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From: Orchid Win7 v1
Subject: Re: Naming schemas (or schemata if you're picky)
Date: 7 Jul 2014 03:39:16
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On 06/07/2014 11:09 PM, Doctor John wrote:
> So... no anthropomorphisation then? :-)
No. I can't spell that.
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From: Lars Rohwedder
Subject: Re: Naming schemas (or schemata if you're picky)
Date: 7 Jul 2014 04:10:12
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Am 06.07.2014 21:51, schrieb Doctor John:
> What do you call your machines?
Kings of the Visigoths:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_westgotischer_K%C3%B6nige
(sorry, I found no list in the English Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Germanic_deities
(but there are many names with non-ascii letters)
If you have several Apple computers, I'd suggest this list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_apple_cultivars
And last but not least the most comprehensive list is
http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPNames.html
but there are some funny names like "Mr. Spock" and quite long names...
Lars R.
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From: Francois Labreque
Subject: Re: Naming schemas (or schemata if you're picky)
Date: 7 Jul 2014 09:23:08
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> 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
>
One of the companies whose network we acquired during a merger was using
Bond villains for their mail servers, but the rest of the infrastructure
had a more mundane naming convention.
I've always been fond of Flintstones character names. Mostly in jest
because people at work insist on naming standards that will fit any and
all devices, and include stuff like city and building into the name, to
make it easier to locate a device in case of problems.
So my retort was that, yes, having to remember that Fred, Wilma and
Pebbles were front end web servers and Barney, Betty and Bam-Bam, the
back-end databases means you need to remember things by heart, but it's
no worse than having to remember IATA airport codes and that "T" in the
4th position stands for "windows nT" because "W" was already taken by
Web servers, and "N" for Lotus Notes. (And that now that most servers
are running 2003 or 2008, it makes even less sense for the people who
weren't there back in '97 when the standard was devised)
And it's definitily much easier to scream "LOOK FOR A SERVER CALLED
BAM-BAM!" than yelling "LOOK FOR
ALPHA-CHARLIE-SIERRA-DELTA-YANKEE-WHISKEY-GOLF-ZERO-ONE-ZERO-ZERO-THREE"
at a tech who's in a noisy computer room with bad phone reception,
trying to find the right machine.
--
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/* flabreque */L)polygon{5,F,F+z,L+z,L,F pigment{rgb 9}}#end union
/* @ */{P(0,a)P(a,b)P(b,c)P(2*a,2*b)P(2*b,b+c)P(b+c,<2,3>)
/* gmail.com */}camera{orthographic location<6,1.25,-6>look_at a }
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From: Francois Labreque
Subject: Re: Naming schemas (or schemata if you're picky)
Date: 7 Jul 2014 09:26:59
Message: <53baa023$1@news.povray.org>
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> My laptop is named BLACKSLAB
Are its proportions 1 x 5 x 9, per chance? Have you gotten the urge to
smash your neighbors, brains with a tibia? Or maybe embark on a mission
to Jupiter?
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/* @ */{P(0,a)P(a,b)P(b,c)P(2*a,2*b)P(2*b,b+c)P(b+c,<2,3>)
/* gmail.com */}camera{orthographic location<6,1.25,-6>look_at a }
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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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Am 06.07.2014 23:00, schrieb Jim Henderson:
> On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 20:51:47 +0100, Doctor John wrote:
>
>> What do you call your machines?
>
> Places in the Hitchhiker's Guide universe. I've been doing that for
> years, but I might have to start recycling them; the PS3 is Alosimanos
> Syneca (which is really too long a name for a system). That said, there
> are plenty of good candidates I haven't used yet.
...
I'm missing Guildford in the list :-P
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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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On 7-7-2014 19:23, clipka wrote:
> 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.
>
You might think that, but that would have been 'takkenbeest' (or at
least when I was young, they tend to change the rules for the 'n' every
couple of years)
No, in this context 'takke' means more like annoying or horrible. The
only combination that the translators seem to know is 'takkewijf',
translated as 'shrew' but that is much too friendly. Besides you
probably only use it in a context when the animal or woman just did
something to you. So it is more of an expletive.
...
Just looked it up 'takke' derives from the French 'attaque' (heart
attack/stroke), so it used to be used as a curse.
--
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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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: Naming schemas (or schemata if you're picky)
Date: 7 Jul 2014 15:48:01
Message: <53baf971@news.povray.org>
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On 07/07/2014 2:27 PM, Francois Labreque wrote:
>> My laptop is named BLACKSLAB
>
> Are its proportions 1 x 5 x 9, per chance? Have you gotten the urge to
> smash your neighbors, brains with a tibia? Or maybe embark on a mission
> to Jupiter?
>
My God, it's full of stars.
--
Regards
Stephen
I solemnly promise to kick the next angle, I see.
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On 06/07/2014 8:51 PM, Doctor John wrote:
> What do you call your machines?
> At work I use the names of Graeco-Roman and Nordic gods and goddesses;
[Snip]
> So what do you call yours?
>
I call mine:
Laptop Laptop_1 Laptop_2 through to my newest one Laptop_7. (PS please
excuse lack of commas I'm trying to cure myself.)
Years ago, about the time I read "The Moon's a hard Mistress". I decided
to call my first AI, Cassandra. So the hardware is just the body, not
the mind.
(May you walk on rice paper...)
--
Regards
Stephen
I solemnly promise to kick the next angle, I see.
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