These days server naming is a bit of a lost art. Most large organizations don't allow for fanciful names and name their servers with jumbles of digits and letters. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. SCI FI Channel is now Syfy, but you can still get access to all your favorite SCI FI Channel content right here. Syfy features science fiction, drama, supernatural. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get.

The Coolest Server Names. The Coolest Server Names. DELETED]. This question exists because it has. More info: http: //serverfault. These days server naming is a bit of a lost art. Most large organizations don't allow for fanciful names and name their servers with jumbles of digits and letters. South Park Episodes Fast Streaming. In the olden days just about every system administrator came up with a unique naming scheme, well, sometimes unique - many just settled for Star Trek characters.

To this day my favorite server name is Qantas - a Unix server that Joel Spolsky has or used to have. Why Qantas? You'd have to ask Rainman. So my question is this - what is the coolest server name or naming convention that you encountered? Let the geekfest begin. Elements of the periodic table. We also use the element number in the IP address, so Hydrogen = 1. Helium = 1. 92. 1.

Ogre Psalm. 33. The funniest server name story I have is from when I worked at the Kennedy Space Center. On our particular project, our main server was named snowwhite, and the 7 client workstations were named after the Seven Dwarves. The kicker is, one day one of our engineers ran into a Disney Imagineer who worked at Walt Disney World, and they started talking about server names.

The Disney Imagineer said "that's funny, we have a group of servers named columbia, challenger, atlantis, and discovery."2. Use. [1] to expand a list of a few items, into a list with many items. For example let's suppose you want a set (or list) of Star Wars characters, but can only think of a few. Enter a the ones you can think of, and Google sets will return a whole list of others you can use for server names.

Great way to get a list for server names! ACCEPTED]. One of my inventions, of which I was the most proud, was a server naming scheme I came up with at a previous employer. It was called the RFB scheme.

We had a tradition in place of using rather tasteless humour for determining systemic nomenclatures. Previously, we'd employed a convention a friend of mine had suggested, using euphemisms for vomiting ( yak, ralph, hurl, chunder etc. So we needed something innocuous, memorable, preferably with a payload of appropriately tasteless humour somehow opaque to everyone bar the tech ops. I remembered reading a list years previously, either on a BBS or USENET which I'd found morbidly amusing. Supposedly representative of a survey taken from Surgery magazine, of various objects removed from patients in emergency rooms, called the. Rectal Foreign Bodies.

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It was perfect, even coming with its own snazzy sounding cryptic Three Letter Acronym. The RFB cluster was born. This scheme was successfully deployed for a few years, I think without the management types ever cottoning on to just why these innocent, random sounding computer names used to elicit such childish smirking and nodding between members of their technical staff. Unix boxes named after Greek gods (Apollo, Zeus, etc.)Windows machines named after Muppets (Fozzy, Beaker, etc.)5. Atomiton. Why? There's a TONNE of them. You'll never run out of names. Watch Cowboy Bebop: The Movie Online more.

They're easy to Type: FUJI, MAYON, EVEREST, K2. Volcanoes are used for volatile servers. Long mountain names like KILIMANJARO are servers that you don't want people to log onto. Different Mountain RAnges can serve as Clusters or a SAN. The Rockies, Andes, Alps)It's always the user's fault when they crash into a mountain. However, sometimes they explode (VESUVIUS)You can rank them by Height and represent many of them pictorially in Network diagrams. The Matterhorn, Mt.

Fuji)Mountains are great Security fortresses (Why do you think China wants to keep Tibet.. India!)They are visible from outer space.

They can be classified in many different ways. They can be Local (Intranet Servers) or in other countries/continents (WANs)They are common to ALL people in all countries. They can be named after people's local hometown mountains. When I was a kid I climbed to the peak of x mountain)edit: VMWare (and other Virtual Machines) can be named after "Undersea Volcanoes" like Loihi, They exist, but you can't see them without special equipment. I thought of two different naming schemes this week for a situation where there are redundant servers with one at a primary datacentre and its doppleganger at a secondary datacentre. Each server would have a name that is related to its match.

The first idea was related car models: Taurus / Sable. Cavalier / Sunfire. The problem there was deciding which was primary and which was secondary. A better (and more fun) solution was superheros and their secret identities: Hulk / Banner. Spidey / Parker. Superman / Kent. Batman / Wayne. Robin / Grayson. Batgirl / Gordon.

Tarzan / Greystoke. Robinhood / Loxley. Tim Howland. It may be worth referring to. Choosing a name for your computer": Naming groups of machines in a common way is very popular, and. A simple example is to use colors, such.

Personality can be injected by choices. Certain sets are finite, such as the seven dwarfs. Watch Carry On Spying Streaming. When you. order your first seven computers, keep in mind that you will.

Colors will never run out. Some more suggestions are: mythical places (e. Midgard. Styx, Paradise), mythical people (e. Procne, Tereus, Zeus). Cain, Burr, Boleyn), babies (e. Get the idea? [1] http: //tools.

Jason. We use Simpson names. I try to match the name based upon what the server does or what it is made out of. For instance, some health related servers are called DRNICK and DRHIBBERT.

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JIMBO and NELSONI have one in a Spanish Speaking office.. BUMBLEBEEMAN9. [+9.

I once worked at a place where we had a server called "YOURMOM". The jokes were endless: "I just turned on YOURMOM"lots of jokes about forking and backing up as well. Konrads. Why, the poster asked for coolest, so here goes: air- conditionedalgidarcticbitingchillchilledchillingchillycoldishfrigidfrorefrostygelidhawkishnippingrefreshingrefrigeratedshiverysnappywintry.

I use Shakespeare characters who eventually die. I've used the seven deadly sins beforelustgluttonygreedslothwrathenvypride.

When I ran out, I continued on with the seven virtuesprudencejusticetemperancecouragefaithhopecharity. When I worked at Bellcore, the network servers all had names that matched *day. Sunday- Saturday were obvious.

When they needed more servers, they added Payday, Faraday, and Oneaday. One group used something akin to rejected names for the seven dwarfs (Grubby, Sleazy, Gropey..)When they got a few brand spanking new Ne. XT boxes, they were named after polymers since there were like nothing else (Nylon, Rayon, Orlon, Dacron, Polyester). There were some cartoon character names used for Sun workstations. This unfortunately led to some awkward conversations outside of work: BC Worker: My Sun died this week. Non- tech person: Oh! I'm so very sorry!

BC Worker: It's OK, I'm going to get another one and name him Bullwinkle. Non- tech person: !!! Claudiu. The most common name for a computer used to be elvis. This is because there was a tool which checked whether a computer was on- line, and when it was, it'd say "COMPUTERNAME is alive." 1. Chris Ballance. For a time, I used names of girls in famous songs: Layla. Roxanne. Jenny. Amanda. Maggie Mae. Allison.

Rhonda. Jessie. Ruby. Lucy. Billy Jean (not my server)1. RWendi. We have a plan to change our build server to be "Bob the builder". David Alpert. My university compsci lab had three unix boxes named Godel, Escher, & Bach. So I named his workstation 'scotch'. As time went on we ended up withvodkascotchwhiskyrhumtequilabourbonvermouthbrandycognac. It was a boozy time.

Nate. I name my servers after the Muppets. Fozzie. Kermit. Gonzo. Statler. Waldorf. Piggy. Rowlf. Rizzo. I like systems that have a natural number- to- naming relationship, like the periodic table.

Lots of cool names, and you can figure out IP addresses even when DNS is down (if you remember your chemistry). There are other lists that work this way (5. US presidents, etc.), but the names aren't as cool. Jim Puls. All of our servers follow a pattern of outmoded women's names.