Naming machines
Par Benjamin Drieu le lundi 19 septembre 2005, 10:00 - Debian - Lien permanent
As I stumbled on my client's server, I could notice it was named after Mercury, and that there was a Hermes, a Vulcan and other mythology gods nearby. Besides that it is the quadrillionth time I log on a server named "mercury", I kept wonder how many naming schemes I met during my various business trips. So far, after ten year of consulting, I can count:
- mythology gods
- sci-fi authors
- cities, countries, lakes
- fishes, shells, flowers, sweets
- drugs (yes, I once ssh'd to tetrahydrocannabinol)
- chemical elements
- fiction characters, like Asterix, LOTR, X-Men (good guys being Debian servers, magneto being the Windows server)
- female first names
- boring names like mailgw012
I wonder what else people use, if people know other naming schemes I'd be curious to hear them.
