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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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    • J Joe Simes

      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... :)

      ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF! Personal 3D projects Just Say No to Web 2 Point Blow

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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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              _beauw_
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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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                • T TheyCallMeMrJames

                  Doctor Nick wrote:

                  VB6, COBOL...

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

                  They Call me Mister James

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                  RichardM1
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                  I don't know, I wouldn't screw with VB or Cobol...

                  Opacity, the new Transparency.

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                  • realJSOPR realJSOP

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

                    .45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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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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                        • D Douglas Troy

                          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 ::..
                          Bad Astronomy |VCF|wxWidgets|WTL

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                          Mladen Jankovic
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                          Hmm... I like suggestion. :thumbsup:

                          [Genetic Algorithm Library] [Wowd]

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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"

                              ___________________________________________ .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

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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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                                • J Joe Simes

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

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                                  PaulPrice
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                                  Porn stars! brilliant, I am stealing this....

                                  Just racking up the postings

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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 Quinn
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                                    If you believe the Aztec mythology, you will only have to last out until 2012!

                                    ==================================== Transvestites - Roberts in Disguise! ====================================

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                                    • J Jorgen Andersson

                                      I would have expected a different terminal. Such as Smith & Wesson, Colt, Ruger and Browning

                                      "When did ignorance become a point of view" - Dilbert

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                                      realJSOP
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                                      If I had done that and mentioned it, the entire thread would have been moved to the soapbox by people with an overblown sense of self-importance.

                                      .45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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                                      • realJSOPR realJSOP

                                        If I had done that and mentioned it, the entire thread would have been moved to the soapbox by people with an overblown sense of self-importance.

                                        .45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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                                        "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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                                        "The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001

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                                        Jorgen Andersson
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                                        I'm not having any problems with the KSS rule. But this thread moving business certainly lacks consistency.

                                        "When did ignorance become a point of view" - Dilbert

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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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                                          Gary Wheeler
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                                          A long time ago, we had a small Sun network used for development. The server was named 'Sun', and the workstations were named after the planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and so on. We had a Q.A. guy who was a complete jerk. He insisted he had to have a workstation in order to perform his testing. Needless to say, we skipped to 'Uranus' for him.

                                          Software Zen: delete this;

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