System naming: Difference between revisions
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* [[Lovelace]] (Workstation for [[Makerbot]]) | * [[Lovelace]] (Workstation for [[Makerbot]]) | ||
* [[Flowers]] (Media PC) | * [[Flowers]] (Media PC) | ||
* [[Postel]] The SGI O2 | * [[Postel]] (The SGI O2) | ||
* [[Bell]] | * [[Bell]] (Door entry/building management) | ||
* [[Marconi]] (Spare laptop 1, needs wireless drivers installing) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi source] | * [[Marconi]] (Spare laptop 1, needs wireless drivers installing) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi source] | ||
* [[Hopper]] ( | * [[Hopper]] (Vending machine) | ||
* [[Project/IRC Terminal|Shannon]] (IRC Terminal) | * [[Project/IRC Terminal|Shannon]] (IRC Terminal) | ||
* [[ | * [[Patel]] (PC for laser cutter) | ||
* [[Church]] (Router) | * [[Church]] (Router) | ||
* [[Difference]] - Public Terminal | * [[Difference]] - Public Terminal | ||
Revision as of 16:11, 15 October 2011
The naming scheme of systems in the hackspace (hostname) is "people involved in computing" [1] [2]. This includes pioneers in similar relevant fields. Please note that pronunciation and spelling difficulties may rule out names like Dijkstra, Kay and Hoare.
Old names
Names used on systems no longer in use.
Current names
- Turing (Bitfolk VM)
- Babbage (Server in the space)
- Lovelace (Workstation for Makerbot)
- Flowers (Media PC)
- Postel (The SGI O2)
- Bell (Door entry/building management)
- Marconi (Spare laptop 1, needs wireless drivers installing) - source
- Hopper (Vending machine)
- Shannon (IRC Terminal)
- Patel (PC for laser cutter)
- Church (Router)
- Difference - Public Terminal
See Laboratory 24/Network for details on these machines.
Potential names
- Booch
- Boole
- Borg
- Colin
- Cray
- Denning
- Draper
- Gill
- Hamming
- Kohonen
- Lamarr or Hedy (sp?)
- Neumann
- Perlman
- Torvalds
- Wilkes
- Wilson
Potential names on the edge of the scheme
- Adams - UUNET
- Armstrong - FM
- Asimov
- Backus - Naur Form
- Beer - Regulatory systems
- Black - Feedback amp
- Brown - Servomechanics
- Darwin
- Dirac - Quantum mechanics
- Edison - Electrical engineering
- Erwin - Userfriendly character
- Faraday
- Flood - Prisoner's dilemma, travelling salesman problem
- Gray - Music synth
- Heron - Automata
- Hollerith - Automated punch card systems, his company eventually became IBM
- Korolyov - Rocket science
- Markov
- Maxwell - Electromagnetic theory
- Moog
- Norton - Circuit analysis
- Pitts - Neural Networks
- Reeves - PCM
- Simon - AI
- Smith - RF analysis
- Stob - Satirist
- Tesla
- Watt - Steam Engine Bad-Ass
Potential names not from the scheme
- Bubbles, Buttercup & Blossom
- FuzzyWhif
- heck-a-tombical plus minus
- Micropig/Spiderpig
- NPR (No Prescription Required)
- Pong/Ping
- Cabbage - an alternative / backup / failover for Babbage?
