So I guess you don't have a machine name Shawinigan then. - David On 27-Oct-06, at 09:08 , Walter Lewis wrote: > David J. Fiander wrote: >> Naming computers is always fun. My main computer at home is always >> "Golem", and if I ever had had the power to name a series of >> computers, I was going to name them after famous Canadian maritime >> disasters ("Erebus" and "Terror" were going to be the first two). > My development machines have always been named after ships that have > been named after something else, just to supply both a theme and an > inside joke. A sad pathetic life perhaps, but there it is. So I'm > writing this on Bohemian, while testing some code on Corinthian, and > pulling email from Assiniboia. > > That said, I've always *avoided* ship names associated with major > collisions and fires. So I'll leave Noronic, Hammonic, and > Bavarian for > David. :) >> RFC 1178 (http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1178.html) has some good >> dos and don'ts for naming a computer, and is a pretty fun read too. > That *has* to be the most interesting RFC it has ever been my pleasure > to read > > Walter -- David J. Fiander Digital Services Librarian