Thanks, Randy! Mason and Dixon have got to be some of my
faves so far.
Jody
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>When I got my first chance to name the first two servers for
a project,
>I went with "fides" and "spes" ("f
A few more from the harvard libraries...
neato, keano, and cool for DB servers
our russian phase - tolstoi, chekhov, and a pair of font end
servers -fyodor and fiona
mason and dixon - paired geospatial servers
dylan - our streaming audio server
ditto - a ba
We had servers named Barney, Pebbles, BamBam etc.
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Jody Fagan
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Wow, lots of great responses
Wow, lots of great responses! Thanks so much to everyone who has
responded so far about server names. It may take me a bit to respond to
folks and also to write up what will hopefully be both a humorous and
thought-provoking piece about this topic, but I will share the pre-pub
manuscript with yo
and we went with British football clubs instead.
Peter
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Dear Code4Lib folks,
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nia State University
http://xerxes.calstate.edu
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Hello David,
Is this site live yet?
http://xerxes.ca
David Walker
Library Web Services Manager
California State University
http://xerxes.calstate.edu
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It cross
om: Code for Libraries on behalf of Richmond,Ian
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It crosses my mind that most of server names mentioned so far are like
modern art, where x artist is responding to y school neither of wh
On Oct 26, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Jody Fagan wrote:
I'd like to write an anecdotal article about library server
nomenclature
... I'm for-sure that most librarians don't even know our servers have
names. I am hoping that some of you might be willing to share (off-
list)
server names you have known in
> What about naming the server so that users would know what it did from
> the name?
That's why we named our search engine's server "search," though Roy would
probably say we should have called it "find" ;)
Karen G. Schneider
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
We have always suspected our ILS vendor did not particularly like
working with the needs of their non-English speaking customer base.
(We had that suspicion in part from the fact that almost nothing that
had to do with Scandinavian characters really became right.)
Now, rumour has it, they named th
On 10/27/06, Richmond,Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It crosses my mind that most of server names mentioned so far are like
modern art, where x artist is responding to y school neither of whom
have ever been seen by anyone outside NYC. You have to be in the know
for it to make sense.
Or, you k
Here, the servers are given the name of a local person who is retired
or deceased and has had a major impact on us.
I worked at a school whose library systems staff followed this
protocol. While I liked the staff, I disliked the practice immensely. Yes,
I'm sure Joe or Don or Bill were probabl
Richmond,Ian wrote:
What about naming the server so that users would know what it did from
the name? We used to have a library web server named libweb, which I
always liked, as it sort of made sense to people.
That's what we do with DNS. Our internal names are almost never exposed
to the pub
I can't remember who told me or where I read it but some place is
using the periodic table with the elements matching the IP of the
machine. I think it might be LOC but I'm not for sure. So:
10.1.1.1 would be H
10.1.1.2 would be He
etc
Ryan
On 10/26/06, Jody Fagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
De
The first shop with lots of servers I ever worked in went with apt
musicians' names, which has stood up well enough that I still use it
when I have the chance. hetfield (multi-core), hendrix (huge cpu),
kravitz (low-end box but running slackware so it rocked just enough
in 1995), monk (minimalist
MPOW uses Greek and Roman deities as defaults for all machines, not just
servers (so desktops and laptops as well), unless the user strenuously
objects. That's why we also have a "taco" in our system, and last I
checked we have one machine named Bob.
Ruth
--
Ruth A. Kneale, Systems Librarian, A
Back in my sunsite days, we always threatened to name one of our servers
quetzlcoatl :)
- donald
> For a storage server I inflicted LibraryThing's employees
> with the greek goddess of memory, Mnemosyne, a pronunciation
> disaster. (You'd think people would know from mnemonic, but
> even the dict
.
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Our severs are all Greek gods-Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Athena. Zeus is the
master, of course
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> I've always enjoy
Our severs are all Greek gods—Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Athena. Zeus is the
master, of course. I didn't decide on Athena's name, or I would have
made it Artemis.
For a storage server I inflicted LibraryThing's employees with the
greek goddess of memory, Mnemosyne, a pronunciation disaster. (You'd
think
Here, the servers are given the name of a local person who is retired
or deceased and has had a major impact on us. At a former job, the
servers were named after famous historical figures (it was a
historical society, after all...)
In both cases, an alphabetical pattern is followed, so we end up
So I guess you don't have a machine name Shawinigan then.
- David
On 27-Oct-06, at 09:08 , Walter Lewis wrote:
David J. Fiander wrote:
Naming computers is always fun. My main computer at home is always
"Golem", and if I ever had had the power to name a series of
computers, I was going to nam
David J. Fiander wrote:
Naming computers is always fun. My main computer at home is always
"Golem", and if I ever had had the power to name a series of
computers, I was going to name them after famous Canadian maritime
disasters ("Erebus" and "Terror" were going to be the first two).
My develop
I named our original Voyager server "majel" ... after the name of the
actress who did the computer voice on the Voyager star trek series.
Our current Voyager server is "breeze" ... a Sun V880 that sounds like
a hurricane on startup as all the fans kick in.
-- wally
wally grotophorst
george mas
Naming computers is always fun. My main computer at home is always
"Golem", and if I ever had had the power to name a series of
computers, I was going to name them after famous Canadian maritime
disasters ("Erebus" and "Terror" were going to be the first two).
RFC 1178 (http://www.apps.ietf.org/
Many of our servers are also named after applications, unfortunately.
One of my development servers, however, is named "aarseth", the last
name of the former guitarist of Mayhem. I plan to continue on this
theme.
gabe
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 03:39:05PM -0400, Jody Fagan wrote:
> Dear Code4Lib f
Many of the servers here are named either after classical places or
people (homer, athens, parnassus, etc.). One exception was our
Voyager server, which was gutenberg. The server was recently
upgraded, and redubbed . . . Icarus. We all giddily await the day it
burns up and crashes into the sea.
> Let this be a strong plea to your readers to choose nice, generic
> hostnames for their public-facing servers to help them avoid vendor
> lock-in.
>
> Dan Scott
You mean like Huey, Dewey and Louie? (I'll never tell where...'twas a long
time ago...and the servers were named pre-Internet and sudde
He was the initial inspiration :)
On 10/27/06, Coleman, Ronald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The development
> servers were named after MST3K notables.
Please please PLEASE tell me one of them was named Torgo.
Please?
Ron Coleman
Systems Librarian
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
1
> The development
> servers were named after MST3K notables.
Please please PLEASE tell me one of them was named Torgo.
Please?
Ron Coleman
Systems Librarian
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW
Washington, DC 20024
I agree with Ross that having different names for servers vs. services are
a good thing. It helps if you need to put up a temporary server for some
reason ore during a migration. In that spirit, our Library Catalog server
is libcat to the world, but the real name is jules (the database server is
ve
Jody,
Everywhere I've worked (except my current employer, AFAICT) has had a
system for naming servers internally (for reference to the machine in
particular) and vhosts for the services themselves.
When I worked at Tennessee (at the time, a strict Sun shop), all the
servers were named after sun
Hi Jody:
I just started at my current library in March, and was horrified to
discover that our ILS Web server hostnames were "sirsiweb" and "iLink".
Our library was a victim of vendor branding from several years back,
when our vendor installed and configured our servers for our trusting
librarians
Dear Code4Lib folks,
I'd like to write an anecdotal article about library server nomenclature
... I'm for-sure that most librarians don't even know our servers have
names. I am hoping that some of you might be willing to share (off-list)
server names you have known in libraries, how/why you chose
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