You could have chosen rhinoceros! Or hippopotamus. Or mammoth, or andrewsuchus, or ... ;)
Wesley Parish Quoting Craig FALCONER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Actually it was named for the original machine, which was a compaq > proliant > 6500. It was going to be a quad CPU, hence a four legged name, and being > so > bloody massive it was a choice between horse, elephant, or dinosaur. > > Theres a question - at what point does a machine need a new hostname? At > a > total change of hardware? Or a change of task? Or just when you get > sick > of the name? > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wesley Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 4 September 2005 7:32 p.m. > To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz > Cc: Craig FALCONER > Subject: Re: Horse reboot on Friday night > > > If I'm not mistaken, horse is named after the character in Footrot > Flats. > The > big cat who don't take no nonsense from anyone, and who rescues The Dog > at a > > crucial point in the movie of the same name. > > Wesley Parish > > On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 10:47, Martin Bähr wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:19:43PM +1200, Craig FALCONER wrote: > > > > the name horse always seems to distract me from thinking about > > computers (not that this is really a bad thing) > > > > i read the following as: > > > Horse was shut down on friday night with no warning. > > > > horse was shot down... > > > > greetings, martin. > > -- > Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish > ----- > Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? > You ask, what is the most important thing? > Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. > I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people. > > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
