Rich Grise wrote:

[snip]
>
> Well, anyway, what do you call your computer(s)?
>
> Cheers!
> Rich

My IRC nick used to be sombragris -- which is the name of Gandalf's horse
(Shadowfax) in the Spanish translation of Tolkien's LOTR. Therefore:

My laptop's name is "sombragris", my desktop's name is "elrohir" and my
dad's desktop is "denethor".

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Eduardo Sanchez - Asunción, Paraguay, South America
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My mum and dad are chemistry lecturers and hence the naming :-)

Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> <snip>
> It would be kind of nice to name the Linux/Unix boxes on a network
> after the good gods, while you could call the Windoze boxes things
> like beelzebub, azazel, pluto, etc.
> <snip>

In a previous job, all the systems had chemical element names; not very
imaginative in a chem/bio research facility. All the systems were
Solaris, Irix, or Linux so the OS's were okay but eventually all the
Oracle database systems were named after radioactive elements. The
DBAs took quite a while to catch on that their systems were unstable.

--
Dr. Douglas O'Neal
Manager, Bioinformatics Center
Delaware Biotechnology Institute
(302) 831-3456

Stephan Hurler wrote:
> Duke Robillard wrote:
>
>>I've been naming mine after the characters in the movie
>>Blade Runner, but I'm running out. The only two characters
>>I've got left don't even have names: the Sushi Vendor and
>>the Egyptian guy who made the snake. Neither of those are
>>particularly good hostnames:
>>
>>bash-2.05b$ ssh egyptian-snake-guy.dukesoftware.net
>
>
>
> AFAIR though, the snake guy does have a name...
> (found an excuse to watch the movie again, thanks
>
> Yup, he does. The old chinese lady with the microscope calls him Abdul Ben
> Hassan. Decker calls him Abdul Hassan.


Excellent, thanks!


> Another name for you would be the
> owner(?) of the bar where Zhora dances with the snake, called "Cathy Lewis" or
> the like.

"Taffy" not "Cathy." That's the name of my new PowerBook.

Thanks again!

Duke

> Well, anyway, what do you call your computer(s)?
>
> Cheers!
> Rich

I always give my boxes names that are 4 letters long:
-bash (bash.richthetitch.net)
-tank
-flip
-phys
-vent


anything that comes into my head when i'm setting up a machine for the
first time really!

-Rich

["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.networking.]

So anyway, it was like, 22:58 CET Feb 25 2004, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
Rich Taylor was all like, "Dude,

> I always give my boxes names that are 4 letters long:

> anything that comes into my head when i'm setting up a machine for
> the first time really!

I can just imagine the four letter words I'd be calling any ms boxen I
was setting up if I did that.

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despacho --> my router ( "dispatch" in spanish )
noviembre --> basically my a system enclosed around my beloved awe32
krsanky --> my "fast" desktop ( 1 ghz tualatin-celeron )
caiphus --> mail and web-server
beasty --> FreeBSD learning machine
kukaracha --> my SMP "server" (lotsa disk , nfs exports stc.)
halberd --> my older thinkpad (mostly spare disk space now, also test FreeDOS on it)
jondoe --> firewall/cups/samba/nfs server at friends house( his name is jon )
kelpho --> my fancy little pIII 600 mhz thinkpad X-20
zero --> my new P4 machine at work ( I got the head sys-admin to switch to slackware

all are slackware except the FreeBSD machine

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