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* [[Hopper]] (Vending machine) | * [[Hopper]] (Vending machine) | ||
* [[Project/IRC Terminal|Shannon]] (IRC Terminal) | * [[Project/IRC Terminal|Shannon]] (IRC Terminal) | ||
| − | * [[Equipment/LaserCutter|Layzor]] -- ([[Patel]] was | + | * [[Equipment/LaserCutter|Layzor]] -- ([[Patel]] was formerly the PC for laser cutter) |
* [[Church]] (Router) | * [[Church]] (Router) | ||
* [[Difference]] - Public Terminal | * [[Difference]] - Public Terminal | ||
Revision as of 17:42, 26 November 2012
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.
Current names
- Turing (Bitfolk VM)
- Babbage (Server in the space)
- Lovelace (Workstation for Makerbot)
- Tesla Replacement for Lovelace
- Flowers (Media PC)
- Postel (The SGI O2)
- Bell (Door entry/building management)
- Marconi (Spare laptop 1, needs wireless drivers installing) - source
- Hopper (Vending machine)
- Shannon (IRC Terminal)
- Layzor -- (Patel was formerly the PC for laser cutter)
- Church (Router)
- Difference - Public Terminal
- Dennis - Random spare goodish pc.
- Capek Lobby display
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.
- Boole - possible church replacement (?)
Potential names
- Booch
- Colin
- Cray
- Denning
- Draper
- Gill
- Hall
- Hamming
- Kohonen
- Lamarr or Hedy (sp?)
- Neumann
- Nozick (sp?)
- Peddle
- Perlman
- Sinclair
- Torvalds
- Tanenbaum
- Wilkes
- Wilson
- Joy
Potential names on the edge of the scheme
- Adams - UUNET
- Armstrong - FM
- Asimov
- 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?