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

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

One of my previous employers had unix servers named:

Edmund
Baldrick
Nursie
Darling
Melchitt

et al....

Paul G.



>From: "Don McAllister" <donmc@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] DOMAINS/Computer Names  ( was...: Average
Computing
>Devices\Person Ratio in UKHA households)
>Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 15:01:11 -0000
>
>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
> >
> > stuart@xxxxxxx     ICQ#: 4515603
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