Am 07.07.2014 18:52, schrieb andrel:
> 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?)

Not a dutch myself, but the 'nets say that "tak" is a branch, and it 
seems that "takkebeest" means almost anything from "stick insect" to 
creepy critters /on/ branches to creepy critters made /from/ branches to 
cute dogs /carrying/ branches.

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