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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
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From: andrel
Subject: Re: Naming schemas (or schemata if you're picky)
Date: 6 Jul 2014 16:21:51
Message: <53B9AFB0.10001@gmail.com>
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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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On 06/07/14 21:21, andrel wrote:
> They have Maori names for animals, computers are birds (takahe, pateke,
> kakariki, korora) and my external harddisk is called tuatara
>
That I like.
> 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.
>
I knew I stole the idea from somewhere :-)
> 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)
>
How about 'turituri'? Maori for noise
John
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On 06/07/14 21:32, Doctor John wrote:
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> How about 'turituri'? Maori for noise
>
> John
>
Just had another idea. If the amplifier can be improved, how about
'tupuna' - Maori for forefather.
John
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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Naming schemas (or schemata if you're picky)
Date: 6 Jul 2014 17:00:05
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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.
My personal laptop has two names - Brequinda when it's running Linux, and
Bethselamin when it's running Windows. (Bethselamin doesn't run very
often).
The desktop is Lamuella.
My server is Krikkit (I've actually reused that name, as I migrated the
data from one system to another).
My old cell phone is Voondon. The new one (a Galaxy S5) seemed content
as "Galaxy" (technically not a named place in H2G2, but it's my naming
schema, so I'll use it if I like).
The Raspberry Pi is Xaxis. It's possible the name for the incoming
Macbook will be Zirzla, but I haven't decided yet (the company names them
things like "mbp-jhenderson" - at least that's what the one that's being
replaced is called).
I had used Magrathea at one point, as well as Damogran (though I think
that was a short-lived system). Megadodo (while not a place name, still
a good name) also was a print server at once time (seemed appropriate).
Come to think of it, my tablet doesn't have a name yet. Shame on me, I
need to fix that.
Jim
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besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw
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On 06/07/14 22:00, Jim Henderson wrote:
> 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.
>
> My personal laptop has two names - Brequinda when it's running Linux, and
> Bethselamin when it's running Windows. (Bethselamin doesn't run very
> often).
>
> The desktop is Lamuella.
>
> My server is Krikkit (I've actually reused that name, as I migrated the
> data from one system to another).
>
> My old cell phone is Voondon. The new one (a Galaxy S5) seemed content
> as "Galaxy" (technically not a named place in H2G2, but it's my naming
> schema, so I'll use it if I like).
>
> The Raspberry Pi is Xaxis. It's possible the name for the incoming
> Macbook will be Zirzla, but I haven't decided yet (the company names them
> things like "mbp-jhenderson" - at least that's what the one that's being
> replaced is called).
>
> I had used Magrathea at one point, as well as Damogran (though I think
> that was a short-lived system). Megadodo (while not a place name, still
> a good name) also was a print server at once time (seemed appropriate).
>
> Come to think of it, my tablet doesn't have a name yet. Shame on me, I
> need to fix that.
>
> Jim
>
Since you're a little bit H2G2 fixated, how about Majickthize or
Vroomfondel? Not places but it keeps the theme going
John
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From: Orchid Win7 v1
Subject: Re: Naming schemas (or schemata if you're picky)
Date: 6 Jul 2014 17:36:16
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On 06/07/2014 08:51 PM, Doctor John wrote:
> What do you call your machines?
I name them according to the colour of the casing. The hostname of the
PC I'm using to write this is BLACKBOX, due to the black Antec 100 case.
My laptop is named BLACKSLAB, and my obsolete laptop used to be named
SILVERSLAB. (Now I should imagine it's called linux-38247, or whatever
the default Ubuntu hostname is...)
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On 6-7-2014 22:32, Doctor John wrote:
> On 06/07/14 21:21, andrel wrote:
>> They have Maori names for animals, computers are birds (takahe, pateke,
>> kakariki, korora) and my external harddisk is called tuatara
>>
>
> That I like.
me too ;)
BTW I made ceramic versions of some of them:
http://bytehouwer.nl/visitekaart/takahe.jpg
http://bytehouwer.nl/visitekaart/korora.jpg
http://bytehouwer.nl/visitekaart/tuatara.jpg
didn't find time for a duck and a small parror yet.
>> 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.
>>
>
> I knew I stole the idea from somewhere :-)
watch out when you are stealing from the gods.
>
>> 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)
>>
>
> How about 'turituri'? Maori for noise
Not that sort of amplifier. One for microelectrodes, used for patching
cells. Output is connected to a VCO, but it does not amplify or create
sound itself
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On 06/07/14 22:36, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> On 06/07/2014 08:51 PM, Doctor John wrote:
>> What do you call your machines?
>
> I name them according to the colour of the casing. The hostname of the
> PC I'm using to write this is BLACKBOX, due to the black Antec 100 case.
> My laptop is named BLACKSLAB, and my obsolete laptop used to be named
> SILVERSLAB. (Now I should imagine it's called linux-38247, or whatever
> the default Ubuntu hostname is...)
So... no anthropomorphisation then? :-)
John
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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: Naming schemas (or schemata if you're picky)
Date: 6 Jul 2014 23:25:42
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On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 22:08:19 +0100, Doctor John wrote:
> Since you're a little bit H2G2 fixated, how about Majickthize or
> Vroomfondel? Not places but it keeps the theme going
I'd thought about it - shooty and bang-bang would also work.
But if I went with character names, I'd go with probably some more
obscure ones first. Prak would be a good system name.
Or Grunthos. :)
Jim
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besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw
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