It's worth that much for me to spend my free time working on your stuff. This pricing structure actually encouraged several very needy people to become very self-proficient.
I've been doing this for years, thanks to x2x and x2vnc (search freshmeat). I currently have my linux machine in the center on a 24" monitor running fvwm2 with 2 3x3 pagers. On the right I have a Solaris machine on a 24" LCD and on the left a WinXP machine on a little 21" monitor.
Smooth mouse scrolling across all screens, both virtual and physical. This is extremely useful at work as our corporate apps necessitate the use of WinXP, plus it's a laptop. The Sun is needed for some specific applications I need to run that are very unfriendly with 32-bit displays (they can only handle 24/8-bit) as well as for testing alot of gnu tool compiles and 3rd party application installs.
The fact that I can run an xmatrix screensaver across all 3 screens simultaneously, randomly interspersed with the Hellraiser cube, is just a bonus.
I figure this will do until I can get one of those giant multi-screen things or plug my brain in directly.
Anyone planning on blogging this somewhere? I may not be able to call in and I'd be interested in seeing the transcript in either a sparse or blog-commented upon form.
It may very well turn out to be more of an MMORPG than "Star Wars", but which Star Wars? It will probably be very much more Star Wars than episodes 1-3 but not as much as the original trilogy.
The role-players are going to be going primarily for original flavor so it may very well balance out.
I just feel sorry for those poor 9-year-olds who'll make a jar-jar character over and over only to be killed and ridiculed by 99% of the server population every night.
IANAL, but wouldn't the SEC step in if IBM were to make a bid at purchasing SCO? As one of the major UNIX vendors in the world, there would seem to be something of a conflict of interest if they were to suddenly be in the position to take the same actions that SCO is taking now against their competitors.
Then again, IBM buying SCO wouldn't really give IBM any sort of market share advantage (IBM + near-zero) so maybe the SEC wouldn't object.
I'd be more concerned that Microsoft might put forth an offer.
I just want a phone that I can tell not to ring if the call shows up on caller-id as "out of area" (or unavailable or whatever).
But, in the meantime, I have that anti-telemarketer option from Qwest and I'm on the Colorado No-Call list. Before it went active, I'd receive up to 20 "out of area" rings on my phone in a day. Since the list went active I haven't received a single one. Very nice.
Much better to have a few thousand files in one dir than to have so many dirs that need to be in your $PATH that some shells will barf.
For instance, the POSIX standard (I believe) is 1024 characters for $PATH statements. That's a minimum. My users at work sometimes have need for much longer $PATH's. Some OS vendors say, ok, 1024 is the minimum for POSIX compliance, that's what we're doing. Some, like HP-UX (believe it or not) have increased this at user request to 4K.
In any case, this all seems pretty petty. It's not like our current and future filesystems can't handle it, and package managers are pretty good and know what they put where.
First, nobody chooses to become a SysAdmin. They are told to do it and get stuck doing it. That, or they get hired into a job that suddenly turns into a SysAdmin job (often different than what they were hired for).
There is no formal education, no particular degree required. Anyone who tells you that is in management - do not trust them. If any degree is favorable, then Philosophy is a good one (or Psychology) because one of the questions you're going to be asking yourself alot is "Why on earth did the idiot do that?" (and several slight variations).
To be a good one, you must have excellent reading and comprehension skills - this is because the management and users in the company that will hire you do not possess these skills in even the tiniest amounts and you will need them in spades to not only survive but to keep the company rolling along. Not only are these skills required, you must practice them (you know, by actually reading stuff - books like fiction and tech refrences).
Some people will say that you must also be either a sadist or a masochist in at least some small part. I would say instead that a better quality would be a Zen-like attitude - you know, shite happens. But if you have to kill someone at some point, think of it as a perk.
Yes, it's true. We, as a race, have been hacking our bodies since we've had them. Many of you probably have similar daily hacks that you perfom, as do I, to tune and enhance the operation of our bodies.
We eat and drink caffeinated foods and beverages in an effort to enhance alertness and to defeat our own circadian rythms. We wear eyeglasses in order to improve on factory standard equipment and to protect these vital tissues from damaging rays whilst out and about in the Big Blue Room. Some of us even submit these oh-so-tender pieces of flesh to the awesome might of a laser for input correction and re-alignment. We wear an assortment of braces and supports to relieve muscle pain and fatigue, use caustic chemicals to enhance our physical appearance, and braces on our teeth to guide the growth and placement of what would otherwise be non-parallel placed mastication devices. And then there's the whole Pandora's box of plastic surgery...
See what I mean? I know, I know, you're saying "but I want to tune my endorphin output using a heads-up display in my peripheral vision!" Hell, so do I. That's just hacking at the next level. We have been hacking our bodies for so long, most of us using the equivalent of rootkits, that we tend to forget that we are doing it. When articles like this talk about getting ready to hack your body they do so by keeping all of the daily hacks we all participate in below the base-line of what is currently possible.
Humans will create something not because it is needed but instead because it is possible. Once these things are made and used widely then they are, in effect, just another part of the human body, or more accurately a module which can be elected for use or not. We are already hacking our bodies, just not at the desired level. This is good. For what good would a hack be that had no room for improvement at a later date? Boring, I say. So bring on the cybernetic implants, the gene therapy, the bio-computers peppered about my person and the nanites on the rampage within. Bring it on, and let the hacking continue!
Now before I get flamed let me just say that I'm as flabbergasted as anyone with regards to this weird LinuxOne stuff. The fact that they've gotten as far as they have is some kind of horrible example of just how weird the business world is in these United States...
Anyway, back to my point: maybe this LinuxOne thing will wind up being a "good thing" for the Linux community as well as for the respectable vendors when all is said and done. Think about it. LinuxOne is as good a counterpoint to almost every other Linux vendor and distro out there (if not all). Any comparison between them and any other vendor is going to result in nothing but glowing remarks for the "good guy" vendors.
In the press, anytime that LinuxOne is mentioned they are going to be compared to Mandrake, which will have to be explained as a RedHat derivative which will, in turn, be compared to Corel, SuSE, Debian, etc. Notice that all the comparisons are talking about Linux and Linux vendors. Nowhere was a non-Linux comparison made. The case for Linux being non-viable due to lack of anything has been erased because all anyone is talking about is Linux.
So, as evil or greedy as they seem, maybe they will turn out to have done Linux (in general) a favor. Kind of a double edged sword, I know, but hey.
Heck, it's almost as if it's an inept Microsoft plot that's in the process of exploding in their face.:-)
Of course that's just my hallucination. I could be stoned.
The Aviator cards from WebGear are very good. And fairly inexpensive as well. You can get a 2-station kit here. I use them at home and can take my laptop to a friends house and walk right into their network by bouncing dhcpcd. I get about 1.5Mbit inside my house too, which isn't bad considering my internet connection (also wireless) is only 256K.
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Hi, I'm the "Who Cares?" guy. You make some very good points, and none that I can really argue with, except to say that I disagree with your statement that Slashdot is about the "human experience." You're getting a little close to demonstrating Heisenberg's Uncertainity Principle there. Show me an active web site that isn't an example of the human experience. But that's irrelevant here.
My beef is with the editorial style used to decide what gets posted and what doesn't. I read this site daily for news. Just like we, as a country (US), used to watch Walter Cronkite for the nightly news. How would you have taken it if good old Walter had taken a quick minute to tell the country about the wedding of a friend that he attended over the weekend, complete with pictures? Would it have felt out of place? Would you have thought to yourself "What is he doing? He's flipped his lid!"
Now, I agree that this whole internet deal is a "brave new frontier" and that all of the old rules don't apply, but please, God, tell me that relevance is still relevant! There are days that I have to check that I'm reading Slashdot and not Segfault.org!
I don't know what the CNN tech editor's favorite technology is, but I know Hemos is all over nanotech - and I'm with him all the way. That's the kind of thing I love this place for - very real world stuff, like breakthroughs and news, not just stuff. Rob's got a home page, what's wrong with putting this story there? I'm sure he gets lots of hits every day since he's linked to right from the front page.
If this story had been posted as something other as news I probably wouldn't have flown off the handle, but it was and I did. Maybe if Rob and Hemos spent more time actually running the site and not delegating the editorial duties to so many others, thereby diluting the quality, I'd just shut up.
Anyway, I hope that the cloning technology hurries up and gets here so that we can have Rob and Hemos doing both the editorial work, site development and source release.
I mean, really: who cares? I'm just reading this page in the seemingly useless hope that something relative to anything tech might come across and I have to see this? I have to spend more time reading user comments to find out stuff like "Sun is giving away Solaris 8" because the "powers that be" are stoned on the smell of the new leather interior of their lear jet.
Now with both relevant sentences side to side i would like to ask bugzilla and all the moderators who believe this is worthy of a 5, where does roblimo strongly encourage anyone to send money...? he said he has sent money and strongly encourages every one to take appropriate action.
What is the "appropriate action" left? Boycott something? Sure, that'll work. Just like boycotting amazon.com will show that Bezos guy. IMO, there's nothing to be done outside of the normal legal process. There's a legal system in place and no matter what is done to patch it to work with current (or not so current) world politics it will always be able to be taken advantage of for cross purposes. This is one of those situations and causing a fervor about it isn't going to help it. Heck, Katz will probably have a "sauces from the Frenchmouth" sometime next week.
It seems that you are making the Slashdot a role model and are now complaining because you don't approve of this role model's behavior.
By reading and posting to Slashdot, I, along with millions of others, have made it a role model - granted, an unwilling one, but a role model and member of the world media all the same. As part of that role, they have a responsibility (oops, did I curse?) to present the news, whatever it might be, in a responsible fashion. Why? Because people believe what they read and many folks have turned to Slashdot as their sole news source over the last year or so. Slashdot has themselves said that they need to be more responsible when posting a news story. Or am I mistaken and Slashdot is no longer a news site? Hmm, the title graphic still has that darn word in it.
My main point, and forgive me if I've been too microcephalic in trying to get it across, is this: the lack of responsibility for the manner in which some news items are posted on Slashdot is starting to show and it isn't a pretty sight. I like Slashdot, I really do. And you're right, I don't approve of some of the behaviour, but that's my right and I can bitch about it until the cows come home, but by doing so in the forum provided by Slashdot, I hope to get the message across not only to the guys running the show but also to the readers brave enough to read below a threshold of 4. Here's to the hope that we'll have some better thought out editorials and commentaries by the powers that be in 2000 and beyond. I'm rooting for you, I'll tell you that.
Thank you, Sp@mMan, for a voice or reason in all of the "me too's". I've also noticed the tendency of Slashdot in the recent year to regurjitate FUD a bit too quickly all while using some pretty weak excuses when called on it. Now we're being asked to send our money to someone to defend themselves against the French? All humor related to the French military tradition of surrender aside, doesn't France use the "loser pays" method of who pays for court costs? Sounds like someone is just rattling their saber to get a little free publicity.
Slashdot, you guys are now in the position of having no small amount of influence on a large part of the net culture - please start thinking about using it wisely. You aren't doing so hot where it counts. Stories about robots and the like are massively cool, but "strongly encouraging" me to send my money somewhere to defend against something I think is inane? Thanks, but no. If I were up for that I'd open up the yellow pages, turn to religion and play "pick a sect".
I use two kinds of these switches currently and am very happy with both. For home use, I bought one from Telenet System Solutions that controls 4 boxes. It's a push-button jobbie and works about a million times better than a pure mechanical one.
At work, I use one from Wright Line, which is actually made by Apex, to stack Suns together. There's also a PC version available. This one is activated by the Print Screen button on the controlling keyboard and you select the port (which you can apply names to) using the arrow and enter keys. Very simple to setup and use, and quite reliable in my experience.
For the "H" word, I just had to.:-) It's actually a NeXTstation, not that it's relevant. And it's usually turned off as I don't have a desk for it right now. These are all home machines.
Azathoth is a Sun 670MP, with 2 processors, that is also in a down state for the time being. With winter coming I'll probably use it to heat the garage.:-)
More details about these machines can be found here.
I use the Cthulhu mythos names from the books and mind of H.P. Lovecraft. If you are familiar with these then naming a firewall "nyarlothotep" makes some sense. Not only are they hard to remember but they're fun!:-) Here's a short list:
I've also used the planets from the Star Wars movies before (not the books). The one named tatooine was appropriate when the fan in the power supply died and it ran hot.:-)
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$75/min, 5 minute minimum.
It's worth that much for me to spend my free time working on your stuff. This pricing structure actually encouraged several very needy people to become very self-proficient.
I've been doing this for years, thanks to x2x and x2vnc (search freshmeat). I currently have my linux machine in the center on a 24" monitor running fvwm2 with 2 3x3 pagers. On the right I have a Solaris machine on a 24" LCD and on the left a WinXP machine on a little 21" monitor.
Smooth mouse scrolling across all screens, both virtual and physical. This is extremely useful at work as our corporate apps necessitate the use of WinXP, plus it's a laptop. The Sun is needed for some specific applications I need to run that are very unfriendly with 32-bit displays (they can only handle 24/8-bit) as well as for testing alot of gnu tool compiles and 3rd party application installs.
The fact that I can run an xmatrix screensaver across all 3 screens simultaneously, randomly interspersed with the Hellraiser cube, is just a bonus.
I figure this will do until I can get one of those giant multi-screen things or plug my brain in directly.
Anyone planning on blogging this somewhere? I may not be able to call in and I'd be interested in seeing the transcript in either a sparse or blog-commented upon form.
It may very well turn out to be more of an MMORPG than "Star Wars", but which Star Wars? It will probably be very much more Star Wars than episodes 1-3 but not as much as the original trilogy.
The role-players are going to be going primarily for original flavor so it may very well balance out.
I just feel sorry for those poor 9-year-olds who'll make a jar-jar character over and over only to be killed and ridiculed by 99% of the server population every night.
IANAL, but wouldn't the SEC step in if IBM were to make a bid at purchasing SCO? As one of the major UNIX vendors in the world, there would seem to be something of a conflict of interest if they were to suddenly be in the position to take the same actions that SCO is taking now against their competitors.
Then again, IBM buying SCO wouldn't really give IBM any sort of market share advantage (IBM + near-zero) so maybe the SEC wouldn't object.
I'd be more concerned that Microsoft might put forth an offer.
Oh man, this one is too good and accurate! We need to get the Ashcroft Corollary stamped and approved!
Headline ala Fark?
*blinks*
These guys do.
What do you see as the largest hurdles for you over the next 12 months?
Also, what things do you plan on not changing in your day to day life?
I just want a phone that I can tell not to ring if the call shows up on caller-id as "out of area" (or unavailable or whatever).
But, in the meantime, I have that anti-telemarketer option from Qwest and I'm on the Colorado No-Call list. Before it went active, I'd receive up to 20 "out of area" rings on my phone in a day. Since the list went active I haven't received a single one. Very nice.
You do mean "bale" some hay, yes?
Much better to have a few thousand files in one dir than to have so many dirs that need to be in your $PATH that some shells will barf.
For instance, the POSIX standard (I believe) is 1024 characters for $PATH statements. That's a minimum. My users at work sometimes have need for much longer $PATH's. Some OS vendors say, ok, 1024 is the minimum for POSIX compliance, that's what we're doing. Some, like HP-UX (believe it or not) have increased this at user request to 4K.
In any case, this all seems pretty petty. It's not like our current and future filesystems can't handle it, and package managers are pretty good and know what they put where.
First, nobody chooses to become a SysAdmin. They are told to do it and get stuck doing it. That, or they get hired into a job that suddenly turns into a SysAdmin job (often different than what they were hired for).
There is no formal education, no particular degree required. Anyone who tells you that is in management - do not trust them. If any degree is favorable, then Philosophy is a good one (or Psychology) because one of the questions you're going to be asking yourself alot is "Why on earth did the idiot do that?" (and several slight variations).
To be a good one, you must have excellent reading and comprehension skills - this is because the management and users in the company that will hire you do not possess these skills in even the tiniest amounts and you will need them in spades to not only survive but to keep the company rolling along. Not only are these skills required, you must practice them (you know, by actually reading stuff - books like fiction and tech refrences).
Some people will say that you must also be either a sadist or a masochist in at least some small part. I would say instead that a better quality would be a Zen-like attitude - you know, shite happens. But if you have to kill someone at some point, think of it as a perk.
25,000 units of StarOffice != 25,000 Linux installs.
Yes, it's true. We, as a race, have been hacking our bodies since we've had them. Many of you probably have similar daily hacks that you perfom, as do I, to tune and enhance the operation of our bodies.
We eat and drink caffeinated foods and beverages in an effort to enhance alertness and to defeat our own circadian rythms. We wear eyeglasses in order to improve on factory standard equipment and to protect these vital tissues from damaging rays whilst out and about in the Big Blue Room. Some of us even submit these oh-so-tender pieces of flesh to the awesome might of a laser for input correction and re-alignment. We wear an assortment of braces and supports to relieve muscle pain and fatigue, use caustic chemicals to enhance our physical appearance, and braces on our teeth to guide the growth and placement of what would otherwise be non-parallel placed mastication devices. And then there's the whole Pandora's box of plastic surgery...
See what I mean? I know, I know, you're saying "but I want to tune my endorphin output using a heads-up display in my peripheral vision!" Hell, so do I. That's just hacking at the next level. We have been hacking our bodies for so long, most of us using the equivalent of rootkits, that we tend to forget that we are doing it. When articles like this talk about getting ready to hack your body they do so by keeping all of the daily hacks we all participate in below the base-line of what is currently possible.
Humans will create something not because it is needed but instead because it is possible. Once these things are made and used widely then they are, in effect, just another part of the human body, or more accurately a module which can be elected for use or not. We are already hacking our bodies, just not at the desired level. This is good. For what good would a hack be that had no room for improvement at a later date? Boring, I say. So bring on the cybernetic implants, the gene therapy, the bio-computers peppered about my person and the nanites on the rampage within. Bring it on, and let the hacking continue!
Now before I get flamed let me just say that I'm as flabbergasted as anyone with regards to this weird LinuxOne stuff. The fact that they've gotten as far as they have is some kind of horrible example of just how weird the business world is in these United States...
:-)
Anyway, back to my point: maybe this LinuxOne thing will wind up being a "good thing" for the Linux community as well as for the respectable vendors when all is said and done. Think about it. LinuxOne is as good a counterpoint to almost every other Linux vendor and distro out there (if not all). Any comparison between them and any other vendor is going to result in nothing but glowing remarks for the "good guy" vendors.
In the press, anytime that LinuxOne is mentioned they are going to be compared to Mandrake, which will have to be explained as a RedHat derivative which will, in turn, be compared to Corel, SuSE, Debian, etc. Notice that all the comparisons are talking about Linux and Linux vendors. Nowhere was a non-Linux comparison made. The case for Linux being non-viable due to lack of anything has been erased because all anyone is talking about is Linux.
So, as evil or greedy as they seem, maybe they will turn out to have done Linux (in general) a favor. Kind of a double edged sword, I know, but hey.
Heck, it's almost as if it's an inept Microsoft plot that's in the process of exploding in their face.
Of course that's just my hallucination. I could be stoned.
The Aviator cards from WebGear are very good. And fairly inexpensive as well. You can get a 2-station kit here. I use them at home and can take my laptop to a friends house and walk right into their network by bouncing dhcpcd. I get about 1.5Mbit inside my house too, which isn't bad considering my internet connection (also wireless) is only 256K.
Hi, I'm the "Who Cares?" guy. You make some very good points, and none that I can really argue with, except to say that I disagree with your statement that Slashdot is about the "human experience." You're getting a little close to demonstrating Heisenberg's Uncertainity Principle there. Show me an active web site that isn't an example of the human experience. But that's irrelevant here.
My beef is with the editorial style used to decide what gets posted and what doesn't. I read this site daily for news. Just like we, as a country (US), used to watch Walter Cronkite for the nightly news. How would you have taken it if good old Walter had taken a quick minute to tell the country about the wedding of a friend that he attended over the weekend, complete with pictures? Would it have felt out of place? Would you have thought to yourself "What is he doing? He's flipped his lid!"
Now, I agree that this whole internet deal is a "brave new frontier" and that all of the old rules don't apply, but please, God, tell me that relevance is still relevant! There are days that I have to check that I'm reading Slashdot and not Segfault.org!
I don't know what the CNN tech editor's favorite technology is, but I know Hemos is all over nanotech - and I'm with him all the way. That's the kind of thing I love this place for - very real world stuff, like breakthroughs and news, not just stuff. Rob's got a home page, what's wrong with putting this story there? I'm sure he gets lots of hits every day since he's linked to right from the front page.
If this story had been posted as something other as news I probably wouldn't have flown off the handle, but it was and I did. Maybe if Rob and Hemos spent more time actually running the site and not delegating the editorial duties to so many others, thereby diluting the quality, I'd just shut up.
Anyway, I hope that the cloning technology hurries up and gets here so that we can have Rob and Hemos doing both the editorial work, site development and source release.
Mike "insert smilies where appropriate" Loseke
I mean, really: who cares? I'm just reading this page in the seemingly useless hope that something relative to anything tech might come across and I have to see this? I have to spend more time reading user comments to find out stuff like "Sun is giving away Solaris 8" because the "powers that be" are stoned on the smell of the new leather interior of their lear jet.
Is anyone listening?
Now with both relevant sentences side to side i would like to ask bugzilla and all the moderators who believe this is worthy of a 5, where does roblimo strongly encourage anyone to send money...? he said he has sent money and strongly encourages every one to take appropriate action.
What is the "appropriate action" left? Boycott something? Sure, that'll work. Just like boycotting amazon.com will show that Bezos guy. IMO, there's nothing to be done outside of the normal legal process. There's a legal system in place and no matter what is done to patch it to work with current (or not so current) world politics it will always be able to be taken advantage of for cross purposes. This is one of those situations and causing a fervor about it isn't going to help it. Heck, Katz will probably have a "sauces from the Frenchmouth" sometime next week.
It seems that you are making the Slashdot a role model and are now complaining because you don't approve of this role model's behavior.
By reading and posting to Slashdot, I, along with millions of others, have made it a role model - granted, an unwilling one, but a role model and member of the world media all the same. As part of that role, they have a responsibility (oops, did I curse?) to present the news, whatever it might be, in a responsible fashion. Why? Because people believe what they read and many folks have turned to Slashdot as their sole news source over the last year or so. Slashdot has themselves said that they need to be more responsible when posting a news story. Or am I mistaken and Slashdot is no longer a news site? Hmm, the title graphic still has that darn word in it.
My main point, and forgive me if I've been too microcephalic in trying to get it across, is this: the lack of responsibility for the manner in which some news items are posted on Slashdot is starting to show and it isn't a pretty sight. I like Slashdot, I really do. And you're right, I don't approve of some of the behaviour, but that's my right and I can bitch about it until the cows come home, but by doing so in the forum provided by Slashdot, I hope to get the message across not only to the guys running the show but also to the readers brave enough to read below a threshold of 4. Here's to the hope that we'll have some better thought out editorials and commentaries by the powers that be in 2000 and beyond. I'm rooting for you, I'll tell you that.
Thank you, Sp@mMan, for a voice or reason in all of the "me too's". I've also noticed the tendency of Slashdot in the recent year to regurjitate FUD a bit too quickly all while using some pretty weak excuses when called on it. Now we're being asked to send our money to someone to defend themselves against the French? All humor related to the French military tradition of surrender aside, doesn't France use the "loser pays" method of who pays for court costs? Sounds like someone is just rattling their saber to get a little free publicity.
Slashdot, you guys are now in the position of having no small amount of influence on a large part of the net culture - please start thinking about using it wisely. You aren't doing so hot where it counts. Stories about robots and the like are massively cool, but "strongly encouraging" me to send my money somewhere to defend against something I think is inane? Thanks, but no. If I were up for that I'd open up the yellow pages, turn to religion and play "pick a sect".
Not just a book, according to ThinkGeek:
Which just goes to prove the publishers will still print anything. Especially if they don't understand it.
I use two kinds of these switches currently and am very happy with both. For home use, I bought one from Telenet System Solutions that controls 4 boxes. It's a push-button jobbie and works about a million times better than a pure mechanical one.
At work, I use one from Wright Line, which is actually made by Apex, to stack Suns together. There's also a PC version available. This one is activated by the Print Screen button on the controlling keyboard and you select the port (which you can apply names to) using the arrow and enter keys. Very simple to setup and use, and quite reliable in my experience.
For the "H" word, I just had to. :-) It's actually a NeXTstation, not that it's relevant. And it's usually turned off as I don't have a desk for it right now. These are all home machines.
:-)
Azathoth is a Sun 670MP, with 2 processors, that is also in a down state for the time being. With winter coming I'll probably use it to heat the garage.
More details about these machines can be found here.
I use the Cthulhu mythos names from the books and mind of H.P. Lovecraft. If you are familiar with these then naming a firewall "nyarlothotep" makes some sense. Not only are they hard to remember but they're fun! :-) Here's a short list:
:-)
nyarlothotep
cthulhu
azathoth
hastur
nodens
cthugha
yig
yog-sothoth
ithaqua
nyogtha
shub-niggurath
tsathoggua
I've also used the planets from the Star Wars movies before (not the books). The one named tatooine was appropriate when the fan in the power supply died and it ran hot.