...and, thusly, our machines are named after various things japanese. Let's see:
The firewall machines are ninja, samurai, and judoka. The servers, sushi, sashimi, and wasabi. Workstations are mostly sushi dishes: tekkadon, kabayaki, ikura, nigiri... my own box is named unagi. At some point we ran out of fish, so now we also have karoshi, seppuku, sake, ryouko, yakuza etc. My home machines, mostly used for playful stuff, are go and sokoban.
I haven't seen that scheme before; I think, however, that it has numerous advantages: it sounds cool, it's really hard to run out of names, and it might even teach you a tiny bit of japanese on the side, while trying to come up with appropriate names.;)
I'm somewhat surprised that nobody mentioned it yet; heck, maybe it's even an urban legend sort of thing, but I always used to think that CYGNUS stood for
CYGNUS, Your GNUSupport
which I happen to find one of the coolest names in the business, what with the Recursive Acronym tradition and all that.
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...and, thusly, our machines are named after various things japanese. Let's see:
;)
The firewall machines are ninja, samurai, and judoka. The servers, sushi, sashimi, and wasabi. Workstations are mostly sushi dishes: tekkadon, kabayaki, ikura, nigiri... my own box is named unagi. At some point we ran out of fish, so now we also have karoshi, seppuku, sake, ryouko, yakuza etc. My home machines, mostly used for playful stuff, are go and sokoban.
I haven't seen that scheme before; I think, however, that it has numerous advantages: it sounds cool, it's really hard to run out of names, and it might even teach you a tiny bit of japanese on the side, while trying to come up with appropriate names.
Is anyone else using that, too?
But then, I'm a geek...