[CS-FSLUG] QOTW #6: Computer Naming

[Christopher Lee Rose]

Grinch is Grinch, a simple AMD K-6 frankensteinian machine.
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DATE: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:38:03
From: Jukka Y <mail at ylonen.info>
To: "A Christian virtual Free Software and Linux Users Group."<Christiansource at ofb.biz>
Cc: 

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>Timothy Butler wrote:
>
>> Ok, so I haven't been very good at keeping this up once again... but 
>> I'm gonna keep it going. Hopefully, I'll get the QOTW back to Monday 
>> next week with a question contributed to me by David McGlone. But this 
>> week, I'm going to base it on a question Flip asked me about my 
>> computers. As always feel free to answer below or perhaps take this 
>> question and use it for a meme on your own blog.
>>
>> /What names do you have for your computers?
>>
>> / Well, not all of them are still in service, but I'll order the ones 
>> that have been named from the oldest (built in 1997) to the newest 
>> (purchased last week). Prior to '98, I didn't network systems, so it 
>> wasn't necessary for such names to be employed in my case.
>>
>> Fred: A Pentium 100 long retired. One of only three systems without 
>> some connection to Dilbert.
>> Dellbert: My first Dell, and a play on the name Dilbert.
>> Lapbert: My first networked laptop.
>> Sneakers: I wasn't planning to upgrade when I did, so it "snuck" in... 
>> thus sneakers.
>> Catbert: the Ruby iMac.
>> Wally: the Shuttle XPC... shiny sort of like Wally's bald head in 
>> Dilbert.
>> Cedar: This one is the server you are reading this off of. Since it is 
>> offsite, I decided to start a new naming convention for it. If and 
>> when I need a new server some day, it might be "pine." It's domain is 
>> cedar.serverforest.com.
>> Albert: The G5 (Aluminum + bert = Albert).
>> Hapbert: The PowerBook... I thought about apbert (Apple + bert) but 
>> that didn't sound so good, so it is officially "Happy APple BERT." 
>> Pathetic, I know.
>>
>> Were's Dogbert? I'm glad you asked. That's my wifi network.
>>
>> I may try to go a bit more orthodox and revise these. Here's a thought 
>> on more proper Dilbert naming:
>>
>> Dellbert = Dilbert.
>> Lapbert = Bob.
>> Sneakers = Wally
>> Wally = Ratbert
>> Albert = Alice
>> Cedar = Elbonians
>> Hapbert = Dogbert
>> Dogbert = Asok
>>
>> Waddya think? Post your own naming conventions below, if you'd like. 
>> Do you follow the popular trend of using Greek mythological 
>> characters? Perhaps you too use Dilbert?
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>
>I  usually have had only one working machine, so I have not paid much 
>attention on naming. Typically I use something easy like "linux" or 
>something (I remember my first linux installation ever (slackware) had 
>default name "darkstar"... :-) If I had to name several computers in my 
>own network, I think I would like to use some biblical names.
>
>Blessings,
>Jukka
>
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