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  • E El Corazon

    Someone else started naming their computers after Greek Gods/Goddesses and Hyperion got hit today with "same name on the network) bit.... well, I figured it had to happen eventually... so I am finally jumping ship to a new naming scheme... Aztec/Maya/Inca. I figured unless we get a 2012 obsessed person in here, they are not likely to think of Adawulcanak or Tliewatuwadjigican. Oh someone might, maybe, possibly think of Quetzalcoatl, but there is no way they are spelling it without a google, so chances are it won't be worth trying. :) I lasted 4 years naming machines from Greek Gods. :) Not too bad. :) Think I can last at least 4 years with Aztec/Maya/Inca Mythological names? :-D

    _________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....

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    Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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    Maintain a list of unique 32 bit numbers and just assign them to your machines. Then you can just remember the numbers instead of arbitrary names. To make it more reasonable you might think about splitting the number up into octets.

    Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane

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    • J Joe Simes

      Because his wife wouldn't let him name them after porn stars ... probably! :)

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      Nagy Vilmos
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      Joe Simes wrote:

      Because his wife wouldn't let him name them after porn stars

      That was the old naming convention, despite having 4,937 to choose from Jon ran out after two years.


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      • E El Corazon

        Someone else started naming their computers after Greek Gods/Goddesses and Hyperion got hit today with "same name on the network) bit.... well, I figured it had to happen eventually... so I am finally jumping ship to a new naming scheme... Aztec/Maya/Inca. I figured unless we get a 2012 obsessed person in here, they are not likely to think of Adawulcanak or Tliewatuwadjigican. Oh someone might, maybe, possibly think of Quetzalcoatl, but there is no way they are spelling it without a google, so chances are it won't be worth trying. :) I lasted 4 years naming machines from Greek Gods. :) Not too bad. :) Think I can last at least 4 years with Aztec/Maya/Inca Mythological names? :-D

        _________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....

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        TheyCallMeMrJames
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        The last time I had opportunity to name servers I went with Transformers. The Autobots were all on the internal side of the network and everything that touched or was in the DMZ was a Decepticon. The only exception to the rule was Soundwave...I mean, what else are you going to name your internal database server? Bumblebee and Cliffjumper were the DNS. PDC was OptimusPrime and the BDC was OmegaSupreme. Wow. Now I've both dated myself and managed to expose the inner nerd. (My actual Omega Supreme toy is still in the garage...might be time to bring it out for my kids...)

        They Call me Mister James

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          The last time I had opportunity to name servers I went with Transformers. The Autobots were all on the internal side of the network and everything that touched or was in the DMZ was a Decepticon. The only exception to the rule was Soundwave...I mean, what else are you going to name your internal database server? Bumblebee and Cliffjumper were the DNS. PDC was OptimusPrime and the BDC was OmegaSupreme. Wow. Now I've both dated myself and managed to expose the inner nerd. (My actual Omega Supreme toy is still in the garage...might be time to bring it out for my kids...)

          They Call me Mister James

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          Ian Shlasko
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          Which one was WheelJack? And what about Ravage? I always loved Ravage and Laserbeak... Or where those just schemas under Soundwave? And what about the Dinobots? Swoop, Snarl, Slag, Grimlock, and... uh.... damn, my memory fails me again...

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          • I Ian Shlasko

            Which one was WheelJack? And what about Ravage? I always loved Ravage and Laserbeak... Or where those just schemas under Soundwave? And what about the Dinobots? Swoop, Snarl, Slag, Grimlock, and... uh.... damn, my memory fails me again...

            Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
            Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)

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            lol...nice. :) I didn't get into the casettes, lol...but IIRC Grimlock was an application test server and the other Dinobots were used for load testing. I think Sideswipe or Prowl or something might have been in the mix...it's been a while...

            They Call me Mister James

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            • C CPallini

              Then you may use Cthulhu/Necronomicon/Miskatonic (I'll stuck with my Beck's/DAB/Heineken scheme...). :)

              If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
              This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
              [My articles]

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              El Corazon
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              CPallini wrote:

              Then you may use Cthulhu/Necronomicon/Miskatonic

              Nope, the math guy sitting in the office next to mine wears a Miskatonic U clothing. :-D :-D I am the only other person here who knows what it is. :laugh: :laugh:

              _________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....

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                Because his wife wouldn't let him name them after porn stars ... probably! :)

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                Jim Crafton
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                Somehow I imagine it being difficult to explain the telnet connection to "SILVIA-SAINT12" or "NM3-JRCARRINGTON". I'm sure that's just me though... :)

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                • S Smithers Jones

                  El Corazon wrote:

                  Think I can last at least 4 years with Aztec/Maya/Inca Mythological names?

                  No way! Two years, 5 months and 13 days at the most. You know, why. :)

                  "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." (DNA)

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                  El Corazon
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                  Smithers-Jones wrote:

                  No way! Two years, 5 months and 13 days at the most. You know, why.

                  ;P I'll bet ya we survive. Tell you what. I'll bet you we survive the year 2012. If we do survive you can pay me a case of diet coke on Jan 1, 2013. ;P

                  _________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....

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                  • E El Corazon

                    Someone else started naming their computers after Greek Gods/Goddesses and Hyperion got hit today with "same name on the network) bit.... well, I figured it had to happen eventually... so I am finally jumping ship to a new naming scheme... Aztec/Maya/Inca. I figured unless we get a 2012 obsessed person in here, they are not likely to think of Adawulcanak or Tliewatuwadjigican. Oh someone might, maybe, possibly think of Quetzalcoatl, but there is no way they are spelling it without a google, so chances are it won't be worth trying. :) I lasted 4 years naming machines from Greek Gods. :) Not too bad. :) Think I can last at least 4 years with Aztec/Maya/Inca Mythological names? :-D

                    _________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....

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                    Dan Neely
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                    At home my names are always functional. eg I'm currently posting from "I7-920"; at work all physical computers get named after their asset tag. All the VMs I've seen hosted on the server farm have been named after the project using them. Needing both project management and someone from corporate IT to sign off kinda limits the ability to do any interesting naming.

                    3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18

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                    • E El Corazon

                      Someone else started naming their computers after Greek Gods/Goddesses and Hyperion got hit today with "same name on the network) bit.... well, I figured it had to happen eventually... so I am finally jumping ship to a new naming scheme... Aztec/Maya/Inca. I figured unless we get a 2012 obsessed person in here, they are not likely to think of Adawulcanak or Tliewatuwadjigican. Oh someone might, maybe, possibly think of Quetzalcoatl, but there is no way they are spelling it without a google, so chances are it won't be worth trying. :) I lasted 4 years naming machines from Greek Gods. :) Not too bad. :) Think I can last at least 4 years with Aztec/Maya/Inca Mythological names? :-D

                      _________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....

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                      Douglas Troy
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                      Go for Quantum Particles. Higgs Boson Gluon Quarkonium (that's got a nice ring to it) Here's a list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_particles[^] to get you going.


                      :..::. Douglas H. Troy ::..
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                      • E El Corazon

                        Someone else started naming their computers after Greek Gods/Goddesses and Hyperion got hit today with "same name on the network) bit.... well, I figured it had to happen eventually... so I am finally jumping ship to a new naming scheme... Aztec/Maya/Inca. I figured unless we get a 2012 obsessed person in here, they are not likely to think of Adawulcanak or Tliewatuwadjigican. Oh someone might, maybe, possibly think of Quetzalcoatl, but there is no way they are spelling it without a google, so chances are it won't be worth trying. :) I lasted 4 years naming machines from Greek Gods. :) Not too bad. :) Think I can last at least 4 years with Aztec/Maya/Inca Mythological names? :-D

                        _________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....

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                        Reading the subject, I was expecting something along the lines of "I used to think Joel Spolsky was a god. Then, I read his post about X..."

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                        • E El Corazon

                          Smithers-Jones wrote:

                          No way! Two years, 5 months and 13 days at the most. You know, why.

                          ;P I'll bet ya we survive. Tell you what. I'll bet you we survive the year 2012. If we do survive you can pay me a case of diet coke on Jan 1, 2013. ;P

                          _________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....

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                          RichardM1
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                          ?? DIET Coke?? That calls for at least real sugar - kosher Coke.

                          Opacity, the new Transparency.

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                            Doctor Nick wrote:

                            VB6, COBOL...

                            He said terminal diseases, not venereal diseases. Just sayin'...

                            They Call me Mister James

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                            I don't know, I wouldn't screw with VB or Cobol...

                            Opacity, the new Transparency.

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                              On my network at home, I'm using the names of terminal diseases. :) Ebola, Massa, Pox, Cancer, Gherigs, etc...

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                              Christian Graus
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                              That is just brilliant.

                              Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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                              • E El Corazon

                                Someone else started naming their computers after Greek Gods/Goddesses and Hyperion got hit today with "same name on the network) bit.... well, I figured it had to happen eventually... so I am finally jumping ship to a new naming scheme... Aztec/Maya/Inca. I figured unless we get a 2012 obsessed person in here, they are not likely to think of Adawulcanak or Tliewatuwadjigican. Oh someone might, maybe, possibly think of Quetzalcoatl, but there is no way they are spelling it without a google, so chances are it won't be worth trying. :) I lasted 4 years naming machines from Greek Gods. :) Not too bad. :) Think I can last at least 4 years with Aztec/Maya/Inca Mythological names? :-D

                                _________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....

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                                Anna Jayne Metcalfe
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                                Like it. :) We've mostly gone for obscure satellites, with the odd star, constellation or ringer thrown in. From memory we currently have: Laptops: Elara, Ophelia, Gabrielle*, Cortex Desktops: Xena (the big black box full of Vogons), Galatea, Larissa Servers: Vega, Orion, Sirius. Defunct/retired: Lysithea, Amalthea, Europa, Ganymede, Taurus, Adrastea and one I can't remember (but as it was a Sony it doesn't count anyway). * Bought at the same time as Xena and tended to orbit it for a while. A bit of an in-joke, really.

                                Anna :rose: Tech Blog | Visual Lint "Why would anyone prefer to wield a weapon that takes both hands at once, when they could use a lighter (and obviously superior) weapon that allows you to wield multiple ones at a time, and thus supports multi-paradigm carnage?"

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                                • E El Corazon

                                  Someone else started naming their computers after Greek Gods/Goddesses and Hyperion got hit today with "same name on the network) bit.... well, I figured it had to happen eventually... so I am finally jumping ship to a new naming scheme... Aztec/Maya/Inca. I figured unless we get a 2012 obsessed person in here, they are not likely to think of Adawulcanak or Tliewatuwadjigican. Oh someone might, maybe, possibly think of Quetzalcoatl, but there is no way they are spelling it without a google, so chances are it won't be worth trying. :) I lasted 4 years naming machines from Greek Gods. :) Not too bad. :) Think I can last at least 4 years with Aztec/Maya/Inca Mythological names? :-D

                                  _________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....

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                                  FyreWyrm
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                                  Titicaca!

                                  Don't blame me. I voted for Chuck Norris.

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                                    Go for Quantum Particles. Higgs Boson Gluon Quarkonium (that's got a nice ring to it) Here's a list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_particles[^] to get you going.


                                    :..::. Douglas H. Troy ::..
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                                    Mladen Jankovic
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                                    Hmm... I like suggestion. :thumbsup:

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                                    • E El Corazon

                                      Someone else started naming their computers after Greek Gods/Goddesses and Hyperion got hit today with "same name on the network) bit.... well, I figured it had to happen eventually... so I am finally jumping ship to a new naming scheme... Aztec/Maya/Inca. I figured unless we get a 2012 obsessed person in here, they are not likely to think of Adawulcanak or Tliewatuwadjigican. Oh someone might, maybe, possibly think of Quetzalcoatl, but there is no way they are spelling it without a google, so chances are it won't be worth trying. :) I lasted 4 years naming machines from Greek Gods. :) Not too bad. :) Think I can last at least 4 years with Aztec/Maya/Inca Mythological names? :-D

                                      _________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....

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                                      Chris Maunder
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                                      ...not if we send an email to your colleagues. Mwahaha.

                                      cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

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                                      • E El Corazon

                                        Someone else started naming their computers after Greek Gods/Goddesses and Hyperion got hit today with "same name on the network) bit.... well, I figured it had to happen eventually... so I am finally jumping ship to a new naming scheme... Aztec/Maya/Inca. I figured unless we get a 2012 obsessed person in here, they are not likely to think of Adawulcanak or Tliewatuwadjigican. Oh someone might, maybe, possibly think of Quetzalcoatl, but there is no way they are spelling it without a google, so chances are it won't be worth trying. :) I lasted 4 years naming machines from Greek Gods. :) Not too bad. :) Think I can last at least 4 years with Aztec/Maya/Inca Mythological names? :-D

                                        _________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....

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                                        Lost User
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                                        I can't tell you what my computers are called, because of the Kid Sister rule... Suffice to say that I take great delight when someone asks "What's the name of the SQL server?" and I can reply, with a reasonably straight face "*&^%HEAD". The password, of course, is "ItsASecret"

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                                        • D Doctor Nick

                                          John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                                          Ebola, Massa, Pox, Cancer, Gherigs, etc...

                                          VB6, COBOL... :-D

                                          ------------------------------------- Do not do what has already been done. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.. but it ROCKS absolutely, too.

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                                          Kelly Herald
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                                          You forgot another one... FoxPro X|

                                          Kelly Herald Software Developer

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