewisham 2049 email: probertm@nms.otc.com.au From: elascurn@daimi.aau.dk (Lars R{der Clausen) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites werner@world.std.com (Craig Werner) writes: Funny, we are just having a long thread locally about that very same theme. Our current computers have these name themes: Sun3: Named objects in the solar system (neptun, io, epimeteus etc) Sun4: Cars (bentley, cadillac, chrysler etc) Mac: Space crafts (voyager, magellan, discovery etc) Hp 300/400: Girls names (janne, franka etc) Hp 700: French towns (No, we're not in France!) (mirebeau, cannes etc) Then I asked why we (the users) where not asked about it, and during that came up these (I made 5 in each posting. I won't do that here): Classical roman names: Cesar, Brutus, Nero, Augustus etc. Persons from Asterix (not asterisk): Asterix, Obelix, Majestix etc. Constellations: Leo, Pisces, Virgo etc. Movie stars: Chaplin, Marx, Wayne, etc. Famous scientist: Bohr, Curie, Einstein, Euler etc. German military person from WWII: Hitler, Himmler, Rommel, Hess etc. Aeroplanes: Boing, Airbus, Tornado etc. Famous games: Pacman, invaders, advent, tetris etc. American presidents: Carter, Reagan, Ford, Nixon etc. Computer pioners: Turing, Babbage, Lovelace etc. Italian citynames: Toronto, Roma, Venezia etc. Latin names for (danish) plants: Eranthis, lotus etc The elements: helium, oxygen, carbon, sulphur osv. Artificial languages: esperanto, volapyk, ido, novial, occidental etc. (Danish) composers: Gade, Lumbye, Heise, Langgard etc Types of rocks: Granite, kvartz, basalt, etc (Soft) drinks: Cola, Pepsi, Jolly, etc. Old (danish) towns: Svendborg, Fredensborg, Silkeborg, Frederiksborg, etc The worlds highest mountains: Everest, Kilimanjaro, Vesuv, Etna, etc Fish: (Can't remember translations offhand) (Danish) beer brands: Tuborg, Carlsberg, Faxe, Ceres, Urban, Albani, ... (Nordic) gods: Odin, Thor, Loke, Tyr, Heimdal, Balder, Frej, Freja, Ydun, ... Heavenly objects: Meteor, planet, star, asteroid, nova etc. Clothing: Shirt, jeans, jacket etc. Times: Hour, day, summer, night etc. Legendary monsters: Minotaur, gorgon, basilisk etc. (for monstrous machines) Lewis Carrol words: Snark, boojum, brillig, slithy, etc. These (nearly) all have the advantages of not being used often in computer logs, being easy to remember and there being many in each group. If anyone wants a new theme, you can ask me. I made 20 of those above. Greeting: Hi, hello, thanks, thanks in advance, yours, yours sincerely etc. -Lars -- Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de St. Exupery From: elascurn@daimi.aau.dk (Lars R{der Clausen) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Best site names (was: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites) Jeff-Randall@uiuc.edu (Jeff Randall) writes: >Okay... for a twist, what are the *BEST* site names you have come across? >Tops on my list would have to go to freudian.slip.uiuc.edu. >Ok.. who's next? =) I was shocked yesterday to learn that the FAQs of some or all newsgroups were to be found on ... RTFM.mit.edu! -Lars -- Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de St. Exupery From: ab401@freenet.carleton.ca (Tim Phillips) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites Our computer science people here use names of the London (England) subway stations, of which there are about one-hundred-forty :-) They are called things like morden, camden, etc. From: ian@soliton.demon.co.uk (Ian Cargill) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites In article <1993Jul19.194212.67025@ucl.ac.uk> Tim writes: >Our computer science people here use names of the London (England) subway >stations, of which there are about one-hundred-forty :-) >They are called things like morden, camden, etc. > Arrrrrrrrgh! Philistine. In London, it is the *UNDERGROUND*, thank you very much. The 'tube' if you are being colloquial. Subway indead. Also, while we are at it, they are called Morden, Camden, etc. (oh, just in case, :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) ) ^ ^ I work on a network of Sun workstations. They are called, of course, Sunshine, Sunburn, Sunlight, Sundial, Sundeck and ..... Box! The guy who installed that one has been told not to return. -- ================================================================= Ian Cargill Email: ian@soliton.demon.co.uk 54 Windfield, Leatherhead, Surrey,\ UK KT22 8UQ Phone: +44 (0)372 375529 (Home), +44 (0)71 510 7875 (Work) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Assn. of C and C++ Users (ACCU) For Serious C & C++ Users (Formerly C Users Group UK) - Mail for details ================================================================= From: zaitcev@ipmce.su (Pete A. Zaitcev) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites In <22ejoi$1ic@gondor.sdsu.edu> stremler@sdsu.edu (Stewart Stremler) writes: >> IMHO, a nameing scheme should have a large scope. Using the seven dwarves >> is fine only as long as you don't get an 8th machine... >..Thorin, Oin, Gloin, Bifur... Oops. My SS1+ is called 'mellorn' because of an error: translators of LOTR used "Mellorn" (in cyrillic letters) for the 'mallorn'. I am sure you even cannot imagine which names a hobbits carry in russian :-) BTW, one day I named the 16-bits mini "TWIN" (<@twin.srcc.msu.su>). It was a half of coupled CPU complex ("twins"). Pete Moscow Center of SPARC-technology From: sillywiz@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (SillyWiz) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites In article <1993Jul27.180518.26485@aber.ac.uk> ccs@aber.ac.uk (Christopher Samuel) writes: >In article <743202721snz@soliton.demon.co.uk> > ian@soliton.demon.co.uk doodled: > >> I work on a network of Sun workstations. They are called, of course, >> Sunshine, Sunburn, Sunlight, Sundial, Sundeck and ..... >> Box! The guy who installed that one has been told not to return. > >Hmm.... the Computer Science department here has got a room full of >Suns for undergrads to use, and this came to be known as the Sun Lounge >and I first came across it in 1987, shortly after it had been set up. >They're currently building another one now, wonder what that one'll end >up being called.. Here at Warwick they're very strong on thematic names.. The HERB GARDEN is full of machines like SAGE and THYME. The MEAT LOCKER is full of SPAM,HAM,MUTTON.. The room known as the dungeon ( 'cos it's underground mostly ) has been refered to in my hearing as THE MORGUE... the machines are call FOOT,TOE,LUNG etc. Funny thing is that the FISHBOWL has no fish named machines in it at all. The CS department started off with stoney names eg Stone, Flint, Granite etc and then took up "cuddly" names like Trifle, Piffle, Gargle. { The room is known as the Fishbowl because all of one side is glass and all the other (normal) students taking shortcuts up the stairs in the CS building can look in.. } (We also have a "Box" here BTW) -- the SillyWiz -- -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- The University of Warwick cares little | module WORK.COM has aborted causing for my opinions the rest of the time so| general brain protection fault.. it can't have these if it wants them. | Faint, Sleep or Panic ? -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Keith Lucas ---- sillywiz@dcs.warwick.ac.uk , csugq@csv.warwick.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: mfuhr@cwis.unomaha.edu (Michael Fuhr) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites chris@state.COM.AU (Chris Keane) writes: >Another lab had twenty workstations called named of animals/fish >starting with the letter `a'. Go on, see how many YOU can think up! aardvark aardwolf (African critter that resembles a hyena) aberdevine (type of bird) addax (large, light-colored antelope) adder affenpinscher (dog) agama (type of reptile) agouti (tropical American rodent about the size of a rabbit) albacore (tuna family) albatross alewife (herring family) alligator alpaca (resembles a llama) anaconda anchovy (pizza topping) angelfish angleworm angwantibo (type of primate) anoa (type of mammal) anole (type of reptile) ant anteater (eats ants) antelope (runs away with ants and marries them) aoudad (North African wild sheep) apar (haven't a clue, but it's a mammal) ape aphid archerfish argala (type of bird) argali (large wild sheep of Asia) argusfish armadillo armyworm asp ass auk (computer language...no wait, that's awk) aurochs (type of ox or bison?) avocet aye-aye (nocturnal lemur of Madagascar) To name a few (I give away my ignorance by describing the ones I didn't know). Thanks, Peter & Noah. -- Michael Fuhr "I believe in nothing that I cannot mfuhr@cwis.unomaha.edu touch, kiss, embrace. . . . The rest is only hearsay." -Edward Abbey From: csap@syzygy (Christopher Pankhurst) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites In article <1993Jul28.140533.26593@aber.ac.uk> from [Wed, 28 Jul 1993 14:05:33 GMT] you wrote: > I just heard what the new room is to be called: > > The Solarium > > I guess it had to happen! > We have a room like this at UTS, full of suns, and called the Solarium. Guess what the machines are called? Io, Callisto, Ganymede, Europa, etc! Chris. csap@socs.uts.edu.au GCS -d+(++) p c+ l(!l) u++ e+ m s(+) n---(++) h--(*) f- g+(-) w t r(--) y? PS For anybody still in the dark ( :) ), these are names of planetary moons. From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites auj@aber.ac.uk (Alun Jones) writes: >I just heard what the new room is to be called: > The Solarium Pretty obvious name for a room with Suns in -- we've had one here for a few years. Back in the old days the undergrad. sun3s were in one of the teaching labs (i.e. open only during office hours); the terminals were in a 24-hour classroom. Then, because MEng students needed Suns all day a few extras were put into a small room which automatically became known as the Solarium. This was probably as much because the heat kicked out by six 3/50s in a room the size of an average office had a certain effect on the temperature as because of any sun/Sun connections. pete -- Peter Fenelon - Research Associate - High Integrity Systems Engineering Group, Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, York, Y01 5DD (+44/0)904 433388 pete@minster.york.ac.uk `Today keeps slipping by me, it leaves no aftertaste.' Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: avg@cwi.nl (A.V. Groenink) Subject: Re: Host Names Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 20:57:28 GMT lhclin@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Louis Lin) writes: >I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially >machine series. I know machines that are name after: >gems - ruby, diamond, ... >NP-complete problems - tsp, knapsack, ... >animals - lion, tiger, ... >scientists/mathematicians - descartes, neumann, ... >cartoon characters - dino, bambam, ... I have seen Writers. Germanic gods (very common---ugh) Alphabet codes (alpha bravo etc.) SUN1 -- SUN99 :-) A number of disgusting suggestions: TV celebrities Types of bread (white, brown, wholemeal, poppyseeds, baguette) Car makes Four letter words Rooms (living, dining, attic, hall, cellar, study etc.) Types of weather -- Annius V. Groenink | E-mail: avg@cwi.nl | Private & ZFC: CWI, Kruislaan 413 | Room: M233 | P.O. Box 799 1098 SJ Amsterdam | Ext: 4077 | NL 3500 AT Utrecht Netherland | Phone: +31 20 592 4077 | Phone: +31 30 803740 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: jmaynard@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Jay Maynard) Subject: Re: Host Names Date: Thu, 25 Nov 93 20:22:16 GMT In article , Louis Lin wrote: >I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially >machine series. My home network has machines that are named after noises from the Garfield comic strip: splut, blat, and poomp so far, with rowr and ffft next. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity. "The road to Usenet is littered with dead horses." -- Jack Hamilton From: wegge@daimi.aau.dk (Anders Wegge Jakobsen) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Host Names Date: 25 Nov 1993 21:06:02 GMT In Thus spake lhclin@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Louis Lin): >I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially >machine series. I know machines that are name after: French cities - cannes, dieppe, mersault, dijon, ... Cars - bmw, wartburg, jaguar, ford, ferrari, ... Latin flower names - sorbus, rubus, fragraria, ... Planets & moons - neptun, uranus, amalthea, io, triton, ... Sattelites - vostok, mariner, luna, intersat, ... Girls' names - sasja, clarice, torun, elvira, jessica, ... Anders Wegge Jakobsen 2:230/821@fidonet 39:140/109@amiganet wegge@daimi.aau.dk Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: sja2249@ucs.usl.edu (Alleman Samuel J) Subject: Re: Host Names Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 22:06:42 GMT Liquers: Calvados, Armagnac, etc. Colors: Rouge, Blanc, Noir, Argent, etc. ( they are in French (Louisiana)) clever names: dossux. regional names: a2fay, jambalaya, swamp, gator, marsh, teche, gumbo, cajun, etc. greek/roman gods: nyx, zeus, etc. sam Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: lps@rahul.net (Kevin Martinez) Subject: Re: Host Names Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 22:26:45 GMT In lhclin@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Louis Lin) writes: >I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially >machine series. I know machines that are name after: One network: Japanese girls names: reiko, kumiko, noriko, keiko, .... Our newest network: Controversial cartoon characters: bart, itchy, beavis (butthead if we get the budget approved) Kevin Martinez lps@rahul.net -- File not found Loading something similar... GS/M -d+(-) -p+(-) c++ l+ u e+ m---(*) s++/++ n+(--) h f+ g++(-) w+ t- r++ y? GCS/O d- -p+ c+ !l u+ e+ m+ s++/ !n(---) h f+ g+ w+++ t+ r(-) y? Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: d88-bli@dront.nada.kth.se (Bo Lindbergh) Subject: Re: Host Names Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 22:55:45 GMT In article lhclin@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Louis Lin) writes: >I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially >machine series. the word "black" in different languages: aswad baki black crn czarny du fekete hei hitam iswed juodas kuroi... rivers: dnjepr donau elbe eufrat ganges loire moldau neva nilen oder orinoco... James Bond's adversaries: blofeld drax goldfinger jaws oddjob scaramanga zorin... 14-character words from /usr/dict/words: abovementioned administratrix aforementioned antiperspirant astrophysicist basidiomycetes bremsstrahlung cardiovascular characteristic cholinesterase chromatography circumlocution circumstantial classification classificatory claustrophobia claustrophobic committeewoman committeewomen comprehensible concessionaire congratulatory consanguineous conspiratorial Constantinople contradistinct controvertible counterbalance counterexample Czechoslovakia diffeomorphism differentiable diffractometer disciplinarian discriminatory extemporaneous featherbedding ferromagnetism Fredericksburg handicraftsman handicraftsmen histochemistry historiography hydrochemistry implementation inapproachable incommensurate incommunicable incompressible inconsiderable incontrollable indecipherable indecomposable indestructible indeterminable indiscoverable indiscriminate infrastructure insuppressible insurmountable intelligentsia interferometer interpretation intramolecular irreconcilable irreproachable irreproducible macromolecular macroprocessor macrostructure Mephistopheles morphophonemic multiplication multiplicative neuropathology nitroglycerine Northumberland optoelectronic organometallic orthophosphate paralinguistic parallelepiped parapsychology phosphorescent physiochemical polysaccharide predisposition presentational prestidigitate presupposition proprioception proprioceptive psychoacoustic psychoanalysis psychoanalytic quintessential radioastronomy radiochemistry radiotelegraph radiotelephone reconnaissance representative septuagenarian servomechanism slaughterhouse staphylococcus superintendent teleconference teleprocessing tetrafluouride transcendental transformation transportation unidimensional unidirectional verisimilitude et cetera, and so on, and so forth, and why doesn't somebody maintain a list we can send to the next person who asks this in a month or two? /Bo Lindbergh Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: greg@huia.canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing) Subject: Re: Host Names Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 23:17:10 GMT In article <1993Nov25.202216.28863@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, jmaynard@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Jay Maynard) writes: |> In article , |> Louis Lin wrote: |> >I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially |> >machine series. Here we use Maori names of native New Zealand birds. Originally all 4 letters, but we ran out of 4-letter names, and we now have some of 5 letters. Here's an extract from our /etc/hosts: weka tui parson_bird kiwi kea mountain_parrot tete grey_teal huia cosc mailhost loghost huia.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz cosc.canterbury.ac.nz ruru morepork kahu harrier_hawk kahu.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz titi muttonbird hihi stickbird whio whio.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz blue_duck kuku moko takaheae kaki black_stilt mohua yellowhead kaka # #Spare names for other machines: # tieke saddleback # matata fernbird # tauhou waxeye # kakapo Native_parrot # kotuku White Heron Some of the above refer to species which are extinct. What that implies I'm not quite sure... From: ptorre@hardy.u.washington.edu (Phil Torre KB7ZFH) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Host Names Date: 26 Nov 1993 00:31:13 GMT Mine are movie monsters/random evil characters: Darth, Colossus, Kronos, Nosferatu, Mongo. --- Phil Torre KB7ZFH NUXI is not a trademark of TAT&. ptorre@u.washington.edu Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: white@elf.dircon.co.uk (Jim Finnis) Subject: Re: Host Names Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 22:44:59 GMT In article <1993Nov25.202216.28863@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, Jay Maynard wrote: >In article , >Louis Lin wrote: >>I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially >>machine series. > >My home network has machines that are named after noises from the Garfield >comic strip: splut, blat, and poomp so far, with rowr and ffft next. The Triumphant Return of "Host Names - The Thread that Would Not Die!" Sorry.. but these people would probably interested in the RFC "How to name your machines" or something like that. I don't remember the number off the top of my head... can someone give them, and us, a pointer to it? Actually, I like the Garfield noises solution... although it breaks the "easy to spell" recommendation in the RFC.. ObHostnameSeries: The local university college compski dept. have just got a room full of Sun Sparc Classics, running Solaris (oh dear) and they've named 'em after states of mind.. angst, odd, weird, nervous, happy, ennui, void, cowed are a few I can recall immediately. They should have included "stoned"... :) ============================================================================= Jim Finnis | "Lpiq an lpiq asaqc, as upqca si enq" white@elf.dircon.co.uk | ...!uunet!pipex!dircon!elf!white ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- '"I am that merry wanderer of the night"? I am that giggling-dangerous- totally-bloody-psychotic-menace-to-life-and-limb, more like it." ============================================================================= Date: Fri, 26 Nov 93 12:41:31 EST From: dave@gilly.UUCP Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Host Names white@elf.dircon.co.uk (Jim Finnis) writes: >Sorry.. but these people would probably interested in the RFC "How to >name your machines" or something like that. I don't remember the number >off the top of my head... can someone give them, and us, a pointer to >it? Or the stats on most popular hostname: Network Information Systems Center October 1993 SRI International Internet Domain Survey The Domain Survey attempts to discover every host on the Internet by doing a complete search of the Domain Name System. The latest results gathered during late-October 1993 are listed. For more information see RFC 1296; for more data see the pub/zone directory on ftp.nisc.sri.com. -- Mark Lottor Top 50 Host Names 889 venus 650 mac1 507 newton 448 pc5 421 mac15 817 pluto 611 mercury 507 neptune 448 mac11 421 fred 811 cisco 611 iris 506 mac3 447 mac13 420 mac16 775 pc1 603 charon 506 mac10 447 gateway 415 pc10 763 mars 590 mac2 485 alpha 446 mac4 415 mac5 731 gw 583 pc3 471 apollo 446 hermes 414 sirius 729 zeus 551 ns 460 mac12 440 mac14 405 phoenix 720 jupiter 545 orion 457 thor 437 titan 403 calvin 684 pc2 531 eagle 457 gauss 428 hobbes 402 pc6 677 saturn 507 pc4 449 router 426 merlin 398 mac18 So, the winners are: planets, gods, stupid names (pc[n], mac[n], cisco, gateway), scientist/mathematicians, and Calvin & Hobbes! >Actually, I like the Garfield noises solution... although it breaks the >"easy to spell" recommendation in the RFC.. Which reminds me of an idea - has anyone ever used the wrong spellings of hard-to-spell words? (Good for high-security installations.) ------------------------ uunet!quack!gilly!dave ------------------------ ================= Dave Fischer - Nature's Perfect Food ================= ----------------------- dave%gilly@speedway.net ------------------------ Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: dbd@martha.utcc.utk.edu (David DeLaney) Subject: Re: Host Names Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1993 21:01:51 GMT ok, I'll jump in: at U.T.Knoxville, our computing department names temporary IP addresses after weird Tennessee towns: soddydaisy, wartburg, ooltewah, etc. Dave "and don't misspell them, freshmen!" DeLaney -- David DeLaney: dbd@(utkux.utcc | panacea.phys | enigma.phys).utk.edu - collect them all! Disclaimers: AFAIK, *nobody* speaks for U.T.Knoxville (consistently); Thinking about this disclaimer (or about high energy theoretical particle __ physics) may cause headaches. sorry, no borders or boundaries \/ From: frisbie@flying-disk.com Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Host Names Date: 29 Nov 93 08:10:09 PDT > francis@blak.demon.co.uk (Francis Solomon) writes: > > A few years ago a suggestion was made to me for a series of machines > named after dead rock stars...the example given was "elvis" (of course). My wife works for the City of Los Angeles on their 911 police dispatching system. She told me that they are having discussions about node names for their new network. I suggested that they use the names of popular crimes: Murder, mayhem, arson... The theme is appropriate and the list is endless. -- Alan E. Frisbie Frisbie@Flying-Disk.Com -- Flying Disk Systems, Inc. -- 4759 Round Top Drive (213) 256-2575 (voice) -- Los Angeles, CA 90065 (213) 258-3585 (FAX) From: korpela@mofo.ssl.berkeley.edu (Eric J. Korpela) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Host Names Date: 29 Nov 1993 19:37:45 GMT In article lhclin@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Louis Lin) writes: >cartoon characters - dino, bambam, ... scotch whiskey: highland, lowland, islay,... california towns: pacifica, montara, bodega,.... physchological constructs: id, ego, superego.... elvis: so you can ping him. I'm currently logged into mofo.... You should be able to decipher that one... Eric -- Eric Korpela | The two most common things in the korpela@ssl.berkeley.edu | universe are Hydrogen and stupidity. | -Harlan Ellison From: taft@cs.unc.edu (Todd D. Taft) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Host Names Date: 29 Nov 1993 22:49:05 -0500 I've seen: amino acids (alanine, proline, glycine, etc.) seven dwarfs (grumpy, sleepy, doc, bashful, dopey, etc.) Santa's Reindeer (dasher, dancer, donner, rudolph, etc.) artists (picasso, dali, vangogh, etc.) authors (tolkien, lewis, chesterton, etc.) fish (molly, platy, tetra, etc.) greek letters (alpha, beta, gamma, etc.) moons (io, luna, etc.) planets (mercury, venus, etc.) museams (louvre, prado, etc.) North Carolina lighthouses (hatteras, lookout, ocracoke, etc.) parts of the visual system (axon, dendrite, etc.) U.S. presidents (washington, lincoln, etc.) scientists (newton, hubbard, etc.) sesame street characters (oscar,ernie,bert, etc.) stars and constellations (algol, rigil, sirius, etc.) tennis stars (strong servers) (mcenroe, borg, evert, etc.) elements (gallium, gold, silver, etc.) mythological characters (zeus, hera, hermes, etc.) seven deadly sins (sloth, gluttony, lust, etc.) monsters (vampire, medusa, etc.) animals (giraffe, cow, etc.) types of music (jazz, classical, etc.) musical instruments (piano, violin, etc.) blender speeds (whip, grind, etc.) -- Todd D. Taft taft@cs.unc.edu U.N.C. Department of Computer Science Student Facilities Staff From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Host Names Date: 30 Nov 1993 04:45:17 GMT I have repeatedly proposed a series of great logicians' names, in alphabetical order, but my user community says they're way too hard to spell... Aristotle, Boethius, Chrysippus, Diomedes, Epictetus, Frege, Goedel... -- < Michael A. Covington, Assc Rsch Scientist, Artificial Intelligence Programs > < The University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30606-7415 USA mcovingt@ai.uga.edu > <>< ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ><> < For info about U.Ga. degree programs, email GRADADM@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU (not me) > From: gt8741b@prism.gatech.EDU (Chris Adams) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Host Names Date: 30 Nov 1993 08:09:21 GMT Well, here we used to have (or at least I have been told and believe) names from the TV show M*A*S*H. The only one still around one of the main disk servers: radar. I guess that if it was like the character, it would know ahead of time what I was requesting? Now, we have "hydra" (a Sequent multi-386 machine, soon to be leaving), "acme" (a Sun Sparcserver that is getting close to working most of the time, kind of reminds me of Wyle E. Coyote and all of his Acme Co. stuff), and "sundial" (a dialin accessable Sun!). Most of the rest of the general access machines are numbered, including a lab of DECStations. For some reason, machine number 9 is quite popular: "ds9". Some of the other, newer disk servers are "spook" and "ghost". I don't know who came up with these. -- Chris Adams | Georgia Tech | This space left Internet: gt8741b@prism.gatech.edu| intentionally blank ----------------------------------+ From: csulo@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M J Brown) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Host Names Date: 30 Nov 1993 10:44:33 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <2defriINN32d@stravinsky.cs.unc.edu>, taft@cs.unc.edu (Todd D. Taft) writes: >I've seen: [long list] Well I've seen herbs: (borage,basil,sage,comfrey ...) plants: (clover,lily,violet,poppy,orchid,thistle) cheeses: (edam,colwick,cheddar ...) meats: (ham,beef,mutton ...) rocks: (stone,granite,slate,pumice,quartz) Also :- "ind" machines: (bookbIND,woodwIND,downwIND) "double letter" Colour X-Terms: (piffle,ripple,snuggle,bubble,fizzle) "body parts" Mono Tektronx X-terms: (nose,ear,eye,foot) Theres more .... ============================================================================= _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ | _/_/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ _/ | Michael Brown _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ | _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ | mjb@dcs.warwick.ac.uk _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ | csulo@csv.warwick.ac.uk ============================================================================= "It's one SML grep FOR man .... one giant LOOP {FOR man -k -ind}" - /dev/null rm strong ============================================================================= Also reachable at Michael.Brown@f24.n258.z2.fidonet.org (if all else fails) +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ From: higgins@fnalo.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Specious Dwarves (was Re: Host Names) Date: 30 Nov 93 11:43:33 -0600 In article <2defriINN32d@stravinsky.cs.unc.edu>, taft@cs.unc.edu (Todd D. Taft) writes: > I've seen: [...] > seven dwarfs (grumpy, sleepy, doc, bashful, dopey, etc.) Forgive my posting in this Frequently Recurring Thread, but I've never done it before, and I have a tiny tidbit that may amuse you. The control system for our extracted particle beams lives on a bunch of clustered Vaxstations. As is so common, we named them after cartoon characters, with a Disney cluster (I'm always uncomfortable sending mail that says "From: GOOFY::HIGGINS") and a Warner Brothers cluster. One group was named for the Seven Dwarves: HAPPY, DOPEY, GRUMPY, et al, and also SNOWHT (DECNET allows you only six characters for nodenames). Naturally, at some point we needed to add more workstations. We had run out of dwarves. So we started inventing new, non-canonical dwarves, such as SLEEZY. One machine was dedicated to running a spiffy-looking, but not particularly useful, status display; operators named this one FLOOZY, "because it's a cheap thrill for the management." (Presumably FLOOZY is a female dwarf.) Two nodes devoted to controlling cryogenics for our superconducting magnet strings became FROSTY and FREEZY. "Excuse ME, Professor Brainiac, but | Bill Higgins I WORKED in a nuclear power plant | Fermilab for ten years-- and, uh, I think I know | Internet: higgins@fnal.fnal.gov how a PROTON ACCELERATOR works!" | Bitnet: higgins@fnal --Homer Simpson, before the accident From: emf@scf.nmsu.edu (Xyanthilous Harrierstick) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Host Names Date: 1 Dec 1993 05:18:09 GMT [big list deleted] In my home i use demons to name my systems. ie: lucifer, belial, beezlebub, baphomet, asmodeus, etc.... started from a pdp-11/34 that got named "The Antichrist". my personal favorite is ucberkely's (i think) naming scheme of natural disasters, (inferno, hurricane, typhoon, tornado, planecrash, headcrash, earthquake, etc..) (to which a personal friend of mine at university of new mexico named his machine wombatinfestation as a tribute to that naming scheme. Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki) Subject: Re: Host Names Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 09:26:15 GMT roth@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Roth Mark Daniel) writes: >My Linux box is called "dynamic", after a small consulting business a >few friends and I had in High School, Dynamic Data Services. But I >think my next machine will be "static" to continue in the tradition. >:) I've got "Wall". I'm a big Pink Floyd fan -- my network will contain names along the same vein. (Pigs, Dogs, Sheep, Pink, DarkSide, etc.) BTW: my domain name (no folks, it's not on the net YET!) is toall.com, because the name of my Internet provider service is going to be "To All Net" -- so I have "wall.toall.com". When you say it out loud it sounds like "wall to wall". :) -- Jason Balicki | kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu | Tao. Tao. Taylight come an' we wan' go home. From: Russ=Northrup%IMS%USACERL@leo.cecer.army.mil Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Re: Host Names Date: Wed, 01 Dec 93 09:47:44 >lhclin@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Louis Lin) writes: > >>I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially >>machine series. I know machines that are name after: > A recent decision at this (government] site was that all new LAN server names begin with our site code, making our host names "CER-something". This has led to some interesting suggestions: CER-lancelot CER-vix CER-cumsized CER-real CER-fandturf ..etc... The last two (pronounced surreal and surf-and-turf, for the one or two who havn't caught on) are my fav's... From: kstr@az.stratus.com (Kevin_Strietzel) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Host Names Date: 3 Dec 1993 22:08:09 GMT In article woolleym@aston.ac.uk (M.WOOLLEY) writes: > >In article lhclin@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca writes: > >->I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially > >->machine series. I know machines that are name after: I've seent he following conventions I haven't yet noticed in this thread: Places in Arizona: Phoenix (server), Flagstaff (workstation). Stratus VOS modules are usually named m1...m. Gods and/or goddesses: Poseidon, Chaos. Electronic parts: Resistor, Capacitor. Meteorological phenomena: Nimbus, Storm. Fonts: Courier, Helvetica. Chocolates: Tivoli, Hershey. Desert plants: Ocotillo, Saguaro. Kevin Strietzel Stratus Computer From: jim@chiba.tadpole.com (Jim Thompson) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Host Names Date: 3 Dec 1993 16:02:46 GMT Back when I worked for a newspaper in Las Vegas, we came close to naming a set of Sun's after Nevada's cathouses. We considered the names of the strip's hotels as well. Jim Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: david@pangloss (David Thomas) Subject: Re: Host Names Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 23:48:35 GMT lhclin@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Louis Lin) writes: >I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially >machine series. [snip] At this site we have, SPARCstations: composers ( Albeniz Bach Bartok Beethoven Berlioz Bernstein Bizet Borodin Brahms Bruckner Chopin Copland Corelli Couperin Debussy Dvorak Elgar Gershwin Ginastera Grieg Haydn Handel Hindemith Holst Janacek Mahler Milhaud Mozart Mussorgsky Offenbach Orff Paganini Poulenc Prokofiev Puccini Purcell Ravel Rachmaninov Respighi Rodrigo Rossini Saint-Saens Satie Scarlatti Schubert Schumann Scriabin Sibelius Smetana Sor Strauss Stravinsky Tarrega Telemann Verdi Vivaldi Wagner Weber) HP workstations: operatic characters (parsifal kundry alberich wotan loge erda frika freia candide pangloss) File servers: giants (leviathan gog magog colossus fafner fasolt goliath) and the lab has: diseases (mumps rickets flu polio scurvy tetanus rubella typhoid smallpox cholera malaria leprosy) -- David Thomas (david@micro.ti.com or david@wotangate.sc.ti.com) (713)-274-2347 From: chafey@ecst.csuchico.edu (Chris Hafey) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Re: Host Names Date: 5 Dec 1993 09:57:09 GMT In article <75475726434n9@news.cecer.army.mil>, wrote: >>lhclin@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Louis Lin) writes: >> >>>I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially >>>machine series. I know machines that are name after: >> > Here at CSU Chico, we set up a special room where students can play games and not disturb the rest of the lab. We decided to create a sort of theme and ended up with a puke type theme. Here are some of our machines: puke spew hurl cookies upchuck vomit heave chuck phlegm We also gave our servers some pretty odd names: hairball guzzler corpse phantasm pathogen pitbull roadkill And of course we have a lot of strange xterm names like zit, wart scab, rash, pimple, hot-poker, bludgeon, iron-maiden, thumb-screw,gonad, pube etc. It sure is better than some other school's names that I have seen. Chris -- Chris Hafey | True programming is rebooting the machine chafey@ecst.csuchico.edu | after each crash until it works. From: khillig@Be.Chem.LSA.UMich.Edu (Kurt Hillig) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 16 Sep 1994 17:03:12 GMT I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the scheme I've used here - one I came up with when I was a newbie network administrator and couldn't keep all the IP numbers straight.... Our machines (for the most part) are named for the elements, where the IP node number is the appropriate atomic number. This has lead to a few interesting names: Platinum belongs to a surface chemist whose experimental work mostly involves single-crystal platinum surfaces. Uranium is our main server because it's the nucleus of our system. Our big IBM RS/6000 is named Plutonium - aka Pu - because we knew it would be a stinker to administer.... -- Dr. Kurt Hillig Dept. of Chemistry I always tell the phone (313)747-2867 University of Michigan absolute truth X.500 khillig@umich.edu Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055 as I see it. khillig@chem.lsa.umich.edu Computers were invented to help people waste more time faster From: ckd@loiosh.kei.com (Christopher Davis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 16 Sep 1994 17:14:05 GMT JWC> == John William Chambless JWC> My machine at work is named "klendathu". JWC> Is anybody else geeky enough to know why? Of course. Science fiction {books,characters,planets,authors,etc} are a long-standing traditional source of computer names. MIT, of course, has a number, including eddie, micro-heart-of-gold, fenchurch, jack-vance... If you can match the machine's function/purpose/design to the name, so much the better. A NeXTcube named borg, perhaps. Or a pair of Ascend Pipelines named mario and luigi (plumbers, of course...). A mail server might be named kly (for fans of Lois McMaster Bujold's _Barrayar_). Clusters can be named after similar-role characters from multiple works (generals, wizards) or different characters from the same work, series, or fictional world (MIT had a number of "Ringworld" character names at one point). Other fiction can also supply themes. Rutgers has a "Musketeers" cluster (aramis, athos, porthos, dartagnan). -- Christopher Davis * * (was ) * MIME * PGP * [CKD1] "It's 106 ms to Chicago, we've got a full disk of GIFs, half a meg of hypertext, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." "Click it." - Looking for: _The Big U_, by Neal Stephenson (out of print) - Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: mdw@cs.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh) Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 17:12:25 GMT This doesn't belong in comp.unix.admin... A certain QA lab that I once worked in named all of its machines after various and sundry illegal drugs. I once answered a phone call at the lab and was asked which machine I and a co-worker of mine were logged into at the time. Naturally, I replied, "I'm on LSD, and Ryan's on quualudes." mdw From: ceo@ftp.com (Chip Olson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 15:39 EST In Article <35a6ks$dpv@kelly.teleport.com> "bruceab@teleport.com (Bruce Baugh)" says: > The Beyonder wrote: > >I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using > >these days that you personally like the sound of. My all-time favorite is Rice University's main mail server... uncle-bens.rice.edu. (Uncle Ben's is a US brand of rice.) My home Linux box is named Servetus, after Michael Servetus, the Reformation heretic who was burned in effigy by the Catholics and burned in person by the Protestants. -- -Chip Olson. | ceo@ftp.com | FTP's opinions are even wierder than mine. This article is a natural product. The slight variations in spelling and grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to be considered flaws or defects. From: crosby@nordsieck.cs.Colorado.EDU (Matthew Crosby) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 16 Sep 1994 20:37:22 GMT In article <35cf0p$9cf@iia.org>, Pete Ehlke wrote: >rcsacw@urc.tue.nl (Christ van Willegen) writes: > >>bruceab@teleport.com (Bruce Baugh) writes: >>>The Beyonder wrote: >>>>I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using >>>>these days that you personally like the sound of. > >There used to be a machine somewhere in the uiuc.edu domain, I >think it was in physics.uiuc.edu, whose name was > >mine_all_mine > >One of the early linux users was a woman whose last name was Tree. (Are >you still out there???) Her machine's name was treehouse. > We have several HP 9000/7xx's, aka snakes. When we first got them, we named them "nag and nagina". (we wanted nag and kaa but kaa was already taken). Then we got 6 more, and argued at great length about what to name them. The trouble was, all the mythological and litereray snakes where things noone had ever heard of, or type (eg: ouroboros, the great world serpent). So as a compromise, and since we had nag and nagina, we went with diminutives of nag. now we have: nag, nagina, nagita, nagik (should be nageek), naggy, nagette, nagess and nagjte. Makes for a very confusing net, as we can never remember which machine we where on ("...well, it began with "nag") Other naming schemes we use include toys (frisbee, yoyo, aerobie, koosh), onomatoepea (whomp, bam, splat, etc etc), famous computer games (zork, adventure, rogue, wumpus, hack). We also gave our PC's names to match our opinions of them: doorstop, junk, paperweight, slow... The main campus servers are named after dogs (rintintin, spot, tramp, snoopy) Rumour has it that this was the last revenge of the vms folks, who ensured that the unix machines where named after the "dogs they where". From: djr@wynde.com (David Rowland) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 16 Sep 1994 22:05:09 GMT Where I work we have named all our machines using a astronomical theme. We have on our net: Tycho Europa Io Phobos Deimos Gaspra Titan Charon Unfortunately, the astronimical theme stops there all the other machines are Macintoshes and the are named: big-mac lil-mac mongo-mac prof-mac sat-mac Three sites I used to administer used Colorado ski resorts for their hostnames: Purgatory (Hell for short) Copper Vail Ajax Aspen Estes Steamboat Keystone Eldora Telluride Snowmass -- David Rowland - djr@wynde.com System Administrator - Wyndemere Inc., Boulder, Colorado Don't tread on me! From: julian@cs.uq.oz.au (Julian Orbach) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames page Date: 17 Sep 1994 06:52:02 GMT The CS Honours students at Flinders University of South Australia (used to?) have workstations named after disasters. I am a bit hazy about the exact names, but they were similar to: Erebus, Hindenburg, Bhopal, Chernobyl, Pompeii, Etna, Titanic, etc... --- -- Julian Orbach (julian@cs.uq.oz.au) -- University of Queensland -- Brisbane, Australia From: rls3@Ra.MsState.Edu (Roger L Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 16 Sep 1994 19:50:04 -0500 >>>bruceab@teleport.com (Bruce Baugh) writes: >>>>The Beyonder wrote: >>>>>I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using >>>>>these days that you personally like the sound of. Here at State, one of our two main university machines is named Ra (after the Egyptian sun god), and yup, you guessed, it's a Sun system. Also, our main CS machine is named Walt, and all of the workstations are named after Disney characters. The best part is that our assistant department head is a somewhat macho, ex-military pilot type, and his workstation is named tinkerbell. _\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_ | Roger L. Smith - CS Grad | It's hard to make a program foolproof | | Mississippi State University | because fools are so ingenious. | | rls3@Ra.MsState.Edu |==========================================| | roger@CS.MsState.Edu | A black hole is where God is dividing | | smith@AgEcon.MsState.Edu | by zero. | |_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_| From: simmons@EE.MsState.Edu (David Simmons) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 17 Sep 1994 05:32:05 GMT In article , Roger L Smith wrote: >>>>bruceab@teleport.com (Bruce Baugh) writes: >>>>>The Beyonder wrote: >>>>>>I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using >>>>>>these days that you personally like the sound of. > >Here at State, one of our two main university machines is named Ra (after >the Egyptian sun god), and yup, you guessed, it's a Sun system. > >Also, our main CS machine is named Walt, and all of the workstations are >named after Disney characters. The best part is that our assistant >department head is a somewhat macho, ex-military pilot type, and his >workstation is named tinkerbell. > And over here across campus, a professor named "Dr. Reese" wanted his machine named "pieces". It took me a while to get it... And of course, our monolithic SparcServer 690MP is named, appropriately enough, "Borg", complete with the star trek action figure on top. Lastly, the 386/25 machine that serves as a router to my apartment network is called "Fuzzball", after the old ARPAnet routers... David -- David Simmons, System Administrator simmons@ee.msstate.edu Mississippi State University Electrical and Computer Engineering Visit my home page! http://www.ee.msstate.edu/~simmons From: bergman@panix.com (Mark Bergman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 17 Sep 1994 11:37:28 -0400 I'm partial to names of hot peppers: tabasco habanero chili scotch-bonnet jalapeno chipolte cayenne I also do some admin work at a site where their AT&T servers are named after planets: Venus, Mars, etc. I find their AT&T SysV.4 box named "Sun" somewhat disturbing... ---- Mark Bergman Biker, IATSE #1 Stagehand, (former) Unix user support grunt 718-855-9148 bergman@panix.com {cmcl2,uunet}!panix!bergman I want a newsgroup with a infinite S/N ratio! Now taking CFV on: rec.motorcycles.stagehands.pet-bird-owners.pinballers.ex-unix-supporters 4 So Far From: neuwirth@ophelia.tuwien.ac.at (K. Neuwirth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 17 Sep 1994 21:44:07 GMT We here (well, not here, but at home) have adopted the following scheme for naming our machines (I live in a home with two computer freaks and some hardware around . . . and hopefully a leased-line link to our home by the end of the month . . the domain is already set and we have configured the IP numbers, but that is something differently). . . All machines are named after famous (or not-so-famous) mathematicians, where the first letter of the name has to indicate the type of machine. Stieltjes is a Sun Sparc, Archimedes and Aristoteles are the two Amigas, Peano and Poincare are the PCs, Leibnitz is a Laptop. And then of course, there is maybreeze, named after one of the historically relevant computers and the only important computer in history ever to come out of Austria. (just out of curiosity: how many now the story of Maybreeze, or rather, Mailuefterl?) BTW: Maybreeze is a Next, so it is not too far off . . . :-) Makes it easy to know what type of machine somebody is talking about when he has problems with one of the boxes . . //konrad From: jsanford@nyx10.cs.du.edu (James Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 17 Sep 1994 16:25:30 -0600 >>The Beyonder wrote: >>>I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using >>>these days that you personally like the sound of. I still think "dysfunctional-relationship.ecst.csuchico.edu" is my favorite, but the entire ecst.csuchico.edu domain is interesting. -- James Sanford - jsanford@nyx.cs.du.edu From: steve@adam.com.au (Stephen White) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 18 Sep 1994 10:15:58 +0930 : >>>>>The Beyonder wrote: : >>>>>>I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using : >>>>>>these days that you personally like the sound of. I named this machine "eve" to fit in with the owner's megalomaniac complex of calling himself "God". In keeping with the bibilical theme, I'm the Son, Greg's the Holy Ghost, we drink a lot of Spirit, and we're looking for a Mary. :) I'm a King Crimson fanatic, so my network at home has machines named after various King Crimson songs. My workstation is "nuages", the machine in the back room is "exiles", and the Archimedes is called "lament". As well, the machine here that links my network to ADAM is called "trio" after the King Crimson song of the same name, in homage to the Holy Trinity nature of ADAM's network. -- steve@adam.com.au Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.unix.admin From: pete@physchem.ox.ac.uk (Pete Biggs) Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1994 11:30:41 GMT > >>The Beyonder wrote: > >>>I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using > >>>these days that you personally like the sound of. Around here the computing service machines are named after colours - there's quite a few, so some of the colours are getting esoteric. However, they recently got a new machine and, for various very good reasons, they wanted to call it "sable", the only problem being that there already was a machine called "sable". The admin of that machine got a memo from on high which stated simply "Please rename sable, thanks". So we now have a mchine called "thanks". Pete -- ============================================================================= Pete Biggs :{) pete@physchem.ox.ac.uk Life is a sexually transmitted, terminal disease. ============================================================================= Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: iyoung@alpha.wright.edu (Ian Young) Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames page Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1994 16:13:43 GMT In article <35g7i9$54t@hubcap.clemson.edu> gkemp@eng.clemson.edu writes: >While not as catchy as some of the other names listed, the Suns in the Freeman >computer lab here at Clemson are named for cars. Thus, this lab has a Gremlin >in it. Fortunately, it's labeled! > >Greg Kemp >gkemp@eng.clemson.edu >Sitting next to Gremlin right now. > > > Kind of like our X lab here in the Academic Computer Center here at WSU. The Unix box on the floor is Discover.wright.edu, and all of our sun X workstations and their node units are named after discoverers, so there's Ericson, Lewis, Perry &c... Funny, neh? -- Ian, barely speaking even for himsel | "Riding a Harley Hog with Uma | / iyoung@alpha.wright.edu | Thurman: That's heaven" | "the guy who tries to be funny, but | -K. D. Lang- | everybody laughs at." Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: sdm7g@elvis.med.Virginia.EDU (Steven D. Majewski) Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1994 19:45:48 GMT [ comp.unix.admin trimmed out of the loop ] In article <35fg6b$ngb@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, Mark D. Roth wrote: > >I just got a pair of AT&T UNIX PCs, and I think I'm gonna call them >Romulus and Remus... :) > I've got a gumby & pokey in my office. Along with Elvis ( "ping elvis" ;-) BTW: Minsky.med.virginia.edu is *NOT* named after Marvin Minsky, the Computer Scientist and AI researcher, but is named after the inventor of the confocal microscope, who happens to have the same name. ( This *IS* a biology research lab, after all! ;-) ( Many other machines at UVA have thematic names by department: fermi & kelvin in physics, galen & mendel in biology/medicine, boole & babbage in comp-sci, etc. ) -- Steve Majewski (804-982-0831) -- -- UVA Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics -- -- Box 449 Health Science Center Charlottesville,VA 22908 -- [ "Cognitive Science is where Philosophy goes when it dies ... if it hasn't been good!" - Jerry Fodor ] Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers From: mfroedge@lunatix.lex.ky.us (Maxwell Froedge) Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 02:09:01 GMT >>The Beyonder wrote: >>>I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using >>>these days that you personally like the sound of. One of my favorites... q.cumber.edu from cumberland college.. They were naming all thier machines something.cumber.edu. -- +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mad Max aka Two wrongs do not make | | mfroedge@lunatix.lex.ky.us a right | | stufroed@acs.eku.edu But three lefts do! | From: kessler@roses (Will Kessler) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 19 Sep 1994 07:07:52 GMT I once named an iris off the top of my head "Nosehair". I got a significant amount of flak for this at first, then people started thinking up more scatalogical but barely acceptable hostnames such as "footcheese" and "earwax". Eventually the powers that be put a stop to all this beavis humor-- 5 years ago. Just curious if any Liebnitz out there has matched my stroke of subgenius since then or topped it... Will Kessler kessler@roses.stanford.edu Rehabilition Research Division Dept. of Veterans Affairs 3801 Miranda Avenue/153 Palo Alto, CA 93404-1200 (415) 493-5000 x4726 From: arichfld@cs.sun.ac.za (Antony Richfield) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 19 Sep 1994 12:48:57 GMT Will Kessler (kessler@roses) wrote: : I once named an iris off the top of my head "Nosehair". I got a : significant amount of flak for this at first, then people started : thinking up more scatalogical but barely acceptable hostnames such as : "footcheese" and "earwax". Eventually the powers that be put a stop : to all this beavis humor-- 5 years ago. Just curious if any Liebnitz : out there has matched my stroke of subgenius since then or topped : it... : Will Kessler : kessler@roses.stanford.edu : Rehabilition Research Division : Dept. of Veterans Affairs : 3801 Miranda Avenue/153 : Palo Alto, CA 93404-1200 : (415) 493-5000 x4726 I suggested, for three local Indies, the names Khayelitsha, Guguletu, and Crossroads (for the uncultured, three notoriously violent and unhealthy slums/squatter camps/shantytowns in South Africa) but the names were never accepted, much to my disgust. When I get a machine on our network it is my fixed intention to choose such a name. -- Antony Richfield at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa GAT d? H s+:- g+ p?+ !au a22 w+++ v?*(+) C+ U? P? L 3- E--- N++ K+(---) !W M- !V -po+ Y+ t !5 !j R++ G'' !tv b++ D+ B? e+(*)>++++ u**(*) h*(-) f--(?)@ !r-- !n !y -----------------------------------GEEK CODE 2.1------------------------------- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers From: arthurvl@sci.kun.nl (Arthur van Leeuwen) Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 17:29:17 GMT The main server for the students over here is called studs (as in STUDent Server), and, as there was rumour about an extra server, it was suggested that it should be called babes... Unfortunately our trusty sysadmins decided on the name palet, which is the Dutch for palette. That's because it's the main fileserver for the public sun-workstations, which have colors as names. Doei, Arthur. -- Arthur van Leeuwen, arthurvl@sci.kun.nl /\ / Art is what you make of it. /--\ / GCS d@ H(+) s+;- g+ p? !au a-- w v+ C++() USL P L+ 3 E--- N++ / \/__ K W M- !V -po+ Y+ t+ !5 !j R G? tv+ b+ D B- e+ u++(*) h f !y+ From: mikhail@ns1.unicomp.net (Sami Mikhail) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 19 Sep 1994 14:33:12 -0500 My Previous job, all the machines were named after planets. Except for one. It was a Stratus and we named it "Barney" for the unadulterated pleasure of shouting down the hall: "Hey! Barney is dead again!" or "Kill Barney would you please!" etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sami Mikhail |"Non Illegitemari Carborandum" - Unknown. (mikhail@unicomp.net) | From: paw@coos.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 19 Sep 1994 21:25:06 GMT iyoung@alpha.wright.edu (Ian Young) writes: > >Oh yeah? how about the names in ...cs.wright.edu >Troi, spock, data, picard, kirk, uhura, worf > >beat that for catchy nerd-ness! One of my clusters has machines chaka, darmok, and jilad. Another (in Psychology) has cogito, ergo, and sum. What do I win? Immodestly, -- Pat Wilson paw@coos.dartmouth.edu From: nasadk@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Nazman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 19 Sep 1994 23:35:10 GMT >iyoung@alpha.wright.edu (Ian Young) writes: > >>Oh yeah? how about the names in ...cs.wright.edu >>Troi, spock, data, picard, kirk, uhura, worf >> >>beat that for catchy nerd-ness! >One of my clusters has machines chaka, darmok, and jilad. >Another (in Psychology) has cogito, ergo, and sum. >What do I win? >Immodestly, >-- >Pat Wilson Not to brag (yeah right) but our hostlist has some nice ones. Among them are: The ACM has clotho, atropos and lachesis The School of Architecture has big, stone, wood, steel, brick and gothic on a subnet of 'arch.rpi.edu' Several local town names Greek gods Star Trek characters Muppets Sesame Street characters Ren & Stimpy in the chemistry department Mediterranian Islands Snow White characters Types of Naval ships Artists Anime characters All the campus servers have names from the Bible Body parts Famous mathematicians Birds Foreign countries Brady Bunch characters Each of the above list items are in their own subnet, and are the general theme, but are not the only thing in the subnet, nor are in that one alone. The student subnet has some neat names like : sub-rosa blahblah tardis prototype marypoppins capt_petey org-crime dental-plan hes_dead_jim sawoffhistweeter That about covers all the good ones here. Nazman From: gibson@khan.tam.cornell.edu (John Gibson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers,alt.tv.animaniacs Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 20 Sep 1994 00:08:07 GMT O.k. I'll join the fun. I inherited a system with god-awful Star Trek names, but if I had my way, my hostnames would be after interlocutors in Socratic dialogues of Plato and Xenephon: glaucon adiemantus thrasymachus polemarchus crito critoboulos callicles cebes simmias phaedo phaedrus lysis meno slaveboy critias protagoras thaetetus gorgias thrasymachus ariston euryximachos aristophanes alcibiades xenephon eleatic (the eleatic stranger) athenian (the athenian stranger) and there's plenty more where those came from. Beat that. -- John F. Gibson gibson@khan.tam.cornell.edu Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Cornell Technician Factory, Ithaca NY 14853 From: nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 20 Sep 1994 00:49:07 GMT Last year, one of the undergrad CS labs got seven neat new HP9000s735's. So, they got the names of the 7 deadly sins. Then, some s700's. They got mixer speed names: chop, whir, grate, off, purree, mince, and a few more. Nathan Mates -- * Nathan Mates http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~nathan/ * * Ftp humor archiver: ftp to cco.caltech.edu, look in pub/humor * * "Always listen to experts. They'll tell what can't be done, and * * why. Then do it." -- Robert A. Heinlein, Lazarus Long * Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: an104967@anon.penet.fi (Vivid) Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 01:17:18 UTC Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant Greets. We have the oddest hostnames here. Upstairs, where the nontechnical parts of the company (read: nonessential) dwell, all the machines and servers are named after British writers, and that's okay. We downstairs, on the other hand, must tolerate the resident feminist male's unilateral decision to name all of the machines (our workstations!) after feminine hygiene products. My machine is `always', which is okay, but some of the other, less-fortunate folks got "stayfree", "summers_eve", and worse. Our poor mail gateway ("massengil") must really get harangued by his electronic cousins on our network. I can just see it and "shakespeare" exchanging little digital "Are too!", "Am not!" packets when the Sniffer's not watching. I am, unfortunately, being serious. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To find out more about the anon service, send mail to help@anon.penet.fi. Due to the double-blind, any mail replies to this message will be anonymized, and an anonymous id will be allocated automatically. You have been warned. Please report any problems, inappropriate use etc. to admin@anon.penet.fi. From: djc@cc.umanitoba.ca (D. Joseph Creighton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 20 Sep 1994 11:45:21 GMT >The Beyonder wrote: >>I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using >>these days that you personally like the sound of. Here at the University of Manitoba, the primary login and NFS servers are named after stars, some of which are: antares deneb mira polaris regulus Sometimes, a login server and an NFS server work together serving our NCDs: castor & pollux Then we have the Sparc stations, named after science fiction authors. A portion of these are: asimov bradbury dickson gibson herbert leguin niven norton orwell And, finally, the little ELCs are named after fictional sci-fi characters, with a sample presented here: chekov data kenobi kirk leia luke picard spock troi vader worf I like the whole science-fact/science-fiction aspect to it, and the names are quite easy to remember, more so if you're a fan of it all. - Joe "working with Niven tonight, but reading Gibson at home" Creighton --- "Slow down faster!" -- my wife, Laurie, about my driving habits. D. Joseph Creighton Joe_Creighton@UManitoba.CA U of M Computer Services Systems Operator http://www.ee.umanitoba.ca/~djc/ Winnipeg, MB, Canada From: djc@cc.umanitoba.ca (D. Joseph Creighton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 20 Sep 1994 12:03:40 GMT ...which reminds me: the Electrical and Computer Engineering department here has their own network in which they use the following names for their machines: beer, rum, vodka, rye, tequila, wine, etc... The master console's name? Why 'bartender', of course. - Joe. --- "The one good thing about repeating mistakes is you know when to cringe." D. Joseph Creighton Joe_Creighton@UManitoba.CA U of M Computer Services Systems Operator http://www.ee.umanitoba.ca/~djc/ Winnipeg, MB, Canada Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: mike@cthru.iplan.co.za (Mike Morris) Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 08:25:37 GMT Our scheme seems to be pretty unusual, though you have to know some of the history behind it. The branch of the company I work for had a mainframe known as C-Centre, and the name became pretty much synonymous with the branch. I guess I should also mention that the office is just a 5 minute walk from the beach. So as we started getting connected, we came up with the following naming scheme -- all machine names begin with a "c" -- though sometimes we break the rule. So we have cthru -- our main gateway machine cweed csharp (belonged to a musician who was a hot C programmer) cdog cbed cgoon cd deadc sexc theeforth (which ran lithp in room C4) cstate7 ...etc... We have a list of names (currently about 80 names) and not enough machines to use all the names on. -- Mike Morris :: We do not inherit land from our ancestors; Mike.Morris@iplan.co.za :: We borrow it from our children. Specialist System Designer, Denel Informatics, Cape Town, South Africa Ph: +27-21-788-4163. ****************************************** * Opinions are those of the individuals. * ****************************************** From: sears@uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 20 Sep 1994 21:31:25 GMT Here at the University of Houston, we have a VAX cluster called "Jetson." The nodes are Rosie, Elroy, Jane, George. Astro and Spacely have dropped by the wayside... Judy has now become oracle... I am not sure why but the Academic unix group has started a "mexican food" theme: Menudo is the main Ultrix box, and the users are placed in /arroz, /refritos, /fajitas, /posole, /habanero, /tamales. *Sigh* I get hungry everytime I log into that machine. We also have masala and jalapeno (a hot new alpha box) :-) Here at the College of Engineering we are very eco-minded (or is it mindless?). Anyway, we have 4 servers: tree, flower, bird and fish. Tree and flower server NEXTSTEP clients (named after trees and flowers, of course!) and bird and fish serve WindowsNT and the Macs (The NT clients are birdnames and the mac clients are fishnames). My machine is thanatos because it is death for any user who needlessly gains my attention :-) -- Paul S. Sears * sears@uh.edu (NeXT Mail OK) The University of Houston * suggestions@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXT Engineering Computing Center * comments, complaints, questions) NeXT System Administration * DoD#1967 '83 NightHawk 650SC >>> SSI Diving Certification #755020059 <<< "Programming is like sex: One mistake and you support it a lifetime." From: dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu (Doug Siebert) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 21 Sep 1994 01:42:16 GMT nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates) writes: > >Last year, one of the undergrad CS labs got seven neat new HP9000s735's. >So, they got the names of the 7 deadly sins. Then, some s700's. They >got mixer speed names: chop, whir, grate, off, purree, mince, and a few >more. The Iowa Student Computer Association had to decide on a name scheme a few years ago. (1991 or so?) A new HP/Apollo 9000/400t was due to arrive so a contest was held on the then-tiny ISCA BBS and a the winning suggestion was "blender speeds". So the first machine was named 'grind'. A smaller Apollo borrowed from the Eng department was called 'bump', but it eventually went away. Then a new HP 9000/710 came along, and was named 'whip' (the same one that runs the now hugest-on-the-Internet ISCA BBS) A NeXT came along later and was named 'chop'. If ISCA ever gets any more money and gets to buy some sort of insanely fast machine it can be called 'pulverize' or 'frappe'. ISCA also has an 'off', a Trailing Edge 286PC. Not on the network (doesn't even have an Ethernet card) More fitting that it can't be pinged, I think... There's also used to be a 'pulse', which was used for loaner machines ISCA would get from time to time. I don't think that's really a legal blender speed, though. -- Doug Siebert | I have a proof that everything I have stated above dsiebert@isca.uiowa.edu | is true, but this .sig is too small to contain it. From: guy@dearg.cuillin.org.uk (Guy Dawson) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames page Date: 18 Sep 1994 08:25:57 GMT My home network is named after bits of the Isle of Skye in NW Scotland. Unix boxes ( 1 so far ) get named after Cuillin peaks ( dearg ) DOS boxes get named after small islands arround Skye ( wiay ) The domain name ( cuillin.org.uk ) is thus obvious... Each .sig should contain the ICBM address of the feature after which they are named. I can't get leased line conntection until the Skye Bridge is built! Mind you the bridge is ugly (obscene) and will be no cheaper than the existing ferry. Sound familar? Guy -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guy Dawson home : guy@cuillin.org.uk ICBM : 6.15.16W 57.12.23N 986M work : guyd@hoskyns.co.uk 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: cgjwh@lut.ac.uk (James Hawtin) Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pagea Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 16:25:32 GMT *Sigh* Being in chemical engineering we have had decided for use that our computer names should have cg at the beginning of them. So we had to be inventive. cgreen cgull cgust cgrass cgram cgniess And suck before I got here cgsun. James. --- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- So all I wanted in the end, was world domination, and a whole lot of money to spend. - New Model Army. Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers From: john@odin.apana.org.au (John Saunders) Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 09:18:31 GMT I worked on a military project once that used a machine with the old 300M disk packs with handle on top that had to be mounted in the drive. Each disk pack was named after girlfriends of the people involved. I remember smirking every time somebody called out "Hey! can somebody mount Jodie". While not really a hostname I thought I'd share that ;-) -- -- . +----------------------------------------------+ ,-._|\ | John SAUNDERS - Home john@odin.apana.org.au | / OZ \ | - Work johns@rd.scitec.com.au | \_.-\__/ | "Mmmmmmmm beer..." - Homer Simpson | v +----------------------------------------------+ From: rudolphtg%lavc3.dnet@sb.com (The Information Superhighway's Rest Stop Janitor) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 21 Sep 1994 15:46:04 -0500 Well, before the company got all stodgy in the late '80s, we had a cluster of 8 WANG VS systems named after Snow White and her henchmen. Later, I set up two machines in a test cluster as 'Coke' and 'Pepsi' (ala The Soul of a New Machine). We later added 7up, RC, Franks', and TAB. Finally, we had a VAX cluster/LAVC named after the 9 planets, the cluster alias was "SOLAR". FTM -- ***************************************************************************** * Ted Rudolph (alias FTM) ** "No man with a good car needs * * rudolphtg%lavc3.dnet@sb.com ** to be justified..." * * Political Correctness: The opiate of the media ** -Ministry * ***************************************************************************** None of the above or below represents the views of my employer, my family, the voices in my head, the DEA, FBI or CIA. I'm not so sure about the NSA... From: rudolphtg%lavc3.dnet@sb.com (The Information Superhighway's Rest Stop Janitor) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 21 Sep 1994 15:50:41 -0500 Oh, in addition to the previously mentioned systems (SOLAR, Snow White, and soft drinks), we also had our 3Com Lan Servers named after Hard Liqors (DeWars, Jameson, JackDaniels, Seagram, and a bunch of others). FTM -- ***************************************************************************** * Ted Rudolph (alias FTM) ** "No man with a good car needs * * rudolphtg%lavc3.dnet@sb.com ** to be justified..." * * Political Correctness: The opiate of the media ** -Ministry * ***************************************************************************** None of the above or below represents the views of my employer, my family, the voices in my head, the DEA, FBI or CIA. I'm not so sure about the NSA... From: kcousins@awadi.com.au (Kevin Cousins) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 21 Sep 1994 11:06:20 GMT > ... (Each lab > had a different naming theme - birds, jazz musicians, rivers, etc.) > > I still think it would have been qool to have a bunch of machines > named Flogger, Fishbed, Foxbat, Fitter, etc. At the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics, there are a whole bunch of SPARCstns in the SigProc group which got named after the characters from the Asterix comix. Let me see, there was: asterix, obelix, monosyllabix, polyfonix, getafix, justforkix; and a lot more... and when Eric came, his new wkstn got called: erix On the other hand, LAN group, inherited a couple of lame-named machines bearing various Australian marsupial mammal species: koala, goanna, echidna so we inspired engineers found: thlyacoleo, bettong, bilby, antechinus, dunnart, and a bunch of others that pissed people off. "You mean I have to type 'rlogin thylacoleo'?" --Kevin. kcousins@awadi.com.au Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Subject: Re: Funny Host / Machine Names Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 20:30:33 GMT In article <35mun7$kdb@nic.lth.se> mol@marvin.df.lth.se (Magnus Olsson) writes: > >and we've gotta pick node names for the 486s. My test bed machine > >is "zeus" right now, but I don't know if there are enough Greek gods to > >go around.. We're gonna need like 40 or so names. 8-) > > No problem; pick up any book on Greek mythology and if you run out of > gods and goddesses, you just start using the heroes. > One person here suggested to name hosts after Irish gods. Would be extremely obfuscating. Seeing the spelling of a name nobody would know how to pronounce it, and the other way around. -- dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland, +31205924098 home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; e-mail: dik@cwi.nl From: gadbois@cs.utexas.edu (David Gadbois) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Funny Host / Machine Names Date: 21 Sep 1994 20:22:33 -0500 In article , Dik T. Winter wrote: >One person here suggested to name hosts after Irish gods. Would be >extremely obfuscating. Seeing the spelling of a name nobody would know >how to pronounce it, and the other way around. We use Mayan and Aztec gods for that. Kisin, Tlaloc, and Coatlicue aren't too bad, but Huitzilopochtli and Tlachitonatiuh are real stumpers. --Davd Gadbois From: brett@abc.gov.au (Brett Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers,alt.fan.goons Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 23 Sep 1994 13:21:05 +1000 Here at the Australian Braodcasting Corporation, our R&D facility has named all their X-terminals and PCs after characters from ABC TV (which more often than not means characters from BBC TV). The exceptions are a few of the earliest machines which were named after theologians (such as the machine I am posting from: calvin). Sample names follow - see if you can identify the show associated with each name (some are dead obvious, most obscure name picked in each case): spotty, holly, b1, mcduff, baldric, marvin. UK readers should be able to identify all of those. Note that b1 and mcduff are of Australian origin (hint: children's programs) and the others are UK. I am personally in charge of administering a few of our D-CART (multi-user digital audio storage and editing) demonstration systems, and being a Goon Show fan [note: crossposting to alt.fan.goons] I have named them after Goon Show characters. This is doubly appropriate because D-CARTs and the Goons are a radio thing, unlike all the above (with the possible exception of marvin). However, I have a problem. Taking the obvious example, should the machine be called "neddy" (as many people would spell it), "neddie" (correct as written in the scripts), "seagoon" or "neddie-seagoon"? I opted for the last, but it is hard to be consistent: how would you translate the name `Willium "Mate" Cobblers'? [Followups regarding correct Goon Show host naming should probably be restricted to alt.fan.goons] -- / The Famous Brett Watson x=sin(t), y=cos(3t) \ / Working on digital audio at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. \ \ "How many gigabytes worth of hard disks have you formatted today?" / \ Disclaimer: Opinions herein might not be my employer's - or mine / From: brett@abc.gov.au (Brett Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 23 Sep 1994 15:14:52 +1000 In Australia, the main internet backbone is AARNET (Australian Academic Research Network), and there is an aarnet.edu.au domain. All the machines in that domain seem to be named after, well, see if you get the drift: jatz, shapes, vovo, cruskits... I have this sudden inexplicable craving for biscuits. How odd, my hands seem to have gone blue and furry. I... uh... ahh... aaargh! COOKIE! Harum nyum num num.... -- / The Famous Brett Watson x=sin(t), y=cos(3t) \ / Working on digital audio at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. \ \ "How many gigabytes worth of hard disks have you formatted today?" / \ Disclaimer: Opinions herein might not be my employer's - or mine / From: David.Greaves@barclays.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 23 Sep 1994 11:45:02 GMT In Article <35a6ks$dpv@kelly.teleport.com> "bruceab@teleport.com (Bruce Baugh)" says: > The Beyonder wrote: > >I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using > >these days that you personally like the sound of. At my last place we used tree names, the main server was oak, other servers were redwood, elm, birch... My favourite was the name given to our sun, I figured if you took a tree too close to a sun you got an ash!! Xterms were flowers, PC's were squishy fruits and the SGs were more colorful (like sequoia, yucca and baobab) All so environmentally freindly and pretty eh? The company was British Nuclear Fuels. -- David.Greaves@barclays.co.uk @_._ _ \ ¦/(_) -/\ ______/(_)______________ From: hankins@cs.swarthmore.edu (Luke Hankins) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 23 Sep 1994 16:36:03 GMT nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates) writes: > >Last year, one of the undergrad CS labs got seven neat new HP9000s735's. >So, they got the names of the 7 deadly sins. Then, some s700's. They >got mixer speed names: chop, whir, grate, off, purree, mince, and a few >more. That was one fo the tree finalists in our 'name the new systems' competition. (M y personal favorites were Bodily Fluids (Bile, Phlegm, Blood, Sweat, Tears.. etc) and Recreational Pharmacuticals. (Speed, Coke, LSD, Caffine...) We ended upo with spices. (Sage, Coriander, Nutmeg, allspice..) -luke -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Luke Hankins hankins@cs.swarthmore.edu |"Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison for(MyAge=0;!Dead;EnjoyLife); | ne connait point" -Blaise Pascal While not (EndOfLife) do Havefun(me); |"...stay sane inside insanity..." -RHPS From: moon@symphony.cc.purdue.edu (Alex R. Moon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 23 Sep 1994 19:32:30 GMT In article <35v4lc$6cr@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu->, John Scudder wrote: ->In article , ->Christ van Willegen wrote: ->[...] ->>now... Asterix. Next to THAT is a small Indigo, called (you guessed it) ->>Idefix. ->[...] -> ->Which character in Idefix? It seems that only Asterix and Obelix (and ->Julius Caeser, and Cleopatra) get to keep their names in different ->translations. -> ->If Idefix is the little dog, he's Dogmatix in the English translation. -> ->ObNamingScheme: At the University of Michigan, a bunch of the bigger ->servers are named after different Arnold Schwartzenegger ->characters/movies. Terminator is okay, but it can get out of hand, ->e.g. lastactionhereo.rs.itd.umich.edu. -> ->--John Scudder At my university we have a lab of HPs under the jurisdiction of a rather egocentric Prof. Mowle. The machines are named elwom1, elwom2, elwom3... [Catch the meaning? :-] Of course we've also got student labs with rather more boring names, like a NeXT lab with the machines named after types of music (symphony, sonata, waltz, rock-opera) and some sequents named for educational ideals (expert, sage, mentor) --Alex moon@symphony.cc.purdue.edu Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers From: dragondm@netcom.com (The Dragon De Monsyne) Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 10:25:10 GMT Hmmm.. I know of : A mailserver named Cliff (think cheers. I think there's a woody there too) And 'f course innumable newservers named 'kibo' However, I've also seen newservers named Tribune, herald, journal, etc. & also Snewz I name my machines (Not on the 'net yet, but soon ,I hope) after mathmatical 'stuff' (this is relevant. The're fer an organization called The Integration Project ) So far I've got Integration, (Amiga 2000) Differentiation (AKA Diff, or Diffy-q) (amiga 1200) Plus, Decstation Minus " However, I've already thought of : Infinity, Zero, Matrix, Array, Multiplication, Division, Log, Ln, Power & Root If I run outa those, it's: Dragon, Wyven, Drachen, Lung, etc. & I HAVE had someone ask if ':)' was a valid machine name . I dunno if he ever found out. :> -- /~~ -The Dragon De Monsyne / The Integration ~~\ / th0mpm1@corn.cso.niu.edu _|________________ \ / dragondm@netcom.com | / / \ \ \ Ph(815) 385-6166 | (815)344-0771 __|___/_____/______/ / \ The Integration Project: | / / \ __ Public Internet For The Future / / Project __/ Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers From: creed@netcom.com (Chris Reed) Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 19:30:51 GMT In article <35uf3u$jhg@bognor.barclays.co.uk>, wrote: >In Article <35a6ks$dpv@kelly.teleport.com> "bruceab@teleport.com (Bruce Baugh)" says: >> The Beyonder wrote: >> >I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using >> >these days that you personally like the sound of. > >At my last place we used tree names, the main server was oak, >other servers were redwood, elm, birch... > When we were kicking around server names we discussed naming them after forests. Sherwood, Black, redwood, etc. The work stations were to be trees. I seamed like a good idea to me because if(when) somthing went wrong, one could report they "can't see the forest from the trees." Sorry, we were at a bar^H^H^HPub. -- ________________________________________________________________________ |\ \ |C| / /| "The challenge of computer e-mail creed@netcom.com | \ \|R|/ / | science is -- How NOT to Phone I'm in the book | \ |E| / | make a mess of it." Snail Creed Software |\ \ |E| / /| ...Edsger W. Dijkstra Santa Clara, Ca. | \ \|D|/ / | 95051-6809 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: guy@dearg.cuillin.org.uk (Guy Dawson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 24 Sep 1994 10:44:40 GMT The Instruction Set ( now owned by Hoskyns but mail to inset.co.uk works ) had many machines with 'set' in the name : inset dorset sunset moonset solarset starset codeset jetset quickset twinset russet basset upset ( kept crashing ) moonset trainset teaset Guy -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guy Dawson home : guy@cuillin.org.uk ICBM : 6.15.16W 57.12.23N 986M work : guyd@hoskyns.co.uk 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 4.4>5.4 From: thomas@calvacom.fr (Thomas Conte) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 25 Sep 1994 15:57:44 GMT Our own `lite' network : delite sunlite nitelite cokelite twilite highlite budlite darklite starlite limelite hilite Etc... And our firewalls are named after Nordic legendary places : asgard, midgard, anasgard I also saw once a `fantasy' network : troll, goblin, faerie, orc, dragon, elf, dwarf, etc. -- Thomas Conte --- Calvacom From: mathias@unicorn.swi.com.sg (Mathias Koerber) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 23 Sep 1994 13:30:26 GMT In (<35uf3u$jhg@bognor.barclays.co.uk>) David.Greaves@barclays.co.uk wrote: | In Article <35a6ks$dpv@kelly.teleport.com> "bruceab@teleport.com (Bruce Baugh)" says: | > The Beyonder wrote: | > >I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using | > >these days that you personally like the sound of. Here, we use anything connected with horses (since the SW in our company name is derived from Scientia Whitehorse, our Aussie Mothercompany). There is unicorn (which fits, since it is an ICL DRS6000, which while in development was codenamed UNICORN), a pegasus, centaur, pharlap (famous Aussie racehorse). Our own IBM RS6000 is called trojan, fitting, since we are half ICL owned :-) Then we have buckaroo, gaucho, hussar etc... -- Mathias Koerber Tel: +65 / 778 00 66 x 29 SW International Systems Pte Ltd Fax: +65 / 777 94 01 14 Science Park Drive #04-01 The Maxwell e-mail: Mathias.Koerber@swi.com.sg S'pore 0511 MK * Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, die mit Eifer sucht was Leiden schafft * From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 10:19:54 GMT In article stephen@bokonon.UUCP (Stephen M. Dunn) writes: > In article <35n8oa$5tv@goose.saltfarm.bt.co.uk> sah@goose.saltfarm.bt.co.uk (Simon Hovell) writes: > $ My old university (Edinburgh) recently named their latest 30 > $or so classics after Scottish highland railway stations. Reduced > $network traffic no end, as no one can spell the damn names to > $rlogin:). > > It could be worse; you could be in Wales. What's the proper spelling > of that town that's abbreviated Llanfair p.g.? Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch; about the only Welsh place name I know from memory. -- dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj amsterdam, nederland, +31205924098 home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn amsterdam, nederland; e-mail: dik@cwi.nl Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers From: Darrin Cardani Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 19:15:38 GMT >In article <1994Oct16.013840.4806@nlm.nih.gov> Larry Doering writes: >Unique? No. Where I used to work, we had a lab full of Suns that >were named after volcanoes. The boss eventually decided to scrap >the volcano names and switch to colors (boring, Sidney), after >he got a bunch of complaints. Seems people thought that names >like "grimsvotn" (after a volcano in Iceland) were somewhat >less than mnemonic. Of course, we were able to get a rough >estimate of the percentage of our user population who were unable >to spell "krakatoa". I used to work with Larry. Don't forget, we also had a lab named after different types of chickens. I suggested it as a joke and someone took it seriously. I don't even remember all of them. dorking rhodeislandred essex .. There were about 20 more. We also had rivers (po, ob, rhur, yangtze, etc.) and some other cool ideas. Darrin From: Trevor.J.Hart@dartmouth.edu (Trevor J. Hart) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames page Date: 18 Oct 1994 07:26:54 GMT My parents own an antique store in Houston... they aren't exactly host computers but they named the Ethernet net based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarves... Snow White the server (aka Big Mama) & the remaining 20 or so computers using the original seven plus several additions like Sleazy, Slinky, Sexy, Boss, Dorky, and a few others... Just posting randomly at nite when I should be doing my homework... From: root@vorlon.mit.edu (root) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 21 Oct 1994 02:47:33 GMT Here at MIT, all of the dialup machines are named after pasta sauces, bolognese, milanese, etc. (There's about a dozen.) In the SIPB (Student Information Procssing Board) office, the machine names are: lola-granola.mit.edu bill-the-cat oliver yaz-pistachio deathtongue quiche-lorraine pickled-herring hodge-podge milo steve-dallas and floating names are: opus tess-turbo See a pattern? And, my machine is: vorlon.mit.edu (And another of mine might have a cname of minbari.mit.edu.) Jered Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... From: dsm1@hobbit.ntrs.com (Demetri Mouratis) Date: 21 Oct 94 00:00:10 -0500 Someone here made a suggestion that seemed rediculous, but somehow, it works. Our RS/6000 machines are named who, what, idontknow, why, and we will soon have today and tomorrow, all after the Abbot and Costello 'Who's on First' routine. I makes for hilarious team meetings and project rollouts: "So what's the name of the Commercial Banking box?" "No, what's the name of the Trust Department's box." "What's the name of the Trust Department's box?" "Exactly!" -- Demetri S. Mouratis dsm1@hobbit.ntrs.com The Northern Trust Company Voice: +1 312 630-0735 Chicago, IL 60675 FAX: +1 312 630-6797 "The mere act of drinking beer in an attempt to measure your tolerance is likely to affect your impression of how many beers you've drunk." -- The Heineken uncertainty principle. From: mjbrauer@mail.utexas.edu (Matthew J. Brauer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 22 Oct 1994 19:41:20 GMT At a previous job, we started to name the networked computers after famous prisons (alcatraz, attica, singsing, etc.). The network server was "gulag". I think the executives must have found this out -- the scheme didn't last long. From: dbegley@arthur.st.nepean.uws.edu.au (David J N Begley) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 24 Oct 1994 06:04:48 +1000 mjbrauer@mail.utexas.edu (Matthew J. Brauer) writes: > >At a previous job, we started to name the networked computers after >famous prisons (alcatraz, attica, singsing, etc.). The network server >was "gulag". Here at Nepean, there are different naming schemes in place (depending on campus, owner of machine, &c.):- * "Camelot" * "Sydney Beaches" * "Dictators/Conquerors" * "Marx Bros" * "Mythical/Extinct Birds" * "Famous Entertainers" I won't mention the naming scheme for the now defunct HP/Apollo workstation lab; suffice it to say, the wretches were suitably named. dave -- * David J. N. Begley University of Western Sydney, Nepean * * 3rd Year BAppSc(Computing) CCD Student Proctor/Unix Admin * * dbegley@st.nepean.uws.edu.au david@cagney.nepean.uws.edu.au * * ACM, ACS, AUUG, IBM AP/DAP, IEEE, TEAM OS/2 * From: nate@matisse.VIS.ColoState.Edu (CVL staff member Nate Sammons) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 24 Oct 1994 14:09:16 GMT We name them after artists (we're a computer graphics lab), so we have matisse seurat nagel dali degas vangogh cassat monet rodin renoir gauguin sisley etc... -nate -- Nate Sammons System Administrator - CSU Computer Visualization Laboratory From: ilixi@tezcat.com (Charles Ewen MacMillan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: 25 Oct 1994 23:14:16 -0500 Tezcat hosts at present, not catchy, but perhaps unique: xochi inti smirror stumpy quilla matlatl huehue natasha -- t e z c a t . c o m i n t e r n e t s e r v i c e s brokers in human interconnectivity - chicago (wicker park) (312)850-0112 | we support TIA slip | http://tezcat.com (312)850-0181 | emulation software | info@tezcat.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers From: kleung@netcom.com (Kenneth Leung) Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames page Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 04:05:36 GMT In article , Stephen M. Dunn wrote: >In article <37vtbu$b2d@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> Trevor.J.Hart@dartmouth.edu (Trevor J. Hart) writes: >$My parents own an antique store in Houston... they aren't exactly host >$computers but they named the Ethernet net based on Snow White and the >$Seven Dwarves... Snow White the server (aka Big Mama) & the remaining > > A former tech support guy at one of our client sites (a rather >stuffy company, actually) named all of his print servers after >the dwarves. Management has since asked us to rename 'em. > > Some people just have no sense of humour. >-- >stephen@bokonon.UUCP ...!{xrtll,gts.org}!bokonon!stephen When I first started out hanging around the computer lab at UC Riverside There were 4 Vax 11/750, and the sysop (Dennis Michael, last I know is at Stanford) named the system : Faith : Introduction students machine Hope : CS Major Accounts only Mercy : Teaching Assistant's machine Charity: Professor's machine Our sysadm at the time was a subject of folklore on his own :-) Let us just say a bunch of us got together and made a T-shirt with a ASCII picture of his face in the front and his famous sayings in the back... as his goodbye present when he went to work @Stanford. I wonder if he is making folklore at Stanford these days? -- Kenneth C.P. Leung 1303 Walnut Hill Ln. 2nd Floor, Irving, TX 75038 Marketing Specialist Voice : 214-550-8371 Fax : 214-550-9269 Innovax Concepts Corp. AURORA Supermarket Application kleung@netcom.com Innovax Integration Partner Program Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers,cts.misc From: jtara@cts.com (Jon Tara) Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant... Date: Sat, 29 Oct 1994 06:32:59 GMT I think the site I'm at is one of the all-time classics. Of course, nowadays, it's: crash.cts.com But it used to be just plain "crash" in uucp days of yore. When strung-out in a mail or news path, then, you might see something like... ... ihnp4!itivax!nosc!crash The "!", of course, is pronounced "bang". So, the last part of the address is read: bang crash I'm told that there was at one time at least one other site connected to crash that made for an even noisier address... ________________________ A new picture of San Diego Bay every half hour: San Diego BayCam jtara@cts.com From: russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Catchy _Domain_ Names Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 21:00:13 -0600 who has catchy domain names? I saw iconz.co.nz, and if they'd tried for and got `i', they'd have had i.co.nz -- which would be neat. -- Russell Schulz russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca ersys!rschulz Shad 86c Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers From: ab401@freenet.carleton.ca (Paul Tomblin) Subject: Re: Catchy _Domain_ Names Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 23:01:18 GMT In a previous article, russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) said: >who has catchy domain names? I saw iconz.co.nz, and if they'd tried >for and got `i', they'd have had i.co.nz -- which would be neat. One of the usenet/internet providers in Cleveland, Zbig (I forget his last name and I forget to enter his business card in my PEO) just registered SUCKS.COM. And he's selling subdomains for cheap. I think life.sucks.com is gone, and probably school.sucks.com. Anybody want aol.sucks.com? -- Paul Tomblin, Freenet News Administrator. Currently living in Akron, Ohio. My home page "...and this is considered entertainment, or some kind of British fertility ritual" - Stan Rogers, "The Idiot"