Difference between revisions of "System naming"

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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.

Lovelace (Workstation for Makerbot)
Difference - Public Terminal
Shannon (IRC Terminal)
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), UK Hackspace Foundation web site
Church DigitalOcean droplet - new machine for sensitive public services
Knuth DigitalOcean droplet - less-sensitive 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 runs the board above the frontdoor and ?sixteen and the big clock. [8]
Lamarr hypervisor for VMs
Wilkes front doorbot (Like Perlman) [9]
Perlman back doorbot (like Wilkes) [10]
Dennis - Acnode debuging box
Flowers - one of the Project:TreeOfScreens machines
Tanenbaum - the other Project:TreeOfScreens machine

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
Joy Laser Cutter, replacement for Patel/Laz0rz
Lorentz Dell laptop
Tesla public workstation, replacement for Lovelace
Caxton HP Laserjet 2200D Printer
Peddle guest laptop

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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 * [[Tesla]] public workstation, replacement for [[Lovelace]]
 * [[Caxton]] HP Laserjet 2200D Printer
+* [[Equipment/Peddle|Peddle]] guest laptop
 See [[Laboratory 24/Network]] for details on these machines.
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 * [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]