Difference between revisions of "System naming"

Revision as of 13:14, 1 November 2010

The naming scheme of systems in the hackspace (hostname) is "people involved in computing". However, pronunciation issues rule out names like Dijkstra, Kay and Hoare.

Old names

Names used on systems no longer in use.

Knuth

Current names

Turing (Bitfolk VM) - CPU Traffic
Babbage (Server in the space) - source
Lovelace (Workstation - Makerbot) - source
Flowers (Media PC) - source
Postel The SGI O2 - source
Bell The door/building management controller - source
Marconi (Spare laptop 1, needs wireless drivers installing)

See Laboratory 24/Network for details on these machines.

Potential names

Potential names on the edge of the scheme

Armstrong - FM
Asimov
Bell
Beer - Regulatory systems
Black - Feedback amp
Brown - Servomechanics
Dirac - Quantum mechanics
Edison - Electrical engineering
Erwin - Userfriendly character
Faraday
Flood - Prisoner's dilemma, travelling salesman problem
Gray - Music synth
Heron - Automata
Korolyov - Rocket Science
Marconi - Radio telegraph
Maxwell - Electromagnetic theory
Moog
Norton - Circuit analysis
Pitts - Neural Networks
Reeves - PCM
Simon - AI
Smith - RF analysis
Tesla

Potential names not from the scheme

Pong/Ping
Micropig/Spiderpig
Bubbles, Buttercup & Blossom
heck-a-tombical plus minus

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 == Current names ==
-* Turing (Bitfolk VM)
+* [[Turing]] (Bitfolk VM) - [http://tools.bitfolk.com/cacti/graph_1722.html CPU] [http://tools.bitfolk.com/cacti/graph_1723.html Traffic]
 * [[Babbage]] (Server in the space) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage source]
 * [[Lovelace]] (Workstation - [[Makerbot]]) - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace source]