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Suggestions for Unique Names for a Server Room?
clutch110 asks: "I have been tasked with coming up with a name for our soon-to-be server room. Our president is renowned for these small tasks. I was told to create something funny and not nearly as obvious as 'Company Server Room'. So I come in hope that your everlasting humor can help me complete my quest for the most unique server room name in existance."
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"we live in a post-ideological world..." - Billy Bragg.
Blinkenroom
Das B00T!
if it's in the basement you can always call it:
Moria
The Ninth Circle
(with individual servers named Faust, Mephisto, Lucifer, Phil, ect...ect...)
If it's a small room, you can just stick a british "Police" sign on the outside (ala Dr. Who).
if you are running really big iron, place a "Welcome to Urbana Illinios" sign on the door. (birth place of H.A.L., S.A.L., et al.)
but if you have a DC fetish (come on we can smell our own here, it's Slashdot) you can choose from christening it the "Fortress of Solitude", "Bat Cave", "OA", or "S.T.A.R. Labs"
BTW someone sugested "the Brothel" LOL, wouldn't be so sure that the suits wouold be happy to roll along with that one.
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I bent my Wookie!
How about you put up a sign called Engineering and have everyone refer to you as Scotty!
Can I get an eye poke?
Dog House Forum
While you're at it, if you've got three large servers you can call them Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar, and collectively "The Magi".
And major system problems can henceforth be named/numbered after the Angels. "Uh oh - the Second Angel has attacked."
OK, OK, I've just been watching Neon Genesis Evangelion. I'll go and lie down now...
404: NotFound
Bah!
Grey Area is a better choice - you can even keep the nickname "Meatfucker", sure anyone who has used a computer in the last 10 years can relate to that one...
It's not that I'm Anti-American - I'm Pro-Freedom
ACHTUNG! Alles touristen und non-technischen peepers!
Das machine control is nicht fur gerfinger-poken und mittengrabben. Oderwise is easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowen fuse, und poppencorken mit spitzensparken.
Der machine is diggen by experten only. Is nicht fur geverken by das dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken sightseenen keepen das cotten picken hands in das pockets, so relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights.
well, of course ... i would assume that your wife would already have a name and therefore you wouldn't need to name her *again* ... that would just be silly
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If so, feel free to use this one:
"FOR SALE: SLIGHTLY USED"
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
[airport code][descriptive code]
For example: CHIWST, Chicago West datacenter. West could be the part of the city, or the part of the building. Add a number on the end if you're feeling kinky. Or maybe something obvious to the front like "DC".
You won't get slammed if what you end up creating makes some logical sense, though. You could call it "CHARLIE" and name the next datacenter (if there is one) "DELTA".
One of my customers has a lab in an unlikely part of the building. On the door it says "Accounts Receivable." When you walk in, its one of the most validation labs I've ever seen. Instead of a funny name like "Everyone on slashdot complains of not sleeping because they think it makes them sound cool", name it another corporate department.
Oh the irony of asking Slashdot for something unique and original...........
"Kim just crashed"
yeah, but see that's the one chance a computer geek will get to say something like, "Kim just went down on me"...
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true." - Homer Simpson
Ages ago I worked with someone who (with malace aforethought) got everyone to refer to the small room where we delt with all the network/phone interconnects as "the Wiring Closet", and then started shortening it to "the W. C." in memos, and finally (once everyone was numbed to it) put a sign on the door with just the letters "WC".
And then he waited waited...
--MarkusQ
...the college of engineering at my old university did something similar with the isolated subnets.
There'd be a bunch of machines, called bilbo, frodo, gandalf, etc, on a net of their own, and diamond, ruby, emerald, etc, on a net of their own. For each net, another machine with two network cards would be their bridge to the outside world. Each of the network cards had its own name -- and this is where the geekiness comes out -- and the names would be for the same thing.
So one card on the bridge would be rivendell, and the other would be imladris. One card would be gem and the other jewel. Things like that. One of the sysadmins had never read Tolkien, and the network topology of room 355 always confused him until someone explained the names.
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
Washington DC has a combined sewer system. Basically, this means that there are not seperate sanitary (ie, toilets) and storm sewers. When there hasn't been rain in a while, leaves and other assorted trash will collect up in the storm sewers. When a hard rain comes, it will back up the storm sewers, and there's always a questions of exactly what else might have floated up from the drains.
Our machine room just happens to be in a basement. [Until a couple of years back, there was a glass wall to the outside, too, so it obviously wasn't well planned] I think it was late 2000 (maybe early 2001), when we had a sewer backup on the same block our building was. There was an inch or so of standing water on the ground floor. There was sewage leaking from the ceiling above into our machine room, onto the machines, and into flooring [raised floor, so of course, all of the power runs through the floor].
Needless to say, the smell was not so wonderful, although anything chunky was filtered out by the seeping through the concrete floor/ceiling. It did manage to cause the ceiling tiles in the machine room to crumble, and they had to replace anything that couldn't be easily disinfected in another room on that floor (chairs, cubicle walls, etc).
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
If you pick a theme for your server names at the same time, the name for the server room can be quite straightforward. Name them after fish and a roomful becomes a school. Name 'em after birds and it becomes a flock. There are lots of collective nouns out there just waiting to be used.
So my suggestion would be to name them after orchestra instruments, so you could justify calling the place "The Pit" :-)