Noms de serveur
Slashdot.org has article on the naming of computer servers, so I thought I’d share.
When I started at my current job, we got to name the computers that sat in our offices. I named my first server “merckx,” after the most decorated road cyclist of all time. For the first couple of months, my co-workers could never remember the order of the consonants in his name.
A few years later, I upgraded my development machine to another box and I named it “indurain.” He was the latest (at the time) 5-time winner of the Tour de France. My co-workers we pleased that that was a least phonetic.
The team grew and I got to name another machine: “hinault.” Yet another 5-time winner of the bike race. Yes, I have a one track mind. He name is pronounced EEE-no so I had to spell it out for my colleagues for them to access it.
Keeping with the trend, I named the next one “anquetil.” Yet another French name.
Within days our IT staff decided that they would take over responsibility for naming our servers from that point on.