Difference between revisions of "System naming"

Revision as of 18:51, 8 December 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. These can be recycled with care after a sensible period of time.

Knuth
Church (Router)
Lovelace (Workstation for Makerbot)
Flowers (Media PC)
Difference - Public Terminal
Shannon (IRC Terminal)
Dennis - Random spare goodish pc
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

Off-site Servers

Turing Bitfolk VM - sensitive public services (membership DB, website, LDAP)
Knuth DigitalOcean droplet - low-sensitivity public services (wiki)

Infrastructure

adminstuff a poorly but accurately named server for admin "stuff"
Babbage general purpose server in the space, moribund
Bell Asterisk IP Telephony Server
Bruce Network CCTV Server
Booch emoncms power monitoring raspberry pi thing [3]
Boole main router, dhcp, dns, ntp, syslog etc. [4]
Colin sort of fileserver, was netbootyboxxy [5]
Denning network services machine (ldap/spacenet, netboot, zoneminder) (was boole) [6].
Gill environment monitoring Raspberry Pi [7]
Hopper vending machine
Hamming new doorbot machine [8]
Lamarr hypervisor for VMs
Wilkes front doorbot (Like Perlman) [9]
Perlman back doorbot (like Wilkes) [10]

PCs/Laptops/Printers

Asimov small pc used for talking to robots [11].
Torvalds new 3D Printing Machine
Bowyer another 3D printing machine
Marconi spare laptop 1, needs wireless drivers installing [12]
Turk guest laptop
Postel the SGI O2
Layzor aka Patel laser cutter
Lorentz Dell laptop
Tesla public workstation, replacement for Lovelace
Caxton HP Laserjet 2200D Printer

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.

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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 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
+===Off-site Servers===
+* [[Turing]] Bitfolk VM - sensitive public services (membership DB, website, LDAP)
+* [[Knuth]] DigitalOcean droplet - low-sensitivity public services (wiki)
+===Infrastructure===
 * [[adminstuff]] a poorly but accurately named server for admin "stuff"
-* [[Asimov]] small pc used for talking to robots [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov].
 * [[Babbage]] general purpose server in the space, moribund
 * [[Bell]] Asterisk IP Telephony Server
 * [[Bruce]] Network CCTV Server
-* [[Bowyer]] another 3D printing machine
 * [[Booch]] emoncms power monitoring raspberry pi thing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grady_Booch]
 * [[Boole]] main router, dhcp, dns, ntp, syslog etc. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole]
-* [[Caxton]] HP Laserjet 2200D Printer
 * [[Equipment/Colin|Colin]] sort of fileserver, was netbootyboxxy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Colin]
 * [[Denning]] network services machine (ldap/spacenet, netboot, zoneminder) (was boole) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Denning].
 * [[Gill]] environment monitoring Raspberry Pi [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Gill]
+* [[Hopper]] vending machine
 * [[Hamming]] new doorbot machine [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming]
-* [[Hopper]] vending machine
-* [[Equipment/Computers/Lorentz|Lorentz]] Dell laptop
 * [[Lamarr]] hypervisor for VMs
-* [[Equipment/LaserCutter|Layzor]] aka [[Patel]] laser cutter
+* [[Wilkes]] front doorbot (Like Perlman)  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilkes]
+* [[Perlman]] back doorbot (like Wilkes) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman]
+=== PCs/Laptops/Printers ===
+* [[Asimov]] small pc used for talking to robots [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov].
+* [[Torvalds]] new 3D Printing Machine
+* [[Bowyer]] another 3D printing machine
 * [[Marconi]] spare laptop 1, needs wireless drivers installing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi]
-* [[Perlman]] back doorbot (like Wilkes) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman]
+* [[Equipment/Turk|Turk]] guest laptop
 * [[Postel]] the SGI O2
-* [[Torvalds]] new 3D Printing Machine
+* [[Equipment/LaserCutter|Layzor]] aka [[Patel]] laser cutter
+* [[Equipment/Computers/Lorentz|Lorentz]] Dell laptop
 * [[Tesla]] public workstation, replacement for [[Lovelace]]
-* [[Turing]] Bitfolk VM, runs the website
+* [[Caxton]] HP Laserjet 2200D Printer
-* [[Equipment/Turk|Turk]] guest laptop
-* [[Wilkes]] front doorbot (Like Perlman)  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilkes]
 See [[Laboratory 24/Network]] for details on these machines.