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  • From: Phil White <cerise AT littlegreenmen.armory.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] And just out of curiosity....
  • Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 02:06:48 -0800

John's computers at the Armory are named after HHGTTG computers.

Complete with earth, deepthought, bamboweeni, guide, &c.

I name my computers after amusing concepts. My main system is
littlegreenmen. This is mostly so that I can set up cron to
play music in the mornings and proclaim that littlegreenmen
wake me every morning. Alternatively, that I talk to/deal with
littlegreenmen quite frequently.

My latest laptop is Tuesday (marginally after His Girl Friday and
other such days). This is because
1) Tuesday is a reasonable estimate of compilation time (It's a
P-120 with 16 megs).
2) "Hmm...I don't know about that. Let me look it up on Tuesday."
3) "Hey cool! Can I run that on Tuesday?"

-Phil/CERisE

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:11:23AM +0000, Chris Brien wrote:
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> Originally, my machines were named after the hitch hikers guide the galaxy.
> My
> first Cyrix box was called Marvin, after the paranoid android. After
> upgrading that to an athlon, it got renamed to Deep-Thought.
>
> Now, my main sourcemage box (the athlon) is called Orthanc; Sarumans
> stronghold in Isengard which even the Ents couldn't break.
>
> The Cyrix is now called Cyril. I'm not entirely sure why.
>
> Chris
>
> On Wednesday 26 March 2003 3:14 am, Duane Malcolm wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The other day I was thinking of a name to call my computer, I tried to
> > come up with something related to sorcery and finally came up with
> > "Orb". My other box is called "Bluemoth".
> >
> > I'm just wondering what people call their computers.
> >
> > Duane.
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You've got to break a few eggs to see the light at then of the tunnel.

I actualy mostly agree with you. The email was wo promote discussion, not
state my opinion ;)
Although I think the scrips are getting close to the right amount of bash vs
externals. Now that the depends stuff is handled by make, bash is being
mostly used for it's intended purpose, glue.


--------- Original Message --------
> Sorry, but I'd rather chew off my own leg than use an init written in
bash.
>
> (I come at things from the opposite end of the spectrum, and I think SMGL
> needs less bash, not more.)
>
> We should concentrate on fixing things that are broken, rather than
breaking
> things that are fixed.
>
> Tony
>
> On Wednesday 26 March 2003 7:25 am, Peter Schneider-Kamp wrote:
> &gt; M.L. wrote:
> &gt; &gt; Right but is it really necessary to reinvent the weel in bash ?
> &gt; &gt;
> &gt; &gt; I'm not part of the developer team, but I thinks being 100% bash
based is
> &gt; &gt; not the main SMGL's goal. Then, it's not even the easyest way to
do
> &gt; &gt; certain things, as you said.
> &gt;
> &gt; Although I *do* love bash (and have contributed a few lines of bash
> &gt; code), I am pretty sure I would not want an all bash SMGL.
> &gt;
> &gt; Talk about speed and, of course, reinventing the wheel. For example
> &gt; replacing init with a bash version would only make sense to me
> &gt; if it significantly improved on init. Why replace something that is
> &gt; perfectly stable, well-understood and does its job like a machine?
> &gt;
> &gt; The power of bash is *combining* standard tools in an
> &gt; easy and comfortable way - not *replacing* them!
> &gt;
> &gt; Greetings and thumbs up for the development team,
> &gt; Peter
> &gt;
> &gt; P.S.: &lt;DISCLAIMER&gt;I'm not on the developer team,
either.&lt;/DISCLAIMER&gt;
>
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From: Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>
To: Duane Malcolm <d.malcolm AT auckland.ac.nz>
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I've been using the "Space Ghost Coast to Coast" theme at home (zorak,
brak and moltar), boxes at work have much less creative names!

-casey


On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Duane Malcolm wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The other day I was thinking of a name to call my computer, I tried to
> come up with something related to sorcery and finally came up with
> "Orb". My other box is called "Bluemoth".
>
> I'm just wondering what people call their computers.
>
> Duane.
>
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