Could I suggest - tongue firmly in cheek - that horse be henceforth renamed andrewsuchus? He's an early post-dinosaur mammalian predator, about the size of a draft horse - hence the name element "suchus" meaning croc; crocs do grow that big. :-)
And the chances of anyone else having such a name for their LUG is strictly minimal ... ;) Wesley Parish Quoting Craig FALCONER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I can't spell to save myself - caffeine is one I've learned to spell > correctly simply because its a hostname on my home metwork :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wesley Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 5 September 2005 11:23 a.m. > To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz > Subject: RE: Horse reboot on Friday night > > > You could have chosen rhinoceros! Or hippopotamus. Or mammoth, or > andrewsuchus, or ... ;) > > Wesley Parish > > Quoting Craig FALCONER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Actually it was named for the original machine, which was a compaq > > proliant 6500. It was going to be a quad CPU, hence a four legged > > name, and being so > > bloody massive it was a choice between horse, elephant, or dinosaur. > > > > Theres a question - at what point does a machine need a new hostname? > > > At a total change of hardware? Or a change of task? Or just when you > > get sick > > of the name? > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wesley Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sunday, 4 September 2005 7:32 p.m. > > To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz > > Cc: Craig FALCONER > > Subject: Re: Horse reboot on Friday night > > > > > > If I'm not mistaken, horse is named after the character in Footrot > > Flats. The > > big cat who don't take no nonsense from anyone, and who rescues The > Dog > > at a > > > > crucial point in the movie of the same name. > > > > Wesley Parish > > > > On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 10:47, Martin Bähr wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 08:19:43PM +1200, Craig FALCONER wrote: > > > > > > the name horse always seems to distract me from thinking about > > > computers (not that this is really a bad thing) > > > > > > i read the following as: > > > > Horse was shut down on friday night with no warning. > > > > > > horse was shot down... > > > > > > greetings, martin. > > > > -- > > Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish > > ----- > > Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? > > You ask, what is the most important thing? > > Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. > > I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people. > > > > > > > > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. > "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" > - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge > > "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" > I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of > the > other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press > > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
