Picking a home PC platform

re: Picking a home PC platform

JamesCurran — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:46:11 GMT

Well, if we are talking about names of home network machines:

ARJUNA ("The Warrior"; founder of Hinduism) Internet gateway

BUDDHA ("The Enlightened one"; founder of Buddhism) Database server

MOSES ("The Lawgiver"; founder of Judaism) ActiveDirectory Controller

MLUTHER (publisher of the 95 these; founder of Lutheranism) Web Server.

LAOTZU (founder of Toaism) My desktop PC (I'm a close toaist)

ZOROASTER (author of the Gathas hymns; founder of Zoroastrianism) Network Attached storage (home of the 30GB MP3 collection)

NANAK ("The Wanderer"; founder of Sikhism) Laptop.

re: Picking a home PC platform

JamesCurran — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:42:23 GMT

>> LAOTZU (founder of Toaism) My desktop PC (I'm a close toaist)

ooops... Like I said, I'm a Taoist (A Confucianist, on the other hand, would be concerned with following the rigid norms of spelling)

re: Picking a home PC platform

Jay Bazuzi [MS] — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:57:24 GMT

Nice. I'm always looking for good naming models. This one (sins) is not my choice, actually. My brother moved in for 4 months, bringing a bunch of computers and triggering a repurposing of existing hardware. I decided to follow his naming scheme.

Previously, I was strictly role/location based: JAY1, JULIE1, HTPC1, KITCHEN. I don't like the numbering, but it (or was) required at some point so the user names & machine names don't clash.

Appliances are the worst - the Media Center, for example - as they only have one user, and it really wants to be named the same as the machine. I'm still looking for a good way to approach this problem.

re: Picking a home PC platform

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:08:53 GMT

Some good rules to follow with a network naming scheme include a short name, it's a hassle typing out the awesome 13 character name of some ancient god; also it has to be easy to spell. My roomate's machine is named Phaeton, I don't care for it.

MLUTHER

LAOTZU

ZOROASTER

doesn't follow the easy to spell rule. But they are cool.

If you're aiming for a small network the 4 horsemen would do well. Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death. Pestilence might be a pain. Maybe Rot would be a good alternative

re: Picking a home PC platform

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:32:07 GMT

it would not be terribly difficult to move to less machines. You could combine the server and htpc easily enough.

I've seen these little guys: http://www.dell.com/html/us/products/optiplex/sx280.html

They're pretty small, I dont remember the noise they made but for the size...

re: Picking a home PC platform

JamesCurran — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:37:14 GMT

>> Appliances are the worst - the Media Center, for example

That's part of the reason why I picked "Zoroaster" for the NAS -- it's does sound a bit like "Toaster"

A formula for a home platform

jaybaz [MS] WebLog — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:52:44 GMT

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