Tuesday, December 8. 2009

Nomenclature

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Since this question comes up every now and again …
The naming of my machines.

My Sun U5, my first work machine, was slow as sin. (Hence it was the original sin – hahaha, I never noticed the pun). The linux PC that replaced it freed me from the slowness, so it was my salvation. There was a Windows instance on it because sometimes to do business, you gotta make a sacrifice. Then I got the linux laptop which is nice, but has slow disk, and the Sun had gone since, so that laptop became the new sin. If it's cable-bound, that is. If I come in via wireless, I end up on a different subnet, and then the same machine is the blasphemy (that IP was originally reserved for another Windows instance, hence, again, the name). The file-and-compile server, the white (named for the white old-style case), since got a new (black) box to live in, and hence is the noir. So yeah, the user-facing machines are a little biblically themed in a way, but there's also a method to my madness. :-D Oh! And I have a Sun instance, which is the invictus. As in Sol(aris) Invictus. Har, har.
The latest addition to the zoo is a Mac (a 15" Macbook Pro, as it were), which of course is the vanity. If all the terrible Mac-ness gets too much, I can withdraw into a virtual linux, the sanctuary.
The Mac was this close to becoming the pain, by the way – for the obvious reasons (it being my work-machine, thus supplying le pain quotidien!).
Get it? Get it? :-D

And now you know! :-)
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Azundris on :

*Google Sets goes a long way towards finding the next name for a given, well, set, by the way. :)

Clemens Schmitz on :

*And now you know! :-)


And knowing is half the battle!

And I thought giving my stable of computers the names (more or less) famous horses was weird.

P on :

*What, no "evidence" nor "enlightenment" in the list? Or embargo, entice, embryo or evolution. Oh, cancel that last one.
It's been a long time huh

foxbow on :

*I can add deadly things starting with 'C', like Curare, Claymore, Crossbow, Charybdis, Cassandra (kindof a stretch)...
But that is just the illogical followup to Arcade games starting with 'C': Commando, Choplifter, Contra..
Why 'C'? Why not?

Azundris on :

*I could certainly imagine using a plant scheme, but then everybody would want to be on orchid or dionaea and no-one on amorphophallus titanum or squirting cucumber!

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