NamingScheme

Take it away, RFC2100

    The Naming of Hosts is a difficult matter,
        It isn't just one of your holiday games;
    You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
        When I tell you, a host must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
 
    First of all, there's the name that the users use daily,
        Such as venus, athena, and cisco, and ames,
    Such as titan or sirius, hobbes or europa--
        All of them sensible everyday names.
 
    There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
        Some for the web pages, some for the flames:
    Such as mercury, phoenix, orion, and charon--
        But all of them sensible everyday names.
 
    But I tell you, a host needs a name that's particular,
        A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
    Else how can it keep its home page perpendicular,
        And spread out its data, send pages world wide?
 
    Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
        Like lothlorien, pothole, or kobyashi-maru,
    Such as pearly-gates.vatican, or else diplomatic-
        Names that never belong to more than one host.
 
    But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
        And that is the name that you never will guess;
    The name that no human research can discover--
        But THE NAMESERVER KNOWS, and will us'ually confess.
 
    When you notice a client in rapt meditation,
        The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
    The code is engaged in a deep consultation
        On the address, the address, the address of its name:
 
                It's ineffable,
                effable,
                Effanineffable,
                Deep and inscrutable,
                singular
                Name.

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So, what naming schemes could we consider...

* nemo needs a good new naming scheme for computers at work
<@Electric_Monk> Cartoon characters.
<@cows> Mathematicians.
<@cows> afdans.
<@nemo> ...something that fits in with the company... :P
<@nemo> I was thinking of the name of gold nuggets
<@Screwtape> Grate technological disassters of history. :)
<@Screwtape> come on, how many gold nuggest actually have names?
<@jona> Kings.
<@Screwtape> Queens.
<@jona> Emperors.
<@cows> Aces.
<@jona> ...
<@Electric_Monk> Japanese businessmen.
<@Screwtape> cows: :)
<@cows> Mongol warriors.
<@Screwtape> Members of the sinister Andover Kieretsu
<@nemo> Screwtape: that's the point. the big/famous nuggets /do/ have names.
<@cows> Transuranic elements.
<@jona> People who've slept with Pamela Anderson.
<@Screwtape> UJ elements.
<@nemo> oooh.. UJ elements
<@Electric_Monk> The names of the people who perfected the manufacture of diamonds.

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• Chemical Elements
  • Hydrogen
  • Helium
  • etc
• Australian Prime-Ministers
  • Barton
  • ...?
• Muppets (also Sesame Street muppets)
  • Kermit (router)
  • Rowlf
  • Dr Teeth
  • Miss Piggy
  • Scooter
  • Fozzie
  • Rizzo
  • Gonzo
  • Henriette
  • Statler
  • Waldorf
  • Swedish Chef

• • Bert
  • Ernie
  • Count
  • Oscar the Grouch
  • Big Bird
  • Grover
  • Snuffaluffugus

Ships

This has been Nemo's naming scheme since 2001. It's kind of vague, but approximately: Desktops are fictional ships, servers are space ships. Laptops are satellites, game machines are "types" of ships. (bold = currently in use)

• Nautilus - circa 2001-2005? - my original (CheekyHouse/Porch era) Desktop (and origin of this scheme) - replaced by Argo.
• Minnow - circa 2001-2003? - a small desktop 486 serving as dialup/web proxy/dns/smtpd/httpd
• Titanic - fileserver
• Poseidon - fileserver
• Yamato - short lived spare parts/guest campbellhouse desktop
• Serenity - Campbellhouse fileserver
• Argo - Campbellhouse era desktop - replaced by Pinafore
• raft - X-Box from the Campbellhouse era
• Pinafore - The Campbellhouse/Pharmacy/IOZoo era desktop, replaced by Thunderchild, but kept around as a windows box
• Enterprise - Xen remote virtual server - replaced by Endeavour
• Valdez - A Pharmacy era fileserver
• Endeavour - A Xen remote virtual server - replaced by discovery
• falcon - Second Pharmacy era fileserver
• Sputnik - Pharmacy era Laptop (12" powerbook)
• krikkitone - test box - hand-me-down parts in a 2RU case
• gondola - Nintendo Wii - 2009
• Discovery - Xen remote virtual server which replaced endeavour
• Blackpearl - G5 iMac from 2010
• Thunderchild - 2010 brand new desktop. First ground-up-new-parts (replaced pinafore)
• junk - TV that has network ability (2011)
• canoe - PS3 (2011)

• Bounty - famous age-of-exploration ship. Known for it's mutiny
• DawnTreader - from Narnia stories
• MaryCeleste - famous ghost ship
• Challenger - another NASA shuttle - future remote host?
• yacht - future media box?