Difference between revisions of "System naming"

Revision as of 06:01, 23 August 2018

The naming scheme of physical 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.

The naming scheme of virtual machines or containerised systems is to be close to its purpose. An example of a VM passing messages via MQTT might be "mqtt-gateway" or "message-hub" instead of "vanrossum"

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

Bell OLD SPACE - Asterisk IP Telephony Server
Equipment/Blanton Network CCTV Server
Booch OLD SPACE emoncms power monitoring raspberry pi thing [3]
Boole main router, dhcp, dns, ntp, syslog etc. [4]
Dennis - Acnode debuging box
Hamming runs the board above the frontdoor and ?sixteen and the big clock. [5]
Equipment/Landin hypervisor for VMs
- Chomsky new general purpose box (replacement for Babbage)
- ACServer ACnode server
- Adminstuff a poorly but accurately named server for admin "stuff"
- Services Importantish services that were on babbage, robonaut etc

PCs/Laptops/Printers

Torvalds new 3D Printing Machine
Joy Laser Cutter workstation running Windows
Tesla public shared Linux workstation on the 1st floor.

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.

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" [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 virtual machines or containerised systems is to be close to its purpose. An example of a VM passing messages via MQTT might be "mqtt-gateway" or "message-hub" instead of "vanrossum"
 == Old names ==
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 ===Infrastructure===
-* [[Babbage]] general purpose server in the space, moribund
+* [[Bell]] OLD SPACE - Asterisk IP Telephony Server
-* [[Bell]] Asterisk IP Telephony Server
+* [[Equipment/Blanton]] Network CCTV Server
-* [[Bruce]] Network CCTV Server
+* [[Booch]] OLD SPACE emoncms power monitoring raspberry pi thing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grady_Booch]
-* [[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]
-* [[Equipment/Colin|Colin]] sort of fileserver, was netbootyboxxy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Colin]
+* [[Dennis]] - Acnode debuging box
-* [[Denning]] network services machine (ldap/spacenet, netboot, zoneminder) (was boole) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Denning].
-* [[Hopper]] vending machine
 * [[Hamming]] runs the board above the frontdoor and ?sixteen and the big clock. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming]
-* [[Lamarr]] hypervisor for VMs
+* [[Equipment/Landin]] hypervisor for VMs
-** [[Lamarr#Chomsky|Chomsky]] new general purpose box (replacement for Babbage)
+** [[Equipment/Landin#Chomsky|Chomsky]] new general purpose box (replacement for Babbage)
-** [[Lamarr#ACServer|ACServer]] ACnode server
+** [[Equipment/Landin#ACServer|ACServer]] ACnode server
-** [[Lamarr#Adminstuff|Adminstuff]] a poorly but accurately named server for admin "stuff"
+** [[Equipment/Landin#Adminstuff|Adminstuff]] a poorly but accurately named server for admin "stuff"
-** [[Lamarr#Services|Services]] Importantish services that were on babbage, robonaut etc
+** [[Equipment/Landin#Services|Services]] Importantish services that were on babbage, robonaut etc
-* [[Dennis]] - Acnode debuging box
-* [[Equipment/Flowers|Flowers]] - one of the [[Project:TreeOfScreens]] machines
-* [[Equipment/Tanenbaum|Tanenbaum]] - the other [[Project:TreeOfScreens]] machine
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Markov Markov] Robotics group machine controlling the Staubli
-* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov]] Robotic group Dell optiplex for remote work
 === PCs/Laptops/Printers ===
 * [[Torvalds]] new 3D Printing Machine
-* [[Bowyer]] another 3D printing machine
+* [[Equipment/LaserCutter|Joy]] Laser Cutter workstation running Windows
-* [[Marconi]] spare laptop 1, needs wireless drivers installing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi]
+* [[Tesla]] public shared Linux workstation on the 1st floor.
-* [[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]]
-* [[Equipment/Peddle|Peddle]] guest laptop
-See [[Laboratory 24/Network]] for details on these machines.
-== Potential new machines currently under discussion ==
-* [[Borg]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Borg Anita Borg]) - replacement for babbage and vm server
-* [[Zeus]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse Konrad Zuse]) - 64 core, 512Gb RAM compute server.
-* [[Edison]] ([http://www.thomasedison.com/ Edison]) - Raspbery pi. Providing ARTNet node with [https://www.openlighting.org/ola/ OLA]
 == Potential names ==
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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]]