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Re: Server naming conventions


From: Gene Spafford <spaf () CERIAS PURDUE EDU>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:42:52 -0500

In our lab we named all the Windows machines after versions of hell in
various relgions and myth (e.g. Hades, abbadon, Tartarus) All the
printers were places in the OZ stories by L. Frank Baum (eg, kansas,
oz, ix, ev)   And all the other machines were (and usually still are)
named after places from legend, fantasy and science fiction (dorsai,
barsoom, pern, dune, olympus, omelas, asgard,...).  We have way more
names than machines, and we sometimes come up with interesting things
for others to read!

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