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== Current names == | == Current names == | ||
| − | * [[Turing]] (Bitfolk VM) - [http:// | + | * [[Turing]] (Bitfolk VM) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing source] |
* [[Babbage]] (Server in the space) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage source] | * [[Babbage]] (Server in the space) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage source] | ||
* [[Lovelace]] (Workstation - [[Makerbot]]) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace source] | * [[Lovelace]] (Workstation - [[Makerbot]]) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace source] | ||
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* [[Postel]] The SGI O2 - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel source] | * [[Postel]] The SGI O2 - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel source] | ||
* [[Bell]] The door/building management controller - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell source] | * [[Bell]] The door/building management controller - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell source] | ||
| − | * [[Marconi]] (Spare laptop 1, needs wireless drivers installing) | + | * [[Marconi]] (Spare laptop 1, needs wireless drivers installing) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi source] |
* [[Hopper]] (The vending machine) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper source] | * [[Hopper]] (The vending machine) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper source] | ||
| − | * [[Project/IRC Terminal|Shannon]] (IRC Terminal) | + | * [[Project/IRC Terminal|Shannon]] (IRC Terminal) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon source] |
| − | * [[Equipment/LaserCutter|Laz0rs]] (Shuttle PC for laser cutter) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ | + | * [[Equipment/LaserCutter|Laz0rs]] (Shuttle PC for laser cutter) |
| − | + | * [[Church]] (Router) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonzo_Church source] | |
* [[Difference]] - Public Terminal | * [[Difference]] - Public Terminal | ||
Revision as of 14:05, 15 October 2011
The naming scheme of systems in the hackspace (hostname) is "people involved in computing" [1] [2]. However, pronunciation and spelling difficulties rule out names like Dijkstra, Kay and Hoare.
Old names
Names used on systems no longer in use.
- Knuth
Current names
- Turing (Bitfolk VM) - source
- Babbage (Server in the space) - source
- Lovelace (Workstation - Makerbot) - source
- Flowers (Media PC) - source
- Postel The SGI O2 - source
- Bell The door/building management controller - source
- Marconi (Spare laptop 1, needs wireless drivers installing) - source
- Hopper (The vending machine) - source
- Shannon (IRC Terminal) - source
- Laz0rs (Shuttle PC for laser cutter)
- Church (Router) - source
- 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?