Difference between revisions of "System naming"

Revision as of 03:38, 24 May 2014

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.

Knuth
Church (Router)
Lovelace (Workstation for Makerbot)
Flowers (Media PC)
Difference - Public Terminal
Shannon (IRC Terminal)
~~Dennis - Random spare goodish pc.~~ gone.
Capek Lobby display

Current names

machines should be available as hostname.lan.hackspace.org.uk from inside the space (just hostname should work). some machines are available from the outside as hostname.hack.rs or hostname.london.hackspace.org.uk

Asimov small pc used for talking to robots Asimov.
Babbage (Server in the space)
Bell (Door entry/building management)
Bowyer - another 3D printing machine
Booch emoncms power monitoring raspberry pi thing Grady Booch
Boole (Boole) - dhcp, dns, ntp, syslog etc.
Caxton HP Laserjet 2200D Printer
Equipment/Colin sort of fileserver, was netbootyboxxy Colin.
Denning network services machine (ldap/spacenet, netboot, zoneminder) (was boole) Denning.
Gill - Environment monitoring Raspberry Pi Gill
Hamming new doorbot machine Richard Hamming
Hopper (Vending machine)
Lorentz Dell Laptop
Layzor -- (Patel was formerly the PC for laser cutter)
Marconi (Spare laptop 1, needs wireless drivers installing) - source
Perlman A DoorBot Perlman
Postel (The SGI O2)
Torvalds New 3D Printing Machine
Tesla Replacement for Lovelace
Turing (Bitfolk VM)
Equipment/Turk Guest Laptop.
Wilkes front doorbot (Like Wilson) Wilkes

See Laboratory 24/Network for details on these machines.

Potential new machines currently under discussion

Borg (Anita Borg) - replacement for babbage and vm server
Zeus (Konrad Zuse) - 64 core, 512Gb RAM compute server.
Lamarr Lamarr or Hedy (sp?)

Potential names

Potential names on the edge of the scheme

Adams - UUNET
Armstrong - FM
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?

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 * [[Bowyer]] - another 3D printing machine
 * [[Booch]] emoncms power monitoring raspberry pi thing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grady_Booch Grady Booch]
-* [[Boole]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole Boole]) - ldap/spacenet, dhcp, dns, netboot, ntp, syslog etc.
+* [[Boole]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole Boole]) - dhcp, dns, ntp, syslog etc.
 * [[Caxton]] HP Laserjet 2200D Printer
 * [[Equipment/Colin]] sort of fileserver, was netbootyboxxy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Colin Colin].
-* [[Denning]] network services machine (was boole) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Denning Denning].
+* [[Denning]] network services machine (ldap/spacenet, netboot, zoneminder) (was boole) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Denning Denning].
 * [[Gill]] - Environment monitoring Raspberry Pi [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Gill Gill]
 * [[Hamming]] new doorbot machine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming Richard Hamming]