Ready for another chestnut in the “how big of a geek am I” fire?
So this week was momentus for the NOC.. we finally got brand new workstations for the whole thing, after waiting on them for quite some time. Quite an upgrade from the Frankenstein’d boxes we were working on prior. So in this new set up, I moved to a external hard drive with my own operating system, which allows me to move my workspace around between systems. However, I had to pick a unique name for my workstation.
Naming your computers is always a big thing for a geek. It has to fit the system. Many times, you have a naming convention to stick to, while others, it’s just picking something that fits.
The result of my search?
cblecker@alexander:~$
Alexander fits this system. You wanna know in how many ways? Check this out:
- My desktop systems usually have a male name, and mobile systems a female name.
- Alexander is the male version of my personal laptop’s name — “Alexis”
- It fits with the sort-of naming convention of a lot of Vancouver servers — after alcoholic beverages (such as sleeman, budwiser, shiraz, etcc), in this case, after “Alexander Keith’s India Pale Ale“.
- It also has a fear-striking quality, in that it was also a name shared by a great king and feared army commander, “Alexander the Great“.
So you see, a lot of thought goes into a good name. And yes, I really am a big frickin geek.
