RE: DOMAINS/Computer Names ( was...: Average Computing Devices\Person Ratio in UKHA households)

["Don McAllister" <donmc@xxxxxxx>]

Where I used to work I looked after a suite of UNIX servers. Each one
was named after a whiskey:

Glenmorangie
GlenFiddick
etc...

Oh and Glen Miller..........

That one kept crashing!

True story




GLENMORAN GIE
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Booth [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 30 March 2002 14:37
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] DOMAINS/Computer Names ( was...: Average
Computing
> Devices\Person Ratio in UKHA households)
>
> On 30 Mar 2002, at 10:20, Keith Doxey wrote:
>
> > Interesting when people started putting machine names up.  It
indicates
> the
> > different ways that people think
>
> I was thinking just the same thing. It's fascinating to see the
> themes people choose for naming their boxes.
>
> My spare machine is named "GARAGE" ... it doesn't sit in the
> garage, has never even been IN a garage, but I used to work in a
> location that was nicknamed "Garage Block Software" (grin),
and
> we got a Demon node name back in the Demon early(ish) days we
> called it "garage.demon.co.uk" - later I took ownership of
this one,
> hence the machine name.
>
> Sadly after that my imagination ran out ... the server's called
> "SERVER" and my current machine is "AQUA" because
I
> happened to have a bottle of water in front of me when I was
> pondering what to call it. Aqua Pura or something like that perhaps.
>
> Like the idea of a Tottie domain though ... my Windows wallpaper
> is dominated by fine looking actresses! (of the films, with plot,
> category, I hasten to add).
>
> Stuart
>
> --
> Stuart Booth
> Somewhere in Buckinghamshire, England, UK
>
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