Names for ICT suites

laserblazer · 24-11-2008, 07:18 PM

Our two new suites will soon be finished. I've already started assembling the computers in one suite. I want to give the new suites appropriate names and I thought we could have a competition for the kids. But I thought we could also have one for the staff to come up with some comical names. For example, the basement suite could be Wuthering Depths. What would you call them?

FN-GM · 24-11-2008, 07:20 PM

ICT 1 & 2

Famous people in IT would be appropriate for example:

Kilby
Berners-Lee
Babage

Simcfc73 · 24-11-2008, 07:22 PM

I knew a firm that caled their servers Homer, Marge, Lisa etc... didn't have the guts to do it myself.

Ours are LRC1 LRC2 etc.. and ITE1 ITE2

EduTech · 24-11-2008, 07:37 PM

ours are the room names :P Room 30, Room 31 .. how boaring are we

but the computer naming side is for example Room 31 --- RM31-ST-01

kmount · 24-11-2008, 07:40 PM

We changed the old naming convention of C + number between 1-10 for our rooms to C + letter for each department so CH(Hums) CE(English) etc. But then we got a second room in Design so lesson learnt there.

I've seen some interesting naming conventions over the years, workstations being named after disney characters (was ok for 30 Cobalt RAQ boxes mind ...) amongst others.

CyberNerd · 24-11-2008, 07:41 PM

I think you should name them after porn stars

DaveSmith · 24-11-2008, 07:54 PM

Our rooms have numbers here, so the IT rooms go by these. However, our science labs have "unofficial" names of famous people on the door, although officially (and generally) they are referred to by their room number.

As for the computer naming conventions, we use DEPT + ROOM + COMPUTER (so, computer #27 in Design Tech room 48 would be DT4827); allows us to identify it immediately and also find it quickly

K.C.Leblanc · 24-11-2008, 08:03 PM

Ours are called room 9, room 24, room 25, room 26, junior ICT and The Wolfson Suite.

SteveBentley · 24-11-2008, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Simcfc73

I knew a firm that caled their servers Homer, Marge, Lisa etc... didn't have the guts to do it myself.

I have a server called Bart. Which caused some fun when somebody decided to name all the new Exchange servers after Simpsons characters without checking that nobody else had already had the same idea.

jcollings · 24-11-2008, 08:16 PM

We're very dull. Ours are named after the room so J19-001 to J19-030 etc. The servers on the other hand are much more amusing (well to me at least) in that they are named after Muppets.

CyberNerd · 24-11-2008, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by jcollings

The servers on the other hand are much more amusing (well to me at least) in that they are named after Muppets.

We name our teachers after Muppets.

My220x · 24-11-2008, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by CyberNerd

We name our teachers after Muppets.

You got that wrong they are muppets.

DG01 · 24-11-2008, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by My220x

You got that wrong they are muppets.

Sure put a smile on my face

tomdawson · 24-11-2008, 09:14 PM

C1, C2, C3 and C4, with machine names C1-01 - 32 etc. etc.

Boring, but it makes sense.

I quite like the idea of "key IT people" - Babbage and Berners-Lee especially.

Dare I suggest "Gates Room"? Even "Torvalds Room" ?

I'd love to have suites named after cartoon characters, but it'd get old pretty quickly I guess.

FN-GM · 24-11-2008, 09:16 PM

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Dare I suggest "Gates Room"?

I have spoken to someone who had a room named that. A few years later they changed the computers in there for Macs!

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laserblazer Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: UK Posts: 842 Thanks: 75 Thanked 26 Times in 23 Posts Rep Power: 9	Names for ICT suites Our two new suites will soon be finished. I've already started assembling the computers in one suite. I want to give the new suites appropriate names and I thought we could have a competition for the kids. But I thought we could also have one for the staff to come up with some comical names. For example, the basement suite could be Wuthering Depths. What would you call them?

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24-11-2008, 07:20 PM	#2
FN-GM Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Rochdale, Lancashire Posts: 5,123 Thanks: 168 Thanked 178 Times in 172 Posts Rep Power: 43	ICT 1 & 2 Famous people in IT would be appropriate for example: Kilby Berners-Lee Babage

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Simcfc73 Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: North Posts: 579 Thanks: 5 Thanked 8 Times in 6 Posts Rep Power: 10	I knew a firm that caled their servers Homer, Marge, Lisa etc... didn't have the guts to do it myself. Ours are LRC1 LRC2 etc.. and ITE1 ITE2

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kmount Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Northamptonshire Posts: 1,649 Thanks: 57 Thanked 132 Times in 129 Posts Rep Power: 34	We changed the old naming convention of C + number between 1-10 for our rooms to C + letter for each department so CH(Hums) CE(English) etc. But then we got a second room in Design so lesson learnt there. I've seen some interesting naming conventions over the years, workstations being named after disney characters (was ok for 30 Cobalt RAQ boxes mind ...) amongst others.

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CyberNerd Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3,451 Thanks: 49 Thanked 151 Times in 124 Posts Rep Power: 39	I think you should name them after porn stars

24-11-2008, 07:54 PM	#7
DaveSmith Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Liverpool, England Posts: 187 Thanks: 10 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts Rep Power: 4	Our rooms have numbers here, so the IT rooms go by these. However, our science labs have "unofficial" names of famous people on the door, although officially (and generally) they are referred to by their room number. As for the computer naming conventions, we use DEPT + ROOM + COMPUTER (so, computer #27 in Design Tech room 48 would be DT4827); allows us to identify it immediately and also find it quickly

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K.C.Leblanc Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Rural heck Posts: 495 Thanks: 10 Thanked 20 Times in 17 Posts Rep Power: 7	Ours are called room 9, room 24, room 25, room 26, junior ICT and The Wolfson Suite.

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jcollings Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Kendal Posts: 858 Thanks: 37 Thanked 48 Times in 43 Posts Rep Power: 16	We're very dull. Ours are named after the room so J19-001 to J19-030 etc. The servers on the other hand are much more amusing (well to me at least) in that they are named after Muppets.

24-11-2008, 09:14 PM	#14
tomdawson Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: UK Posts: 10 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Rep Power: 0	C1, C2, C3 and C4, with machine names C1-01 - 32 etc. etc. Boring, but it makes sense. I quite like the idea of "key IT people" - Babbage and Berners-Lee especially. Dare I suggest "Gates Room"? Even "Torvalds Room" ? I'd love to have suites named after cartoon characters, but it'd get old pretty quickly I guess.

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