They have Maori names for animals, computers are birds (takahe, pateke, 
kakariki, korora) and my external harddisk is called tuatara

The photographers in the hospital were in building K on level 2 so 
obviously they named there machines after mountains (K2, Fuji)

Nordic gods and godesses were used for the big machines in my former 
department 20 years ago.

Slightly related: I am trying to get my student to name the amplifier he 
made. That would make referring so much easier. (one of the propositions 
with my thesis was that every machine that is worth referring to has to 
have a name)

	

On 6-7-2014 21:51, Doctor John wrote:
> What do you call your machines?
> At work I use the names of Graeco-Roman and Nordic gods and goddesses;
> thus we have Aphrodite, Minerva, Jupiter, Odin and Loki to name a few.
> AFAIK British Telecom seems to use the names of the rare earth elements
> for its customer-facing servers and I know of one multinational that
> uses artists' names - Picasso, Dali, Rembrandt etc.
> So what do you call yours?
>
> John
>


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necessary for her work there will be another hole in the firewall.

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