RE: PC names, was Re: How many PCs do you have at home?

["Steve Healey" <steve.healey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I went for names that I remember from my childhood:

Bill & Ben - File and Backup servers
Bagpuss - PDC
Zebedee - Development box
Orinoco & Wellington - Laptops
Roobarb - HTPC

With a domain of 'Trumpton'

Wanted to add something from Capt. Pugwash but SWMBO didn't like the idea
of
logging onto a machine called Master Bates :-))

Steve.

-----Original Message-----
From: David Paterson [mailto:david.paterson@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 31 August 2004 23:20
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: PC names, was Re: [ukha_d] How many PCs do you have at home?


On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:31:05 +0100, you wrote:

>Sadly, mine are either robots or computers from SCI-FI!!!
>
>Main PC is HAL
>Server is SAL
>Garage PC is Robbie
>Kiosk PC is C3PO
>Kitchen PC is R2D2
>Second server is Zen
>
>:o)
>
>Dave...

Since I'm an amateur astronomer I went for asteroids as a theme.

My main machine was Ceres, now relegated to file server duties since the
newer, faster Astraea arrived.

Vesta is my astronomical image capture and processing box, and my laptop
is Pallas.

I've also got Juno which is going to be the media server eventually, but
is getting used as a sacrificial machine for some spammer tracking I've
been doing.

the good thing about asteroids is there's over 10,000 named ones, so I
shouldn't run out of computer names any time soon :))

David P.

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