Thinking about your question, I now remember the old scheme for our own 
computers 20-15 years ago. Inspired by Don Knuth they got names that 
started with 'gn' gnu,gneiss,gnome,gnarl, our boss (who was and is 
member of the board of http://mnuurwerk.nl/en/ ) obviously got 'gnomon'.
We had a little machine that circumvented something (that I pretend to 
have forgotten), that was named 'gniffel', dutch for snicker.
When we had to name the machines at home too, my student (later 
co-worker and possibly soon my boss) who had 'gnu' at work named his 
'wildebeest'. I had already 'takahe' so to keep in the spirit his 
outside name became 'takkebeest'. (any other dutch people out there that 
can translate that?)


-- 
Everytime the IT department forbids something that a researcher deems
necessary for her work there will be another hole in the firewall.

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