Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-14 Thread Wilson Pickett
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Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-14 Thread Wilson Pickett
what would you name them? Since we only have one box and it is a pbx, I call her Phoebe ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-14 Thread Paul
Wilson Pickett wrote: what would you name them? Since we only have one box and it is a pbx, I call her Phoebe I used to name servers after women I knew. Michelle thought it was cute that I named one after her but then found out I named another one after a young lady she highly disliked.

RE: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-13 Thread David Brodbeck
-Original Message- From: Ken Diliberto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On the surface, naming may sound trivial. When you're dealing with users and people paying your salary/consulting fees, it's not. Offending the wrong person because you named the server Nag, Chatterbox,

RE: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-13 Thread Adam Goryachev
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 16:40 -0400, David Brodbeck wrote: I try to give machines here names that relate to their purpose, but ones that aren't *too* software-specific, because renaming machines can be a pain. (For example, I'm reluctant to give names like asterisk or squid to machines, because

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-12 Thread Abhishek Tiwari
... PaulH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Cotton Sent: Thursday, 12 May 2005 1:41 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion; Andrew Latham Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

RE: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-12 Thread Jason Walker
-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours mine, on the stars of saturn options: Dione, Rhea, Titan, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Phoebe Abhishek -- Drishti-Soft Solutions Pvt Ltd http://www.drishti-soft.com On 5/12/05, Christopher Stephens

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-12 Thread Michael George
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 05:40:57PM +0200, Dave Cotton wrote: On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 10:09 -0500, Andrew Latham wrote: For an internal historical reason all ours come from the legends of Robin Hood. I used to work with a bunch of Lord of the Rings readers and all the machine names came from

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-12 Thread Peter Corlett
David John Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I quite like the idea that came about earlier with regards to Romand and Greek gods, I am thinking (if I ever get off the phone to google today) of findind the roman and greek gods of communication.. You are thinking of Mercury and Hermes, the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-12 Thread Rich Adamson
it was a wheel. still went on it again an hour later once they put it back on!!! /never/ trust french theme parks :) As a consultant focusing primarily on network performance and security for the past twelve years, and working with clients in 40+ US States, we've seen - systems

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-12 Thread jurgen
In my varied career, I've named servers after: Composers (until I realised people couldn't spell Tchaikovsky) Film directors (ditto for Kieslowski) Streets of Vancouver (cuz that's where I was) Rivers of Australia (cuz that's where I am) On 11/05/05, David John Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread David John Walsh
Gents Whilst I apreciate the sentiments regarding my question, if you are to look at my track record of helping people - across in the majority [EMAIL PROTECTED], AMP lists and to a lesser (but growing) extent asterisk-user and asterisk-biz, its not up there with the super gurus, but I am putting

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
David John Walsh wrote: Hello list we are installing 2 new servers (to run asterisk) shortly, for a stand alone service. Ignoring our current naming convention, we'd like to name them something.. but we are not sure what. I'd use constellations and star names. There are enough of them to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On May 10, 2005 09:13 pm, Paul wrote: How about lameass and question? This is the asterisk-users list. There are people on this list who need help with *important* things. I'm happy to see the odd discussion like this, instead of the usual What is the BARE MINIMUM I NEED to install Asterisk,

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On May 11, 2005 03:38 am, David John Walsh wrote: I would however kindly ask that for the benifit of the list any further discussions regarding this are directed to me personally, the header information contains my email adress. Nonsense; it's little sidetracks like this that make the list

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread Black Ratchet
Yeah, serves me right for writing e-mail while half awake. s/ATT/Bell Labs/g -- Black Ratchet blackratchet at blackratchet.org - http://www.blackratchet.org (914) 239-5132 x On Tue, 10 May 2005, trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 23:46 -0400, Black Ratchet

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread David John Walsh
I quite like the idea that came about earlier with regards to Romand and Greek gods, I am thinking (if I ever get off the phone to google today) of findind the roman and greek gods of communication.. On 5/11/05, Andrew Kohlsmith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 11, 2005 03:38 am, David John

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread Andrew Latham
Naming Conventions for Asterisk Hostnames, . Sounds like a Wiki page idea. What is the maximum length of a hostname that will display on all the phones and different displays, do some letters or numbers display baddly on some phones? [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not such a good idea as it is i onley

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread Dave Cotton
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 10:09 -0500, Andrew Latham wrote: Naming Conventions for Asterisk Hostnames, . For an internal historical reason all ours come from the legends of Robin Hood. I used to work with a bunch of Lord of the Rings readers and all the machine names came from there. It

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread Steve Kennedy
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 05:40:57PM +0200, Dave Cotton wrote: On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 10:09 -0500, Andrew Latham wrote: Naming Conventions for Asterisk Hostnames, . For an internal historical reason all ours come from the legends of Robin Hood. I used to work with a bunch of Lord of the

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread Ken Diliberto
On the surface, naming may sound trivial. When you're dealing with users and people paying your salary/consulting fees, it's not. Offending the wrong person because you named the server Nag, Chatterbox, ETPhoneHome, etc. can be very costly. You could use some of the following: PhoneSystem

RE: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread Wiley Siler
-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours I quite like the idea that came about earlier with regards to Romand and Greek gods, I am thinking (if I ever get off the phone to google today) of findind the roman and greek gods of communication

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread Neil Cherry
trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 23:46 -0400, Black Ratchet wrote: My two toy boxes at work are 'succasunna', named after the 1st city to ever have #1ESS phone switch, and 'murrayhill', which was named after the location of the ATT headquarters. I wonder what that

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread Dave Cotton
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 17:11 +0100, Steve Kennedy wrote: There's a whole french comic suited to an Asterisk naming convention. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader ... Yes, before I got involved with Asterisk I had machines at customers called Asterix, Obelix etc. but watch out remember

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread Paul Dugas
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 10:09 -0500, Andrew Latham wrote: Naming Conventions for Asterisk Hostnames, . We're using sleepy, dopey, grumpy, doc, etc. for all the machine. Assigned appropiately, doc is the monitoring system, grumpy is the one remining Win2k server, etc. -- Paul A. Dugas

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread David John Walsh
very nice touch! I like that - apart from parc asterisk (the theme park just outside Paris) I went there as child and went on the seven loop roller coaster, as we went around the loop, we saw something drop past (i thought it was someones glasses / wallet) it was a wheel. still went on it

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread tim panton
A Physicist friend of mine named all the machines in a class C afterthe chemical elements (Hydrogen was x.x.x.1 etc).Our work systems are named after the (fictional) islands in the Earthseabooks. T. http://www.westhawk.co.uk/ ___ Asterisk-Users mailing

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
it was a wheel. still went on it again an hour later once they put it back on!!! /never/ trust french theme parks :) -- Ykoz Un Max - La VoIP en pré-payé! Essayez gratuitement - 5 crédits offerts. --- http://ykoz.net/voip/max --- ___

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread Matt Gibson
tim panton wrote: A Physicist friend of mine named all the machines in a class C after the chemical elements (Hydrogen was x.x.x.1 etc). Our work systems are named after the (fictional) islands in the Earthsea books. That's an interesting idea. Currently most of my servers are either 'word

RE: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread Paul Hales
-Users] What do you name yours On May 10, 2005 09:13 pm, Paul wrote: How about lameass and question? This is the asterisk-users list. There are people on this list who need help with *important* things. I'm happy to see the odd discussion like this, instead of the usual What is the BARE MINIMUM

RE: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread Paul Hales
; Andrew Latham Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 10:09 -0500, Andrew Latham wrote: Naming Conventions for Asterisk Hostnames, . For an internal historical reason all ours come from the legends of Robin Hood. I used to work with a bunch of Lord

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread Robert Goodyear
I use tree names, alphabetically, e.g.: Ash, Birch, Cedar, Dogwood, Elm, Fir et al. Never had anyone asking me how to pronounce any Sci-Fi arcana that way. No offense meant to Sci Fi zealots, of course. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list

RE: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread Matt Klein
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion; Andrew Latham Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 10:09 -0500, Andrew Latham wrote: Naming Conventions for Asterisk Hostnames, . For an internal historical reason all ours come from the legends

RE: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-11 Thread Christopher Stephens
-Users] What do you name yours On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 10:09 -0500, Andrew Latham wrote: Naming Conventions for Asterisk Hostnames, . For an internal historical reason all ours come from the legends of Robin Hood. I used to work with a bunch of Lord of the Rings readers and all

[Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-10 Thread David John Walsh
Hello list we are installing 2 new servers (to run asterisk) shortly, for a stand alone service. Ignoring our current naming convention, we'd like to name them something.. but we are not sure what. a consideration is that on the screens of the phones it shows [EMAIL PROTECTED] (eg [EMAIL

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-10 Thread Matt Riddell
David John Walsh wrote: i'm not creative in this way, it doesn't need to be a silly reference (like jarjar and anikin etc) per se but im curious what would you name them? Eniac, Enigma, Minerva, Penelope, HomePABX, NZServer and Collosus are a few of mine :) -- Cheers, Matt Riddell

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-10 Thread Paul
David John Walsh wrote: Hello list we are installing 2 new servers (to run asterisk) shortly, for a stand alone service. Ignoring our current naming convention, we'd like to name them something.. but we are not sure what. a consideration is that on the screens of the phones it shows [EMAIL

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-10 Thread John Novack
Paul wrote: David John Walsh wrote: Hello list we are installing 2 new servers (to run asterisk) shortly, for a stand alone service. Ignoring our current naming convention, we'd like to name them something.. but we are not sure what. a consideration is that on the screens of the phones it shows

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-10 Thread Andrew Latham
companyname is always a favorite... On 5/10/05, John Novack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul wrote: David John Walsh wrote: Hello list we are installing 2 new servers (to run asterisk) shortly, for a stand alone service. Ignoring our current naming convention, we'd like to

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-10 Thread Michael Graves
Tardis = phone box On Tue, 10 May 2005 20:57:43 -0500, Andrew Latham wrote: companyname is always a favorite... On 5/10/05, John Novack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul wrote: David John Walsh wrote: Hello list we are installing 2 new servers (to run asterisk) shortly, for a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-10 Thread Black Ratchet
Paul wrote: David John Walsh wrote: *chainsaw-a-roo* but im curious what would you name them? How about lameass and question? This is the asterisk-users list. There are people on this list who need help with *important* things. Oh lay off... Fun questions are the spice of life on a boring

Re: [Asterisk-Users] What do you name yours

2005-05-10 Thread trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 23:46 -0400, Black Ratchet wrote: My two toy boxes at work are 'succasunna', named after the 1st city to ever have #1ESS phone switch, and 'murrayhill', which was named after the location of the ATT headquarters. I wonder what that big building in basking ridge was