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* [[Postel]] The SGI O2 | * [[Postel]] The SGI O2 | ||
* [[Bell]] The door/building management controller | * [[Bell]] The door/building management controller | ||
* fonera The wireless router (172.31.24.1) | |||
* bebox The ADSL router (192.168.1.254) | |||
== Potential names == | == Potential names == | ||
Revision as of 19:56, 29 September 2010
The naming scheme of systems in the hackspace (hostname) is "people involved in computing". However, pronunciation issues rule out names like Dijkstra, Kay and Hoare.
Old names
Names used on systems no longer in use.
- Knuth
Current names
- Turing (Bitfolk VM)
- Babbage (Server in the space)
- Gutenberg (HP LaserJet 1022)
- Lovelace (Workstation - Makerbot)
- Flowers (Media PC)
- Postel The SGI O2
- Bell The door/building management controller
- fonera The wireless router (172.31.24.1)
- bebox The ADSL router (192.168.1.254)
Potential names
- Booch
- Boole
- Borg
- Church
- Cray
- Denning
- Draper
- Hamming
- Hopper
- Kohonen
- Lamarr or Hedy (sp?)
- Perlman
- Shannon (sp?)
- Wilson
Potential names on the edge of the scheme
- Armstrong - FM
- Asimov
- Bell
- Beer - Regulatory systems
- Black - Feedback amp
- Brown - Servomechanics
- Dirac - Quantum mechanics
- Edison - Electrical engineering
- Erwin - Userfriendly character
- Faraday
- Flood - Prisoner's dilemma, travelling salesman problem
- Gray - Music synth
- Heron - Automata
- Marconi - Radio telegraph
- Maxwell - Electromagnetic theory
- Moog
- Norton - Circuit analysis
- Pitts - Neural Networks
- Reeves - PCM
- Simon - AI
- Smith - RF analysis
- Tesla
Potential names not from the scheme
- Pong/Ping
- Micropig/Spiderpig
- Bubbles, Buttercup & Blossom
