Difference between revisions of "System naming"

Latest revision as of 19:33, 21 October 2021

The naming scheme of physical systems in the hackspace (hostname) is "people involved in computing, mathematics, or engineering" This includes pioneers in similar relevant fields. As a usability concern, pronunciation and spelling difficulties may rule out names like Dijkstra, Kay and Hoare.

Suggested name lists:

Virtual instances treated slightly differently: Please note that the naming scheme of virtual machines or containerised systems on-site is to be nearer to their purpose. An example of a VM passing messages via MQTT might be "mqtt-gateway" or "message-hub" instead of "vanrossum"

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), UK Hackspace Foundation web site
Church DigitalOcean droplet - new machine for sensitive public services
Knuth DigitalOcean droplet - less-sensitive public services (wiki)

Infrastructure

Blanton Network CCTV Server
Boole main router, dhcp, dns, ntp, syslog etc. [1]
Hamming runs runs voice announcers and doorbell in the 1st Floor at Ujima House in Wembley. [2]
Holonyak runs the board installed on Ground Floor [3]
Landin hypervisor for VMs
- Chomsky shared Linux systems (accessible via ssh from outside using member LDAP credentials)
- ACServer ACnode server
- Adminstuff a poorly but accurately named server for admin "stuff"
- ~~Services Importantish services that were on babbage, robonaut etc~~
- Concourse CI Pipeline-as-code based CI system. Currently experimental.

PCs/Laptops/Printers

Joy Laser Cutter workstation running Windows
Tesla public shared Linux workstation on the 1st floor.
Cray Dell Studio 1559 laptop, Robotics Group, running Windows 7 or Ubuntu 14.04 dual boot
Herd Dell Optiplex 990 desktop, Classroom presentation PC.
Dickinson Dell Optiplex 990 desktop, Do-not-disturb room.
Epp Dell Optiplex 990 desktop, Electronics Lab.
Oliver HP 20-R100NA all-in-one PC, 3d printer room.

Potential names

Please be cautious when adding to this list. Pronunciation and spelling difficulties may rule out names like Dijkstra, Kay and Hoare. Make sure that the name can be pronounced, written unambiguously from hearing it, and does not sound like another word. This probably means puns are unsuitable.

Previously used names

https://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/w/index.php?title=System_naming&diff=51807&oldid=51337

Old names

Names used on systems no longer in use. These can be recycled with care after a sensible period of time.

Booch OLD SPACE emoncms power monitoring raspberry pi thing [4]
Capek Lobby display
Difference - Public Terminal
Lattner OLD SPACE - ZFS-based File server.
Lovelace (Workstation for Makerbot)
Shannon (IRC Terminal)
Torvalds 3D printer PC running Windows.

Potential names on the edge of the scheme

Don't be afraid to use these, especially if they're meaningful to you, but please try to include a short justification for why the Hackspace should care about them.

Adams - UUNET
Armstrong - FM
Backus - Naur Form
Beer - Regulatory systems
Black - Feedback amp
Brown - Servomechanics
Darwin
Dirac - Quantum mechanics
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
Maxwell - Electromagnetic theory
Moog
Norton - Circuit analysis
Pitts - Neural Networks
Reeves - PCM
Simon - AI
Smith - RF analysis
Stob - IT 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/Bong

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-The naming scheme of systems in the hackspace (hostname) is "people involved in computing" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pioneers_in_computer_science] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)#Distinguished_researchers].  This includes pioneers in similar relevant fields.  Please note that pronunciation and spelling difficulties may rule out names like Dijkstra, Kay and Hoare.
+The naming scheme of physical systems in the hackspace (hostname) is "people involved in computing, mathematics, or engineering"
+This includes pioneers in similar relevant fields.  As a usability concern, pronunciation and spelling difficulties may rule out names like Dijkstra, Kay and Hoare.
-== Old names ==
+Suggested name lists:
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pioneers_in_computer_science Wikipedia's List of Pioneers in Computer Science]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARC_(company)#Distinguished_researchers Distinguished Engineers of Xerox PARC].
-Names used on systems no longer in use. These can be recycled with care after a sensible period of time.
-* [[Lovelace]] (Workstation for [[Makerbot]])
+'''Virtual instances treated slightly differently:''' Please note that the naming scheme of virtual machines or containerised systems on-site is to be nearer to their purpose. An example of a VM passing messages via MQTT might be "mqtt-gateway" or "message-hub" instead of "vanrossum"
-* [[Difference]] - Public Terminal
-* [[Project/IRC Terminal|Shannon]] (IRC Terminal)
-* [[Capek]] Lobby display
 == Current names ==
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 ===Infrastructure===
-* [[adminstuff]] a poorly but accurately named server for admin "stuff"
+* [[Equipment/Blanton|Blanton]] Network CCTV Server
-* [[Babbage]] general purpose server in the space, moribund
+* [[Equipment/Boole|Boole]] main router, dhcp, dns, ntp, syslog etc. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole]
-* [[Bell]] Asterisk IP Telephony Server
+* [[Equipment/Hamming|Hamming]] runs runs voice announcers and doorbell in the 1st Floor at Ujima House in Wembley. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming]
-* [[Bruce]] Network CCTV Server
+* [[Equipment/Holonyak|Holonyak]] runs the board installed on Ground Floor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Holonyak]
-* [[Booch]] emoncms power monitoring raspberry pi thing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grady_Booch]
+* [[Equipment/Landin|Landin]] hypervisor for VMs
-* [[Boole]] main router, dhcp, dns, ntp, syslog etc. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole]
+** [[Equipment/Landin#Chomsky|Chomsky]] shared Linux systems (accessible via ssh from outside using member [[LDAP]] credentials)
-* [[Equipment/Colin|Colin]] sort of fileserver, was netbootyboxxy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Colin]
+** [[Equipment/Landin#ACServer|ACServer]] ACnode server
-* [[Denning]] network services machine (ldap/spacenet, netboot, zoneminder) (was boole) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Denning].
+** [[Equipment/Landin#Adminstuff|Adminstuff]] a poorly but accurately named server for admin "stuff"
-* [[Gill]] environment monitoring Raspberry Pi [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Gill]
+** <del>[[Equipment/Landin#Services|Services]] Importantish services that were on babbage, robonaut etc</del>
-* [[Hopper]] vending machine
+** [[Concourse|Concourse CI]] Pipeline-as-code based CI system. Currently experimental.
-* [[Hamming]] runs the board above the frontdoor and ?sixteen and the big clock. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming]
-* [[Lamarr]] hypervisor for VMs
-* [[Wilkes]] front doorbot (Like Perlman)  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilkes]
-* [[Perlman]] back doorbot (like Wilkes) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman]
-* [[Dennis]] - Acnode debuging box
-* [[Equipment/Flowers|Flowers]] - one of the [[Project:TreeOfScreens]] machines
-* [[Equipment/Tanenbaum|Tanenbaum]] - the other [[Project:TreeOfScreens]] machine
 === 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]
-* [[Equipment/Turk|Turk]] guest laptop
-* [[Postel]] the SGI O2
-* [[Equipment/LaserCutter|Joy]] Laser Cutter, replacement for Patel/Laz0rz
-* [[Equipment/Computers/Lorentz|Lorentz]] Dell laptop
-* [[Tesla]] public workstation, replacement for [[Lovelace]]
-* [[Caxton]] HP Laserjet 2200D Printer
-See [[Laboratory 24/Network]] for details on these machines.
+* [[Equipment/LaserCutter|Joy]] Laser Cutter workstation running Windows
+* [[Tesla]] public shared Linux workstation on the 1st floor.
-== Potential new machines currently under discussion ==
+* [[Cray]] Dell Studio 1559 laptop, Robotics Group, running Windows 7 or Ubuntu 14.04 dual boot
+* [[Herd]] Dell Optiplex 990 desktop, Classroom presentation PC.
-* [[Borg]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Borg Anita Borg]) - replacement for babbage and vm server
+* [[Dickinson]] Dell Optiplex 990 desktop, Do-not-disturb room.
-* [[Zeus]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse Konrad Zuse]) - 64 core, 512Gb RAM compute server.
+* [[Epp]] Dell Optiplex 990 desktop, Electronics Lab.
+* [[Oliver]] HP 20-R100NA all-in-one PC, 3d printer room.
 == Potential names ==
+Please be cautious when adding to this list. Pronunciation and spelling difficulties may rule out names like Dijkstra, Kay and Hoare. Make sure that the name can be pronounced, written unambiguously from hearing it, and does not sound like another word. This probably means puns are unsuitable.
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray Cray]
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stark_Draper Draper]
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Hall_(programmer) Hall]
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teuvo_Kohonen Kohonen]
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann Neumann]
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_machine Nozick] (sp?)
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Peddle Peddle]
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Sinclair Sinclair]
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum Tanenbaum]
+* [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Mills Mills]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilkes Wilkes]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman Perlman]
+* [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gilmore Gilmore]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper Hopper]
+* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Paul_Pedrick Pedrick]
+=== Previously used names ===
+https://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/w/index.php?title=System_naming&diff=51807&oldid=51337
+== Old names ==
+Names used on systems no longer in use. These can be recycled with care after a sensible period of time.
+* [[Booch]] OLD SPACE emoncms power monitoring raspberry pi thing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grady_Booch]
+* [[Capek]] Lobby display
+* [[Difference]] - Public Terminal
+* [[Equipment/Lattner|Lattner]] OLD SPACE - ZFS-based File server.
+* [[Lovelace]] (Workstation for [[Makerbot]])
+* [[Project/IRC Terminal|Shannon]] (IRC Terminal)
+* [[Torvalds]] 3D printer PC running Windows.
 == Potential names on the edge of the scheme ==
+Don't be afraid to use these, especially if they're meaningful to you, but please try to include a short justification for why the Hackspace should care about them.
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Adams_(Internet_pioneer) Adams] - UUNET
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 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin Darwin]
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac Dirac] - Quantum mechanics
-* [http://www.thomasedison.com/ Edison] - Electrical engineering
 * [http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/erwin Erwin] - Userfriendly character
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday Faraday]
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 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollerith Hollerith] - Automated punch card systems, his company eventually became IBM
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Korolyov Korolyov] - Rocket science
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Markov Markov]
 * [http://www.mountainman.com.au/aether_2.html Maxwell] - Electromagnetic theory
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moog Moog]
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 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_A._Simon Simon] - AI
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Hagar_Smith Smith] - RF analysis
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verity_Stob Stob] - Satirist
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verity_Stob Stob] - IT satirist
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla Tesla]
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Watt Watt] - Steam Engine Bad-Ass
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 * Micropig/Spiderpig
 * NPR (No Prescription Required)
-* Pong/Ping
+* Pong/Bong
-* Cabbage - an alternative / backup / failover for Babbage?
 [[Category:Guides]]
 [[Category:Infrastructure]]
+[[Category:Update Needed]]