Re: Server naming conventions

[Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>]

Laurie Zirkle wrote:
> I know laptops aren't servers, but we had great fun when we got our
> first laptops.  They were for checkout purposes, so the very first two
> were tramp and floosy.  Then came bimbo, harlot, you get the drift.  Our
> HR department was *not* amused.  We had to change them all.

Now that's a good one!

Years ago, in a different job, I annoyed my library director by naming
all the systems after presidents. Windows machines were Republicans,
Macs were Democrats (the reverse of her biases). The Netware server was
Washington, a Whig, of course. It did take several weeks for anyone to
notice the "hidden message."

Printers were named for children's book illustrators, Suess, Rackham,
etc. The dot-matrix ones were Impressionists, of course.

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