05:28 pm - Soul of the new machines
Well, I set up my two new servers this weekend. I had some difficulty, but I think I've got a handle on it all now. My network setup is going to be rather complex, and I think I will have to somehow code up a custom startup script to make it all run right.
I've been naming my machines boring or redundant things, and I
decided to stop that. The names for my current workstation and servers
are monster, wall (the firewall), and
omnifarious. omnifarious.omnifarious.org is just
silly though, so omnifarious is an ill-considered name. And
wall is just plain boring. monster is kind of stupid.
I just named it monster because it was a monster of a machine
at the time I bought it. Lastly, there's no theme tying them all
together. Any naming scheme should have a theme.
So, I've decided on a new naming scheme. Since my current workstation isn't changing, it's still going to be called monster. So, I had to pick a naming scheme that fit with that, and I've decided on childhood fears.
So, my new firewall is called dark, and the webserver is called clown. I have another IP address that doesn't point at anything yet, but it'd be neat if I had a pool of names to draw on.
See here, a chance to respond even if you're not a computer geek!
So, if you know of any good childhood fears that have short, simple names, I'd like to hear them. :-)
To give you an idea of what I mean by short and simple... boogeyman may be OK, bumpinthenight probably isn't. Names can contain numbers or dashes. bump-in-the-night is a valid name. So is car-55-where-are-you, though it doesn't fit with the scheme. (Maybe you were afraid of car 55 when you were a kid, but I'm looking for fears everybody will recognize.)
Heck, if you can come up with any names I really like, I may drop dark and clown in favor of new names.
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excited
*chuckle*
Down here everybody floats.
So you want childhood fears, ok
Nuns
Library police(read the short story)
Flying monkeys
Tommyknockers
Red jack
If you want to go with classical ideas
Grendal
Caliban
Jabberwock
Mr. Scratch
Sweeney Todd
Macbeth
or how about historical ones
Vlad the Imapler
Elisabeth of Bathory
Richard the Third
Mangela
Hows that?
Re: Down here everybody floats.
Caliban? That's a race of beings who's manifestation in our space-time continuum.
Jabberwock might work. Even though Jabberwock is literature, it's a poem specifically told to a child about things a child is to be afraid of. Most children would not fear a Jabberwock though unless you told them the story. Nun is a definite possibility. The others are literature induced, not something a random normal child might fear without having read the book. Mr. Scratch is an artifact of literature, but there are enough tribal type stories that feature him, that kids might feel an irrational fear of him.
Death
Lost
(as in being lost, and as in losing something important)
thebelt (ref. Bill Cosby, To Russell My Brother Whom I Slept With)
Wrath
(Spankings)
Attic
slivers (esp as regards spindles, and sleeping for hundreds of years)
mad fairy
ghost
giant
witch
killing pets (I don't know that petkiller makes a good machine name, but it was one of my childhood fears)
lightning / thunder
creepycrawlies
stranger
stranger.with.candy
I was thinking witch, but didn't want to be politically incorrect. *grin*
Your list contains the most possibilities so far though.
Maybe petdeath?
Giant and ghost are good. So is thebelt, though I'm looking for fears that are more irrational. Lost is really good. So is attic.
Thanks a lot. I'll have to mull things over a bit to decide if I like any of those better.
And 'nun' gets pressed into service as the name for my work machine, since I don't really trust them to not be moralistic about what I use it for.
Dubya (obvious)
[Darth] Vader
Stranger
Big Bad Wolf
Exorcist (Hey, I was like 10 when I first watched that, home alone in the dark...)
Spanking (Not that kind of spanking... perve... :p )
Amityville (OMG I am showing my age...)
suffocate
falling
Chased
Headless Horseman
Poltergiest
Hands-from-under-bed
unexplainable noises
Daddy
Evil
I also thought of Darth Vader, but he was never really scary, just always seemed to me (when I was a child) to be the ultimate in evil, next to the devil...
Yeah, there were some with green lights underneath near the top and bottom, just when the steps were being eaten. It looked rather spooky and evil somehow.
*satan
*jesus
and i wouldnt be me if i didnt suggest you name something bowie. i would probably name all of my computer parts and computer things bowie. now that i think about it, my hard drives arent named bowie...*runs to go change their names*
*laugh* You're cute. :-)
pox
which I think would make a neat name for a machine.
I believe that if I ever have a computer on my network that runs Windows and I have a good reason to give a name to I shall call it 'pox'. That seems a fitting name for a computer that contains a disease and who I expect to become infested with other diseases. :-)
falling
mom
alone
cold
teenagers/big kids
tried my best to remember my life at age 3. this was the first few seconds.
That's a good list too. :-) I like bats, falling, and cold best. :-) big-kids might also be interesting.
Thanks.
injection
bully
stranger
plughole
dog
cooties
sewer-gator
Some of these may be dupes. I can't check from here.