[ale] OT FUN: What are your hosts named?

[bpolk78]

My hosts are named after the forsaken in the Wheel of Time series by 
Robert Jordan.  Azmodean, Graendal, Ishamael, etc.

Bert

----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Ostrowsky <ostrowb at tblc.org>
To: ale at ale.org
Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 2:06 am
Subject: Re: [ale] OT FUN: What are your hosts named?

> Most of our machines are named after cartoon or comic characters.  Our
> main all-purpose server is Snoopy; they do get a bit more obscure,
> starting with Rocky and Bullwinkle characters and going all the 
> way down
> to web-comix characters (my machine is named Bernie, after the large
> curly-haired gal in Broken By Design
> <" target="l">http://www.webreview.co and Waiting For Bob
> <" target="l">http://www.waitingforbob.com/>).  Others include 
> Clem, Buttercup, and
> Bugs Bunny.  (Note to self: Never, *ever* name a machine after a
> trickster god.)
> 
> Our primary DNS server, which also runs an SQL database for our
> membership directory, is named Ernestine after the Lily Tomlin 
> characterwho snorts and says "We're the phone company. We're 
> omnipotent."
> Ben

 


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