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Animated even and the code looks hand-drawn. I <3 it. Fun fact: I worked at a nuclear engineering consultancy in the 90's. That's the not the fun fact. The hos

Animated even and the code looks hand-drawn. I <3 it. Fun fact: I worked at a nuclear engineering consultancy in the 90's. That's the not the fun fact. The hostnames of the computers were all Simpsons' character names. rsh blinky ftp homer

richthegeek 7y ago
I work at a place now that uses USS Starship names for projects. Really brings home the old adage about the hardest parts of computer science being naming things when the decision comes down to a discussion of the philosophical implications of a TV episode from 1994.
- philbarr 7y ago
  I worked at a place once where we were told to pick a naming system for the releases. We chose "Genesis" as the first one. Our boss, whom we didn't know was religious, says, "that's fantastic! Books of the bible, yes?! Next release is 'Exodus'?" "Er, no it's Start Trek, next release is gonna be called 'Picard'."
- jjgreen 7y ago
  My first work encounter with Unix (SunOS, Solaris) had a weather phenomena naming scheme, "lightning", "thunder" and so on, all very exciting. When I and the other new hire called ours "overcast" and "mizzle", the older coders were nonplussed, but couldn't really complain about our sarcasm.
- Phrenzy 7y ago
  A long time ago I was a sysadmin for a company that gave us a Windows client desktop, and a desktop running Windows Server. The rule was that you had to name the server after a brewery. I'm not a beer drinker, so I named mine A&W. Spelled as "Ayeanddubya." (Aye and dubya) That was fun for a while, people would call it names like "Abbadabba." I later switched it to Duff. During that time our manager, who wasn't that bright, rushed over and exclaimed. "There is a rouge server on the network!" We did some looking around and discovered that she had seen my coworker's server, named after Rouge Brewery.
- inferiorhuman 7y ago
  I used Animaniacs characters at one job. That worked really well until I used Dot.
Symbiote 7y ago
I went to a university where the authentication servers were named after nuclear accidents. tokaimura.doc.ic.ac.uk chalk-river.doc.ic.ac.uk three-mile-island.doc.ic.ac.uk An older server was sellafield, but it had been decommissioned.
- anonsivalley652 7y ago
  So that's where the Sun 2 box was UUCPing email from. ;) Decomm... that sounds painful. One of their main products, CORETRAN, was a Monte Carlo reactor simulator written in millions of lines of FORTRAN by nuclear engineers over ~60 years. I helped port to Win32 and sped it up 300% by disabling swap (128 MiB of RAM in 1997 was a lot).

richthegeek 7y ago

I work at a place now that uses USS Starship names for projects. Really brings home the old adage about the hardest parts of computer science being naming things when the decision comes down to a discussion of the philosophical implications of a TV episode from 1994.

philbarr 7y ago
I worked at a place once where we were told to pick a naming system for the releases. We chose "Genesis" as the first one. Our boss, whom we didn't know was religious, says, "that's fantastic! Books of the bible, yes?! Next release is 'Exodus'?" "Er, no it's Start Trek, next release is gonna be called 'Picard'."
jjgreen 7y ago
My first work encounter with Unix (SunOS, Solaris) had a weather phenomena naming scheme, "lightning", "thunder" and so on, all very exciting. When I and the other new hire called ours "overcast" and "mizzle", the older coders were nonplussed, but couldn't really complain about our sarcasm.
Phrenzy 7y ago
A long time ago I was a sysadmin for a company that gave us a Windows client desktop, and a desktop running Windows Server. The rule was that you had to name the server after a brewery. I'm not a beer drinker, so I named mine A&W. Spelled as "Ayeanddubya." (Aye and dubya) That was fun for a while, people would call it names like "Abbadabba." I later switched it to Duff. During that time our manager, who wasn't that bright, rushed over and exclaimed. "There is a rouge server on the network!" We did some looking around and discovered that she had seen my coworker's server, named after Rouge Brewery.
inferiorhuman 7y ago
I used Animaniacs characters at one job. That worked really well until I used Dot.

Symbiote 7y ago

I went to a university where the authentication servers were named after nuclear accidents. tokaimura.doc.ic.ac.uk chalk-river.doc.ic.ac.uk three-mile-island.doc.ic.ac.uk An older server was sellafield, but it had been decommissioned.

anonsivalley652 7y ago
So that's where the Sun 2 box was UUCPing email from. ;) Decomm... that sounds painful. One of their main products, CORETRAN, was a Monte Carlo reactor simulator written in millions of lines of FORTRAN by nuclear engineers over ~60 years. I helped port to Win32 and sped it up 300% by disabling swap (128 MiB of RAM in 1997 was a lot).