Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!edmoy From: edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Cute LaserWriter Names (was "LaserWriter Startup Page...") Message-ID: <13375@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 17 Aug 88 18:42:15 GMT References: <4486@saturn.ucsc.edu> <137@lloyd.camex.uucp> <9816@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 32 In article <9816@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> merchant@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Peter Merchant) writes: >In article <137@lloyd.camex.uucp> kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg) writes: >>(This is your opportunity to be creative! . . . Or you can be more >>traditional: The Boston Computer Society has LaserWriters named Larry, >>Curley, and Moe.) > >We had a LaserWriter called "Rich & Famous". We then called the AppleTalk >ImageWriter "Poor & Unknown". A pity that the military has no imagination and >I had to change them to something dull. > >Anyone else ever come up with any good network names? We had a Sun cluster with two servers going in for the Humanities department sometime ago, so I put my two cents into the name pot and came up with the names "Laurel" and "Harty". They didn't think much of my names, so I came up with "War" and "Peace". Still no go. (Perhaps you can tell my opinion of Suns. Please, no flames :-) For Unix systems at Berkeley, we tended to name things in series. There was the semi-precious stone series (opal, garnet, topaz, ruby, etc), the flower series (violet, lilac, etc), the Vaxs (kim [NoVax], ernie [KoVax]), the seven deadly Suns (lust, greed, etc). When we ran out of semi-precious stones that were easy to spell (like amethyst), we jokingly suggested dirt, rubble, sand and schist. Edward Moy Principal Programmer - Macintosh & Unix Workstation Support Services Workstation Software Support Group University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 edmoy@violet.Berkeley.EDU ucbvax!violet!edmoy