Subject: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites
From: [email-masked] (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,news.newusers.questions

Hello, everyone.
 
About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for 
thematically-linked names of UNIX machines.  Here is the summary of 
posts in answer to my question.  I gratefully acknowledge the 
following persons for their help:
 
[email-masked] (Andrew M. Ross)
[email-masked] (Mike Stok)
[email-masked] (Mark Robinson)
[email-masked] (Will Bell)
[email-masked] (Adrian Alcala)
[email-masked] (Randolph Bentson)
[email-masked] (Marc G. Frank)
 
                        *** Thematic Names ***
 
* various villains (Q, Desslock, Jabba the
Hut), Gojira, Zuul
* nuclear particles (Truth, Beauty, Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange, 
Charmed)
* pizza toppings (oregano, pepperoni, pineapple, ham, cheese)
* the Seven Deadly Sins (lust, sloth, envy, pride, etc.)
* various weather patterns in the Berkeley area (windstorm, tornado, 
lightning)
* Simpsons' names
* Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (and items contained in the story, 
e.g., poisoned apple)
* characters in _The Hobbit_ (Gollum, Sauron, Bagend, etc.)
* characters in _Batman_ (Batman, Penguin, Joker, Catwoman)
* the planets
* Greek letters (sigma, summa, theta, alpha, beta, etc.)
* breeds of cows
* composers and their compositions
* mountains in Colorado
* breakfast foods/cereals
 
Please post follow-ups to alt.folklore.computers.
 
Craig Werner <[email-masked]>

From: [email-masked] (Paul Tomblin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

[email-masked] (Craig Werner) writes:
>About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for 
>thematically-linked names of UNIX machines.  Here is the summary of 
>

GeoVision used to have a lot of machines, and at various times in the past 
various projects tried to have some sort of theme.

My first project there was an ice-mapping system, so both machines involved 
had Inuit names: ookpik and nanook

Other themes:
Composers and painters: mozart, rembrandt, vangogh, chopin, bach
Root vegetables: beet, radish, turnip, pumpkin (not quite a root veg, I 
know), pickle
Gulf war: patriot, scud
Fighter aircraft: harrier, hornet, falcon, eagle, spitfire
HHGTHG: marvin, traal, zaphod (zaphod was a uVax GPX with two heads)

-- 
Paul Tomblin - formerly {pt{omblin},news}@{geovision.}gvc.com
"Cyclists have a right to the road too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate
maniacs! I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!" - Calvin's dad.

From: [email-masked] (Zack Evans)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Gothick) writes:

>And proably quite a few more *grin*

What did you do, cat etc/hosts ? :)

Anyway, our SPARCs at Lancaster Uni are named after mountains in the
UK, preceded by dcl for Dept Of Computing at Lancs, thus we have dcl-snowdon,
dcl-scafell, dcl-nevis, etc

The colour Xterms are after big cats - panther, lynx, cheetah. The oldest
colour X terminal is called berttwo - this was a pun on one of the system
programmer's consoles, which he called Bertone after the Italian artist.

The mono xterms are all latin words - abundantia, accidenti, hypothesi, etc

The Macs in the Mac lab are all named ater footballers...banks, moore,
bcharlton... 

The HPs in Physics are named after Physicists funnily enough - kelvin, faraday,
plank, etc etc

Everything else is either department, location, or user related - mathssun4,
csmac1, or pcraven for instance.

--
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Watch yer bass bins lads, I'm tellin' yer...

From: [email-masked] (BUCKLEY  CHARLES RAY)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Craig Werner) writes:
>
>Hello, everyone.
> 
>About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for 
>thematically-linked names of UNIX machines.  Here is the summary of 
>posts in answer to my question.  I gratefully acknowledge the 
>following persons for their help:
> 
>[email-masked] (Andrew M. Ross)
>[email-masked] (Mike Stok)
>[email-masked] (Mark Robinson)
>[email-masked] (Will Bell)
>[email-masked] (Adrian Alcala)
>[email-masked] (Randolph Bentson)
>[email-masked] (Marc G. Frank)
> 
>                        *** Thematic Names ***
> 
>* various villains (Q, Desslock, Jabba the
>Hut), Gojira, Zuul
>* nuclear particles (Truth, Beauty, Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange, 
>Charmed)
>* pizza toppings (oregano, pepperoni, pineapple, ham, cheese)
>* the Seven Deadly Sins (lust, sloth, envy, pride, etc.)
>* various weather patterns in the Berkeley area (windstorm, tornado, 
>lightning)
>* Simpsons' names
>* Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (and items contained in the story, 
>e.g., poisoned apple)
>* characters in _The Hobbit_ (Gollum, Sauron, Bagend, etc.)
>* characters in _Batman_ (Batman, Penguin, Joker, Catwoman)
>* the planets
>* Greek letters (sigma, summa, theta, alpha, beta, etc.)
>* breeds of cows
>* composers and their compositions
>* mountains in Colorado
>* breakfast foods/cereals
> 
Well, at good old CU, they have the astronaut section (Scirra, Onizuka, Young,
Crippen, etc). (the aerospace department of course).
the EE's have Faraday, Edison, etc, etc.
The system I am on now is rintintin. The others are spot and tramp. These are
the basic CS systems. (I'm surprised that there is no lassie).
the geology department has people famous in geology (don't ask me who - I'm not
a geologist).
>Please post follow-ups to alt.folklore.computers.
> 
>Craig Werner <[email-masked]>

-- 
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From: [email-masked] (Steve VanDevender)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

acsu.buffalo.edu has several machines with names derived from
characters, items, or titles in Gene Wolfe's _Book of the New
Sun_ series -- torturer (_The Shadow of the Torturer_), claw
(_The Claw of the Conciliator), lictor (_The Sword of the
Lictor_), autarch (_The Citadel of the Autarch_), terminus-est
(the name of Severian's ritual execution sword), fuligin (the
color of Severian's cloak), talos (from Dr.  Talos, a character).
On further investigation I found that other machines in that
domain are named after other authors or composers.  The pattern
of names first struck me because I'm a big fan of Gene Wolfe --
if you haven't read his stuff, teleport to your local bookstore
and pick up the books.

When at the University of Oregon we renamed one of our machines
to greylady (submariners reputedly call their submarines Grey
Ladies).  When requesting some other system names, we used a
submarine theme:

grayback
wahoo
gudgeon		(names of US attack submarines)
titanic		(one of our people wanted this because it is
		effectively a submarine now :-) )
dosboot		(a DOS machine and a reference to _Das Boot_)

Unfortunately the theme was broken when grayback was renamed to
miser.  It is probably one of the more obscure themes I've seen
-- you'd just about have to be one of the U of O Chemstores crew
to recognize it.
--
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"Bipedalism--an unrecognized disease affecting over 99% of the population.
Symptoms include lack of traffic sense, slow rate of travel, and the
classic, easily recognized behavior known as walking."

From: [email-masked] (Gothick)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

[email-masked] (Craig Werner) writes:

>Hello, everyone.
> 
>About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for 
>thematically-linked names of UNIX machines.  Here is the summary of 
>posts in answer to my question.  I gratefully acknowledge the 
>following persons for their help:

We have (at Computer Science):

stones:diamond zircon stone jet garnet onyx flint rocky slate marble granite
       quartz pumice 
-ind endings: bookbind woodwind upwind tamarind rescind behind headwind
       downwind
-le endings (for the NCDs): fizzle bubble piffle ripple curdle trifle gargle

(and at CSV):

flowers: poppy orchid clover lily violet lupin crocus

herbs(IPCs): tansy borage basil sage thyme parsley chive oregano comfrey
fenugreek dill chervil yarrow fennel cumin cayenne nutmeg garlic mace paprika
saffron caraway anise ginger

meats(IPXs): ham mutton spam bacon haggis tripe pork beef lamb veal

scientists(Non-linear Systems Lab): newton fermat gauss poincare lyapunov
vanderpol bowen darwin weyl

Planets(Maths?): mercury venus mars jupiter saturn uranus neptune pluto

Vegetables(Staff DOS PCs): carrot cabbage sprout leek onion lettuce parsnip
chilli bean pepper aubergine redstone pea potato radish marrow mushroom
asparagus

Animals(SUN-3/80s): fox badger stoat shrew squirrel otter mole rabbit

Body Parts(!)(Tektronix X-terminals): arm elbow wrist hand thumb knuckle leg
thigh knee shin ankle foot toe tendon hip waist chest neck head ear eye nose
tongue nostril chin cheek skull tooth spine heart lung liver kidney limb
throat stomach bone skin vein artery gullet brow spleen mouth

Fruits(Staff Training Facility): banana cherry damson grape lemon lime mango
melon orange pawpaw peach pear plum

Plants(?)(Theoretical Physics): weed triffid hemlock bogwort

Birds(Engineering): eagle falcon hawk owl kestrel osprey harrier condor heron
quail kite merlin griffon raven snipe swallow finch magpie puffin phoenix
pigeon pelican sunbird albatross anns grebe curlew tern petrel plover jay
dunlin linnet dipper liatach pipit

And proably quite a few more *grin*

Cheers,

Matt
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From: [email-masked] (Vadim Antonov)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Jack F. Hamilton) writes:
>A local company uses the names of natural disasters:  Chernoble,

Yep. Human stupidity *is* the natural disaster :-)

--vadim

From: [email-masked] (Jack F. Hamilton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

[email-masked] (Craig Werner) wrote:
>
>About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for 
>thematically-linked names of UNIX machines.  Here is the summary of 
>posts in answer to my question.

A local company uses the names of natural disasters:  Chernoble,
Anita-Bryant, etc.  

I believe that Elizabeth Zwicky from SRI wrote a paper about site names
which was published in one of the Internet newsletters distributed at the
last InterOp.  I suspect that a fair amount of research has been done on
this by various people with time on their hands. 

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From: [email-masked] (Andrew Solovay)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

> 
>Please post follow-ups to alt.folklore.computers.

* Where I work, every Sparc is named after an element (which means
  there are nice, short abbreviations available). In recent months,
  things have gotten lax; there are now "admantium", "unobtanium", and
  "abusium" sites.

* At Yale, there were two different Sun rooms connected by a hallway.
  One was the "zoo" (Sparcs named "lion", "tiger", "rhino"...) and one
  was the "aquarium" ("shark", "whale", "squid"...)

* U.C. Berkeley's Open Computing Facility (OCF) has machines named
  after disasters ("locusts", "tornado", "earthquake", "headcrash",
  "hurricane"...) 

* UCB's "Bard" cluster has Sparcs named after Shakespeare characters.
  I thought this was a bad idea. If you're working on "Cordelia", or
  "Hamlet", or "Romeo", it's just *bound* to die when you need it.
-- 
Andrew Solovay

"But that was in another country;
 and besides, the wench is dead."        ---Marlowe

From: [email-masked] (Don Stokes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

[email-masked] (Craig Werner) writes:
> thematically-linked names of UNIX machines.  

VUW lets each department choose their own names, with the only requirement
being that they choose some sort of theme.  Here's a sample...

CSC:		NZ native trees & shrubs: kauri, matai, rata, koromiko ...
Comp Sci:	Wellington places & things: kaukau, circa, cable-car, ...
Mathematics:	Mathematicians: hilbert, poincare, cantor, galois, cayley ...
Central Services: Jet fighters: thunderchief, flogger, tiger, intruder...
English Language Institute: couldhave, maybe, willdo, mustdo, hasbeen...
Sociology:	Small(ish) plants: camelia, hogweed, azalea, basil, heather...
Vice Chancellor's Office: Dwarves: grumpy, sneezy, sleepy, dopey, doc...
Earth Sciences: (Mostly) NZ mountains: mitre, aorangi, hector, oyster*...
		(I'm not sure if there is a Mt Oyster, but mountain oysters
		are something of a delicacy on high country sheep stations.)
Geophysics:	Latin things: avernus, erebus, eridanus, tartarus, cirrus...
Geography:	Narcotics: morphine, hashish, ecstasy, opium, heroin, cocaine...
Architecture:	Bits of buildings: brick, dwang, purlin, rafter, facia...
		Cartoon characters: huey, mickey, mini, pluto, snoopy
Electron Microscope Facility: popeye, olive...
Law:		Lawyers: jeffries, holland, thorp, gallen, cooke...
Biological Sciences: transposon, phylloglossum
Chemistry:	Elements: cobalt, titanium, silicon, copper, zinc...
Psychology:	wundt, fechner, titchner
Statistics:	Colours: cyan, beige, ivory...
		Maori numbers: tahi, rua, toru, wha, rima, ono...
		(Things came unstuck when they reached tekau (10)...)

--
Don Stokes, CSC Network Manager, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Ph+64 4 495-5052  Fax+64 4 471-5386  Work:[email-masked]  Home:[email-masked]

From: [email-masked] (John West)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

I suppose I have to join in. Due to extremely obscure historical reasons
(that I refuse to explain), our unix boxen have names of fish, all starting
with 'm'. So far we've had mullet, minnow, marlin, and mackerel. The
name-choosers are hoping we never get another box.

John West

From: [email-masked] (Peter Gutmann)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

How about the most boring, unimaginative machine names?  We have:

Computer Science:

cs1, cs2, cs3, cs4, cs5, cs6, cs7, cs8, cs9, cs10, cs11, cs12, cs13, cs14,
     cs15 (can anyone see the pattern yet?), cs16, cs17, cs18

Commerce:

comu1, comu2, comu3, comu4

Computer Centre:

ccu1, ccu2, ccu3

Well, you get the idea.... the rest of the aukuni machines follow the pattern
too AFAIK.

Peter.
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From: [email-masked] (Roger Goldsmith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
(Peter Gutmann) wrote:
> 
> How about the most boring, unimaginative machine names?  We have:
> 
> Computer Science:
> 
> cs1, cs2, cs3, cs4, cs5, cs6, cs7, cs8, cs9, cs10, cs11, cs12, cs13, cs14,
>      cs15 (can anyone see the pattern yet?), cs16, cs17, cs18

 I think I  can top that. At UEA, the Sun machines used to be called s1, s2
s3
etc. The new ones are named after gases (radon, oxygen...)

 We also have a Sun 3 called Orac, which I think is a bit of an
over-estimation.

When I was at the university of Kent at Canterbury, some machines were
named 
after birds of prey e.g. hawk, raven, osprey, eagle etc. Also, since there
where
a lot of HLH Orions at Kent, some of them where named after stars in the
constellation of Orion e.g. Betelguese.

roger.

Roger Goldsmith               [email-masked]
Declarative Systems Project
U.E.A
Norwich, UK.

From: [email-masked] (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

My theme is comic mythical creatures.  My 386 mail machine is `snark', from
Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting Of The Snark".  My 486 box is `boojum' from the
same poem.  The portable I'm having reconditioned for me will be `golux', from
James Thurber's "The 13 Clocks", and if I get a fourth machine it will become
`hurkle', from Theodore Sturgeon's "The Hurkle Is A Happy Beast".
-- 
					Eric S. Raymond <[email-masked]>

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: [email-masked] (Joe Morris)
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

[email-masked] (Andrew Solovay) writes:

>* Where I work, every Sparc is named after an element (which means
>  there are nice, short abbreviations available). In recent months,
>  things have gotten lax; there are now "admantium", "unobtanium", and
>  "abusium" sites.

H'mmm...I hope you don't have anyone trying to name a Sparc system
"Alabamine" or "Virginium".  If so, I would quickly start looking for
a cracker on your net...

(For readers who never heard of Alabamine or Virginium, go to your
library and read up on the history of science under the heading of
"hoaxes".  The two names made it (I'm told) into the CRC Handbook,
but only with an editor's note expressing strong skepticism.  If anyone
can cite the edition in which the names and editorial comment appeared,
I would like to know.)

On a slightly different issue: how many of the thematic naming conventions
we're seeing reported in this thread are mandated by organization policy,
and how many of them are just common practice?

Joe Morris / MITRE

From: [email-masked] (Robert D. Davis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] writes:
>[email-masked] (Craig Werner) writes:
>>About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for 
>>thematically-linked names of UNIX machines.  Here is the summary of 

A few observations and comments...

>Gulf war: patriot, scud

Why limit "patriot" to the Gulf War?  Granted, it is the name of a
missile used in that war, but the word patriot means much more than
the name of a type of missile.

>Fighter aircraft: harrier, hornet, falcon, eagle, spitfire

Some of these are also the names of car models: the AMC Hornet, the
Ford Falcoln, the Jeep Eagle and, if not mistaken, wasn't Spitfire the
name of one of the models of a small English sports car?

-- 
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From: [email-masked] (Grant Wyatt)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In our Humble CS dept here in Cape Town, we have the following:

SUN stations: sun-1, sun-2, ...
I am told these are going to be renamed soon to moons
in our solar system...

Then we got a single SGI indigo, and it was called "inky"
The idea was to name the next SGI's pinky, blinky, sue (after
the ghosts in pacman).

However, we also had a single NeXT station, called "ikura"
I never knew what this was at all.

Then we got two more SGI's and our (MSc's) naming convention was
over-ruled and they were called toro and tekka.  I have recently
been told that ikura, toro, and tekka are all Japanese names
or words for "fish".  Anyone help me on this one?

Then we have a mixture of DOS PC's, individually named:
Chardonnay, Falcon, etc, etc, all trying to start their
own system, no-one accepting anyone else's system.

Finally, we have X-stations named after Starwars characters:
luke, leia, etc (we have no darthvader yet...)

What a complete mess-up of names!

Grant

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From: [email-masked] (Elizabeth Haley)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In the lab I was working for, They were going to name the machine
after SnowWhite et al, but I pointed out that the director's intention
was to add machines as soon as possible, bringing the total past 8.
My suggestion was to name the server BigCheese and the others after
cheeses. The Sys Admin doing the installation like the idea, but made
one small but very amusing change: (see .sig)
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If you love your fun...
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From: [email-masked] (Garrett Wollman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Here we tend to let people choose their own names.  As a result, we
don't tend to have these kinds of thematic names.  However, there are
a few notable exceptions:

- The former director's cats: newton, griffin, kira, tucker, emily

- All the important servers end in -al: hal, sal, lal, xal (the next one
  will be `cal')

- The CS/EE department has a few SF and mythological motifs: elron,
  dwarf, tana, rowan, flash, tsornin (my pc), oly, isis

- All laser printers end in -laz: embalaz, 246laz, cslaz, emlaz,
  emplaz, dsplaz, siplaz, balaz, 332laz, xyzlaz, optlaz, dumlaz,
  matlaz, statlaz, melaz, and more.  These are all named after the
  original laz, a DEC LN01 that was thrown out two years ago after
  somebody insisted that we clean out our section of the basement.

- PC servers: calvin, hobbes.  (Formerly thundar, paladin, ranger.)

Of course, we also have some functional names, too, like `mbone'.  We
also have monstrosities like `embamac4'.  The AIX machines are
aix[1-6] and wildthing (the latter not being in a public lab), and are
served by `trantor'.  (I wanted to name the lab machines after the
kingdoms and planets in /Foundation/: terminus, anacreon, smyrno,
loris, siwenna, etc., but nobody was listening to me.)

-GAWollman

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From: [email-masked] (Paul Tomblin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

[email-masked] (Robert D. Davis) writes:

>In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] writes:

>A few observations and comments...

>>Gulf war: patriot, scud

>Why limit "patriot" to the Gulf War?  Granted, it is the name of a
>missile used in that war, but the word patriot means much more than
>the name of a type of missile.

Because the machines were installed _during_ the gulf war, and scud was an 
Xterminal that booted off patriot.  (And kept crashing it, too)
(Besides: Canadians are allergic to the word "patriot" - it sounds too 
American)

>>Fighter aircraft: harrier, hornet, falcon, eagle, spitfire

>Some of these are also the names of car models: the AMC Hornet, the
>Ford Falcoln, the Jeep Eagle and, if not mistaken, wasn't Spitfire the
>name of one of the models of a small English sports car?

Because I'm one of the people who named them, I'm the person who collected 
and/or designed the ascii art for the /etc/motd, and I'm the person who 
collected the GIF files that we used as the root window.  So I think that 
when I say they were named after fighter aircraft, I know what I'm talking 
about.

For example:

                            \     /
                             \ _ /
                          ----/_\----
              x--------------( . )--------------x
                   x|x   | |_|\_/|_| |   x|x
                    x    x           x    x

                          CF-18 Hornet
-- 
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"Cyclists have a right to the road too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate
maniacs! I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!" - Calvin's dad.

From: [email-masked] (Dora Potluri)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Hello,
	Here at clemson we named some of our DEC servers as
sacredcow, sparerib, roast, ribeye. These are all related to cows.

Potluri

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From: [email-masked] (Vadim Antonov)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Somebody is just bound to come up with kibo.something as the name
for NNTP server of a large LAN :-)

--vadim

From: [email-masked] (Andrew Raphael)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

When CISRA started we were shown Canon's corporate video, where it
described Canon's first camera model, the Kwanon.  So we named our Sun
4/260 kwanon.  Favourable comment from visiting executives followed.
:-) When we traded kwanon in on a 670MP, we jumped 60 million cameras &
named it eos.  This leaves us with lots of camera names for servers,
like epoca, sure shot joy, autoboy, etc.

On the other hand, we name workstations after dead musicians: thain,
stiv, sonny, pigpen, patsy, mydland, mama, liberace, kaye, john, jaco,
ian, hoagie, freddie, fatha, django, dizzy, del, byron, bing, astaire,
radics, nico, hillel, garland, ethel, duane, dolphy, dinah, darroch,
bopper, allen, ricky, otis, nigel, minnie, marc, keith, karen, janis,
elvis, denis, buddy, bon, stevie, ritchie, ron, & james.

Which lets me:
$ ping elvis
elvis is alive

Just like in the Sun manuals, of course.  ;-)
-- 
Andrew Raphael <[email-masked]>
    "Bartender! A schooner of the best milk, please."

From: [email-masked] (Craig "Powderkeg" DeForest)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (John West) writes:
   I suppose I have to join in. Due to extremely obscure historical reasons
   (that I refuse to explain), our unix boxen have names of fish, all starting
   with 'm'. So far we've had mullet, minnow, marlin, and mackerel. The
   name-choosers are hoping we never get another box.

Try manta, menhaden, monkfish, and mollie.

If you get desperate, there's also mermaid and mollusk.
Or they could buy a fish guide book...
--
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From: [email-masked] (Jim Haynes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Well of course this goes back way before Unix, such as the British
National Physical Lab machines: pilot ACE, ACE, and DEUCE (and I
don't think they got any further than that)  and there was the 
Ferranti Pegasus and maybe some others named for other mythological
characters.  (Atlas and Zeus, but I think that was a different company.)
There were punnish acronyms such as MOBIDIC.  There was Whirlwind.

U.C. Davis had Unix machines named for the Marx Bros.

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From: [email-masked] (James Robnett)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Craig Werner) writes:
>
>Hello, everyone.
> 
>About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for 
>thematically-linked names of UNIX machines.  Here is the summary of 
>posts in answer to my question.  I gratefully acknowledge the 
>following persons for their help:

  [List of thematic names deleted]
>Craig Werner <[email-masked]>

   We used a rather generic planet(servers) stars(clients) theme
for part of our system. (seems backwards but there's simply not enough
planets for clients.) When we added 15+ machines last fall we switched
to Crayola(tm) colors, (azure, black, cyan, dunn etc) we even had
'flesh' since we try to follow an alphabetic scheme.  There of course
was the obligitory discussion about the political correctness of using
it.  After Crayola came out with the 128 colors collection it gave us
new hope of having enough names (like we'll get 128 machines :)).
   The various other schemes around campus are:
birds:           peackock, wren, kestrel, opus and woodstock(ringers), etc.,
Egyptian gods:   Set, Osiris, Ra, Anubis, etc.,
demons:          Baal, Asmion, Errtu, Alzoll, etc.,
sea's:           coral, caspian, agean, etc.,
salad dressings: french, italian lobster, ranch, crab, this one got 
                 strectched rather severely, needed 13 of them.
  My favorite though was the scheme for the Macintosh's the humanities 
dept. forced us to buy. We named them mac1, mac2, mac3 all the way to 10.

James Robnett
NMT Computer Center
[email-masked]

From: [email-masked] (Doug Siebert)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

The Iowa Student Computer Association ran a sort of contest a couple years ago
to think up a naming scheme for our machines.  We got hundreds of suggestions,
the eventual winner was to use 'blender speeds' as the scheme.  So our three
main machines are grind, whip, and chop, and we've had at various times also
beat, stir, and pulse.  I added 'off' to the naming server as well for an 286
based Trailing Edge PC that isn't on the net :-)  We've still got stir, mix,
frappe, and liquify left to use.  If the machine we get next fall/spring is
fast enough, liquify would be a good name for it.  Anyone want to donate an
HP 735 to us to justify a name that fast? ;-)

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From: [email-masked] (Mathias Koerber)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In (<[email-masked]>) James Robnett ([email-masked]) wrote:
| In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Craig Werner) writes:
| >
| >Hello, everyone.
| > 
| >About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for 
| >thematically-linked names of UNIX machines.  Here is the summary of 
| >posts in answer to my question.  I gratefully acknowledge the 
| >following persons for their help:

My company's name being short for 'Scientia Whitehorse', we have named
out machines after horses (unicorn, pegasus).

Just now we got three Suns on loan, two dickless and one with a 1.2GB disk

The dickless are 'gelding' and 'pony', the server is 'stud'.

In my ex-company we named our machines after beer-brand (German, or
if appropriate the owner's favourite). Thus we had:
	andechs,flens,tiger(from Singapore),...

Mathias

From: [email-masked] (DoN. Nichols)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Craig Werner) writes:
>
>Hello, everyone.
> 
>About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for 
>thematically-linked names of UNIX machines.  Here is the summary of 

	[ ... ]

>                        *** Thematic Names ***
> 
>* various villains (Q, Desslock, Jabba the
>Hut), Gojira, Zuul
>* nuclear particles (Truth, Beauty, Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange, 
>Charmed)

	[ ... many deleted ... ] 

>Please post follow-ups to alt.folklore.computers.

	O.K.
 ==================================================
	My home systems have the theme of various languages` terms for
parties, and party-related systems:

	ceilidh faisdodo feis fiesta hoolie pinata shindig

and, two un-related systems (from the early days before the system went in).

	hijo teacat
 ==================================================

	At work we have a cartoon/funnypaper character theme (with one of
the servers named disney), plus some other groupings of machines with no
apparent theme that came in as the net spread and joined other nets.

	Aside from disney, some of the machine names are:

	(Yosemite) sam, goofy, bugs, mickey, minnie, sparkle (plenty), bc,
and several others that I can't remember.  The xterms have names like dumbo,
(indicative of no great CPU power.)

	Now off to read the rest of the articles in this thread.

	DoN.
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From: [email-masked] (Jeff DelPapa)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Jim Haynes) writes:
>
>Well of course this goes back way before Unix, such as the British
>National Physical Lab machines: pilot ACE, ACE, and DEUCE (and I
>don't think they got any further than that)  and there was the 

Well I remeber stringing my first LAN (it was the then brand new
10mhz ether instead of the older 3mhz stuff)  We were even putting
workstations on it -- anyhow a naming scheme was much debated, and we
settled on the wives of henry VIII, with henry in reserve for a
server.

some years later, A mew site, and again time for a naming convention
-- like many it seems, I took to the periodic table for the non
colliding abbreviations therein...

January -- another new site -- This time I am using Tokyo subway
stations, as there are >1000 to choose from.

<dp>

From: [email-masked] (David W. Barts)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (James Robnett) writes:
> [edited]
>   My favorite though was the scheme for the Macintosh's the humanities 
> dept. forced us to buy. We named them mac1, mac2, mac3 all the way to 10.

Well, *our* department's Macs all have names of the form beth, arthur,
kinac, kinaw, rame, gyver, kerel, and so on.

One professor (who does hydrogeologic research) had his research
cluster machines named hydro1, hydro2, etc. (yawwwn, boooooring!).  More
recent additions have been named electric, thermal, phobia, and so on.

Our X-terminals are all named after characters from the _Pogo_ comic
strip; an obvious choice since the first order of the beasts was a
matched set of three (which were christened bewitched, bewildered,
and bothered).

I was going to name DOS boxes after pathogens (bacillus, yersinia,
clostridium, HIV, etc.) but I decided not to press my luck on that one.
I got the head of the computer committee pissed off enough with the X
terminal names...

--
David Barts  N5JRN                      UW Civil Engineering, FX-10
[email-masked]                Seattle, WA  98195

From: [email-masked] (Phil Burg)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

[email-masked] (Andrew Raphael) writes:

>On the other hand, we name workstations after dead musicians: thain,
>stiv, sonny, pigpen, patsy, mydland, mama, liberace, kaye, john, jaco,
>ian, hoagie, freddie, fatha, django, dizzy, del, byron, bing, astaire,
>radics, nico, hillel, garland, ethel, duane, dolphy, dinah, darroch,
>bopper, allen, ricky, otis, nigel, minnie, marc, keith, karen, janis,
>elvis, denis, buddy, bon, stevie, ritchie, ron, & james.
                      ^^^
someone who remembers :-)

Here in my Division, we name Suns after dead scientists (katz, eccles).
PCs get named a little more imaginatively - I'm telnetting from mbb7, with
mbb6 sitting on my colleague's desk, and mbb17 next door.

In my student days, the computer science department had two student
networks, one named after actors (chaplin, garbo, flynn, etc) and one
named after tennis players (graf, cash, navratilova, and so on).  Both
used a machine called boris as a server - so named "because Boris is a
powerful server" (cringe).

Rumour has it there was a network here on campus, once, with machines
named after the teams in the PC game Speedball...

Phil
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From: [email-masked] (TV's St. Steve)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Craig "Powderkeg" DeForest) writes:
>In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (John West) writes:
>   I suppose I have to join in. Due to extremely obscure historical reasons

Me too!  Our machine are named after Mardi Gras parades (rex,comus,venus,tucks,
ashanti,babylon,etc) and the server is rex (The "King" of Mardi Gras parades)

>--
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From: [email-masked] (Jeremy Reimer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

At the university once I had to take a course which involved working on a
whole bunch of NeXT cubes... the original 68030 ones that made you wait just
to display the little twirling "waiting" icon, and then wait some more...

The incredibly boring CS teaching staff at UBC decided to name them all after
Canadian cities (yawn) so we ended up using machines named regina, vancouver,
calgary... I had fun with moosejaw though.  One thing about these machines,
you could confuse people by sending them email from one of these machines...
they would think you were in another city or something.  It was also fun to
send myself NeXTmail when I didn't have a NeXT at home... trying to see how
mangled I could make the original text.

(sigh) (The (course) was ((in (Scheme)) (a language) ((((which (I try) ((to
forget) but) simply (can not))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))....

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From: [email-masked] (BUCKLEY  CHARLES RAY)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Peter Gutmann) writes:
>How about the most boring, unimaginative machine names?  We have:
>
>Computer Science:
>
>cs1, cs2, cs3, cs4, cs5, cs6, cs7, cs8, cs9, cs10, cs11, cs12, cs13, cs14,
>     cs15 (can anyone see the pattern yet?), cs16, cs17, cs18
>
>Commerce:
>
>comu1, comu2, comu3, comu4
>
>Computer Centre:
>
>ccu1, ccu2, ccu3
>
>Well, you get the idea.... the rest of the aukuni machines follow the pattern
>too AFAIK.
>
Let me guess, at your school cc stands for COBOL compile.

>Peter.
>--

-- 
Charles Buckley    [email-masked]
It's turtles all the way down.
Just another West Virginia exile in the land of make believe.
Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.

From: [email-masked] (Paul Tomblin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

[email-masked] (Jeremy Reimer) writes:

>calgary... I had fun with moosejaw though.  One thing about these machines,

Ah, moosejaw.  The only city named after our (now ex-)prime-minister.

-- 
Paul Tomblin - formerly {pt{omblin},news}@{geovision.}gvc.com
"Cyclists have a right to the road too, you noisy, polluting, inconsiderate
maniacs! I hope gas goes up to eight bucks a gallon!" - Calvin's dad.

From: [email-masked] (Stephen Crane)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Jim Haynes) writes:
Jim> U.C. Davis had Unix machines named for the Marx Bros.
Here at dse.doc.ic.ac.uk things started off the same way: the first five
sun3's were "gummo", "chico", "harpo", "groucho" and "zeppo".  "karl"
was a fairly obvious next step but the big breakthrough came with the 
advent of our sun4's.  Now we have "bench", "dirty", "deutsch",
"water", "skid", "scorch" and no sign of running out.  In fact, I
think we have had more that 255 suggestions.  We only have one PC
called, pathetically, "andspencer".  I suppose if we ever get another
we can call it "andengels".

Steve
--
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Medicine, 180 Queen's Gate, London sw7 2bz, UK:jsc@{doc.ic.ac.uk, icdoc.uucp}
"If it works, it's obsolete." -- Marshall McLuhan.

From: [email-masked] (Stephen Crane)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Jim Haynes) writes:
Jim> U.C. Davis had Unix machines named for the Marx Bros.
Here at dse.doc.ic.ac.uk things started off the same way: the first five
sun3's were "gummo", "chico", "harpo", "groucho" and "zeppo".  "karl"
was a fairly obvious next step but the big breakthrough came with the 
advent of our sun4's.  Now we have "bench", "dirty", "deutsch",
"water", "skid", "scorch" and no sign of running out.  In fact, I
think we have had more that 255 suggestions.  We only have one PC
called, pathetically, "andspencer".  I suppose if we ever get another
we can call it "andengels".

Steve
--
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Medicine, 180 Queen's Gate, London sw7 2bz, UK:jsc@{doc.ic.ac.uk, icdoc.uucp}
"If it works, it's obsolete." -- Marshall McLuhan.

From: [email-masked] (Peter Gutmann)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (BUCKLEY  CHARLES RAY) writes:

>In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Peter Gutmann) writes:
>>Computer Centre:
>>
>>ccu1, ccu2, ccu3
>>
>Let me guess, at your school cc stands for COBOL compile.

Computer Centre.  cc = computer centre, cs = compsci, com = commerce,
mat = maths, phys = physics, yruph = chemistry, en(?) = engineering
<does double-take> yruph?!?!?  How do you derive 'Chemistry' from that???
(I've just checked and yruph1 and yruph2 don't exist any more.  God knows how
 those names came about).

Peter.
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From: [email-masked] (Peter Gutmann)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Peter Gutmann) writes:

>Computer Centre.  cc = computer centre, cs = compsci, com = commerce,
>mat = maths, phys = physics, yruph = chemistry, en(?) = engineering
><does double-take> yruph?!?!?  How do you derive 'Chemistry' from that???
>(I've just checked and yruph1 and yruph2 don't exist any more.  God knows how
> those names came about).

At last, one breath of sanity in the entire university:  There's a
gyro.gearloose somewhere over in engineering.  Everything else follows
the above pattern.

Peter.

From: [email-masked] (Andrew Bulhak)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,megabozo.weenie.andrew-bulhak,alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Vadim Antonov ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Somebody is just bound to come up with kibo.something as the name
: for NNTP server of a large LAN :-)

That's right: as soon as I get my Internet feed (not at any time in the near
future :-( ), I will name my news machine kibo.tristero.org.au.
Other machines will be named after Cthulhu Mythos figures (e.g.,
if I get a really snazzy NeXTstep-based notebook, it will most
likely be named "nyarlathotep"), with the possible exception of
a Linux box named discordia (it is at the moment a Windows box with 
no name :-) ) and perhaps machines named zippy, shergold, bob, etc.
(If I buy a second-hand Commodore 64, it will, of course, be named B1FF.)

: --vadim

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From: [email-masked] (Darin Cowan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Craig Werner) writes:
>About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for 
>thematically-linked names of UNIX machines.  Here is the summary of 
>posts in answer to my question.  I gratefully acknowledge the 
>following persons for their help:
>                        *** Thematic Names ***
> 
In our domain, we name after conifers, thus:

balsam.pinetree.org
scotch.pinetree.org
xmas.pinetree.org
etc.

From: [email-masked] (John Switzer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,megabozo.weenie.andrew-bulhak,alt.religion.kibology
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Andrew Bulhak) writes:
>Vadim Antonov ([email-masked]) wrote:
>: Somebody is just bound to come up with kibo.something as the name
>: for NNTP server of a large LAN :-)
>
>That's right: as soon as I get my Internet feed (not at any time in the near
>future :-( ), I will name my news machine kibo.tristero.org.au.
>Other machines will be named after Cthulhu Mythos figures (e.g.,
>if I get a really snazzy NeXTstep-based notebook, it will most
>likely be named "nyarlathotep")

Naming your system "nyarlathotep" is probably one of the best security
measures known - who the heck is going to be able to type 
"nyarlathotep.tristero.org.au" (except me, of course, but then I'm 
a professional).
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From: [email-masked] (Craig "Powderkeg" DeForest)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <foo> [email-masked] (I) write:
   Try manta, menhaden, monkfish, and mollie.

   If you get desperate, there's also mermaid and mollusk.
   Or they could buy a fish guide book...

Oops -- forgot the best one, mudskipper!

--
DON'T DRINK SOAP! DILUTE DILUTE! OK!

From: [email-masked] (Joe Morris)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

[email-masked] (Jim Haynes) writes:
[in a passing comment about naming computers BU (Before UNIX)]

> There was Whirlwind.

And don't forget the system at Oak Ridge National Labs:  ORACLE

OTOH, in the days of Whirlwind and ORACLE nobody had to worry about 
thinking up thematic schemes for naming computers: the phrase "the
computer" was unambiguous at all but the biggest, most well-financed
facilities.

Joe Morris / MITRE (where, alas, most of the people who actually worked
                    on Whirlwind have retired by now...)

From: Mark 'Mark' Sachs <[email-masked]>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

The names tend to be fairly ordinary here at Penn State: the new DECstation
cluster, root name Crayola, has servers Binney and Smith (founders of
the Crayola company) and 64 machines named after the sixty-four colors
in yer average Crayola box. It is an improvement on the old RT cluster,
though, which had root name Endor and all the machines incomprehensible
LotR names. Other UNIXen here are named after computer languages (for
the compsci lab) or classical musicians (one of the sciences labs.)

A while ago we (a small committee I'm on, that is) were planning a new
small workstation lab in one of the dorms. We settled on "wwwa" as the
domain name, and Kei, Yuri, Mughi, Shasti, and Deidre as names for
individual machines. (All are characters from the Japanese anime series
and/or American comic book, The Dirty Pair.) Pity the actual workstations
never came through; it'd be particularily fun setting up graphics for the
login screens. :)

                  "It's my generals who need lessons, Kript."
[Your blood pressure just went up.]        Mark Sachs IS: [email-masked]
 DISCLAIMER: I could care less about opinions. I'm going to SIGGRAPH 93! Yay!

From: [email-masked] (John Ahlstrom)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Thematically named machines	
   The Marx Brothers (and their parents Mina and Sam)
   of course followed by the L*n sisters

   J Ahlstrom
   Boole & Babbage
   Sunnyvale CA 94086

From: [email-masked] (Jeff Johnston)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] writes:
>[email-masked] (Craig Werner) writes:
>>About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for 
>>thematically-linked names of UNIX machines.  Here is the summary of 
>>
>
>GeoVision used to have a lot of machines, and at various times in the past 
>various projects tried to have some sort of theme.
[thematic names deleted]

Hi there...

I didn't see your original post so I don't know if this is what you're
looking for or if you still need these, but these are groups I've come
across just at UBC here...

- Cheeses (colby, cheddar, etc... University Computing Services)
- Chocolate Bars (snickers, mars, etc... Electrical Engineering)
- Physicists (maxwell, dirac, bohr, etc... Physics)
- Trees (aspen, poplar, larch, etc...)
- Gulf Islands (bowen, keats, gambier, etc... Computer Science)
    (islands close to Vancouver)
- Beers (watneys*, toby, guinness, shaftbury [sic], etc... Computer Science)
    (all of them ales, too.... hmmmm...)
    (whoops scratch that last comment... I just checked and there's also
     Foster's and Rainier, so I guess they have lagers, too... :) )
- Marx Brothers (groucho, harpo, chico, etc... Computer Science)
- Mathematicians (fourier, cauchy, riemann, etc... Math)

* Beer Trivia:  What Monty Python sketch was this beer (Watney's Red
Barrel) mentioned in (multiple times)?

Hope these are what you were looking for...

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From: [email-masked] (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Boston University's bu-pub cluster had some of the most inventive
cluster-naming I've ever seen.

It started out fairly standard -- they called the net beer-net and
every machine wore the name of a beer, eg "Bass," "Corona," "Colt45,"
and "Grizzly."

As the machines multiplied they built (or were planning to build) new
nets using the existing machines as gateways, and here they got
unique.  "Grizzly" was used as the gateway between beer-net and
bear-net (containing machines such as "polar").  "Bass" was to be used
as the gateway between beer-net and fish-net, although I don't know if
they ever actually implemented fish-net.

Ya gotta love it.

jim frost
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From: [email-masked] (Lennart Regebro)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Peter Gutmann) writes:
>How about the most boring, unimaginative machine names?  We have:
>
>Computer Science:
>cs1, cs2, cs3, cs4, cs5, cs6, cs7, cs8, cs9, cs10, cs11, cs12, cs13, cs14,
>     cs15 (can anyone see the pattern yet?), cs16, cs17, cs18
>
>Commerce:
>comu1, comu2, comu3, comu4
>
>Computer Centre:
>ccu1, ccu2, ccu3

Figure out what this means if you can:
RSTD01

Yeah, thats right. Roche, STockholm, Digital, first.
The Digital means: This is a VAX.
INteresting way og naming computers.

RSTN011 means Roche, STockholm, Netware, net one, server one.

Booring!
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From: [email-masked] (Nik Clayton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <jcmorris.741282930@mwunix> [email-masked] (Joe Morris) writes:
>[email-masked] (Jim Haynes) writes:
>
>[in a passing comment about naming computers BU (Before UNIX)]
>
>> There was Whirlwind.
>
>And don't forget the system at Oak Ridge National Labs:  ORACLE

I believe Aston Uni (where I almost went) name their machines after
characters in old Trek. So the science department have "Spock" as their
server, Biology get "McCoy", all News and e-mail goes through "Uhura"
(communications) and the chief server is called "Kirk". There may be others.

A site in Ireland (whose ID I forget for the moment) name their machines
after beers.

Rgds, nik

From: [email-masked] (Dennis Rosenauer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Humm.... nobody uses our local naming convention for the Suns and PCs
on the Microwave net.  We name ours after Philosophers.

The server is Plato and various workstations are Kant, Engels, Seneca etc.

The PC's are named after "lesser" philosophers Leary, Hoffman etc.

Dennis Rosenauer VE7BPE                  [email-masked]
MPR Teltech Ltd.
Radio & Satellite Network Development    "For every vision there is an
Burnaby, B. C.                            equal and opposite revision"

From: [email-masked] (Iowa Student Computer Assoc)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

[email-masked] (Doug Siebert) writes:
>The Iowa Student Computer Association ran a sort of contest a couple years ago
>to think up a naming scheme for our machines.  We got hundreds of suggestions,
>the eventual winner was to use 'blender speeds' as the scheme.

  One of the loosing schemes was condom names.  With only 2 machines initially,
we probably could have gotten away with it (starting with trojan, ramses, then
adding gold coin, shiek, lifestyles, etc)

  Another good one here at the U of Iowa is the high tech cluster
in the library and called it the Information Arcade, with a base domain
name of arcade.uiowa.edu.  In this lab are 10 NeXTstations - all with
arcade names.  So we have pinball (server), donkey-kong, dig-dug, frogger,
spy-hunter, pac-man, centipede, etc.

 - dave
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From: [email-masked] (Peter Gutmann)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (John Switzer) writes:
>In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Andrew Bulhak) writes:
>>Vadim Antonov ([email-masked]) wrote:
>>: Somebody is just bound to come up with kibo.something as the name
>>: for NNTP server of a large LAN :-)
>>
>>That's right: as soon as I get my Internet feed (not at any time in the near
>>future :-( ), I will name my news machine kibo.tristero.org.au.
>>Other machines will be named after Cthulhu Mythos figures (e.g.,
>>if I get a really snazzy NeXTstep-based notebook, it will most
>>likely be named "nyarlathotep")

>Naming your system "nyarlathotep" is probably one of the best security
>measures known - who the heck is going to be able to type 
>"nyarlathotep.tristero.org.au" (except me, of course, but then I'm 
>a professional).

One of my email nodes is called "phlarnschlorpht" (well, it says "Choose
a unique name", you can't get more unique than "phlarnschlorpht" :-).

Peter, [email-masked]
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From: [email-masked] (Thomas Koenig)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Don't think anyone has mentioned the, aeh, imaginative scheme for
BITNET nodes as yet, at least most of the German ones.

They go:

- D - for Germany (Deutschland, same as the nationality sign on cars)

- two letters, corresponding to the licence plate number of the town
  the machine is in.  For Example, Karlsruhe is KA.  If the license
  plate number only contains one letter, you add a 0 (Berlin gets
  B0, for example).

- three letters denoting the organization, for example UNI for university.

- one number denoting the kind of operating system / net software.
  Ugh...  1 is VM, 2 is MVS and JES2, 3 is MVS and JES3, 4 for
  Siemens/Fujitsu vector machines running MSP (Fujitsu's MVS clone),
  5 for VAXes running VMS and the JNET networking software (which
  actually emulates VM), 6 for Unix boxes and 8 for Siemens Boxes
  running BS2000.  Does anoboby know what 7 stands for?

- one optional letter or digit, which usually denotes a sequence number,
  but might also refer to the special type of machine (say, a V for
  a vector machine).

So, for example, DKAUNI2 refers to the sole machine running MVS and
JES2 at the University of Karlsuhe (its internet adress is
ibm3090.rz.uni-karlsuhe.de).
-- 
Thomas Koenig, [email-masked], [email-masked]
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
logarithmic diagram.

From: [email-masked] (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In <[email-masked]> Garrett Wollman wrote:
>                       (I wanted to name the lab machines after the
> kingdoms and planets in /Foundation/: terminus, anacreon, smyrno,
> loris, siwenna, etc., but nobody was listening to me.)

Good idea!  But don't forget kalgan, helicon, and sayshell (OK, so the last
two are from later books).
-- 
					Eric S. Raymond <[email-masked]>

From: [email-masked] (Jonathan Naylor)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites 

Well, Nottingham University started off by naming their machines after Robin
Hood characters ie Robin, Marian, Tuck, Sheriff. But with the advent of lots of
Sun workstations this seems to have broken down, and most modern machines
appear to be named at random.

Where I work (not Internet connected alas) we have some ridiculous names,
however one department has three machines names Bill, Ben and Weed. To non UK
readers these names may not mean much, but they were the principal characters
of one of the finest childrens TV programmes from the 50s, The Flowerpot Men.

Jonathan

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From: [email-masked] (Hugh JE Davies)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article [email-masked], [email-masked] (John West) writes:
>I suppose I have to join in. Due to extremely obscure historical reasons
>(that I refuse to explain), our unix boxen have names of fish, all starting
>with 'm'. So far we've had mullet, minnow, marlin, and mackerel. The
>name-choosers are hoping we never get another box.

Bingo! We use fish. It started after one user wanted "kipper" for his
machine, so we continued with fish. Once our brains started to wear out,
we allowed any aquatic thing, puns, etc. Hence;

kipper
haddock
cod
pilchard
whiting
gurney
shark
manta
whale
herring
flounder
sole
turbot
salmon
trout
koi
carp
goldfish
eel
sardine
mackerel
anchovy
tuna
dolphin
porpoise
bloater
babel
perch
barracuda
roach
pike
bream
gudgeon
stickleback
monkfish
plaice
guppy
grouper
binney
barb
crab
octopus
prawn
shrimp
mussel
oyster
lobster
cuttlefish

This is the only theme. My machine is called "kzin" after the race
of sentient cats in Larry Niven's stories. I started using words
from Niven's stories as machine names but everyone complained they
were unpronounceable.

>John West

Are you serious? In the UK this is a popular brand of canned fish.

Regards,

Hugh.
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From: [email-masked] (robert l loper)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

How about gemstone names (agate, amber, jasper, onyx, opal, ruby, diamond, 
topaz, amethyst, chrysoberyl, olivine, spinel, jade, sapphire, hematite,
malachite, azurite, emerald, quartz, pearl, alexandrite, lapis, aquamarine,
coral, ...)?

or colors (red, blue, green, yellow, azure, crimson, cyan, turquoise(also above)
umber, navy, midnight, chartruse(?), magenta, mauve, lavender, purple, violet,
indigo, orange, ...)?

Get a jewelry catalog or a box of crayons, and you could name a pretty large
network.
I prefer the gemstone names myself.

*  Robert L. Loper             * - Infinity is a notion best contemplated    *
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From: [email-masked] (Michael Parks Swaim)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Craig Werner) writes:
>Please post follow-ups to alt.folklore.computers.

  On the undergraduate CS network here, the servers are owls, the Sun 3
X terminals are fish, and the IBM X terminals are spices (I think).
  I've also seen cars and shells used as themes at Shell.
-- 
Mike Swaim            |"Can she suck a golfball through a garden hose?"
[email-masked] |"No, but she can stick her tongue up my nose."
Disclamer: I need a hole in my head.

From: [email-masked] (Thomas Beagle)
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers

In article <jcmorris.741203437@mwunix> [email-masked] (Joe Morris) writes:
>On a slightly different issue: how many of the thematic naming conventions
>we're seeing reported in this thread are mandated by organization policy,
>and how many of them are just common practice?

Well, I sit across from our network administrator and this means that
we get to suggest and/or veto the names of any machines that want to
connect. Cars were chosen a while ago and we've kept that going.

Does anyone else make value judgements about the machines before
giving names? Although of course we give users quite a lot of choice
too.

For example:

	RS6000s		ferrari, alfa, porsche
	Xterm		jaguar
	Fast PCs	lotus, aston, mustang, tuscan
	Slow PCs	telstar, chariot, calais
	Very slow PC	trabant
	Altos 1000	skoda, yugo

It makes naming the new machines quite fun.

   Thomas Beagle | [email-masked]   Work: 64 4 233 8186      
Technical Writer | Animals are meant to be eaten, otherwise 
  Wellington, NZ | they wouldn't taste so good.

From: [email-masked] (Dave Hough,55095)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

A friend of mine had a clump of com servers at Georgia Tech in the 70s:
anchovie, blowfish, cat, dog, eagle, fox and (I think) gerbil.  After I met
him, he worked on another com project at Martin Marietta in Denver and 
(because the data center director thought it would be funny) ended up
calling it the 'fish net':  anchovie and blowfish, plus expansion nodes
chub, dolphin, eel and (I think) gar.

/dave hough

From: [email-masked] (Colin Panisset)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Naming conventions from two sites I've worked at:
  The School of Computing Sciences at UTS started off with a 3/260 called
  ultima, a companion machine ultimo (cute, since that's the name of the
  suburb the machine is located in) and a bunch of 3/50's and 3/60's named
  after various Greek mythological characters: amalthea, leda, adastrea,
  himalia, lysithea, chiron, io, europa, etc.

  The third Sun server to arrive in the machine room had, of course, to
  be named appropriately -- after much headbashing and ignoring other
  people's preferences, it was named 'syzygy' (spoiler at the bottom).
  Following that, a set of SLC's were named for animals beginning with
  'a': aardvark, agouti, alligator, albatross, amoeba, etc..

And now:

  Nowadays, at Telstra (used to be called OTC, just to confuse you),
  most machines have tedious names -- operational network, and all that.
  Within Network Management Systems, though, there are three main threads:

  1. Thunderbirds: virgil, tracy, brains, tbird1, tbird2, penelope, gerry, 
     alan, jeff (and more)
  2. Tolkienesque: mirkwood, mordor, balrog, bag_end (my box), frodo,
     gollum, sauron etc.
  3. Australian marsupials: platypus, bandicoot, wombat, kanga, quoll etc.

Hmmm. I think I'll start the next naming sequence from pooh. 

Spoiler: a syzygy is a colinear arrangement of three or more celestial
bodies. syzygy was the third Sun in the row in the machine room. :^)

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From: [email-masked] (Jun Akiyama)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <grant.741205819@sun-3> [email-masked] (Grant Wyatt) writes:
> However, we also had a single NeXT station, called "ikura"
> I never knew what this was at all.

> Then we got two more SGI's and our (MSc's) naming convention was
> over-ruled and they were called toro and tekka.  I have recently
> been told that ikura, toro, and tekka are all Japanese names
> or words for "fish".  Anyone help me on this one?

Haven't you ever been down to a sushi bar/parlor?  All the above names
are names of sushi pieces.

	toro  	the fatty part of tuna
	tekka 	toro wrapped in rice covered by seaweed (better known
		as "tekka-maki")
	ikura	fish eggs (forget which fish), looks like a bunch of
		quarter-inch transparent orange balls.	(Why a NeXT
		would be named THAT is beyond me.)

The machines here in our lab are named after mythological gods (siva,
vishnu, brahma).

(I also remember some of the machines in the UCLA School for
Engineering and Applied Sciences were named after famous scientists
(e.g. watson, pasteur), and that some of the UC Berkeley machines were
named after characters in the Glass Family in the Salinger novels
(e.g. zooey, seymour, franny).)

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From: [email-masked] (Matthew Crosby)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (BUCKLEY  CHARLES RAY) writes:
>In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Craig Werner) writes:
>>
>>Hello, everyone.
>> 
>>About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for 
>>thematically-linked names of UNIX machines.  Here is the summary of 
...
>> 
>Well, at good old CU, they have the astronaut section (Scirra, Onizuka, Young,
>Crippen, etc). (the aerospace department of course).
>the EE's have Faraday, Edison, etc, etc.
>The system I am on now is rintintin. The others are spot and tramp. These are
>the basic CS systems. (I'm surprised that there is no lassie).

There are also snoopy, rover, fido, rastro, scooby and several others.
The story I heard was that this was the last revenge of the VMS folks--They
managed to get the first Unix machines named after "The dogs they were".
Way before my time, of course, so it may not be true.

>the geology department has people famous in geology (don't ask me who - I'm not
>a geologist).

We just installed some new X-terminals in our CS lab that we named after
Onomatopea (sp?)--we have wham, bam, snap, crackle, pop, splash, crash
(of course) and various others.
We also have some named after toys--frisbee, aerobie, gyro, etc.

Once, at a place I was working (not CU) we got some new PC's, which we connected
to out net.  Being workstation bigots, we named them "slow", "junk", "kludge",
"ugly", etc...

-Matt							[email-masked]
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the net!

From: [email-masked] (Magnus Olsson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

We at Yacc (== "Yet Another Computer Club") are naming our computers after
Twin Pekas characters: So far, we have Bob, Windom, Leland, Leo, Loglady,
Lucy and Josie. (Josie is an HP2108 mid-70's mini and _not_ a Unix system, 
but that doesn't matter, does it?).

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From: [email-masked] (Scott Telford)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]>,
[email-masked] (robert l loper) writes:
> How about gemstone names (agate, amber, jasper, onyx, opal, ruby, diamond, 
> topaz, amethyst, chrysoberyl, olivine, spinel, jade, sapphire, hematite,
> malachite, azurite, emerald, quartz, pearl, alexandrite, lapis, aquamarine,
> coral, ...)?
> 

That's what we (epcc.ed.ac.uk) have for our staff workstations/
servers. We started off with gemstones, (diamond, onyx, emerald,
garnet, topaz etc.) then had to resort to minerals in general (last
three I named were pyrite, mica and realgar). In fact we've got all of
the above list except spinel, hematite and alexandrite. Only name
that is really appropriate to the machine is "azurite" - it's our sole
Iris Indigo.

Other schemes I've seen are :

Heriot-Watt Uni CS Dept: deities, sometimes with significant initials
(Eg the four HLH Orions were odin, oberon, osiris, ormazd). The first
bunch of Suns were named after Sun gods (helios, aurora, ra etc) but
once they started getting large number of workstations they had to
resort to kinda obscure deities (iphinoe, balder, dazhbog - not even
sure that really is a deity!).

Ed Uni Physics: operas (aida, carmen, tosca...)

Ed Uni CS Dept: Currently Scottish islands (also used by the AI dept,
confusingly). Since they have >200 workstation/Xterminals now, they're
using some pretty odd names (eg. gloup, gigalum, faither, daaey).
Their CS1 lab Sun 3 Xterminals were named after Scottish whiskies and
the machines that used to form the CS3/4/MSc lab were named after
notable Edinburgh pubs: names like peartree, blackbull, maltshovel,
nickytams.  Apparently the students used to organise pub crawls to
take in as many of the named pubs as possible (only problem was that
there were 30 of them 8-)

Ed Uni Computing Services: Service machines have names which make
sense if you prefix them with "Edinburgh" (probably due to
back-to-front JANET addresses, ie. uk.ac.edinburgh.foo): castle,
festival, fringe (as in "Edinburgh Festival Fringe") and waverley
(Edinburgh Waverley railway station).

Spider Systems: Non-development machines were named after species of
spiders, predictably. Eg (black) widow, orbweb, tarantula. But would
you be happy using a computer called redrump? 8-)

Scott Telford, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre,        <[email-masked]>
University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Rd, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK. (+44 31 650 5978)
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From: [email-masked]
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

[email-masked] (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>My theme is comic mythical creatures.  My 386 mail machine is `snark', from
>Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting Of The Snark".  My 486 box is `boojum' from the
>same poem.  The portable I'm having reconditioned for me will be `golux', from
>James Thurber's "The 13 Clocks", and if I get a fourth machine it will become
>`hurkle', from Theodore Sturgeon's "The Hurkle Is A Happy Beast".

I started my home LAN off as "The Spiders From Mars Net" - naming the 
machines after the members of the fictional rock band Bowie created
(not to be confused with the members of the band (which was also refered
to as "The Spiders From Mars" (thanks guys)) that played their parts...)
- weird and gilly. However, my third machine ended up being scorch1, from
Bakshi's flick "Wizards". (I follow the "consistancy is a cop-out" school
of thought, of course.)

I suppose I'll have a node ziggy at some point.

------------------------ uunet!quack!gilly!dave ------------------------
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From: [email-masked] (Koos van den Hout)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

[email-masked] (Craig Werner) writes:
>About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for 
>thematically-linked names of UNIX machines.

At the site I (used to help) administrate, the names where bird names, in which
the bird name had some connection to the machine.

raaf (raven in English) : a very black NeXT cube.
moa and dodo (2 extinct birds) : 2 very old Plessey mantra Unix systems.
snip and snap (snip is a bird, snip and snap are a famous duo) : 2 exact alike
486 systems (running Linux offcourse).
ostrich : A rack-mounted very modified/hacked Macintosh with ethernet over
SCSI.

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From: [email-masked] (Dave Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] writes:
>
>A friend of mine had a clump of com servers at Georgia Tech in the 70s:
>anchovie, blowfish, cat, dog, eagle, fox and (I think) gerbil.  After I met
>him, he worked on another com project at Martin Marietta in Denver and 
>(because the data center director thought it would be funny) ended up
>calling it the 'fish net':  anchovie and blowfish, plus expansion nodes
>chub, dolphin, eel and (I think) gar.

At the University of Waterloo, there's a large LAN of PC's, and they
have insect names.  Or names of various insectoid creatures.  Hence:

figwasp
mudwasp
honeybee
masonbee
hivebee
wasp
sandwasp
ostracod
tadpole
barnacle
copepoda
amphipod
crayfish
isopod
tapeworm
milliped
centiped
scud
sowbug
scorpion
arachnid
tick
cricket
viceroy
stonefly
mayfly
junefly
earwigs
cokroach
nymph
lorax
aphid
hopper
fishflies
thrip
parasite
shrimp
moth
fireant
firebrat
clubtail
grayback
skimtydid
sandfly
mothfly
leafbug
boatman
toadbug
shorebug
treebug

And hundreds and hundreds more....

    Dave Brown  --  [email-masked] -- (416) 669-5370

     "It takes insects to scare me.  And lizards.  Not humans."
                                                  --Amy Fong

From: [email-masked] (Edward Rice)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites
Message-ID: <[email-masked]>

  DC> From: [email-masked] (Darin Cowan)

  DC> In our domain, we name after conifers, thus:
  DC> 
  DC> balsam.pinetree.org scotch.pinetree.org xmas.pinetree.org etc.

Off UNIX boxen for a moment, one large corporation named the laser-printers on
their Mac network after national forests in the area, each one seeming
destined to consume one.  In sympathy, I direct my own (non-LAN) printjobs to
Shenandoah, my LaserWriter Plus.

From: [email-masked] (Jin S Choi)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

>>>>> On 29 Jun 93 14:01:23 GMT, [email-masked] (Andy Holyer) said:
   Andy> Scott Telford ([email-masked]) wrote:
   Andy> : Other schemes I've seen are :
	[...]

   Andy> And what scheme do we use, I hear you ask? Sussex is dead boring.
   Andy> We're  not allowed interesting names  (hence the fact that I'm posting
   Andy> from syma (a Sequent Symmetry), my NSF host is rsuna (guess...) and my
   Andy> W/s  is csri.  The only clever one I  know of is  our  Meiko Computing
   Andy> Surface which is called the mekon. However if we bought another one, I
   Andy> bet we'd have to call it mekon2 :-)

Talk about boring, MIT's Athena system uses location based names,
generally the room of the cluster with a number appended, so you get
machines named w20-575-75 and m4-035-6. As distributed as Athena is,
it's nice to know where each machine is, but I think it's boring.

The different computer laboratories have more interesting systems. A
large section of the AI lab is known as Switzerland, and have names like
geneva, martigny, aarau, and timex. A section of the Laboratory for
Computer science has fish names. The part of the Media Lab I work for
has classical composer names: mozart, chopin, haydn....

Jin Choi
[email-masked]

From: [email-masked] (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

>In article <jcmorris.741203437@mwunix> [email-masked] (Joe Morris) writes:
>On a slightly different issue: how many of the thematic naming conventions
>we're seeing reported in this thread are mandated by organization policy,
>and how many of them are just common practice?

Well, originally at NPRDC, where I work, the standard naming convention had
the systems named after oceans and seas:

	aegean
	pacific

Then, when we started getting Suns, they were named after psychologists:

	lashley
	james
	hull
	thorndike
	watson
	stevens

However, a researcher got a bunch of Suns for a project unconnected to
anything else that was going on at the time, and named his systems after
Navy weapons, aircraft, and the like:

	harpoon
	tomcat
	intruder
	topgun
	viking
	orion
	phantom

Then the original 'aegean' went away, to be replaced by a Sun, and we got
more Suns and some 3B2s in the computer center, which went back to bodies
of water:

	atlantic (the replacement for aegean)
	java
	coral
	kara
	bering
	arctic
	tasman
	
Then, we got the 'warships' machines, for a group of systems for another
researcher (the precedent having been established that the prime
investigator got to choose the 'topic' for the names given to systems
purchased as part of his project):

	intrepid
	enterprise
	newjersey
	hornet
	saratoga
	missouri
	iowa
	america
	midway
	vinson
	constitution
	ranger
	nimitz

At this point, the computing facility more or less lost control over the
names given to systems (since at this point the IBM PC systems started
getting connected to the LAN, and we needed lots of names), and we got cars:

	nash
	yugo
	mustang
	lotus
	ferrari

Cartoon characters:
	
	calvin
	hobbes
	darkwing
	morgana

Virtues:
	
	faith
	hope
	charity
	honesty
	duty
	fortitude
	purity
	integrity

The Seven Dwarves (everybody _does_ know them, right?), women's names, and
a host of other random names.

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From: [email-masked] (J.C.M. van Leeuwen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Craig Werner) writes:
> Please post follow-ups to alt.folklore.computers.

We (our group) has two themes:
- Names of ships and computers in sci-fi tv-series: enterprise, logic, orac,
navigator, tardis, liberator, zen, hal, thunderbird, red-dwarf and voyager.
- Names of scientists: einstein, voltaire, socrates, leonardo and erasmus

Also, with other groups in this building these themes are used:
- Rivers: donau, olt, rijn, oder, warga, eufraat, schelde, etc.
- Names of cities in Friesland (Dutch province): marrum, ljouwert, warns, etc.

John van Leeuwen
([email-masked])

From: [email-masked] (Mike Fischer)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Just toss in my contribution along these lines, in our office our Sparc's are named:
Surf
Sand
Lagoon
Palm
Breeze
Toucan
Parrot

These are the opinions of the person two doors to the right of me.

From: [email-masked] (David D. Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Don't forget mahi-mahi (sp?)

On a related note, when I was still in school (cs.utexas.edu) we had a bunch
of Suns named after small towns in Texas (grit, latexo, etc.).  We also had a 
bunch of HP's with middle-eastern (arabian?) sounding names - the significance of 
which always eluded me.

In a previous dept., which happened to be populated by staff from Europe, the Middle
East, and Africa, the machines were all named after international cities (well, they
were starting that when I left).  Previous schemes had included forms of music (rock,
punk, jazz) and characters from Tolkien (gandalf, frodo, etc).  My current dept. has
a bunch of machines from Douglas Adam's _Hitchhiker's Guide_ (arthurd, fordp, etc).
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From: [email-masked] (Lennart Regebro)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] writes:
>Well, Nottingham University started off by naming their machines after Robin
>Hood characters ie Robin, Marian, Tuck, Sheriff. But with the advent of lots

>Where I work (not Internet connected alas) we have some ridiculous names,
>however one department has three machines names Bill, Ben and Weed. To non UK
>readers these names may not mean much, but they were the principal characters
>of one of the finest childrens TV programmes from the 50s, The Flowerpot Men.

At stacken computer club we have a Sun called Sune (which is a swedish name,
generally thought to be kinda nerdy). When we got some sun workstations
connected somebody remembered King Sune, king over the Mosebacke monarchy.
Mosebacke monarchy was a swedish radio/tv program that was very popular
when it was sent ( late 60ies to early 70ies? ). We of course named the
workstations after characters in the series, Helmer Bryd, pianist;
Rigmor Mortis, Nurse (what else); Melvyn Slacke (don't remember what he was)
and the Sun station with color monitor was of course named after the artist
Salvador Dahlberg. :)

When another server was installed we had great problems finding a name for
it. Nobody could remember a queen or another royalty from the series.
We called the swedish radio to see if they had any archives of the material
that we could look through, no luck...
Finally somebody actually called Hans Alfredsson, one of the writers and asked.
(Which is something you really don't do. This man is viewed as a semi-god in 
Sweden, since he really has a god like gift for being funny.)
No, there were no more royalties, but there were a president, Linnea Grind,
which he suggested. And, voila, here I now am writing from linnea.stacken.-
kth.se.

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From: [email-masked] (Lennart Regebro)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Jun Akiyama) writes:

>The machines here in our lab are named after mythological gods (siva,
>vishnu, brahma).

In scandinavia a popular scheme is Viking Gods. Oden, Tor, Freja...
Used in several places.

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From: [email-masked] (Guy Dawson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Craig Werner) writes:
> 
> Hello, everyone.
>  
> About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for 
> thematically-linked names of UNIX machines.  Here is the summary of 
> posts in answer to my question.  I gratefully acknowledge the 
> following persons for their help:

[ list of names deleted ]

In 1986 I was involved in setting up a coach reservation system 
on DEC VAXen ( running VMS ). The machine had been configured
and given the name 'DRIVER' before we arrived. The system
suffered the usual hitches during the cut over phase, nothing
dramatic. The test users kept refering to the computer as that
$*#%ing box etc.

Meanwhile...

I decided that DRIVER was a boring name and that it should be
changed. Being a lover of the classics I chose the Muppets as
the source of my name. Driver became Fozzie.

All of a sudden p'off users stopped complaining about the
$*#%ing box and started asking if Fozzie was fealing unwell!
The change in user attitudes towards the system was AMAZING!

We went on to add Kermit, Piggie and Gonzo.

( This was in a VAX cluster with two HSC70 disk controllers
which were called Henson and Oz ).

Guy
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From: [email-masked] (Guy Dawson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

The Instruction Set ( now part of Hoskyns ) has a set
of machines ending in set -

	sunset
	moonset
	dorset ( county in the UK )
	teaset
	trainset ( used in classes )

There are others I forget.

Guy

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From: [email-masked] (Michael Baumann)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

We (well, I, anyway) have a number of themes:
The particles (proton,muon,meson.....)
Greek Alphabet (Alpha,beta,....)
Self-Aware Computers (mycroft,jevex,visar,zorac,harlie,...)
Odds and ends of Heilein and Niven (scudder, kizn, nessus, bussard....)
Vices and Virtues...

Michael Baumann
Electus Technology Inc.	
Linda Universtiy Medical Center
San Bernardino, California. (909)799-8308 |Internet: [email-masked]

From: [email-masked] (Maurizio Vitale)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Here at DIST (University of Genoa, Italy) a lab  is using porno stars'
names as names for their machines.

A theme I'd like to use is the name of famous latin writers (Catullus,
Cicero, Tertullianum etc).

				Maurizio Vitale
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From: [email-masked] (Isaac Kuo)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

[email-masked] (Kyle Cassidy) writes:
>[email-masked] (Craig Werner) writes:
>>* various weather patterns in the Berkeley area (windstorm, tornado, 
>>lightning

>but from where do they get 'headcrash' then? surely the local anchor man 
>doesn't get on and say 'expect violent headcrashes around 10pm, best park 
>your drives....

There are hundreds upon hundreds of *.berkeley.edu workstations, and there
are more "themes" than you can count, really.  However, the one which
includes sandstorm, tornado, headcrash, tsunami, locusts, lightning,
planecrash, etc... is the OCF.berkeley.edu cluster.  Clearly the theme
for the OCF Apollo workstations is disasters in general, not weather
patterns.

(I am posting from the math.berkeley.edu cluster, which has several
"themes" itself...)
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From: [email-masked] (Mike Hardie)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Here at cosc.canterbury we use the maori names of nz birds. I have
included the english disc from the hosts file for the education
of us all.

 weka	 ?
 tui     parson_bird
 kiwi	  nz flightless bird etc
 kea     mountain_parrot
 tete    grey_teal
 ruru    morepork
 kahu    harrier_hawk
 titi    muttonbird
 hihi    stickbird
 kuku	i'd like to know this one too
 kaki    black_stilt
 mohua   yellowhead
 kaka	maybe its a car
 whio    blue duck - its also on the $10 note.

Mike

oops nearly forgot huia ( how can one forget it )> no idea what a huia is

Mike Hardie 			University of Canterbury
[email-masked]	Christchurch New Zealand

From: [email-masked] (Mark Robinson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <1993Jun29.105930.17096@crash> [email-masked] (Sean Malloy) writes:
>
>The Seven Dwarves (everybody _does_ know them, right?), 
>

No, but I have a nice way to find out...

black_crow[mark-r]: ypcat hosts
192.84.79.13	giggs spec15
192.84.79.12	robson spec14
192.84.79.11	alex eesuna spec13
130.88.14.38	d12 gold_mine
130.88.14.36	d07 pipe_organ
130.88.14.30	poison_apple spec11
130.88.14.29	black_crow spec12
130.88.14.27	woodchopper spec10
130.88.14.26	magic_mirror spec9
130.88.14.25	wicked_witch spec8
130.88.14.24	prince_charming spec7
130.88.14.23	grumpy spec6
130.88.14.22	bashful spec5 lphost
130.88.14.21	dopey spec4
130.88.14.19	happy spec2
130.88.14.18	sneezy spec1 lwhost lw1host
130.88.14.17	spec0 snow_white loghost datehost dumphost 
130.88.16.1	bridge1
130.88.14.8	fergie doc eesun
127.0.0.1       localhost

All the dwarves except sleepy are there (he's sick at the moment)
fergie, alex, giggs, robson are Manchester United football players,
gold_mine, poison_apple, black_crow, woodchopper, magic_mirror, wicked_witch,
prince_charming are names we chose when we ran out of dwarves and
pipe_organ is a 286 PC, names because it grinds along in a room full
of Sparcs, so the person using it becaime known as the organ grinder.

Mark
______________________________________________________________________
Multimedia Information Systems Lab | I'm a slug and I'm alright
Dept. Of Electrical Engineering    | That's 'cos I'm hermaphrodite
University of Manchester           | It bothers me not that I have no
Dover St. Manchester. M13 9PL      |                     friends
England                            | 'Cos I have fun with both my ends

From: [email-masked] (ozzy)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Jeff Johnston) writes:
>- Cheeses (colby, cheddar, etc... University Computing Services)
>- Chocolate Bars (snickers, mars, etc... Electrical Engineering)
>- Physicists (maxwell, dirac, bohr, etc... Physics)
>- Trees (aspen, poplar, larch, etc...)
>- Gulf Islands (bowen, keats, gambier, etc... Computer Science)
>    (islands close to Vancouver)
>- Beers (watneys*, toby, guinness, shaftbury [sic], etc... Computer Science)
>    (all of them ales, too.... hmmmm...)
>    (whoops scratch that last comment... I just checked and there's also
>     Foster's and Rainier, so I guess they have lagers, too... :) )
>- Marx Brothers (groucho, harpo, chico, etc... Computer Science)
>- Mathematicians (fourier, cauchy, riemann, etc... Math)

Wonder why UNIX sites havent been named after internal organs, like 
spleen, kidneys etc, or after famous animals like flipper.mit.edu?  :-}

oz

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From: [email-masked] (Huw Davies)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Just to add some more to the theme theme:

We have an unofficial policy that our node names should start with LU
(for La Trobe University). In addition, when we started to get Unix
based systems we decided that they should start with LUX (we weren't thinking
of getting many of them :-).

We also wanted our node names to reflect (if possible) the nodes usage.
Here is a list of our current nodes.

We have the following VMS nodes:

    LURE - La Trobe University REsearch
    LUAU - Administration Use
    LUGE - GEneral Use
    LUMS - Management Systems
    LUST - Student Teaching
    LUTE - Testing Environment
    LUPIN - ???? Can't remember what this stands for :-)

Unix
    LUX - our first Unix node
    LUXURY - a 'spare' RS6000
    LUXOR - our main RS6000
    LUXAND - batch backend to LUXOR (shows that there aren't too many
	     real LUX... words :-)

My personal workstation is Lucifer (at least it starts with LU :-) and
my home A/UX system is Hades (could this be the start of a new theme).

We did have a policy about PC and Mac names, but it just fell apart due
to the large number of them.

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  Melbourne Australia  | sense, but rich in so many other ways

From: [email-masked] (Kell S|nnichsen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

This is an old story dating dated far before I came to the department
so don't blame me if it isn't correct (well, blame me if you like, I
don't care :-).

The mail and news server here at the Computer Science Department was a
Sun. Then naturally the file-servers in the LAN were given planet names,
e.g. Jupiter, Saturn etc. The workstations in each cluster were given
moon names, e.g. Io, Europe etc. (I'm not quite sure whether the moons of
a cluster had to belong to the file server. If so, the fileserver Earth
could only have Moon in the cluster). When the Mac's got names they were
named after spacecrafts and satellites, e.g. Voyager, Discovery and Astra.

Unfortunately the number of machines has now become so great that this
(meta)theme don't hold any longer. We have now other themes: funny girl
names, french cities (rlogin is _hard_), cars, and now we get flowers (in
latin!).

						/Kell.
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From: [email-masked] (Dave Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

we've got some nice names here in Newcastle University.

There's a room full of VAX stations named after villages in Northumberland (not too enterprising). But the computing service names its servers (SUNs) after the Bishops of Lindisfarne (or Holy Island) which is a small island off the coast of Northumberland. They are currently 'Tuda' and 'Eata'.

The computing department names its mainframes after mathematical types
currently 'Newton' and 'Turing'.

dave

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From: [email-masked] (Ross Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re:  Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Colin Panisset) writes:
>Naming conventions from two sites I've worked at:
>
>  The School of Computing Sciences at UTS started off with a 3/260 called
>  ultima, a companion machine ultimo (cute, since that's the name of the
>  suburb the machine is located in) and a bunch of 3/50's and 3/60's named
>  after various Greek mythological characters: amalthea, leda, adastrea,
>  himalia, lysithea, chiron, io, europa, etc.

Sounds more like they were named after the moons of Jupiter.

[ ... lotsa stuff gone to the great /dev/null in the sky ... ]

>  3. Australian marsupials: platypus, bandicoot, wombat, kanga, quoll etc.

Someone from Oz will probably point this out first, but a platypus isn't a
marsupial...

... Ross Smith (Wanganui, New Zealand) ... [email-masked] ...
   Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals
   Everybody happy as the dead come home
   Big black Nemesis, parthenogenesis
   No one move a muscle as the dead come home               (Shriekback)

From: [email-masked] (Roger Hurwitz)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Not terribly imaginative, but thematic nontheless, our UNIX boxes are
named by concatenating our departmental acronym (mst) with three
letter UNIX command names.  For example:

	mstuux, mstftp, mstcat, mstcsh, ...

From: [email-masked] (Jeff Randall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Best site names (was: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites)

Okay... for a twist, what are the *BEST* site names you have come across?

Tops on my list would have to go to freudian.slip.uiuc.edu.  

After that:

	deadhost.cso.uiuc.edu  (sure enough, 100% packet loss =)
	armageddon.slip.uiuc.edu  (reminds me of the reagan-pushed the button
				    by accident jokes of the 80's)
	clumsy.slip.uiuc.edu
	kill.animal.uiuc.edu    (it's on the uiuc-meatlab net)
	dum[1-10].grad.uiuc.edu  (self comment by the alumni association? =)
	22many.cso.uiuc.edu
	4play.cso.uiuc.edu

Ok.. who's next?  =)
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From: [email-masked] (Danny R. Faught)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (David D. Miller) writes:
>On a related note, when I was still in school (cs.utexas.edu) we had a bunch
>of Suns named after small towns in Texas (grit, latexo, etc.).  

At the University of *North* Texas, the csci dept. does the same
thing (terlingua, argyle, justin, luckenbach, krum, etc.)  My account
was on ponder, named after Ponder, TX.  I always thought that was
pretty cool.  When things got really boring in Denton, you could take
I35W south until you saw the sign that says "Ponder, 1 mile".  For the
next mile, of course, you had to ponder something.
-- 
Danny Faught -- Convex rookie -- MPP OS Test Development
"Everything is deeply intertwingled."  (Ted Nelson, _Computer Lib_)

From: [email-masked] (David W. Barts)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Best site names (was: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites)

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Jeff Randall) writes:
> 
> Okay... for a twist, what are the *BEST* site names you have come across?
> 
> Tops on my list would have to go to freudian.slip.uiuc.edu.  
> [edited]

post.its.mcw.edu

--
David Barts  N5JRN                      UW Civil Engineering, FX-10
[email-masked]                Seattle, WA  98195

From: [email-masked] (A Warren Pratten)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

I thought this was an interesting thread so I investigated the naming
here in the 
computer science department at Western.  Here is what I found:

THEME		NAMES
~~~~~		~~~~~
betty:		betty, grabel, ford, rubble, boop, crocker
norse gods: 	loki, baldur, thor, odin, tiw, frei
charlie:  	charlie, chaplin, chan, mccarthy
gaul: 		asterix, obelix, getafix, dynamic, lyric, epitaf, rhetoric,
		autograf, cenotaf, fotograf, metric, caraf, choleric, telegraf,
		electric, prolix, euphoric, satiric, nescaf ...etc
food: 		kimchi, sushi, hotdog, spud, banana
video games: 	pacman, sue, pinky, inky, mspacman, mario

-- 
A Warren Pratten
Email: [email-masked]

From: [email-masked] (Jeff Johnston)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Just out of curiousity, has anyone ever set up a small network with
machines named after famous (real or fictitious) cross-dressers?  ie. divine,
tootsie, victor, victoria, etc...

The network could be called... of course... DragNet.  (wince)
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From: [email-masked] (Clarke Thacher)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

One of my favorite groups of machines in our group here is 
a bunch of boxes from NEC named:

  necing, neckid, neclace, necro, nectie, nonec and rednec

We're getting some new machines from DG,  the first is named IKE,  guess
what the theme is going to be?

Browsing through our /etc/hosts, I find some other themes:

cold places: alps, lkplacid, siberia, alaska, stowe
rivers: nile, potomac, seine, danube, indus

a couple of our testing servers are named sat, and gre

We also have a lot of the other themes that have already been mentioned.

I have my own names for the AIX boxes that I have to work on.

Clarke Thacher        OSRD/HIP Software Developer          SAS Institute, Inc.
[email-masked]         (919) 677-8000    SAS Campus Drive, Cary, NC 27513
             "N is for Neville who died of ennui." - Edward Gorey

From: [email-masked] (Doug Siebert)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Best site names (was: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites)

[email-masked] (Jeff Randall) writes:

> Okay... for a twist, what are the *BEST* site names you have come across?
> Tops on my list would have to go to freudian.slip.uiuc.edu.  

I was doing a traceroute and stumbled across ciscokid.oit.unc.edu.

Doug Siebert                             |  "I don't have to take this abuse
Internet:  [email-masked]       |   from you - I've got hundreds of
NeXTMail:  [email-masked]  |   people waiting in line to abuse
    ICBM:  41d 39m 55s N, 91d 30m 43s W  |   me!"  Bill Murray, Ghostbusters

From: [email-masked] (Andy Newman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

[email-masked] (Andrew Raphael) writes:
>On the other hand, we name workstations after dead musicians: thain,
>stiv, sonny, pigpen, patsy, mydland, mama, liberace, kaye, john, jaco,
>ian, hoagie, freddie, fatha, django, dizzy, del, byron, bing, astaire,
>radics, nico, hillel, garland, ethel, duane, dolphy, dinah, darroch,
>bopper, allen, ricky, otis, nigel, minnie, marc, keith, karen, janis,
>elvis, denis, buddy, bon, stevie, ritchie, ron, & james.

What Andrew doesn't mention is that all the NeXT machines are named
after black musicians. And a rather slim HP/Apollo after Karen Carpenter.

Also two of the names were friends of people who work here (James Darroch RIP).

Andy Newman ([email-masked])

From: daveb@jaws (David Breneman)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Jim Frost ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Boston University's bu-pub cluster had some of the most inventive
: cluster-naming I've ever seen.
: 
: It started out fairly standard -- they called the net beer-net and
: every machine wore the name of a beer, eg "Bass," "Corona," "Colt45,"
: and "Grizzly."
: 
: As the machines multiplied they built (or were planning to build) new
: nets using the existing machines as gateways, and here they got
: unique.  "Grizzly" was used as the gateway between beer-net and
: bear-net (containing machines such as "polar").  "Bass" was to be used
: as the gateway between beer-net and fish-net, although I don't know if
: they ever actually implemented fish-net.
: 

This could go on, though, through countless iterations.
Colt45 could be the gateway to gun-net, containing
Beretta, the gateway to car-net, containing
Corsair, the gateway to plane-net, containing
747, the gateway to hp-net, containing
Apollo, the gateway to space-net, containing
Mercury, (a second bridge to car-net), containing
Shuttle, a gateway to loom-net, containing
Jacquard, a gateway to...

David Breneman                          Email: [email-masked]
System Administrator,
Software Engineering Services
Digital Systems International, Inc.     Voice: 206 881-7544  Fax: 206 556-8033

From: [email-masked] (Dave Langstaff)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Peter Gutmann) writes:
>At last, one breath of sanity in the entire university:  There's a
>gyro.gearloose somewhere over in engineering.  Everything else follows
>the above pattern.
>
>Peter.

Luckily we named our sun cluster before the computer unit people decided on
a totally boring naming scheme. They've gone for the "cspcmaca", "cspcmacb",
type of scheme, (ComputerSciencePersonalComputer_in_the_MicroElectronicsAnd
Computing_lab_A), they justified this by quoting NRS naming conventions but
I remain to be convinced. 

Anyway, our suns are called Wanda, Tudor, Freda with PCs Ford & Fido hooked
on the same bit of ether net.

Dave Langstaff | Janet:[email-masked]
Any views expressed are those of the author alone. | Phone:(0970)622838 
After-life, After-shave, don't hold with any of it, bleugh! - Sir Henry 

From: [email-masked] (Matthew Frost)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Here at Aston we have quite a few thematic names:

Star Trek:  Spock, Kirk (Vaxen) Uhura (sequent)  Picard, Riker  (Sun I think)
            Khan (Micro Vax)  Troi, Photon, Electron, Data (dunno)
Black Adder: Edmund, Percy, Baldrick, Melchett  (Suns)
Rainbow:     George, Zippy, Bungle (Sun classics)

The rest of our machines (well in cs anyway) are just called sparc<n>
classic<n>  ipc<n>  support  and xxxxx-server<n>

Oh yes and we have some Novel servers:  Eldorado (failed uk soap)
and Chaucer and some others that don't spring to mind.

Matt
--
Matthew Frost     Email: [email-masked]  Amiga 4000/030 68882 25MHz
Computer Science,    or: [email-masked]     Amiga 500  /  Amiga CDTV
Aston University,    // "Some sheep are black, some sheep are white, therefore
United Kingdom.    \X/   if something is a cat then it is a cat!"

From: [email-masked] (Edmund Blackadder)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Here at UIUC, absolutely no creativity is used in naming.
The large machines are ux[1234ach] for Unix systems, VMC and VMD for VMS
machines.  Workstations have names like ih-nxt01 thru ih-nxt07, suna0, suna1,
ee-hp1 to ee-hp?? (HP workstations in Elect. Engineering building).  My
department's 486's are a1 thru a4, b1 thru b4, etc. and similar names can be
found elsewhere for PCs (iu-pc01 thru iu-pc10).

File servers fare somewhat better - the NeXT cubes are Sumter, Antietam, and
Bull Run.  My Novell servers are Zebra and T2 (Terminator 2).  Most other
machines on campus, including servers, are named after the building they're
in.  *yawn*

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From: [email-masked] (Mark White)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Well, for what it's worth we're a Tourism Research Org, so in keeping
with the territory I elected to name the machines after travellers,
both fictional and non-fictional.  I got "phaedrus" from Robert Pirsig's
book, and "kerouac" after Jack K, the beat writer of the 50's and 60's,
famous for (amongst other works) his "On the Road" travelogue.  

On a humourous note, another machine earned the moniker "twoflower",
after the Discworld's first tourist in Terry Pratchett's "The Colour
of Magic". 

Further attempts at creativity came to a screaming halt, however, when
a secretary insisted that her PC be named in honour of her AA Milne fetish.
Yup, there's a machine on my LAN called poohbear......

Mark White                                     <[email-masked]>
National Centre for Studies in Travel and Tourism | Phone: +61 7 870 9212
James Cook University                             | Fax:   +61 7 371 8485
P.O. Box 705 Indooroopilly QLD 4068  AUSTRALIA    | Home:  +61 7 870 3373 

From: [email-masked] (Joseph Malcolm)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Garrett Wollman) writes:
>In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] writes:
>>This is the only theme. My machine is called "kzin" after the race
>>of sentient cats in Larry Niven's stories. I started using words
>>from Niven's stories as machine names but everyone complained they
>>were unpronounceable.
>
>Hey, so you have the same problem as I do!  My PC is called `tsornin'
>(Robin McKinley fans will recognize the joke), and everybody around
>here just calls it ``wollman's PC'' since they can't pronounce it.  (I
>half considered calling the Sun-3 that I found `isfahel', but there's
>only so far you can go...)

Well, a while ago I decided it would be cool if the systems machines
at SURAnet were named after various things from Lovecraft, so we've
had cthulhu and azathoth for a while. Lately, we've also
imtermittently had yog-sothoth, nodens, and nyarlathotep.  (Only the
last really raised any significant protest.)

We also had cnames for some of these machines, as the other members of
the systems staff didn't really share my appreciation for Lovecraft.
Most of the aliases were pretty unimaginative (e.g. "compile"), but I
was mightily amused when my boss suggested "blob" as an alias for
azathoth...

Joseph Malcolm				[email-masked]		
SURAnet Operations			+1 301 982 4600

From: [email-masked] (Frank Morgan)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

heres a few more for yah

banana.cns.udel.edu
strawberry.cns.udel.edu
pecan.cns.udel.edu
toffee.cns.udel.edu
pineapple.cns.udel.edu
tuttifrutti.cns.udel.edu
mocha.cns.udel.edu
cherry.cns.udel.edu
maplenut.cns.udel.edu
fudge.cns.udel.edu        The freezer flavors of ice cream
peppermint.cns.udel.edu
pistachio.cns.udel.edu
vanilla.cns.udel.edu
butterscotch.cns.udel.edu
chocolate.cns.udel.edu
lime.cns.udel.edu
lemon.cns.udel.edu
ravel.udel.edu
bach.udel.edu
chopin.udel.edu          The composers
brahms.udel.edu
mudskipper.rayst.udel.edu     Muddy :)

From: [email-masked] (Caleb Epstein)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

	To extend an already-too-long thread, in a department related
to min here at JP Morgan we have a major server named "Atlantic"; all
of its clients (well, most) are named after islands: jersey
(gurnesey?), nantucket, rhode, padres (padre?), etc.  I thought this
was kind of clever.

	In my department we just use the primary user's initials, thus
mine is cae.

[ [email-masked] ][ Caleb Epstein ][ JP Morgan Securities ][ NYC, NY ]

From: [email-masked] (Rodrigo A. SEPULVEDA SCHULZ)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Jack F. Hamilton) writes:
|> [email-masked] (Craig Werner) wrote:
|> >
|> >About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for 
|> >thematically-linked names of UNIX machines.  Here is the summary of 
|> >posts in answer to my question.

	Here at EPITA, our computers are named after their brands, i.e.:

Sony:	execl, lstat, wait, fork, getfn, sbrk, ptrace ...

Mips:	ion, xenon, cation, meson, pluton, boson, anion, krypton,
	positron, neutron, proton, photon, freon, neon, torion, ...

Sun :	ahtena, neptune, minos, eos, cyrcee, vulcain, diane ...

DG  :	rafale, f15, mirage, tomcat, mig, concorde (Aviion)

CRAY:	cray (a small one!)

	Has anyone edited all these names and compiled them into
	a text file? 

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 (++)(33-1) 40.09.70.23 / 40.38.05.81       Email: [email-masked]
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From: [email-masked]
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

 [email-masked] (Andrew Raphael) writes:
>On the other hand, we name workstations after dead musicians: thain,
>stiv, sonny, pigpen, patsy, mydland, mama, liberace, kaye, john, jaco,
>ian, hoagie, freddie, fatha, django, dizzy, del, byron, bing, astaire,
>radics, nico, hillel, garland, ethel, duane, dolphy, dinah, darroch,
>bopper, allen, ricky, otis, nigel, minnie, marc, keith, karen, janis,
>elvis, denis, buddy, bon, stevie, ritchie, ron, & james.

What, no jimi?

John Friese
[email-masked]

From: [email-masked] (Barry Rowlingson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]>, 
[email-masked] (Zack Evans) writes:
 (about names at Lancaster)

|> 
|> The mono xterms are all latin words - abundantia, accidenti, hypothesi, etc

  This is true, but what the systems people did was to look up 
latin phrases beginning 'ex-' in a dictionary. Later machines were added
that were also prefixable by 'ex' - such as 'it' (which is a good name in
itself) and 'ample', and 'port'.

|> 
|> The Macs in the Mac lab are all named after footballers...banks, moore,
|> bcharlton... 
|> 
     Soccer players, specifically the 11 players who beat West Germany in
the 1966 world  soccer cup, plus the manager. 

 We had 12 machines to name, and originally thought of doing 7 dwarves and 
then making up 5 fake dwarves - nosey, smelly, nobby, etc etc, then figured
12 machines was a good number for signs of the zodiac. We thought this was
boring and came up with the soccer players. We dont get many German students 
using that lab for some reason....

 Anyway, skimming thru the /etc/hosts file today I noticed someone has added
something to the soccer players:

148.88.11.63    jcharlton       pb4
148.88.11.64    moore           pb5             # RIP 24/2/93 :-(
148.88.11.65    peters          pb6

 Because Bobby Moore (England captain) died in February!

Also, we have machines in geography names after continents - asia, europe, africa, america
and if we get to many new machines we'll run out....

Baz

From: [email-masked] (Stephen Boyd Gowing)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

[email-masked] (Colin Panisset) writes:
>Naming conventions from two sites I've worked at:

>  The School of Computing Sciences at UTS started off with a 3/260 called
>  ultima, a companion machine ultimo (cute, since that's the name of the
>  suburb the machine is located in) and a bunch of 3/50's and 3/60's named
>  after various Greek mythological characters: amalthea, leda, adastrea,
>  himalia, lysithea, chiron, io, europa, etc.

>  The third Sun server to arrive in the machine room had, of course, to
>  be named appropriately -- after much headbashing and ignoring other
>  people's preferences, it was named 'syzygy' (spoiler at the bottom).
>  Following that, a set of SLC's were named for animals beginning with
>  'a': aardvark, agouti, alligator, albatross, amoeba, etc..

But don't forget the Egyptian gods: ra, amun, isis... 
The authors: shakespeare, byron, pratchett...  
The animals begining with `P': panda, phoenix, pelican...
The collection of birds: seagull, eagle, starling, ...
The subterainian monster collection: kobold, goblin, gremlin, svart...

I still want to use pizza toppings.  Dr Zeus titles.  Obscure Shakespeare 
characters.  And different names for the one colour (I think I've still 
got a list of 20 different words for white).

Stephen Boyd Gowing | [email-masked] | Sanity is the last refuge
Systems Programmer  |            ++61 2 330 1685 | of the unimaginative.

From: [email-masked] (Andrew Bulhak)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,,alt.religion.kibology,alt.horror.cthulhu
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Peter Gutmann ([email-masked]) wrote:
: In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Andrew Raphael) writes:
: >[email-masked] (John Switzer) writes:
: 
: >>Naming your system "nyarlathotep" is probably one of the best security
: >>measures known - who the heck is going to be able to type 
: >>"nyarlathotep.tristero.org.au"
: 
: >Surely nyarlathotep should be the name of a busy gateway?
: >"There is no peace at the gateway"...

Actually, Nyarlathotep will be the name of a really flash notebook running
something like NeXTstep; the fact that it would be a portable machine hs
some bearing about it being named after the messenger of the Old Ones.
(This is, of course, rather speculative, as I do not yet have an
Internet connection and probably won't have one for some years to come.)

: Nope, Yog-Sothoth would be the name of the gateway.  "Yog-Sothoth knows the
: gate.  Yog-Sothoth is the gate".

Good idea. However, the news machine will remain kibo. It can be connected to
the gateway through three machines called armenia, perl and mason. :->
 
: Peter.
: --
:  [email-masked][email-masked][email-masked]
: [email-masked][email-masked][email-masked]
:              (In order of preference - one of 'em's bound to work)
:    -- Why get a new PM when you can settle for an Old One?  VOTE CTHULHU!! --

        ^^^^^ K00L! This is the second time I have been quoted in someone's
	      .sig; However, I think it should be "Why settle for a new PM
	      when you can have an Old One?"

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From: [email-masked] (Ben Muckenhoupt)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Back at Oberlin, we had five Suns that the system mangler saw fit to name
fred, wilma, barney, betty, and dino.
There was an immediate grass-roots effort to name them after something
cooler.
My favorite suggestion (my own) was to name them after the five discordian
epochs: chaos, discord, confusion, bureaucracy, and aftermath.
I think another suggestion was the five horsemen of the apocalypse:
the traditional four plus ctilburg (the aforementioned sysadmin).
None of the suggestions were adopted.  Eventually, two lesser Suns were
moved in, and named stan and ollie, despite the fact that the obvious
extension of the theme was to call them pebbles and bam-bam. I have no
idea what state things are in now.

Carl Muckenhoupt

From: [email-masked] (Russell Aminzade)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Thematics Names of Pre-UNIX Sites

I just learned from the wonderful "Chronology of Digital Computing 
to 1952" (Posted here on alt.folklore.computers by Mark Brader) this
wonderful tidbit about teh wartime "Heath Robinson" machine, a
cipher-breaking computer from England.  I quote:

   Heath Robinson is the name of a British cartoonist known
   for drawings of comical machines, like the American Rube
   Goldberg.  Two later machines in the series will be named
   for London stores with "Robinson" in their names.

Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose!

From: [email-masked] (Michael David Jones)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Best site names (was: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites)

[email-masked] (Miguel Farah F.) writes:
>Fred Clift ([email-masked]) wrote:
>>I've personally always having any machine named elvis around so I can use the
>>BSD version of ping and find:
>>elvis is alive
>So, I always wanted to find a computer called "pong", so I could do
>"ping pong" :-D.

Back in days when UUCP was more common and bang paths were often heard I
wanted to name a systemd "youredead".

 Mike Jones |  [email-masked]

Typographic design is a craft that takes years to master. Authors with no
training in design often make elementary formatting errors.
	- Leslie Lamport, LaTeX

From: [email-masked] (Harri Haanp{{)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Best site names (was: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites)

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Jeff Randall) writes:
>Okay... for a twist, what are the *BEST* site names you have come across?

>Tops on my list would have to go to freudian.slip.uiuc.edu.  

Here at HUT we have pizza.hut.fi.

As aliases for alpha, beta, gamma and delta.hut.fi we have
monty, python, flying, circus.

(HUT stands for Helsinki University of Technology)

Harri H.

From: [email-masked] (Lord Yak Da Hairy)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Best site names

[email-masked] (Jeff Randall) writes:
>Okay... for a twist, what are the *BEST* site names you have come across?
>Tops on my list would have to go to freudian.slip.uiuc.edu.  

I remember seeing uncle-bens.rice.edu once...

-- John Yeates (Lord Yak Da Hairy) --------------- [email-masked] --
-- "Now ogging... THAT'S quality violence." -------------- Jeff Coleburn --

From: [email-masked] (Patrick L Humphrey)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Best site names

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Lord Yak Da Hairy) writes:
>[email-masked] (Jeff Randall) writes:
>>Okay... for a twist, what are the *BEST* site names you have come across?
>>Tops on my list would have to go to freudian.slip.uiuc.edu.  
>
>I remember seeing uncle-bens.rice.edu once...

No kidding -- that was my home machine for a while back in '89 and '90.
Unfortunately, uncle-bens was upgraded to a SPARC 1+ in 1990 (or early '91)
and renamed sparky -- and then SunLab was merged into the Rice Unix Facility
last year, and since the new subdomain name was "ruf.rice.edu", the machines
were all named after dogs, so now the original uncle-bens is known as
greyhound.ruf.rice.edu. 

(Meanwhile, the machines in is.rice.edu are supposed to be named after Texas
rivers -- hence I'm on brazos -- but one of the Owlnet gurus has a machined
named this.is.rice.edu...:-)

--PLH, right up the walk from elvis.rice.edu -- and elvis is alive

From: [email-masked] (Martin Beckett)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

The chemisrty dept got their first machine and some child of the 60s named it 
Dillon, intending to call later ones Hendrix, Bowie etc..
Unfortunately the next system manager was a 70s person and called the rest Dougle, Zebbedee etc.

( Note  to Americans and other aliens - Dillon, Dougle ,Zeb etc were characters in
  a 70s childrens cartoon series in the UK )

Here the first 5 machines were named CAST0,1,2,3,4,5  the next ones CASSA,B,C,D
the IOAS07,08,09,10,11,12 (but no 00-06 !)  then the next  RGOSA,B,C,D

Then they said we couldn't have real names because it would be too confusing !

Martin Beckett , Institute of Astronomy , University of Cambridge , UK

From: [email-masked] (Todd R. Eigenschink)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Martin Beckett) writes:

>The chemisrty dept got their first machine and some child of the 60s named it 
>Dillon, intending to call later ones Hendrix, Bowie etc..

Here, all the machines in the CS department are Dr. Who companions.
Zoe, K9, Leela, Romana, etc.  I don't think we'll have the problem
with some yutz changing the scheme, but I'm not sure what we're going
to do when we run out of names...

Todd Eigenschink ([email-masked])

From: [email-masked] (DoN. Nichols)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Rodrigo A. SEPULVEDA SCHULZ) writes:
>In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Jack F. Hamilton) writes:
>|> [email-masked] (Craig Werner) wrote:
>|> >
>|> >About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for 
>|> >thematically-linked names of UNIX machines.  Here is the summary of 
>|> >posts in answer to my question.
>
>	Here at EPITA, our computers are named after their brands, i.e.:

	[ ... ]

>CRAY:	cray (a small one!)

	This makes me want to find a cray small enough to add to my net at
home.  (Good luck shrinking one that much. :-)   The machine-name to be:

	crawdad (crayfish) of course. :-)

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From: [email-masked] (Jesper Lauridsen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

[email-masked] (Peter Gutmann) writes:

>cs1, cs2, cs3, cs4, cs5, cs6, cs7, cs8, cs9, cs10, cs11, cs12, cs13, cs14,
>     cs15 (can anyone see the pattern yet?), cs16, cs17, cs18

Fits in well with the assingment of user names.
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From: [email-masked] (Dave Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Jesper Lauridsen) writes:
>[email-masked] (David D. Miller) writes:
>
>>In a previous dept., which happened to be populated by staff from Europe, 
>>the Middle East, and Africa, the machines were all named after international 
>>cities 
>
>I have tried to name any international cities, but the only one I could
>think of was Berlin when the Wall was still there. Could you mention
>which names they used?

Well, you're being pedantic :-), but the only other international city
I can think of is Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan/Ontaio.  That'd be
quite the hostname..."telnet sault-sainte-marie" :-) .

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From: [email-masked] (David Halliwell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

[email-masked] (Dave Brown) writes:
>Well, you're being pedantic :-), but the only other international city
>I can think of is Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan/Ontaio.  That'd be
>quite the hostname..."telnet sault-sainte-marie" :-) .

   ...but you'd never be able to telnet to it unless you set up
an alias for the locals...."telnet the-soo"

Dave Halliwell
Department of Geography
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta

From: rog (Roger Peppe)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

My favourite site/machine names, from the site of a friend
(who had the idea) :

the machine names:
vampire phantom shade wraith zombie spook spectre spirit
skeleton shadow ghoul ghast ghost lich

the netgroup is `undead'

the domain (obviously) is `limbo'

at my current site, the theme is scotch whiskies - 
the only problem being spelling! (try spelling `teaninich'
on a bad day!) it's a good excuse to try some of the more
obscure whiskies though...

    rog.

From: [email-masked] (Wilson Roberto Afonso)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites

Well, this thread has grown a lot.  Time for my $.02.  When we moved
to our new building, there was a poll to decide on the new names to the
(many) new machines.  The result was:
- stones and thing like that: quartz, crystal, pearl etc.
- stars a.t.l.t.: procyon, sirius, vega etc.
- Brazilian animals: urutu <a snake>, owl, tucan etc.
- local geographic landmarks
- local (state) talk

[of course the names are in Portuguese: quartzo, cristal, perola etc.]

The supercomputer center now has scientists names (Gauss, Darwin etc. [the 
director's name is Kepler]), and the professors' Macs & PCs have Lord of The
Rigs-based names (written in the alphabet which is used in the book).  The
undergrads' PCs have Egyptian gods names (with drawings).  The machines at
the DP center have 'single' names, like Vortex, Asterix & Sbu (don't ask
about this last one).  Almost forgot: the Physics dept. uses cities names:
Moscow, Berlin etc.

-Wilson

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From: [email-masked] (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Matthew Frost) writes:
>Here at Aston we have quite a few thematic names:

While this is not a 'thematic' name, there is a computer in San
Diego called bang whose adminstrator is bam

It is served by by crash.

So to get to the site the path is  ..!crash!bang!bam

Or to pronounce it  .

bang crash bang bang bang bam

Sort of like the sound effects from a film.

Bill Vermillion - [email-masked]  OR  [email-masked]

From: [email-masked] (Matt White)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

Here at the University of Saskatchewan, it was initially decided that the 
names should start with SK.   Not really exiting - Skyfox, Skyblu, Skycat and
so on.  One of the interesting points of working in Computing Services is 
seeing some of the names that people dream up in the office.  One 486 running
OS/2 is called Skynet (remember the computer in Terminator?).

The PC in our Consulting office is called Insult.  Various other machines:

	Teapot (A DECstation 3100)
        Earl_Grey (A Mac SE, beside Teapot)
	Wazzoo

and the Mac SE I just registered for the manager here: Fred.  I must have
looked a bit strange until he explained - 

	F *cking
	R idiculous
	E lectronic
	D evice

(well, it IS a Mac...)

;-)

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From: [email-masked] (James W. Birdsall)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

   Here at picarefy.com (my livingroom), half the machines have names from
various SF/fantasy universes:

        picarefy - ship's brain from Jo Clayton's Skeen trilogy
        talesedrin - a Shin'a'in clan from Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar world
        macleod - from _Highlander_

and the other half (miriu, horoho, and amharc) are various neat-sounding
words found in Enya lyrics.

   The name of my next machine will probably depend on what it is and what
shuffling occurs among my existing machines. There are certain names that
I'd rather not give to a tertiary machine that gets turned on once every
two months or so.

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From: [email-masked] (Marcelo Magnasco)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites

Weren't the Crays at Los Alamos named after famous communists? 
(I remember stalin.lanl.gov, lenin.lanl.gov... )

Regards,
Marcelo Magnasco
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From: [email-masked] (Thayne Forbes)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites

Wilson Roberto Afonso ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Well, this thread has grown a lot.  Time for my $.02.  When we moved

Well I must be really late then, but we were talking about this last
Friday.  We have a set of machines in our lab with unusual names.  The
machines used to belong to the development and support groups, and the
Dev guys named theirs after characters on Cheers (Rebecca, Woody, Coach)
and the support guys named theirs after mostly obscure gods (Shiva, Ishtar,
Astarte, Tyr).  When you put them together with the machines from our
customer reps (Yellow, and Godzilla) you get a very mixed up theme.

My very favorite theme was the 'heads'.  Redhead, jughead, bonehead,
meathead, deadhead, .....  There must have been 20 of them.

From: [email-masked] (DreamyJim)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites

  I like it when a site uses names out of context... 
USM's main campus is 75 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. Three 
machines there are named: seabass, whale, and trout. Here on the 
USM Gulf Coast campus we are about 250 feet from the Gulf of Mexico. 
We don't yet have any Unix/AIX computers, but if we get some we will 
probably name them after some animal or plant known to live far 
inland... :-) just to be consistent ! 

                  Jim Pierce. Disclaimer: Standard.

From: [email-masked] (David C. Williss)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In a previous article, [email-masked] (Michael Parks Swaim) says:
>In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Craig Werner) writes:
>>
>>Hello, everyone.
>> 
>>About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for 
>>thematically-linked names of UNIX machines.
>[list deleted]
> 
>>Please post follow-ups to alt.folklore.computers.
>
I find these lists interesting, so I thought I'd add a few

At my place of work, all our PCs were named after Peanuts characters
(Linus, Lucy, Snoopy, Woodstock, etc).  The server was, or course,
Shultz.  Then we started running out of Peanuts characters and went
to Bloom county, calvin & hobbs, etc...

When we got sever Unix boxes and started naming them after drinks.
At first they were given names that indicated their relative speeds
based on the ammount of caffine in the drink.  We're saving the
name "Espresso" for an SGI Crimson or Onyx or something. (Our SGI
Iris Indigo is "jolt").  We also had to have fun with the name for
an Apple Macintosh Quadra running AUX -- "cider".

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From: [email-masked] (Michael Covington)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites

Our Franklin College of Arts and Sciences (named for Benjamin Franklin,
who had a hand in its founding) has, of course

ben.franklin.uga.edu

and also

aretha.franklin.uga.edu.

Closer to home, in the AI Lab (which is strongly oriented toward logic
programming), I've been wanting to name the machines

Aristotle, Boethius, Chrysippus, Diomedes, Epictetus, Frege, Goedel, Hume...

but the students insist on aisun1, aisun2, aisun3...6.

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From: [email-masked] (Greg Earle)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Rodrigo A. SEPULVEDA SCHULZ) writes:
>>>About ten weeks ago, I asked on news.newusers.questions for 
>>>thematically-linked names of UNIX machines.  Here is the summary of 
>>>posts in answer to my question.
>
>	Here at EPITA, our computers are named after their brands, i.e.:
>...
>Sun :	ahtena, neptune, minos, eos, cyrcee, vulcain, diane ...

At JPL, the first group to have a non-trivial amount of Suns decided that
since they were at the JET Propulsion Laboratory and these were SUNs, then
therefore they had a JETSUNS network - and thus were named accordingly:

elroy judy jane george spacely henry uniblab astro ...

Another group is called the Digital Image Animation Lab (DIAL); with a name
like "DIAL" they therefore named theirs after brands of soap ... which I
haven't seen used here before:

tone ivory dove lava spirit shield dial crank zest crystal coast twist ...

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From: [email-masked] (Henk de Groot)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Thayne Forbes) writes:

>Wilson Roberto Afonso ([email-masked]) wrote:
>: Well, this thread has grown a lot.  Time for my $.02.  When we moved

>My very favorite theme was the 'heads'.  Redhead, jughead, bonehead,
>meathead, deadhead, .....  There must have been 20 of them.

When we had to choose a name, one of us started with 'Pluto'. The originator
wanted to name the whole cluster after Walt-Disney charactres. To his surprise
the second machine was named 'Neptune' and so we ended up with 'Mars', 'Venus',
'Saturn', 'Uranus' and 'Jupiter'. We still have space for 'Mercury' and
'Earth'.

I'm posting from 'Jupiter' by the way...

Henk.

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From: [email-masked] (Ed Faught)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites

From the controls department hosts database: ( these are but a few )
143.202.24.10	egomaniac egomaniac.ssc.gov	# Raj Patil
143.202.24.11	klepto klepto.ssc.gov		# L. Mullins DEC 5000/120
143.202.24.12	paranoia paranoia.ssc.gov	# Keng L. - DEC
143.202.24.13	stress stress.ssc.gov  		# Ellen H. - DEC 
143.202.24.14	berserk berserk.ssc.gov		# Ed F - NeXT
143.202.24.154  dementia dementia.ssc.gov # MVME167
143.202.24.17	neurosis neurosis.ssc.gov	# Lynx in CF lab
143.202.24.18	exotic	exotic.ssc.gov		# NCD Xterm in B211
143.202.24.19	geewhiz geewhiz.ssc.gov		# Jim R.  - NeXT
143.202.24.20	schizoid schizoid.ssc.gov	# Harris 4800 in Comp. Lab
143.202.24.26	freud freud.ssc.gov		# Sun Sparc2 File Server
143.202.24.27	dingus dingus.ssc.gov		# Butteris J. - NeXT
143.202.24.29	lunatic lunatic.ssc.gov		# John H. - NeXT
143.202.24.30	psychosis psychosis.ssc.gov	# David W. - DEC
143.202.24.36	manic manic.ssc.gov		# Library - DEC 2100
143.202.24.40	chaos chaos.ssc.gov		# Nate Barber  Sun(sparc2)
143.202.24.41	phobia phobia.ssc.gov		# NeXT in user lab
143.202.24.52	dipsomaniac dipsomaniac.ssc.gov # DEC 5000/20
143.202.24.53	bonkers bonkers.ssc.gov		# Next w/scanner (YP slave)
143.202.24.56	lucid lucid.ssc.gov		# Sharad A. Sun IPC

Note that "schizoid" is a dual processor machine.
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From: [email-masked] (Juergen Nickelsen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

At my previous work there had been purchased a uVAX II early 1986. (A
sexy machine then!)  Since the people were involved in Configuration
management, the machine was named coma. Subsequent machine names were
chaos (VAXstation 2000), monster (AT clone), desaster (german spelling
slips in) and avalanche (both Sun workstations).

These are all *.cs.tu-berlin.de. Coma, coming into life when
connectivity was something much more exciting than in today's Internet
times, is also known as ...!coma and db0tui62.bitnet.

At my current work (domain prz.tu-berlin.de) I had the opportunity to
suggest the names for our new HP755 workstations. These are now risum,
toftum, midlum, bargum, and morsum, names of north frisian villages.
North Frisia is a region at the North Sea coast of Germany's most
northern state, Schleswig-Holstein. Risum is the villages where my
parents live as well as the machine I work with.

Juergen Nickelsen

From: Wes Bachman <[email-masked]>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic names of UNIX sites

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but the ISCA machines, here at the 
University of Iowa, are all named after blender speeds.  A machine running a 
BBS is named whip.isca.uiowa.edu.  The local ftp file system is grind.isca.
uiowa.edu.  Our panda server and client is on chop.isca.uiowa.edu and there is 
a mud up on thrash.isca.uiowa.edu.  ISCA is a student computer association, 
and the decision was made a few years ago to go with this scheme.  Guess it 
stuck.

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     Wes Bachman  ([email-masked]/grind.isca)
     Panda development, TSCA founder, Kanga author
     Public PGP key available upon request.
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From: [email-masked] (Mark Probert)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

[email-masked] (Sean Malloy) writes:
>Virtues:
>	
>	faith
>	hope
>	charity
>	honesty
>	duty
>	fortitude
>	purity
>	integrity

--> Nit Pick on...

The 7 Virtues:

	Faith, Hope, Charity, Temperance, Constance, Prudence and,
	ofcourse, Chastity.

The 7 Deadly Sins:

	Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Sloth, Lust, Avarice, and Wroth.
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From: [email-masked] (Lars R{der Clausen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites

[email-masked] (Craig Werner) writes:

Funny, we are just having a long thread locally about that very same theme.
Our current computers have these name themes:

Sun3: Named objects in the solar system (neptun, io, epimeteus etc)
Sun4: Cars (bentley, cadillac, chrysler etc)
Mac:  Space crafts (voyager, magellan, discovery etc)
Hp 300/400: Girls names (janne, franka etc)
Hp 700: French towns (No, we're not in France!) (mirebeau, cannes etc)

Then I asked why we (the users) where not asked about it, and during that came
up these (I made 5 in each posting. I won't do that here):

Classical roman names: Cesar, Brutus, Nero, Augustus etc.
Persons from Asterix (not asterisk): Asterix, Obelix, Majestix etc.
Constellations: Leo, Pisces, Virgo etc.
Movie stars: Chaplin, Marx, Wayne, etc.
Famous scientist: Bohr, Curie, Einstein, Euler etc.
German military person from WWII: Hitler, Himmler, Rommel, Hess etc.
Aeroplanes: Boing, Airbus, Tornado etc.
Famous games: Pacman, invaders, advent, tetris etc.
American presidents: Carter, Reagan, Ford, Nixon etc.
Computer pioners: Turing, Babbage, Lovelace etc.
Italian citynames: Toronto, Roma, Venezia etc.
Latin names for (danish) plants: Eranthis, lotus etc
The elements: helium, oxygen, carbon, sulphur osv.
Artificial languages: esperanto, volapyk, ido, novial, occidental etc.
(Danish) composers: Gade, Lumbye, Heise, Langgard etc
Types of rocks: Granite, kvartz, basalt, etc
(Soft) drinks: Cola, Pepsi, Jolly, etc.
Old (danish) towns: Svendborg, Fredensborg, Silkeborg, Frederiksborg, etc
The worlds highest mountains: Everest, Kilimanjaro, Vesuv, Etna, etc
Fish: (Can't remember translations offhand)
(Danish) beer brands: Tuborg, Carlsberg, Faxe, Ceres, Urban, Albani, ...
(Nordic) gods: Odin, Thor, Loke, Tyr, Heimdal, Balder, Frej, Freja, Ydun, ...
Heavenly objects: Meteor, planet, star, asteroid, nova etc.
Clothing: Shirt, jeans, jacket etc.
Times: Hour, day, summer, night etc.
Legendary monsters: Minotaur, gorgon, basilisk etc. (for monstrous machines)
Lewis Carrol words: Snark, boojum, brillig, slithy, etc.

These (nearly) all have the advantages of not being used often in computer
logs, being easy to remember and there being many in each group.

If anyone wants a new theme, you can ask me. I made 20 of those above.

Greeting: Hi, hello, thanks, thanks in advance, yours, yours sincerely etc.

-Lars
-- 
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there
is nothing left to take away.                         Antoine de St. Exupery

From: [email-masked] (Lars R{der Clausen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Best site names (was: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX Sites)

[email-masked] (Jeff Randall) writes:
>Okay... for a twist, what are the *BEST* site names you have come across?

>Tops on my list would have to go to freudian.slip.uiuc.edu.  
>Ok.. who's next?  =)

I was shocked yesterday to learn that the FAQs of some or all newsgroups were
to be found on ... RTFM.mit.edu!

-Lars
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there
is nothing left to take away.                         Antoine de St. Exupery

From: [email-masked] (Tim Phillips)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites

Our computer science people here use names of the London (England) subway
stations, of which there are about one-hundred-forty :-)
They are called things like morden, camden, etc.

From: [email-masked] (Ian Cargill)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites 

In article <[email-masked]> Tim writes:
>Our computer science people here use names of the London (England) subway
>stations, of which there are about one-hundred-forty :-)
>They are called things like morden, camden, etc.
>

Arrrrrrrrgh!   Philistine.  In London, it is the *UNDERGROUND*, 
thank you very much.  The 'tube' if you are being colloquial.
Subway indead. <shudder>  Also, while we are at it, they are called
Morden, Camden, etc.  (oh, just in case, :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) )
^       ^

I work on a network of Sun workstations.  They are called, of course,
Sunshine, Sunburn, Sunlight, Sundial, Sundeck and .....
Box!  The guy who installed that one has been told not to return.

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From: [email-masked] (Pete A. Zaitcev)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Stewart Stremler) writes:
>> IMHO, a nameing scheme should have a large scope. Using the seven dwarves
>> is fine only as long as you don't get an 8th machine...

>..Thorin, Oin, Gloin, Bifur...

Oops. My SS1+ is called 'mellorn' because of an error: translators of
LOTR used "Mellorn" (in cyrillic letters) for the 'mallorn'. I am sure
you even cannot imagine which names a hobbits carry in russian :-)

BTW, one day I named the 16-bits mini "TWIN" (<@twin.srcc.msu.su>).
It was a half of coupled CPU complex ("twins").

Pete
Moscow Center of SPARC-technology

From: [email-masked] (SillyWiz)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites 

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Christopher Samuel) writes:
>In article <[email-masked]>
>   [email-masked] doodled:
>
>> I work on a network of Sun workstations.  They are called, of course,
>> Sunshine, Sunburn, Sunlight, Sundial, Sundeck and .....
>> Box!  The guy who installed that one has been told not to return.
>
>Hmm....  the Computer Science department here has got a room full of
>Suns for undergrads to use, and this came to be known as the Sun Lounge
>and I first came across it in 1987, shortly after it had been set up. 
>They're currently building another one now, wonder what that one'll end
>up being called.. 

Here at Warwick they're very strong on thematic names.. The HERB GARDEN is full
of machines like SAGE and THYME. The MEAT LOCKER is full of SPAM,HAM,MUTTON..

The room known as the dungeon ( 'cos it's underground mostly ) has been refered
to in my hearing as THE MORGUE... the machines are call FOOT,TOE,LUNG etc.

Funny thing is that the FISHBOWL has no fish named machines in it at all. The
CS department started off with stoney names eg Stone, Flint, Granite etc and
then took up "cuddly" names like Trifle, Piffle, Gargle. { The room is known as
the Fishbowl because all of one side is glass and all the other (normal)
students taking shortcuts up the stairs in the CS building can look in.. }

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From: [email-masked] (Michael Fuhr)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites 

[email-masked] (Chris Keane) writes:
>Another lab had twenty workstations called named of animals/fish
>starting with the letter `a'. Go on, see how many YOU can think up!

aardvark	
aardwolf	(African critter that resembles a hyena)
aberdevine	(type of bird)
addax		(large, light-colored antelope)
adder
affenpinscher	(dog)
agama		(type of reptile)
agouti		(tropical American rodent about the size of a rabbit)
albacore	(tuna family)
albatross
alewife		(herring family)
alligator
alpaca		(resembles a llama)
anaconda
anchovy		(pizza topping)
angelfish
angleworm
angwantibo	(type of primate)
anoa		(type of mammal)
anole		(type of reptile)
ant
anteater	(eats ants)
antelope	(runs away with ants and marries them)
aoudad		(North African wild sheep)
apar		(haven't a clue, but it's a mammal)
ape
aphid
archerfish
argala		(type of bird)
argali		(large wild sheep of Asia)
argusfish
armadillo
armyworm
asp
ass
auk		(computer language...no wait, that's awk)
aurochs		(type of ox or bison?)
avocet
aye-aye		(nocturnal lemur of Madagascar)

To name a few (I give away my ignorance by describing the ones I didn't
know).  Thanks, Peter & Noah.
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From: csap@syzygy (Christopher Pankhurst)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites

In article <[email-masked]> from [Wed, 28 Jul 1993 14:05:33 GMT] you wrote:
> I just heard what the new room is to be called:
> 
>            The Solarium
> 
> I guess it had to happen!
> 

    We have a room like this at UTS, full of suns, and called the Solarium.
    Guess what the machines are called?
    Io, Callisto, Ganymede, Europa, etc!
    
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PS For anybody still in the dark ( :) ), these are names of planetary moons.

From: [email-masked]
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Thematic Names of UNIX sites 

[email-masked] (Alun Jones) writes:
>I just heard what the new room is to be called:
>           The Solarium

Pretty obvious name for a room with Suns in -- we've had one here for a few
years. Back in the old days the undergrad. sun3s were in one of the teaching 
labs (i.e. open only during office hours); the terminals were in a 24-hour
classroom. Then, because MEng students needed Suns all day a few extras 
were put into a small room which automatically became known as the Solarium.

This was probably as much because the heat kicked out by six 3/50s in a room
the size of an average office had a certain effect on the temperature as
because of any sun/Sun connections.

pete
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From: [email-masked] (A.V. Groenink)
Subject: Re: Host Names
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 20:57:28 GMT

[email-masked] (Louis Lin) writes:

>I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially
>machine series.  I know machines that are name after:

>gems - ruby, diamond, ...
>NP-complete problems - tsp, knapsack, ...
>animals - lion, tiger, ...
>scientists/mathematicians - descartes, neumann, ...
>cartoon characters - dino, bambam, ...

I have seen

Writers.
Germanic gods (very common---ugh)
Alphabet codes (alpha bravo etc.)
SUN1 -- SUN99   :-)

A number of disgusting suggestions:

TV celebrities
Types of bread (white, brown, wholemeal, poppyseeds, baguette)
Car makes
Four letter words
Rooms  (living, dining, attic, hall, cellar, study etc.)
Types of weather

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From: [email-masked] (Jay Maynard)
Subject: Re: Host Names
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 93 20:22:16 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Louis Lin <[email-masked]> wrote:
>I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially
>machine series.

My home network has machines that are named after noises from the Garfield 
comic strip: splut, blat, and poomp so far, with rowr and ffft next.
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From: [email-masked] (Anders Wegge Jakobsen)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Host Names
Date: 25 Nov 1993 21:06:02 GMT

In <[email-masked]> Thus spake [email-masked] (Louis Lin):

>I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially
>machine series.  I know machines that are name after:

French cities - cannes, dieppe, mersault, dijon, ...
Cars - bmw, wartburg, jaguar, ford, ferrari, ...
Latin flower names - sorbus, rubus, fragraria, ...
Planets & moons - neptun, uranus, amalthea, io, triton, ...
Sattelites - vostok, mariner, luna, intersat, ...
Girls' names - sasja, clarice, torun, elvira, jessica, ...

Anders Wegge Jakobsen     2:230/821@fidonet
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From: [email-masked] (Alleman Samuel J)
Subject: Re: Host Names
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 22:06:42 GMT

Liquers:	Calvados, Armagnac, etc.
Colors:		Rouge, Blanc, Noir, Argent, etc. ( they are in French (Louisiana))
clever names:	dossux.
regional names:	a2fay, jambalaya, swamp, gator, marsh, teche, gumbo, cajun, etc.

greek/roman gods:	nyx, zeus, etc.

sam

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: [email-masked] (Kevin Martinez)
Subject: Re: Host Names
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 22:26:45 GMT

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Louis 
Lin) writes:

>I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially
>machine series.  I know machines that are name after:

One network:
Japanese girls names: reiko, kumiko, noriko, keiko, ....
Our newest network:
Controversial cartoon characters: bart, itchy, beavis (butthead if we get the 
budget approved)

Kevin Martinez
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: [email-masked] (Bo Lindbergh)
Subject: Re: Host Names
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 22:55:45 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Louis Lin) writes:
>I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially
>machine series.

the word "black" in different languages:
    aswad baki black crn czarny du fekete hei hitam iswed juodas kuroi...
rivers:
    dnjepr donau elbe eufrat ganges loire moldau neva nilen oder orinoco...
James Bond's adversaries:
    blofeld drax goldfinger jaws oddjob scaramanga zorin...
14-character words from /usr/dict/words:
    abovementioned administratrix aforementioned antiperspirant astrophysicist
    basidiomycetes bremsstrahlung cardiovascular characteristic cholinesterase
    chromatography circumlocution circumstantial classification classificatory
    claustrophobia claustrophobic committeewoman committeewomen comprehensible
    concessionaire congratulatory consanguineous conspiratorial Constantinople
    contradistinct controvertible counterbalance counterexample Czechoslovakia
    diffeomorphism differentiable diffractometer disciplinarian discriminatory
    extemporaneous featherbedding ferromagnetism Fredericksburg handicraftsman
    handicraftsmen histochemistry historiography hydrochemistry implementation
    inapproachable incommensurate incommunicable incompressible inconsiderable
    incontrollable indecipherable indecomposable indestructible indeterminable
    indiscoverable indiscriminate infrastructure insuppressible insurmountable
    intelligentsia interferometer interpretation intramolecular irreconcilable
    irreproachable irreproducible macromolecular macroprocessor macrostructure
    Mephistopheles morphophonemic multiplication multiplicative neuropathology
    nitroglycerine Northumberland optoelectronic organometallic orthophosphate
    paralinguistic parallelepiped parapsychology phosphorescent physiochemical
    polysaccharide predisposition presentational prestidigitate presupposition
    proprioception proprioceptive psychoacoustic psychoanalysis psychoanalytic
    quintessential radioastronomy radiochemistry radiotelegraph radiotelephone
    reconnaissance representative septuagenarian servomechanism slaughterhouse
    staphylococcus superintendent teleconference teleprocessing tetrafluouride
    transcendental transformation transportation unidimensional unidirectional
    verisimilitude

et cetera, and so on, and so forth, and why doesn't somebody maintain a
list we can send to the next person who asks this in a month or two?

/Bo Lindbergh

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: [email-masked] (Greg Ewing)
Subject: Re: Host Names
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 23:17:10 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
[email-masked] (Jay Maynard) writes:
|> In article <[email-masked]>,
|> Louis Lin <[email-masked]> wrote:
|> >I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially
|> >machine series.

Here we use Maori names of native New Zealand birds. Originally
all 4 letters, but we ran out of 4-letter names, and we now
have some of 5 letters.

Here's an extract from our /etc/hosts:

	weka
	tui	parson_bird
	kiwi
	kea	mountain_parrot
	tete	grey_teal
	huia cosc mailhost loghost huia.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
	ruru	morepork
	kahu	harrier_hawk kahu.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
	titi	muttonbird
	hihi	stickbird
	whio	whio.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz blue_duck
	kuku
	moko	takaheae
	kaki	black_stilt
	mohua	yellowhead
	kaka
#
#Spare names for other machines:
#	tieke	saddleback
#	matata	fernbird
#	tauhou	waxeye
#	kakapo Native_parrot
#	kotuku White Heron

Some of the above refer to species which are extinct.
What that implies I'm not quite sure...

From: [email-masked] (Phil Torre KB7ZFH)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Host Names
Date: 26 Nov 1993 00:31:13 GMT

Mine are movie monsters/random evil characters:
Darth, Colossus, Kronos, Nosferatu, Mongo.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: [email-masked] (Jim Finnis)
Subject: Re: Host Names
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 22:44:59 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Jay Maynard <[email-masked]> wrote:
>In article <[email-masked]>,
>Louis Lin <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially
>>machine series.
>
>My home network has machines that are named after noises from the Garfield 
>comic strip: splut, blat, and poomp so far, with rowr and ffft next.

The Triumphant Return of "Host Names - The Thread that Would Not Die!"

Sorry.. but these people would probably interested in the RFC "How to
name your machines" or something like that. I don't remember the number
off the top of my head... can someone give them, and us, a pointer to
it?

Actually, I like the Garfield noises solution... although it breaks the
"easy to spell" recommendation in the RFC..

ObHostnameSeries:
	The local university college compski dept. have just got a room full
of Sun Sparc Classics, running Solaris (oh dear) and they've named 'em
after states of mind..

angst, odd, weird, nervous, happy, ennui, void, cowed are a few I can
recall immediately. They should have included "stoned"... :)

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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 93 12:41:31 EST
From: [email-masked]
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Host Names

[email-masked] (Jim Finnis) writes:

>Sorry.. but these people would probably interested in the RFC "How to
>name your machines" or something like that. I don't remember the number
>off the top of my head... can someone give them, and us, a pointer to
>it?

Or the stats on most popular hostname:

Network Information Systems Center                             October 1993
SRI International                                    Internet Domain Survey

 The Domain Survey attempts to discover every host on the Internet by doing
 a complete search of the Domain Name System.  The latest results gathered
 during late-October 1993 are listed.  For more information see RFC 1296;
 for more data see the pub/zone directory on ftp.nisc.sri.com.
                                                          -- Mark Lottor

                              Top 50 Host Names

     889 venus     650 mac1      507 newton    448 pc5       421 mac15
     817 pluto     611 mercury   507 neptune   448 mac11     421 fred
     811 cisco     611 iris      506 mac3      447 mac13     420 mac16
     775 pc1       603 charon    506 mac10     447 gateway   415 pc10
     763 mars      590 mac2      485 alpha     446 mac4      415 mac5 
     731 gw        583 pc3       471 apollo    446 hermes    414 sirius
     729 zeus      551 ns        460 mac12     440 mac14     405 phoenix
     720 jupiter   545 orion     457 thor      437 titan     403 calvin
     684 pc2       531 eagle     457 gauss     428 hobbes    402 pc6
     677 saturn    507 pc4       449 router    426 merlin    398 mac18

So, the winners are: planets, gods, stupid names (pc[n], mac[n], cisco,
gateway), scientist/mathematicians, and Calvin & Hobbes!

>Actually, I like the Garfield noises solution... although it breaks the
>"easy to spell" recommendation in the RFC..

Which reminds me of an idea - has anyone ever used the wrong spellings
of hard-to-spell words? (Good for high-security installations.)

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From: [email-masked] (David DeLaney)
Subject: Re: Host Names
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1993 21:01:51 GMT

ok, I'll jump in: at U.T.Knoxville, our computing department names temporary
IP addresses after weird Tennessee towns: soddydaisy, wartburg, ooltewah, etc.

Dave "and don't misspell them, freshmen!" DeLaney

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From: [email-masked]
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Host Names 
Date: 29 Nov 93 08:10:09 PDT

> [email-masked] (Francis Solomon) writes:
> 
> A few years ago a suggestion was made to me for a series of machines
> named after dead rock stars...the example given was "elvis" (of course).

My wife works for the City of Los Angeles on their 911 
police dispatching system.   She told me that they are 
having discussions about node names for their new network.
I suggested that they use the names of popular crimes:

Murder, mayhem, arson...   The theme is appropriate and
the list is endless.

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From: [email-masked] (Eric J. Korpela)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Host Names
Date: 29 Nov 1993 19:37:45 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Louis Lin) writes:
>cartoon characters - dino, bambam, ...

scotch whiskey:  highland, lowland, islay,...
california towns: pacifica, montara, bodega,....
physchological constructs: id, ego, superego....
elvis: so you can ping him.

I'm currently logged into mofo.... You should be able to decipher that
one...

Eric
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From: [email-masked] (Todd D. Taft)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Host Names
Date: 29 Nov 1993 22:49:05 -0500

I've seen:
amino acids (alanine, proline, glycine, etc.)
seven dwarfs (grumpy, sleepy, doc, bashful, dopey, etc.)
Santa's Reindeer (dasher, dancer, donner, rudolph, etc.)
artists (picasso, dali, vangogh, etc.)
authors (tolkien, lewis, chesterton, etc.)
fish (molly, platy, tetra, etc.)
greek letters (alpha, beta, gamma, etc.)
moons (io, luna, etc.)
planets (mercury, venus, etc.)
museams (louvre, prado, etc.)
North Carolina lighthouses (hatteras, lookout, ocracoke, etc.)
parts of the visual system (axon, dendrite, etc.)
U.S. presidents (washington, lincoln, etc.)
scientists (newton, hubbard, etc.)
sesame street characters (oscar,ernie,bert, etc.)
stars and constellations (algol, rigil, sirius, etc.)
tennis stars (strong servers) (mcenroe, borg, evert, etc.)
elements (gallium, gold, silver, etc.)
mythological characters (zeus, hera, hermes, etc.)
seven deadly sins (sloth, gluttony, lust, etc.)
monsters (vampire, medusa, etc.)
animals (giraffe, cow, etc.)
types of music (jazz, classical, etc.)
musical instruments (piano, violin, etc.)
blender speeds (whip, grind, etc.)

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From: [email-masked] (Michael Covington)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Host Names
Date: 30 Nov 1993 04:45:17 GMT

I have repeatedly proposed a series of great logicians' names, in
alphabetical order, but my user community says they're way too hard
to spell...

Aristotle, Boethius, Chrysippus, Diomedes, Epictetus, Frege, Goedel...
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From: [email-masked] (Chris Adams)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Host Names
Date: 30 Nov 1993 08:09:21 GMT

Well, here we used to have (or at least I have been told and believe) names
from the TV show M*A*S*H.  The only one still around one of the main disk
servers: radar.  I guess that if it was like the character, it would know
ahead of time what I was requesting?

Now, we have "hydra" (a Sequent multi-386 machine, soon to be leaving),
"acme" (a Sun Sparcserver that is getting close to working most of the
time, kind of reminds me of Wyle E. Coyote and all of his Acme Co. stuff),
and "sundial" (a dialin accessable Sun!).  Most of the rest of the general
access machines are numbered, including a lab of DECStations.  For some
reason, machine number 9 is quite popular: "ds9".

Some of the other, newer disk servers are "spook" and "ghost".  I don't
know who came up with these.
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From: [email-masked] (Mr M J Brown)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Host Names
Date: 30 Nov 1993 10:44:33 -0000
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In article <[email-masked]>,
	[email-masked] (Todd D. Taft) writes:
>I've seen:

[long list]

Well I've seen

herbs: (borage,basil,sage,comfrey ...)
plants: (clover,lily,violet,poppy,orchid,thistle)
cheeses: (edam,colwick,cheddar ...)
meats: (ham,beef,mutton ...)
rocks: (stone,granite,slate,pumice,quartz)

Also :-

"ind" machines: (bookbIND,woodwIND,downwIND)
"double letter" Colour X-Terms: (piffle,ripple,snuggle,bubble,fizzle)
"body parts" Mono Tektronx X-terms: (nose,ear,eye,foot)

Theres more ....

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From: [email-masked] (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Specious Dwarves (was Re: Host Names)
Date: 30 Nov 93 11:43:33 -0600

In article <[email-masked]>, [email-masked] (Todd D. Taft) writes:
> I've seen:
[...]
> seven dwarfs (grumpy, sleepy, doc, bashful, dopey, etc.)

Forgive my posting in this Frequently Recurring Thread, but I've never
done it before, and I have a tiny tidbit that may amuse you.

The control system for our extracted particle beams lives on a bunch
of clustered Vaxstations.  As is so common, we named them after
cartoon characters,  with a Disney cluster (I'm always uncomfortable
sending mail that says "From: GOOFY::HIGGINS") and a Warner Brothers
cluster.  One group was named for the Seven Dwarves: HAPPY, DOPEY,
GRUMPY, et al, and also SNOWHT (DECNET allows you only six characters
for nodenames).  

Naturally, at some point we needed to add more workstations.  We had
run out of dwarves.  So we started inventing new, non-canonical
dwarves, such as SLEEZY.  One machine was dedicated to running a
spiffy-looking, but not particularly useful, status display; operators
named this one FLOOZY, "because it's a cheap thrill for the
management." (Presumably FLOOZY is a female dwarf.) Two nodes devoted
to controlling cryogenics for our superconducting magnet strings
became FROSTY and FREEZY.

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From: [email-masked] (Xyanthilous Harrierstick)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Host Names
Date: 1 Dec 1993 05:18:09 GMT

[big list deleted]

In my home i use demons to name my systems. ie: lucifer, belial, beezlebub,
baphomet, asmodeus, etc.... 

started from a pdp-11/34 that got named "The Antichrist".

my personal favorite is ucberkely's (i think) naming scheme of natural
disasters, (inferno, hurricane, typhoon, tornado, planecrash, headcrash,
earthquake, etc..)

(to which a personal friend of mine at university of new mexico named his
machine wombatinfestation as a tribute to that naming scheme.

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: [email-masked] (Jason 'KodaK' Balicki)
Subject: Re: Host Names
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 09:26:15 GMT

[email-masked] (Roth Mark Daniel) writes:

>My Linux box is called "dynamic", after a small consulting business a
>few friends and I had in High School, Dynamic Data Services.  But I
>think my next machine will be "static" to continue in the tradition.
>:)

I've got "Wall".  I'm a big Pink Floyd fan -- my network will contain
names along the same vein.  (Pigs, Dogs, Sheep, Pink, DarkSide, etc.)

BTW:  my domain name (no folks, it's not on the net YET!) is toall.com,
because the name of my Internet provider service is going to be
"To All Net" -- so I have "wall.toall.com".  When you say it out loud it
sounds like "wall to wall".  :)

-- 
        Jason Balicki | [email-masked] | Tao.  Tao.  
                   Taylight come an' we wan' go home.

From: Russ=[email-masked]
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Re: Host Names
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 93 09:47:44

>[email-masked] (Louis Lin) writes:
>
>>I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially
>>machine series.  I know machines that are name after:
>

A recent decision at this (government] site was that all new LAN server 
names begin with our site code, making our host names "CER-something".  
This has led to some interesting suggestions:

CER-lancelot
CER-vix
CER-cumsized
CER-real
CER-fandturf
..etc...

The last two (pronounced surreal and surf-and-turf, for the one or two who 
havn't caught on) are my fav's...

From: [email-masked] (Kevin_Strietzel)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Host Names
Date: 3 Dec 1993 22:08:09 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (M.WOOLLEY)  
writes:
> >In article <[email-masked]>  
[email-masked] writes:
> >->I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially
> >->machine series.  I know machines that are name after:

I've seent he following conventions I haven't yet noticed in this thread:

Places in Arizona: Phoenix (server), Flagstaff (workstation).
Stratus VOS modules are usually named m1...m<n>.
Gods and/or goddesses: Poseidon, Chaos.
Electronic parts: Resistor, Capacitor.
Meteorological phenomena: Nimbus, Storm.
Fonts: Courier, Helvetica.
Chocolates: Tivoli, Hershey.
Desert plants: Ocotillo, Saguaro.

Kevin Strietzel
Stratus Computer

From: [email-masked] (Jim Thompson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Host Names
Date: 3 Dec 1993 16:02:46 GMT

Back when I worked for a newspaper in Las Vegas, we came close to naming
a set of Sun's after Nevada's cathouses.  We considered the names of the strip's
hotels as well.

Jim

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: david@pangloss (David Thomas)
Subject: Re: Host Names
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 23:48:35 GMT

[email-masked] (Louis Lin) writes:
>I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially
>machine series.  
[snip]
At this site we have,

SPARCstations:
composers ( Albeniz Bach Bartok Beethoven Berlioz Bernstein Bizet Borodin
            Brahms Bruckner Chopin Copland Corelli Couperin Debussy Dvorak
            Elgar Gershwin Ginastera Grieg Haydn Handel Hindemith Holst
            Janacek Mahler Milhaud Mozart Mussorgsky Offenbach Orff
            Paganini Poulenc Prokofiev Puccini Purcell Ravel Rachmaninov
            Respighi Rodrigo Rossini Saint-Saens Satie Scarlatti Schubert
            Schumann Scriabin Sibelius Smetana Sor Strauss Stravinsky Tarrega
            Telemann Verdi Vivaldi Wagner Weber)

HP workstations:
operatic characters (parsifal kundry alberich wotan loge erda frika freia
                     candide pangloss)

File servers:
giants (leviathan gog magog colossus fafner fasolt goliath)

and the lab has:
diseases (mumps rickets flu polio scurvy tetanus rubella typhoid smallpox
          cholera malaria leprosy)
--
David Thomas  ([email-masked] or [email-masked])  (713)-274-2347

From: [email-masked] (Chris Hafey)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Re: Host Names
Date: 5 Dec 1993 09:57:09 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
 <Russ=[email-masked]> wrote:
>>[email-masked] (Louis Lin) writes:
>>
>>>I am interested in knowing how people name their machines, especially
>>>machine series.  I know machines that are name after:
>>
>

Here at CSU Chico, we set up a special room where students can play games and
not disturb the rest of the lab.  We decided to create a sort of theme and 
ended up with a puke type theme.  Here are some of our machines:

puke
spew
hurl
cookies
upchuck
vomit
heave
chuck
phlegm

We also gave our servers some pretty odd names:

hairball
guzzler
corpse
phantasm
pathogen
pitbull
roadkill

And of course we have a lot of strange xterm names like zit, wart scab, rash,
pimple, hot-poker, bludgeon, iron-maiden, thumb-screw,gonad, pube etc.

It sure is better than some other school's names that I have seen. 

Chris

-- 
Chris Hafey                     |  True programming is rebooting the machine
[email-masked]  	|  after each crash until it works. 

From: [email-masked] (Kurt Hillig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 16 Sep 1994 17:03:12 GMT

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the scheme I've used here - one I came up
with when I was a newbie network administrator and couldn't keep all the
IP numbers straight....

Our machines (for the most part) are named for the elements, where the IP
node number is the appropriate atomic number.

This has lead to a few interesting names:  

Platinum belongs to a surface chemist whose experimental work mostly 
involves single-crystal platinum surfaces.

Uranium is our main server because it's the nucleus of our system.

Our big IBM RS/6000 is named Plutonium - aka Pu - because we knew it 
would be a stinker to administer....
-- 
                            Dr. Kurt Hillig
   Dept. of Chemistry      I always tell the    phone (313)747-2867
 University of Michigan     absolute truth    X.500 [email-masked]
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1055    as I see it.    [email-masked]
     Computers were invented to help people waste more time faster

From: [email-masked] (Christopher Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 16 Sep 1994 17:14:05 GMT

JWC> == John William Chambless <[email-masked]>

 JWC> My machine at work is named "klendathu".

 JWC> Is anybody else geeky enough to know why?

Of course.  Science fiction {books,characters,planets,authors,etc} are a
long-standing traditional source of computer names.  MIT, of course, has a
number, including eddie, micro-heart-of-gold, fenchurch, jack-vance...

If you can match the machine's function/purpose/design to the name, so
much the better.  A NeXTcube named borg, perhaps.  Or a pair of Ascend
Pipelines named mario and luigi (plumbers, of course...).  A mail server
might be named kly (for fans of Lois McMaster Bujold's _Barrayar_).

Clusters can be named after similar-role characters from multiple works
(generals, wizards) or different characters from the same work, series, or
fictional world (MIT had a number of "Ringworld" character names at one
point).

Other fiction can also supply themes.  Rutgers has a "Musketeers" cluster
(aramis, athos, porthos, dartagnan).
-- 
Christopher Davis * <[email-masked]> * (was <[email-masked]>) * MIME * PGP * [CKD1]
  "It's 106 ms to Chicago, we've got a full disk of GIFs, half a meg of
     hypertext, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."  "Click it."
      - Looking for: _The Big U_, by Neal Stephenson (out of print) -

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: [email-masked] (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 17:12:25 GMT

This doesn't belong in comp.unix.admin...

A certain QA lab that I once worked in named all of its machines
after various and sundry illegal drugs. I once answered a phone
call at the lab and was asked which machine I and a co-worker of
mine were logged into at the time. Naturally, I replied, "I'm on 
LSD, and Ryan's on quualudes."

mdw

From: [email-masked]  (Chip Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994  15:39 EST

In Article <[email-masked]> "[email-masked] (Bruce Baugh)" says:
> The Beyonder <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using
> >these days that you personally like the sound of.
 
My all-time favorite is Rice University's main mail server... 
uncle-bens.rice.edu.  (Uncle Ben's is a US brand of rice.)
 
My home Linux box is named Servetus, after Michael Servetus, the 
Reformation heretic who was burned in effigy by the Catholics and
burned in person by the Protestants. 

--
-Chip Olson. | [email-masked] | FTP's opinions are even wierder than mine.
This article is a natural product.  The slight variations in spelling and
grammar enhance its individual character and beauty and in no way are to 
be considered flaws or defects.

From: [email-masked] (Matthew Crosby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 16 Sep 1994 20:37:22 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, Pete Ehlke <[email-masked]> wrote:
>[email-masked] (Christ van Willegen) writes:
>
>>[email-masked] (Bruce Baugh) writes:
>>>The Beyonder <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>>>I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using
>>>>these days that you personally like the sound of.
>
>There used to be a machine somewhere in the uiuc.edu domain, I 
>think it was in physics.uiuc.edu, whose name was 
>
>mine_all_mine
>
>One of the early linux users was a woman whose last name was Tree. (Are
>you still out there???) Her machine's name was treehouse.
>

We have several HP 9000/7xx's, aka snakes.  When we first got them, we named
them "nag and nagina".  (we wanted nag and kaa but kaa was already taken).
Then we got 6 more, and argued at great length about what to name them.  The
trouble was, all the mythological and litereray snakes where things noone
had ever heard of, or type (eg: ouroboros, the great world serpent).  So
as a compromise, and since we had nag and nagina, we went with diminutives
of nag. 

now we have:

nag, nagina, nagita, nagik (should be nageek), naggy, nagette, nagess and
nagjte.

Makes for a very confusing net, as we can never remember which machine we
where on  ("...well, it began with "nag")

Other naming schemes we use include toys (frisbee, yoyo, aerobie, koosh),
onomatoepea (whomp, bam, splat, etc etc), famous computer games (zork,
adventure, rogue, wumpus, hack).  We also gave our PC's names to match our
opinions of them:  doorstop, junk, paperweight, slow...

The main campus servers are named after dogs (rintintin, spot, tramp, snoopy)
Rumour has it that this was the last revenge of the vms folks, who ensured
that the unix machines where named after the "dogs they where".

From: [email-masked] (David Rowland)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 16 Sep 1994 22:05:09 GMT

Where I work we have named all our machines using a astronomical theme.
We have on our net:

Tycho
Europa
Io
Phobos
Deimos
Gaspra
Titan
Charon

Unfortunately, the astronimical theme stops there all the other
machines are Macintoshes and the are named:

big-mac
lil-mac
mongo-mac
prof-mac
sat-mac

Three sites I used to administer used Colorado ski resorts for
their hostnames:

Purgatory (Hell for short)
Copper
Vail
Ajax
Aspen
Estes
Steamboat
Keystone
Eldora
Telluride
Snowmass

-- 
David Rowland - [email-masked]
System Administrator - Wyndemere Inc., Boulder, Colorado

Don't tread on me!

From: [email-masked] (Julian Orbach)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames page
Date: 17 Sep 1994 06:52:02 GMT

The CS Honours students at Flinders University of South Australia
(used to?) have workstations named after disasters. I am a bit hazy
about the exact names, but they were similar to:

Erebus, Hindenburg, Bhopal, Chernobyl, Pompeii, Etna, Titanic, etc...

---
-- Julian Orbach ([email-masked])
-- University of Queensland
-- Brisbane, Australia

From: [email-masked] (Roger L Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 16 Sep 1994 19:50:04 -0500

>>>[email-masked] (Bruce Baugh) writes:
>>>>The Beyonder <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>>>>I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using
>>>>>these days that you personally like the sound of.

Here at State, one of our two main university machines is named Ra (after
the Egyptian sun god), and yup, you guessed, it's a Sun system.

Also, our main CS machine is named Walt, and all of the workstations are
named after Disney characters.  The best part is that our assistant
department head is a somewhat macho, ex-military pilot type, and his
workstation is named tinkerbell.

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| Roger L. Smith - CS Grad     | It's hard to make a program foolproof    |
| Mississippi State University | because fools are so ingenious.          |
|  [email-masked]         |==========================================| 
| [email-masked]         |  A black hole is where God is dividing   | 
| [email-masked]     |  by zero.                                |
|_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_\|/_|

 

From: [email-masked] (David Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 17 Sep 1994 05:32:05 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Roger L Smith <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>>>[email-masked] (Bruce Baugh) writes:
>>>>>The Beyonder <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>>>>>I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using
>>>>>>these days that you personally like the sound of.
>
>Here at State, one of our two main university machines is named Ra (after
>the Egyptian sun god), and yup, you guessed, it's a Sun system.
>
>Also, our main CS machine is named Walt, and all of the workstations are
>named after Disney characters.  The best part is that our assistant
>department head is a somewhat macho, ex-military pilot type, and his
>workstation is named tinkerbell.
> 

And over here across campus, a professor named "Dr. Reese" wanted his
machine named "pieces".  It took me a while to get it...

And of course, our monolithic SparcServer 690MP is named, appropriately
enough, "Borg", complete with the star trek action figure on top.

Lastly, the 386/25 machine that serves as a router to my apartment
network is called "Fuzzball", after the old ARPAnet routers...

David

-- 
David Simmons, System Administrator                 [email-masked]
Mississippi State University Electrical and Computer Engineering
Visit my home page!  http://www.ee.msstate.edu/~simmons

From: [email-masked] (Mark Bergman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 17 Sep 1994 11:37:28 -0400

I'm partial to names of hot peppers:
	tabasco
	habanero
	chili
	scotch-bonnet
	jalapeno
	chipolte
	cayenne

I also do some admin work at a site where their AT&T servers are named
after planets: Venus, Mars, etc. I find their AT&T SysV.4 box named
"Sun" somewhat disturbing...

----
Mark Bergman    Biker, IATSE #1 Stagehand, (former) Unix user support grunt
718-855-9148	[email-masked]	{cmcl2,uunet}!panix!bergman
I want a newsgroup with a infinite S/N ratio! Now taking CFV on:

rec.motorcycles.stagehands.pet-bird-owners.pinballers.ex-unix-supporters
	4 So Far

From: [email-masked] (K. Neuwirth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 17 Sep 1994 21:44:07 GMT

We here (well, not here, but at home) have adopted the following scheme
for naming our machines (I live in a home with two computer freaks and
some hardware around . . . and hopefully a leased-line link to our home
by the end of the month . . the domain is already set and we have configured
the IP numbers, but that is something differently). . . 
   All machines are named after famous (or not-so-famous) mathematicians,
where the first letter of the name has to indicate the type of machine.
Stieltjes is a Sun Sparc, 
Archimedes and Aristoteles are the two Amigas,
Peano and Poincare are the PCs, 
Leibnitz is a Laptop.
  And then of course, there is maybreeze, named after one of the
historically relevant computers and the only important computer in
history ever to come out of Austria. (just out of curiosity: how many
now the story of Maybreeze, or rather, Mailuefterl?) BTW: Maybreeze
is a Next, so it is not too far off . . . :-)
   Makes it easy to know what type of machine somebody is talking about
when he has problems with one of the boxes . . 

//konrad

From: [email-masked] (James Sanford)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 17 Sep 1994 16:25:30 -0600

>>The Beyonder <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>>I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using
>>>these days that you personally like the sound of.

I still think "dysfunctional-relationship.ecst.csuchico.edu" is my
favorite, but the entire ecst.csuchico.edu domain is interesting.

-- 
James Sanford - [email-masked]

From: [email-masked] (Stephen White)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 18 Sep 1994 10:15:58 +0930

: >>>>>The Beyonder <[email-masked]> wrote:
: >>>>>>I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using
: >>>>>>these days that you personally like the sound of.

I named this machine "eve" to fit in with the owner's megalomaniac complex
of calling himself "God". In keeping with the bibilical theme, I'm the Son,
Greg's the Holy Ghost, we drink a lot of Spirit, and we're looking for a
Mary. :)

I'm a King Crimson fanatic, so my network at home has machines named after
various King Crimson songs. My workstation is "nuages", the machine in the
back room is "exiles", and the Archimedes is called "lament".

As well, the machine here that links my network to ADAM is called "trio"
after the King Crimson song of the same name, in homage to the Holy Trinity
nature of ADAM's network.

--
  [email-masked]

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.unix.admin
From: [email-masked] (Pete Biggs)
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1994 11:30:41 GMT

> >>The Beyonder <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >>>I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using
> >>>these days that you personally like the sound of.

Around here the computing service machines are named after colours -
there's quite a few, so some of the colours are getting esoteric.
However, they recently got a new machine and, for various very good
reasons, they wanted to call it "sable", the only problem being that
there already was a machine called "sable".  The admin of that machine
got a memo from on high which stated simply "Please rename sable,
thanks".  So we now have a mchine called "thanks".

Pete
-- 
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Pete Biggs :{)                                      [email-masked]
          Life is a sexually transmitted, terminal disease.
=============================================================================

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: [email-masked] (Ian Young)
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames page
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1994 16:13:43 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] writes:
>While not as catchy as some of the other names listed, the Suns in the Freeman
>computer lab here at Clemson are named for cars.  Thus, this lab has a Gremlin
>in it.  Fortunately, it's labeled!
>
>Greg Kemp
>[email-masked]
>Sitting next to Gremlin right now.
>
>
>
Kind of like our X lab here in the Academic Computer Center here
at WSU. The Unix box on the floor is Discover.wright.edu,
and all of our sun X workstations and their node units 
are named after discoverers, so there's Ericson, Lewis, Perry &c...
Funny, neh?

-- 
Ian, barely speaking even for himsel  | "Riding a Harley Hog with Uma |     /
[email-masked]               | Thurman: That's heaven"       |
"the guy who tries to be funny, but   | -K. D. Lang-                  |  
everybody laughs at."

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: [email-masked] (Steven D. Majewski)
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1994 19:45:48 GMT

[ comp.unix.admin trimmed out of the loop ] 

In article <[email-masked]>,
Mark D. Roth <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>I just got a pair of AT&T UNIX PCs, and I think I'm gonna call them
>Romulus and Remus... :)
>

I've got a gumby & pokey in my office. 

Along with Elvis  ( "ping elvis" ;-) 

BTW: Minsky.med.virginia.edu is *NOT* named after Marvin Minsky, the 
Computer Scientist and AI researcher, but is named after the inventor
of the confocal microscope, who happens to have the same name. 
( This *IS* a biology research lab, after all! ;-)  

( Many other machines at UVA have thematic names by department: 
  fermi & kelvin in physics, galen & mendel in biology/medicine,
  boole & babbage in comp-sci, etc. ) 

-- Steve Majewski       (804-982-0831)      <[email-masked]> --
-- UVA Department of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics --
-- Box 449 Health Science Center        Charlottesville,VA 22908 --
   [ "Cognitive Science is where Philosophy goes when it dies ... 
	if it hasn't been good!" - Jerry Fodor  ]

Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
From: [email-masked] (Maxwell Froedge)
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 02:09:01 GMT

>>The Beyonder <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>>I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using
>>>these days that you personally like the sound of.

One of my favorites...

q.cumber.edu

from cumberland college..
They were naming all thier machines something.cumber.edu.

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From: kessler@roses (Will Kessler)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 19 Sep 1994 07:07:52 GMT

I once named an iris off the top of my head "Nosehair".  I got a
significant amount of flak for this at first, then people started
thinking up more scatalogical but barely acceptable hostnames such as
"footcheese" and "earwax".  Eventually the powers that be put a stop
to all this beavis humor-- 5 years ago.  Just curious if any Liebnitz
out there has matched my stroke of subgenius since then or topped
it...

Will Kessler
[email-masked]
Rehabilition Research Division
Dept. of Veterans Affairs
3801 Miranda Avenue/153
Palo Alto, CA 93404-1200
(415) 493-5000 x4726

From: [email-masked] (Antony Richfield)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 19 Sep 1994 12:48:57 GMT

Will Kessler (kessler@roses) wrote:
: I once named an iris off the top of my head "Nosehair".  I got a
: significant amount of flak for this at first, then people started
: thinking up more scatalogical but barely acceptable hostnames such as
: "footcheese" and "earwax".  Eventually the powers that be put a stop
: to all this beavis humor-- 5 years ago.  Just curious if any Liebnitz
: out there has matched my stroke of subgenius since then or topped
: it...

: Will Kessler
: [email-masked]
: Rehabilition Research Division
: Dept. of Veterans Affairs
: 3801 Miranda Avenue/153
: Palo Alto, CA 93404-1200
: (415) 493-5000 x4726

I suggested, for three local Indies, the names Khayelitsha, Guguletu, and
Crossroads (for the uncultured, three notoriously violent and unhealthy
slums/squatter camps/shantytowns in South Africa) but the names were never
accepted, much to my disgust.  When I get a machine on our network it
is my fixed intention to choose such a name.

--
Antony Richfield at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
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From: [email-masked] (Arthur van Leeuwen)
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 17:29:17 GMT

The main server for the students over here is called studs (as in 
STUDent Server), and, as there was rumour about an extra server, it was
suggested that it should be called babes...

Unfortunately our trusty sysadmins decided on the name palet, which is the
Dutch for palette. That's because it's the main fileserver for the public
sun-workstations, which have colors as names.

Doei, Arthur.

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From: [email-masked] (Sami Mikhail)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 19 Sep 1994 14:33:12 -0500

My Previous job, all the machines were named after planets. 
Except for one. It was a Stratus and we named it "Barney" for the
unadulterated pleasure of shouting down the hall: "Hey! Barney is dead
again!" or "Kill Barney would you please!" etc. 

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From: [email-masked] (Pat Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 19 Sep 1994 21:25:06 GMT

[email-masked] (Ian Young) writes:
>
>Oh yeah? how about the names in ...cs.wright.edu
>Troi, spock, data, picard, kirk, uhura, worf 
> 
>beat that for catchy nerd-ness!

One of my clusters has machines chaka, darmok, and jilad.

Another (in Psychology) has cogito, ergo, and sum.

What do I win?

Immodestly,
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From: [email-masked] (Nazman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 19 Sep 1994 23:35:10 GMT

>[email-masked] (Ian Young) writes:
>
>>Oh yeah? how about the names in ...cs.wright.edu
>>Troi, spock, data, picard, kirk, uhura, worf 
>> 
>>beat that for catchy nerd-ness!
>One of my clusters has machines chaka, darmok, and jilad.
>Another (in Psychology) has cogito, ergo, and sum.
>What do I win?
>Immodestly,
>-- 
>Pat Wilson

Not to brag (yeah right) but our hostlist has some nice ones. Among them are:
The ACM has clotho, atropos and lachesis
The School of Architecture has big, stone, wood, steel, brick and gothic 
  on a subnet of 'arch.rpi.edu'
Several local town names 
Greek gods
Star Trek characters
Muppets
Sesame Street characters
Ren & Stimpy in the chemistry department
Mediterranian Islands
Snow White characters
Types of Naval ships
Artists
Anime characters
All the campus servers have names from the Bible
Body parts
Famous mathematicians
Birds
Foreign countries
Brady Bunch characters

Each of the above list items are in their own subnet, and are the general
theme, but are not the only thing in the subnet, nor are in that one alone.

The student subnet has some neat names like :
sub-rosa                        blahblah
tardis                          prototype
marypoppins                     capt_petey
org-crime                       dental-plan
hes_dead_jim                    sawoffhistweeter

That about covers all the good ones here.

Nazman
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From: [email-masked] (John Gibson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers,alt.tv.animaniacs
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 20 Sep 1994 00:08:07 GMT

O.k. I'll join the fun. 

I inherited a system with god-awful Star Trek names, but if I had
my way, my hostnames would be after interlocutors in Socratic
dialogues of Plato and Xenephon:

glaucon
adiemantus
thrasymachus
polemarchus
crito 
critoboulos
callicles
cebes
simmias
phaedo
phaedrus
lysis
meno
slaveboy
critias
protagoras
thaetetus
gorgias
thrasymachus
ariston
euryximachos
aristophanes
alcibiades
xenephon
eleatic  (the eleatic stranger)
athenian (the athenian stranger)

and there's plenty more where those came from. Beat that.

-- 
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Theoretical and Applied Mechanics      
Cornell Technician Factory, Ithaca NY 14853    

From: [email-masked] (Nathan Mates)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 20 Sep 1994 00:49:07 GMT

Last year, one of the undergrad CS labs got seven neat new HP9000s735's. 
So, they got the names of the 7 deadly sins. Then, some s700's. They
got mixer speed names: chop, whir, grate, off, purree, mince, and a few
more.

Nathan Mates
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: [email-masked] (Vivid)
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 01:17:18 UTC
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant

Greets.

    We have the oddest hostnames here.  Upstairs, where the 
nontechnical parts of the company (read: nonessential) dwell, all the 
machines and servers are named after British writers, and that's okay. 
We downstairs, on the other hand, must tolerate the resident feminist 
male's unilateral decision to name all of the machines (our 
workstations!) after feminine hygiene products.  My machine is 
`always', which is okay, but some of the other, less-fortunate folks 
got "stayfree", "summers_eve", and worse.  Our poor mail gateway 
("massengil") must really get harangued by his electronic cousins on 
our network.  I can just see it and "shakespeare" exchanging little 
digital "Are too!", "Am not!" packets when the Sniffer's not watching. 
 
    I am, unfortunately, being serious.

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From: [email-masked] (D. Joseph Creighton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 20 Sep 1994 11:45:21 GMT

>The Beyonder <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using
>>these days that you personally like the sound of.

Here at the University of Manitoba, the primary login and NFS servers are
named after stars, some of which are:

          antares deneb mira polaris regulus 

Sometimes, a login server and an NFS server work together serving our NCDs:

          castor & pollux

Then we have the Sparc stations, named after science fiction authors.  A
portion of these are:

          asimov bradbury dickson gibson herbert leguin niven norton orwell 

And, finally, the little ELCs are named after fictional sci-fi characters,
with a sample presented here:

          chekov data kenobi kirk leia luke picard spock troi vader worf 

I like the whole science-fact/science-fiction aspect to it, and the names
are quite easy to remember, more so if you're a fan of it all.

- Joe "working with Niven tonight, but reading Gibson at home" Creighton
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From: [email-masked] (D. Joseph Creighton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 20 Sep 1994 12:03:40 GMT

...which reminds me:  the Electrical and Computer Engineering department
here has their own network in which they use the following names for their
machines:

	beer, rum, vodka, rye, tequila, wine, etc...

The master console's name?  Why 'bartender', of course.

- Joe.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: [email-masked] (Mike Morris)
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 08:25:37 GMT

Our scheme seems to be pretty unusual, though you have to know some of
the history behind it.  The branch of the company I work for had a
mainframe known as C-Centre, and the name became pretty much synonymous
with the branch.  I guess I should also mention that the office is just
a 5 minute walk from the beach.  So as we started getting connected, we
came up with the following naming scheme -- all machine names begin with
a "c" -- though sometimes we break the rule.  So we have

	cthru -- our main gateway machine
	cweed
	csharp (belonged to a musician who was a hot C programmer)
	cdog
	cbed
	cgoon
	cd
	deadc
	sexc
	theeforth (which ran lithp in room C4)
	cstate7
	...etc...

We have a list of names (currently about 80 names) and not enough machines
to use all the names on.
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From: [email-masked] (Paul S. Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 20 Sep 1994 21:31:25 GMT

Here at the University of Houston, we have a VAX cluster called "Jetson."   
The nodes are Rosie, Elroy, Jane, George.  Astro and Spacely have dropped by  
the wayside...  Judy has now become oracle...

I am not sure why but the Academic unix group has started a "mexican food"  
theme:

Menudo is the main Ultrix box, and the users are placed in /arroz,  
/refritos, /fajitas, /posole, /habanero, /tamales.  *Sigh* I get hungry  
everytime I log into that machine.  

We also have masala and jalapeno (a hot new alpha box) :-)

Here at the College of Engineering we are very eco-minded (or is it  
mindless?).  Anyway, we have 4 servers: tree, flower, bird and fish.  Tree  
and flower server NEXTSTEP clients (named after trees and flowers, of  
course!) and bird and fish serve WindowsNT and the Macs (The NT clients are  
birdnames and the mac clients are fishnames).

My machine is thanatos because it is death for any user who needlessly gains  
my attention :-)

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From: [email-masked] (Doug Siebert)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 21 Sep 1994 01:42:16 GMT

[email-masked] (Nathan Mates) writes:
>
>Last year, one of the undergrad CS labs got seven neat new HP9000s735's. 
>So, they got the names of the 7 deadly sins. Then, some s700's. They
>got mixer speed names: chop, whir, grate, off, purree, mince, and a few
>more.

The Iowa Student Computer Association had to decide on a name scheme a few
years ago.  (1991 or so?)  A new HP/Apollo 9000/400t was due to arrive so a
contest was held on the then-tiny ISCA BBS and a the winning suggestion was
"blender speeds".  So the first machine was named 'grind'.  A smaller Apollo
borrowed from the Eng department was called 'bump', but it eventually went
away.  Then a new HP 9000/710 came along, and was named 'whip' (the same one
that runs the now hugest-on-the-Internet ISCA BBS)  A NeXT came along later
and was named 'chop'.  If ISCA ever gets any more money and gets to buy some
sort of insanely fast machine it can be called 'pulverize' or 'frappe'.

ISCA also has an 'off', a Trailing Edge 286PC.  Not on the network (doesn't
even have an Ethernet card)  More fitting that it can't be pinged, I think...

There's also used to be a 'pulse', which was used for loaner machines ISCA
would get from time to time.  I don't think that's really a legal blender
speed, though.

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From: [email-masked] (Guy Dawson)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames page
Date: 18 Sep 1994 08:25:57 GMT

My home network is named after bits of the Isle of Skye in NW Scotland.

Unix boxes ( 1 so far ) get named after Cuillin peaks ( dearg )
DOS boxes get named after small islands arround Skye  ( wiay )

The domain name ( cuillin.org.uk ) is thus obvious...

Each .sig should contain the ICBM address of the feature after which
they are named.

I can't get leased line conntection until the Skye Bridge is built! Mind
you the bridge is ugly (obscene) and will be no cheaper than the existing
ferry. Sound familar?   

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From: [email-masked] (James Hawtin)
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pagea
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 16:25:32 GMT

*Sigh*

Being in chemical engineering we have had decided for use that our computer
names should have cg at the beginning of them. So we had to be inventive.

cgreen
cgull
cgust
cgrass
cgram
cgniess

And suck before I got here cgsun.

				James.

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From: [email-masked] (John Saunders)
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 09:18:31 GMT

I worked on a military project once that used a machine with the old
300M disk packs with handle on top that had to be mounted in the drive.
Each disk pack was named after girlfriends of the people involved. I
remember smirking every time somebody called out "Hey! can somebody
mount Jodie".

While not really a hostname I thought I'd share that ;-)
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From: [email-masked] (The Information Superhighway's Rest Stop Janitor)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 21 Sep 1994 15:46:04 -0500

Well, before the company got all stodgy in the late '80s,  we had a cluster of 8 
WANG VS systems named after Snow White and her henchmen.  Later, I set up two 
machines in a test cluster as 'Coke' and 'Pepsi' (ala The Soul of a New 
Machine).  We later added 7up, RC, Franks', and TAB.  Finally, we had a VAX 
cluster/LAVC named after the 9 planets,  the cluster alias was "SOLAR".

FTM
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From: [email-masked] (The Information Superhighway's Rest Stop Janitor)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 21 Sep 1994 15:50:41 -0500

Oh, in addition to the previously mentioned systems (SOLAR, Snow White, and  
soft drinks),  we also had our 3Com Lan Servers named after Hard Liqors (DeWars, 
Jameson, JackDaniels, Seagram, and a bunch of others).

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From: [email-masked] (Kevin Cousins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 21 Sep 1994 11:06:20 GMT

> ... (Each lab
> had a different naming theme - birds, jazz musicians, rivers, etc.)
>
> I still think it would have been qool to have a bunch of machines
> named Flogger, Fishbed, Foxbat, Fitter, etc.

At the CSIRO Division of Radiophysics, there are a whole bunch of
SPARCstns in the SigProc group which got named after the characters
from the Asterix comix. Let me see, there was:

asterix, obelix, monosyllabix, polyfonix, getafix, justforkix; and a
lot more...

and when Eric came, his new wkstn got called: erix

On the other hand, LAN group, inherited a couple of lame-named
machines bearing various Australian marsupial mammal species:

koala, goanna, echidna

so we inspired engineers found:

thlyacoleo, bettong, bilby, antechinus, dunnart, and a bunch of others
that pissed people off. "You mean I have to type 'rlogin thylacoleo'?"

--Kevin.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: [email-masked] (Dik T. Winter)
Subject: Re: Funny Host / Machine Names
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 20:30:33 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Magnus Olsson) writes:
 > >and we've gotta pick node names for the 486s.  My test bed machine
 > >is "zeus" right now, but I don't know if there are enough Greek gods to
 > >go around.. We're gonna need like 40 or so names.  8-)
 > 
 > No problem; pick up any book on Greek mythology and if you run out of
 > gods and goddesses, you just start using the heroes.
 > 
One person here suggested to name hosts after Irish gods.  Would be
extremely obfuscating.  Seeing the spelling of a name nobody would know
how to pronounce it, and the other way around.
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From: [email-masked] (David Gadbois)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Funny Host / Machine Names
Date: 21 Sep 1994 20:22:33 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>, Dik T. Winter <[email-masked]> wrote:
>One person here suggested to name hosts after Irish gods.  Would be
>extremely obfuscating.  Seeing the spelling of a name nobody would know
>how to pronounce it, and the other way around.

We use Mayan and Aztec gods for that.  Kisin, Tlaloc, and Coatlicue
aren't too bad, but Huitzilopochtli and Tlachitonatiuh are real
stumpers.

--Davd Gadbois

From: [email-masked] (Brett Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers,alt.fan.goons
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 23 Sep 1994 13:21:05 +1000

 Here at the Australian Braodcasting Corporation, our R&D facility has
named all their X-terminals and PCs after characters from ABC TV
(which more often than not means characters from BBC TV). The
exceptions are a few of the earliest machines which were named after
theologians (such as the machine I am posting from: calvin).

 Sample names follow - see if you can identify the show associated
with each name (some are dead obvious, most obscure name picked in
each case): spotty, holly, b1, mcduff, baldric, marvin. UK readers
should be able to identify all of those. Note that b1 and mcduff are
of Australian origin (hint: children's programs) and the others are UK.

 I am personally in charge of administering a few of our D-CART
(multi-user digital audio storage and editing) demonstration systems,
and being a Goon Show fan [note: crossposting to alt.fan.goons] I have
named them after Goon Show characters. This is doubly appropriate
because D-CARTs and the Goons are a radio thing, unlike all the above
(with the possible exception of marvin). However, I have a
problem. Taking the obvious example, should the machine be called
"neddy" (as many people would spell it), "neddie" (correct as written
in the scripts), "seagoon" or "neddie-seagoon"? I opted for the
last, but it is hard to be consistent: how would you translate the
name `Willium "Mate" Cobblers'? [Followups regarding correct Goon Show
host naming should probably be restricted to alt.fan.goons]
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From: [email-masked] (Brett Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 23 Sep 1994 15:14:52 +1000

 In Australia, the main internet backbone is AARNET (Australian
Academic Research Network), and there is an aarnet.edu.au domain. All
the machines in that domain seem to be named after, well, see if you
get the drift: jatz, shapes, vovo, cruskits...

 I have this sudden inexplicable craving for biscuits. How odd, my
hands seem to have gone blue and furry. I... uh... ahh... aaargh!
COOKIE! Harum nyum num num....
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From: [email-masked]
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 23 Sep 1994 11:45:02 GMT

In Article <[email-masked]> "[email-masked] (Bruce Baugh)" says:
> The Beyonder <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using
> >these days that you personally like the sound of.

At my last place we used tree names, the main server was oak,
other servers were redwood, elm, birch...

My favourite was the name given to our sun, I figured if you took a tree
too close to a sun you got an ash!!

Xterms were flowers, PC's were squishy fruits and the SGs were more colorful
(like sequoia, yucca and baobab)

All so environmentally freindly and pretty eh?

The company was British Nuclear Fuels.

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From: [email-masked] (Luke Hankins)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 23 Sep 1994 16:36:03 GMT

[email-masked] (Nathan Mates) writes:
>
>Last year, one of the undergrad CS labs got seven neat new HP9000s735's. 
>So, they got the names of the 7 deadly sins. Then, some s700's. They
>got mixer speed names: chop, whir, grate, off, purree, mince, and a few
>more.
	That was one fo the tree finalists in our 'name the new systems'
competition.  (M y personal favorites were Bodily Fluids (Bile, Phlegm,
Blood, Sweat, Tears.. etc) and Recreational Pharmacuticals. (Speed, Coke,
LSD, Caffine...) We ended upo with spices. (Sage, Coriander, Nutmeg,
allspice..)

		-luke
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From: [email-masked] (Alex R. Moon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 23 Sep 1994 19:32:30 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
John Scudder <[email-masked]> wrote:
->In article <[email-masked]>,
->Christ van Willegen <[email-masked]> wrote:
->[...]
->>now... Asterix. Next to THAT is a small Indigo, called (you guessed it)
->>Idefix.
->[...]
->
->Which character in Idefix?  It seems that only Asterix and Obelix (and
->Julius Caeser, and Cleopatra) get to keep their names in different
->translations.
->
->If Idefix is the little dog, he's Dogmatix in the English translation.
->
->ObNamingScheme:  At the University of Michigan, a bunch of the bigger
->servers are named after different Arnold Schwartzenegger
->characters/movies.  Terminator is okay, but it can get out of hand,
->e.g. lastactionhereo.rs.itd.umich.edu.
->
->--John Scudder

At my university we have a lab of HPs under the jurisdiction of a rather
egocentric Prof. Mowle.

The machines are named elwom1, elwom2, elwom3... 
[Catch the meaning? :-]

Of course we've also got student labs with rather more boring names, like
a NeXT lab with the machines named after types of music (symphony, sonata,
waltz, rock-opera) and some sequents named for educational ideals (expert,
sage, mentor)

--Alex
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
From: [email-masked] (The Dragon De Monsyne)
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 10:25:10 GMT

Hmmm.. I know of : A mailserver named Cliff (think cheers. I think 
there's a woody there too)   And 'f course innumable newservers named 
'kibo'  However, I've also seen newservers named Tribune, herald, journal, 
etc.  & also Snewz

  I name my machines (Not on the 'net yet, but soon ,I hope) after 
mathmatical 'stuff'  (this is relevant.  The're fer an organization 
called The Integration Project ) 
  So far I've got  Integration,  (Amiga 2000)
                   Differentiation (AKA Diff, or Diffy-q) (amiga 1200)
                   Plus,   Decstation
                   Minus   "  

 However, I've already thought of : Infinity, Zero, Matrix, Array,  
Multiplication, Division, Log, Ln, Power & Root

If I run outa those, it's: Dragon, Wyven, Drachen, Lung, etc. 

 & I HAVE had someone ask if ':)' was a valid machine name .  I dunno if 
he ever found out. :> 
 
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From: [email-masked] (Chris Reed)
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 19:30:51 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
 <[email-masked]> wrote:
>In Article <[email-masked]> "[email-masked] (Bruce Baugh)" says:
>> The Beyonder <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> >I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using
>> >these days that you personally like the sound of.
>
>At my last place we used tree names, the main server was oak,
>other servers were redwood, elm, birch...
>

When we were kicking around server names we discussed naming them after 
forests.  Sherwood, Black, redwood, etc.

The work stations were to be trees.

I seamed like a good idea to me because if(when) somthing went wrong, one
could report they 

	"can't see the forest from the trees." 

Sorry,  we were at a bar^H^H^HPub.
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From: [email-masked] (Guy Dawson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 24 Sep 1994 10:44:40 GMT

The Instruction Set ( now owned by Hoskyns but mail to inset.co.uk works )
had many machines with 'set' in the name :

	inset
	dorset
	sunset
	moonset
	solarset
	starset
	codeset
	jetset
	quickset
	twinset
	russet
	basset
	upset ( kept crashing )
	moonset
	trainset
	teaset

Guy
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From: [email-masked] (Thomas Conte)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 25 Sep 1994 15:57:44 GMT

	Our own `lite' network :

	delite
	sunlite
	nitelite
	cokelite
	twilite
	highlite
	budlite
	darklite
	starlite
	limelite
	hilite

	Etc...

	And our firewalls are named after Nordic legendary places :

	asgard, midgard, anasgard

	I also saw once a `fantasy' network :

	troll, goblin, faerie, orc, dragon, elf, dwarf, etc.

--
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From: [email-masked] (Mathias Koerber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 23 Sep 1994 13:30:26 GMT

In (<[email-masked]>) [email-masked] wrote:
| In Article <[email-masked]> "[email-masked] (Bruce Baugh)" says:
| > The Beyonder <[email-masked]> wrote:
| > >I was just wondering what kind of catchy hostnames folks are using
| > >these days that you personally like the sound of.

Here, we use anything connected with horses (since the SW in our
company name is derived from Scientia Whitehorse, our Aussie
Mothercompany).

There is unicorn (which fits, since it is an ICL DRS6000, which
while in development was codenamed UNICORN), a pegasus, centaur,
pharlap (famous Aussie racehorse). Our own IBM RS6000 is called trojan,
fitting, since we are half ICL owned :-)

Then we have buckaroo, gaucho, hussar etc...

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From: [email-masked] (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 10:19:54 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Stephen M. Dunn) writes:
 > In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Simon Hovell) writes:
 > $	My old university (Edinburgh) recently named their latest 30
 > $or so classics after Scottish highland railway stations. Reduced
 > $network traffic no end, as no one can spell the damn names to
 > $rlogin:). 
 > 
 >    It could be worse; you could be in Wales.  What's the proper spelling
 > of that town that's abbreviated Llanfair p.g.?

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch; about the
only Welsh place name I know from memory.
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From: Darrin Cardani <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 19:15:38 GMT

>In article <[email-masked]> Larry Doering writes: 
>Unique?  No.  Where I used to work, we had a lab full of Suns that
>were named after volcanoes.  The boss eventually decided to scrap
>the volcano names and switch to colors (boring, Sidney), after
>he got a bunch of complaints.  Seems people thought that names
>like "grimsvotn" (after a volcano in Iceland) were somewhat
>less than mnemonic.  Of course, we were able to get a rough
>estimate of the percentage of our user population who were unable
>to spell "krakatoa".

I used to work with Larry. Don't forget, we also had a lab named after
different types of chickens. I suggested it as a joke and someone took
it seriously. I don't even remember all of them.

dorking
rhodeislandred
essex
..

There were about 20 more. We also had rivers (po, ob, rhur, yangtze, etc.)
and some other cool ideas.

Darrin

From: [email-masked] (Trevor J. Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames page
Date: 18 Oct 1994 07:26:54 GMT

My parents own an antique store in Houston... they aren't exactly host
computers but they named the Ethernet net based on Snow White and the
Seven Dwarves... Snow White the server (aka Big Mama) & the remaining
20 or so computers using the original seven plus several additions like
Sleazy, Slinky, Sexy, Boss, Dorky, and a few others...

Just posting randomly at nite when I should be doing my
homework...<grin>

From: [email-masked] (root)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 21 Oct 1994 02:47:33 GMT

Here at MIT, all of the dialup machines are named after pasta sauces,
bolognese, milanese, etc. (There's about a dozen.)

In the SIPB (Student Information Procssing Board) office, the machine
names are:
   lola-granola.mit.edu
   bill-the-cat
   oliver
   yaz-pistachio
   deathtongue
   quiche-lorraine
   pickled-herring
   hodge-podge
   milo
   steve-dallas
    and floating names are:
   opus
   tess-turbo

See a pattern?

And, my machine is:
  vorlon.mit.edu
(And another of mine might have a cname of minbari.mit.edu.)

Jered

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Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
From: [email-masked] (Demetri Mouratis)
Date: 21 Oct 94 00:00:10 -0500

Someone here made a suggestion that seemed rediculous, but somehow,
it works.

Our RS/6000 machines are named who, what, idontknow, why, and we will
soon have today and tomorrow, all after the Abbot and Costello 'Who's
on First' routine.

I makes for hilarious team meetings and project rollouts:
	"So what's the name of the Commercial Banking box?"
	"No, what's the name of the Trust Department's box."
	"What's the name of the Trust Department's box?"
	"Exactly!"

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From: [email-masked] (Matthew J. Brauer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 22 Oct 1994 19:41:20 GMT

At a previous job, we started to name the networked computers after
famous prisons (alcatraz, attica, singsing, etc.). The network server
was "gulag".

I think the executives must have found this out -- the scheme didn't
last long. 

From: [email-masked] (David J N Begley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 24 Oct 1994 06:04:48 +1000

[email-masked] (Matthew J. Brauer) writes:
>
>At a previous job, we started to name the networked computers after
>famous prisons (alcatraz, attica, singsing, etc.). The network server
>was "gulag".

Here at Nepean, there are different naming schemes in place (depending on
campus, owner of machine, &c.):-

  * "Camelot"
  * "Sydney Beaches"
  * "Dictators/Conquerors"
  * "Marx Bros"
  * "Mythical/Extinct Birds"
  * "Famous Entertainers"

I won't mention the naming scheme for the now defunct HP/Apollo workstation
lab;  suffice it to say, the wretches were suitably named.

dave

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From: [email-masked] (CVL staff member Nate Sammons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 24 Oct 1994 14:09:16 GMT

We name them after artists (we're a computer graphics lab), so we have

matisse
seurat
nagel
dali
degas
vangogh
cassat
monet
rodin
renoir
gauguin
sisley

etc...

-nate

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From: [email-masked] (Charles Ewen MacMillan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: 25 Oct 1994 23:14:16 -0500

Tezcat hosts at present, not catchy, but perhaps unique:

xochi 
inti
smirror
stumpy
quilla
matlatl
huehue
natasha

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From: [email-masked] (Kenneth Leung)
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames page
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 04:05:36 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Stephen M. Dunn <[email-masked]> wrote:
>In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Trevor J. Hart) writes:
>$My parents own an antique store in Houston... they aren't exactly host
>$computers but they named the Ethernet net based on Snow White and the
>$Seven Dwarves... Snow White the server (aka Big Mama) & the remaining
>
>   A former tech support guy at one of our client sites (a rather
>stuffy company, actually) named all of his print servers after
>the dwarves.  Management has since asked us to rename 'em.
>
>   Some people just have no sense of humour.
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When I first started out hanging around the computer lab at UC Riverside
There were 4 Vax 11/750, and the sysop (Dennis Michael, last I know is at
Stanford) named the system :

Faith  :  Introduction students machine
Hope   :  CS Major Accounts only
Mercy  :  Teaching Assistant's machine
Charity:  Professor's machine

Our sysadm at the time was a subject of folklore on his own :-)
Let us just say a bunch of us got together and made a T-shirt with a ASCII
picture of his face in the front and his famous sayings in the back...
as his goodbye present when he went to work @Stanford.

I wonder if he is making folklore at Stanford these days?

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From: [email-masked] (Jon Tara)
Subject: Re: The Very Best of Catchy Hostnames pageant...
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 1994 06:32:59 GMT

I think the site I'm at is one of the all-time classics. Of course, nowadays, 
it's:

    crash.cts.com

But it used to be just plain "crash" in uucp days of yore.

When strung-out in a mail or news path, then, you might see something like...

  ... ihnp4!itivax!nosc!crash

The "!", of course, is pronounced "bang". So, the last part of the address is 
read:

   bang crash

I'm told that there was at one time at least one other site connected to crash 
that made for an even noisier address...
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From: [email-masked] (Russell Schulz)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Catchy _Domain_ Names
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 21:00:13 -0600

who has catchy domain names?  I saw iconz.co.nz, and if they'd tried
for and got `i', they'd have had i.co.nz -- which would be neat.
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From: [email-masked] (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Catchy _Domain_ Names
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 1994 23:01:18 GMT

In a previous article, [email-masked] (Russell Schulz) said:
>who has catchy domain names?  I saw iconz.co.nz, and if they'd tried
>for and got `i', they'd have had i.co.nz -- which would be neat.

One of the usenet/internet providers in Cleveland, Zbig (I forget his last
name and I forget to enter his business card in my PEO) just registered
SUCKS.COM.  And he's selling subdomains for cheap.  I think life.sucks.com is
gone, and probably school.sucks.com.  Anybody want aol.sucks.com?

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