[ale] OT: Looking for good theme for network names

[Jeff Hubbs]

Mark my words, soon there will be orgs full of machines named HARRY,
HERMIONE, RON, HAGRID, DUMBLEDORE, etc.

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Danny Cox [mailto:danny at compgen.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 12:59 PM
> To: Dan Newcombe
> Cc: ALE
> Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Looking for good theme for network names
> 
> 
> All,
> 
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Dan Newcombe wrote:
> 
> > That's what I usually do as well.  Our original web server was named
> > Mirkwood, due to the number of spiders and spiderwebs 
> encountered in that
> > forest in The Hobbit.
> > 
> > My notebook is Rohan, which are a mobile group of riders.
> > 
> > My desktop is Bree, which was a town that was home for a 
> night, and evil
> > things happened there (my desktop runs NT :)
> > 
> > The nameserver is Rivendell, which was a place full of 
> ancient lore and
> > knowledge.
> 
> 	Well, I've kept quiet until now.  In a former life, my 
> company had
> Tolkein names too.  Then I arrived.  I had been introduced to 
> "Bord of the
> Rings" by Harvard Press.  An obvious ripoff, but quite fun!  
> The characters
> in that book were similar to the originals, but were usually 
> product names.
> GoodGulf Grayteeth, Frito, Moxie, Pepsi, and Spam just to 
> name a few.  Since 
> I placed little name plaques on each machines, they got some 
> very strange 
> looks, indeed!
> 
> Danny
> 
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