Re: OT: Computer Names (was: Re: Hairball)
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999 09:40:29 GMT, n...@spam.please.com (Arcain) wrote: >>We did consider naming them after Star Trek:TNG characters, or maybe Roman >>Emperors, but greek alphabet won out. >Mistake Andy. I'd much rather log in to \\Nero than \\Epsilon. Either is >better than \\Picard, and \\Data would get a bit confusing (unless it was >the current Gamma) I dunno about that...while I was network admin at a local telecom place here, I named all the computers after Star Trek starship names...Excelsior, Pasteur, Reliant, Stargazer, etc. It was a kick in the head (ok...only for me because I'm a die-hard Star Trek geek) to log into Stargazer... ;) -- \|/ ____ \|/ _ _ ` _ ' //// @~/ ,. \~@ o' \,=./ `o - (_) - (o -) /_( \__/ )_\ (o o) ' ` +-----------ooO--(_)--Ooo-----\__U_/----ooO--(_)--Ooo------------------+ ^ ^ ^ .d8888b. d8b 888 888 <cri...@bit-net.com> ^ ^ d88P Y88b Y8P 888 888 http://www.bit-net.com/~critter ^ ^ 888 888 888 888 ^ ^ 888 888d888 888 888888 888888 .d88b. 888d888 ^ ^ 888 888P" 888 888 888 d8P Y8b 888P" My Karma ^ ^ 888 888 888 888 888 888 88888888 888 ran over your ^ ^ Y88b d88P 888 888 Y88b. Y88b. Y8b. 888 Dogma! ^ ^ "Y8888P" 888 888 "Y888 "Y888 "Y8888 888 ^ ^ ^ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,35e47960c5b84475 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: cri...@bit-net.com (Critter) Subject: Re: OT: Computer Names (was: Re: Hairball) Date: 1999/07/26 Message-ID: <379...@news2.bit-net.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 505285668 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <379...@news.mdc.net> <379...@news.vossnet.net> <7ndcoq$s6c$1...@news8.svr.pol.co.uk> <379...@news.dial.pipex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: use...@news2.bit-net.com X-Trace: news2.bit-net.com 932970894 24899 208.146.133.57 (26 Jul 1999 06:34:54 GMT) Organization: BIT-NET Internet Services Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Jul 1999 06:34:54 GMT Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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