merchant@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Peter Merchant) (08/17/88)
In article <137@lloyd.camex.uucp> kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg) writes: >(This is your opportunity to be creative! . . . Or you can be more >traditional: The Boston Computer Society has LaserWriters named Larry, >Curley, and Moe.) We had a LaserWriter called "Rich & Famous". We then called the AppleTalk ImageWriter "Poor & Unknown". A pity that the military has no imagination and I had to change them to something dull. Anyone else ever come up with any good network names? --- "There were times we had it all, Peter Merchant (merchant@eleazar.UUCP) There were times we lost it all..." (merchant@eleazar.dartmouth.edu) (Peter.G.Merchant@dartmouth.edu)
ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Andy J. Williams) (08/17/88)
In article <9816@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> merchant@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Peter Merchant) writes: >We had a LaserWriter called "Rich & Famous". We then called the AppleTalk >ImageWriter "Poor & Unknown". A pity that the military has no imagination and >I had to change them to something dull. >Anyone else ever come up with any good network names? Well, where I worked last summer I named the two laserwriters Bogart and Becall. I even found some digitized pictures of them and pasted them to the LWs. My co-workers found this amusing. However, when I put startup screens and sounds on all the macs around the office one morning (these people were mac neophytes, they had no clue how to do this or how to stop it) they flipped. They loved it. Well, they did. The boss didn't. When I finally left to return up here to college, the boss gruffly asked me to make sure I removed that "noise" ASAP. I was so tempted to leave them... no one there knew how to fix it... alas, level headedness prevailed... but I always wondered what would have happened... -Andy :-) :-) :-) Andy J. Williams '90 | <hello> | ack@eleazar.dartmouth.edu Systems Programmer | set $NAME='inigo_montoya' | 31 North Main Street Kiewit Computation Ctr | You kill -9 my process | Hanover NH, 03755 Dartmouth College | prepare to vi | 115 Kiewit, 603-646-2636
edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu (08/18/88)
In article <9816@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> merchant@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Peter Merchant) writes: >In article <137@lloyd.camex.uucp> kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg) writes: >>(This is your opportunity to be creative! . . . Or you can be more >>traditional: The Boston Computer Society has LaserWriters named Larry, >>Curley, and Moe.) > >We had a LaserWriter called "Rich & Famous". We then called the AppleTalk >ImageWriter "Poor & Unknown". A pity that the military has no imagination and >I had to change them to something dull. > >Anyone else ever come up with any good network names? We had a Sun cluster with two servers going in for the Humanities department sometime ago, so I put my two cents into the name pot and came up with the names "Laurel" and "Harty". They didn't think much of my names, so I came up with "War" and "Peace". Still no go. (Perhaps you can tell my opinion of Suns. Please, no flames :-) For Unix systems at Berkeley, we tended to name things in series. There was the semi-precious stone series (opal, garnet, topaz, ruby, etc), the flower series (violet, lilac, etc), the Vaxs (kim [NoVax], ernie [KoVax]), the seven deadly Suns (lust, greed, etc). When we ran out of semi-precious stones that were easy to spell (like amethyst), we jokingly suggested dirt, rubble, sand and schist. Edward Moy Principal Programmer - Macintosh & Unix Workstation Support Services Workstation Software Support Group University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 edmoy@violet.Berkeley.EDU ucbvax!violet!edmoy
prince@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Larry Prince) (08/18/88)
In article <13375@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu writes: >> >>Anyone else ever come up with any good network names? > Our first Sun 3/280 was named Ra (the Sun God). As we acquired more, we came up with some other SUNny names: Maui, Lanai, Oahu, and Kona. UCLA Computer Science Department -- Larry 3413 Boelter Hall Los Angeles 90024 (213) 825-2145 Prince UUCP: {ucbvax,sdcrdcf}!ucla-cs!prince ARPAnet: prince@CS.UCLA.EDU
roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (08/18/88)
In article <13375@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu writes: > For Unix systems at Berkeley, we tended to name things in series. When it came time to christen our 2 Sun file servers, we named them in honor of the two Sun field service techs who did the installation -- Wombat and Goober. No kidding. -- Roy Smith, System Administrator Public Health Research Institute {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net "The connector is the network"
wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter) (08/26/88)
Cute LaserWriter names so far:
Worthless Test Page. (Printed at the top of every test page)
LaserWriter & right next to it EvilTwin
Pierce
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